Review: Far Cry 3

G'day folks!

In the end of a game series, producers always try their hardest to make the last game in the series as best as they possibly can, so their product can be remembered for years to come. Ubisoft has definitely brought their A game when it comes to Far Cry 3. In all honesty, I have never played a single Far Cry game before this one, but I am glad to has purchased it this time around!

Ubisoft has always credited itself for their excellent choices of voice actors and a first person protagonist that talks is quite rare indeed. As the game opens with a quote from Alice In Wonderland (Which will reappear during Chapters. Note: Ubisoft used the same opening quote in Far Cry 3 in Assassin's Creed 3 as well during its first few moments) with Jason Brody and his friends having fun with ATVs, driving, skydiving, we find young Jason and his older brother Grant stuck in a cage, Vaas interogating them both while commenting that "This is a nice f**king phone". Michael Mando (Voice and face of Vaas) does a brilliant job both in his acting and his explanation, one of his now famous lines that I personally too like is "Do you know what the definition of insanity is?" which he askes Jason over and over throughout the game.
Not only does Mr Mando sell the act of insanity in his character too, his range as a voice actor is undeniably brilliant and I expect great things of this man.
Robert Crooks (Jason) voice range is excellently done, going from scared and innocent right at the beginning to Jason's decent into madness as his lust for killing takes over. The back and forth between Vaas and Jason is just to great to ignore. The rest of the cast performs such great work throughout the game that there simply isn't enough time to mention them all.
Musical score is a mixture of all sorts of music, going from Rock to Regge to Dubstep to techno and so on. While dramatic music plays during cutscenes, the lack of music is greatly done as well, especially during take overs of Outposts. However, music never really fills the gap during travel across the island. Graphics and sound effects are well done throughout the entire game; IGN hit the nail on the head when they said quote "Like Skyrim, but with guns.". The game features rolling hills and brilliant scenery in both Campaign, Co-Op and Multiplayer.

Co-Op and Multiplayer is quite well done; The addition of mini games and huge objectives makes the game much more a challenge. Weapon loadouts with weapons you've unlocked through the Campaign and DLC is quite a great touch as well.
One of the main faults I find with the game is how the game slows incredibly during the Campaign. We start off with a huge bang but immediately afterwards, things slow down quite fast, with task tutorials repeating over and over. Also, while the driving mechanism is a great feature in such a huge map, I felt that driving bikes and cars was too much of a hassel; the controls were too sensitive, no matter how far I turned down my own sensitivity. Add in the high hills and small roads and expect a tumble down the hill...again and again.

Regardless, Far Cry 3 is definitely recommended with much enthusiasm. As a gamer who has never played a Far Cry game beforehand, you will not feel any regret in this purchase.

Out of 10, I give Far Cry 3 an 9.5/10

Good Points
+ Utterly brilliant Campaign
+ Voice acting/sound effects/graphics = Brilliant
+ Excellent us of waypoints
+ Animal hunting is brutally fun!

Bad Points
- Cars and bike handling issues
- Game take a while to get going...
- Liza breaks my heart! </3

Far Cry 3 is out now for the standard price of $88