Far Cry 3

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NA release date is Dec. 4th ..... I'm so ready to play this ....

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[josef]

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vids are amazing. expectations are sky high for this release.. may actually pay full retail for this one.

[eF 5ive]

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This vid just got me to want to buy this. Will i be lost in the story? My brother has been telling me about this game since the first and always brushed it off. Should i go buy 1 and 2?

[georgiafan]

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This vid just got me to want to buy this. Will i be lost in the story? My brother has been telling me about this game since the first and always brushed it off. Should i go buy 1 and 2?

I'm pretty sure it's a new game with major characters being new

[youvalss]

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Does any one know how big the world is?

[youvalss]

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This vid just got me to want to buy this. Will i be lost in the story? My brother has been telling me about this game since the first and always brushed it off. Should i go buy 1 and 2?

I don't think 2 was related to 1. Maybe the last-gen ones (Xbox?) were related, but as far as I know 2 wasn't, unless I totally missed it. Personally, I'm still not sure what 2 was about. For me it was just a bunch of missions with no real story, and a cool final mission. At least that's how I played it. 1 was much better, in my opinion.

I'd say, forget the previous ones if you're trying to figure out the story, I don't think it matters. But I would highly recommend playing 1, since it was an amazing game. I still watch youtube videos of it, every now and then. Still looks and plays good!

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[Flawless]

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Eurogamer - 10

That's because Far Cry 3 is all the best things about open-world gaming. It's a glorious anecdote factory, where you manufacture brilliant new memories every time you wake up in a safehouse and head out into the jungle. It's an astonishing technical achievement, as comfortable revealing incredible landscapes over the brow of a hill as it is when the setting sun winks at you through a canopy, or when the heavens open as you stalk wildlife through the trees and long grass. And it always lets you play, but it also controls the tempo - sometimes a little heavy-handedly, but always with good intentions.

In the past, Far Cry's vision of a first-person shooter RPG where you explore, master and then control your environment has always been more seductive on paper than any of its developers have managed to deliver on disc. Far Cry 3 changes all that. For me, this is the new apex predator of open-world shooters. Hunt it down as soon as you can.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Sure, you still drive about an island, getting into gunfights. There are still baddies patrolling constantly in jeeps, and there are bases and checkpoints full of hostiles all over the island, but there’s so much else going on, too. There are friendly NPCs, there are neutral NPCs. There are villages with people chatting and playing cards. There are pirates looting bodies on beaches. There are leopards hunting deer in the forest. There are bandits and boat patrols, there are hang-gliders and a magic mushroom merchant on the hill. This is a game which absolutely rewards exploration, which makes the most of its open world, and which populates it in a way which is absolutely ludicrous and unrealistic, and which makes it absurdly entertaining.

It’s huge, it’s silly, it’s beautiful, and it’s fiery.

What I am saying is, that despite the incongruity of the leaf mission, and despite some of the other design woes which I will outline later – despite, even, the bizarre mystic subplot – this is a marvellous game which understands how and why open world games are thrilling. It’s also layered in skill trees, and a (largely superfluous) inventory, to make this game feel like it has a lot more going on than some other open-world shooters we could mention. The result is a little Skyrim-with-guns, yes, but in Skyrim I never caused two bandit jeeps to crash into each other, only to set fire to half of the jeep passengers with the flamethrower, and watch the other half be eaten alive by giant lizards. No, sir.

Far Cry 3 has kept me smiling. Hell, it kept me up all night. And it’s been a while since a game has done that. [/Tired old man.]

And let’s make a note of something about this third game as I close: It’s better than Far Cry 2. Whether or not you liked that game is, I think, irrelevant. Because it has kept what was good – the mad rallying of the driving, the fire propagation, the needlessly horrifying first-aid – and builds on everything else. For some people, I am sure, this will be game of the year. It’s certainly the game I hoped Far Cry 2 would be back in 2008. This new game doesn’t quite manage to clinch 2012 for me, but I have awkward tastes. For most people, I suspect, this will be cocktails and barbecues on the beach. Right as the year closes, we have another reason to be cheerful.

[mgoblue]

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I'm gonna have to get this game in the new year sometime...sounds amazing, and I mostly enjoyed FC2 (hated how the bases would respawn after you'd leave though)

[TheDutchDad]

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Can't wait for this.

Can we still create user maps for MP? I doubt it, as I haven't seen anything about it yet, but that was one of the most brilliant aspects of Far Cry MP.

[Flawless]

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Here's some Far Cry 3 PS3 review gameplay from Leon and Joel as they chat about Joel's review.

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[Quint75]

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Any ideas about of 360 or PS3 version will be superior? I usually go 360 just because of the install.

[Kramer5150]

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Any ideas about of 360 or PS3 version will be superior? I usually go 360 just because of the install.

Not sure if this will help,but........

“There isn’t a lead skew here or anything like that. We want to push it on all of the different fronts. We really want to make sure we’re really delivering the best experience we possibly can.”

http://beefjack.com/news/far-cry-3-t...-and-consoles/


But then there's this.......

Ubisoft producer Dan Hay is bragging that while Far Cry 3, which debuted at Ubisoft's pre-E3 press briefing, will look "incredible" on PS3 and "fantastic" on Xbox 360, the PC version will be absolutely amazing, as PC users will be able to "dial it to 11," primarily because it's being lead developed on the platform.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/12990/ubisoft-far-cry-3-will-look-amazing-on-pc

[Kramer5150]

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IGN review.....

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Single player sounds absolutely amazing...day 1 for me.

Eurogamer

Fans of open-ended stealth are in some kind of heaven here.

Far Cry 3 is all the best things about open-world gaming.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-21-far-cry-3-review