I really liked Far Cry 3. For a while, I didn't think it would be better than Far Cry 2, which I thought was better than the first one. And I think some aspects of Far Cry 3 are better, specifically the crafting, the strongholds you can take over, and some of the characters. But what separates the two is the fact that this story centers on Jason Brody and his friends as he tries to save them, while Far Cry 2 is about accepting a job to assassinate someone whom you basically play cat and mouse with. And the cat and mouse aspect allured me in. While Jason Brody and his friends made the mistake of trusting someone who tricked them in to sky diving to Rook Islands, in terms of real life, the whole thing could have been avoided.

Still, the game has a strong story and strong character development for the protagonist. Jason Brody starts the game as an innocent (maybe not innocent, but not violent) 24 year old from California, and after he escapes from Vaas, a drug runner and slave trader, after watching his older brother get murdered, Brody ends up becoming a warrior of the Rakyat. The game plays like the first two Far Cry games in terms of the driving and shooting. But the mission layouts are different in that you take missions from a few different main characters that direct you to your friends as you try to rescue them. And as you eventually do, they take notice to the changes that Jason is going through. They can tell he's become a killer, but still human. Anyway, the game has a strong story and without going into details, it can be pretty surreal, especially when you meet Citra.

There are plenty of side missions that involve turning on radio towers that'll unlock more content on the map, hunting animals, killing specific people, random NPC story missions, poker games, races, basically Ubisoft made this into a big action adventure open world game while keeping it a solid first person shooter. It works well.

Great game. 9.2/10

I really liked Far Cry 3. For a while, I didn't think it would be better than Far Cry 2, which I thought was better than the first one. And I think some aspects of Far Cry 3 are better, specifically the crafting, the strongholds you can take over, and some of the characters. But what separates the two is the fact that this story centers on Jason Brody and his friends as he tries to save them, while Far Cry 2 is about accepting a job to assassinate someone whom you basically play cat and mouse with. And the cat and mouse aspect allured me in. While Jason Brody and his friends made the mistake of trusting someone who tricked them in to sky diving to Rook Islands, in terms of real life, the whole thing could have been avoided. Still, the game has a strong story and strong character development for the protagonist. Jason Brody starts the game as an innocent (maybe not innocent, but not violent) 24 year old from California, and after he escapes from Vaas, a drug runner and slave trader, after watching his older brother get murdered, Brody ends up becoming a warrior of the Rakyat. The game plays like the first two Far Cry games in terms of the driving and shooting. But the mission layouts are different in that you take missions from a few different main characters that direct you to your friends as you try to rescue them. And as you eventually do, they take notice to the changes that Jason is going through. They can tell he's become a killer, but still human. Anyway, the game has a strong story and without going into details, it can be pretty surreal, especially when you meet Citra. There are plenty of side missions that involve turning on radio towers that'll unlock more content on the map, hunting animals, killing specific people, random NPC story missions, poker games, races, basically Ubisoft made this into a big action adventure open world game while keeping it a solid first person shooter. It works well. Great game. 9.2/10