It's all glued together with some simple crafting, elementary combat and slightly disjointed driving.
You interact with local fauna and flora, take on side missions, earn cash for new weapons. You climb and disable communication tower puzzles. You travel around and invade military outposts, all the while leveling up new combat and survival skills. Playing a PlayStation 4 build, I found myself enjoying the dappled light of a hillside tree, the sound of insects and birds, and the sight of a grazing rhino, interrupted here and there by faraway machine gun fire and screams.īut this game is much the same experience as its predecessors would suggest. Certainly, this is a game that looks and sounds as lush as its mountain kingdom surroundings. It's the first time Far Cry has taken its playpen mixture of combat toys into the new generation. Such wars are not unknown in the real world. Set in the Himalayan mountains, it's the story of a young fellow who returns to his home country to find it riven by war between forces led by a psychotic dictator and rebels. I spent half a day last week playing around in Far Cry 4's open world. It was about going from 'hey turtle' to 'oh shit.'"
We had just given that player an opportunity to go out and have some fun. 'Oh shit,' he says, retreats, falls into a river and is eaten by a shark." Like 'hey turtle.' One time, he walks up to the tortoise, kills it with C-4, and accidentally alerts nearby enemy AI. "He was talking to them while he was blowing them up. "There was one guy who was just running around blowing up tortoises with C-4," recalls Far Cry 4 executive producer Dan Hay. Strapping explosives to the creatures and watching the results holds a deep fascination to a particular manner of mind.Īfter a few seconds you know you're in a Far Cry game Turns out, certain players of Far Cry 3, which takes place on a tropical island, were posting videos of themselves finding creative ways to murderize the game's tortoises. When Ubisoft Montreal was looking for inspiration for its latest fantasy, it stumbled across exploding tortoises and found inspiration. Giant tortoises and C-4 explosives rarely make for a good mixture, but life is full of exceptions.
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