Ah yes, back when Ubisoft was passionate about their games.
Far Cry 3 was crazy good when it was released, everyone i knew was playing it:)))
It was a BIG change from Far Cry 2, they got it so right that they decided to release 5 more games just like FC3 💀.
The story was cool, with one of the most popular antagonists in gaming (Vaas). The setting was pretty, an Island archipelago with loads of wild nature and wild pirates.
The soundtrack was great, that mission where you burn the weed plantations while listening to "Make it Bun Dem" on the background is the best mission in the series.
Far Cry 3 was a great sandbox with lots of freedom and many things to get lost into while exploring the wilderness and killing pirates while avenging your friends.

Me lembro de ter ficado encantado quando joguei no x360 do meu primo em 2012/13, jogo lindíssimo.

Consegui zerar hoje, é bom e bem divertido. O enredo focado na crise de identidade e insanidade do Jason casou bem com a ambientação e o clima do jogo.
A gunplay é muito foda, mas a progressão é meio fraquinha, você libera as armas e upgrades muito rápido e fácil.

Achei curto, ouvi dizer que tinha umas 15 horas de gameplay.

Entre 8 e 9 horas para zerar.

Funny enough, the rest of the franchise would become the definition of insanity itself…

But this one though…

This one, is the best example of a great game, well written, extremely well made, BUT…. Riddled with classic questionable Ubisoft decisions that could have destroyed it, had it not been for one… tiny, little, detail…..

Vaas Montenegro.

One of the best written, acted, and developed characters of videogame history.
Mixed with one of the best protagonists as well.

Jason Brody being a mirror of Vaas’s tragic story, is the fuel that keeps this game burning even so long after its release.

Had it not been for Hoyt’s final island that takes up half of the game, everyone would agree this game was a 10/10…. It is to me, but, I understand why it isn’t to many.

This game marked history as the creator of the best open world formula of it’s time, that slowly became more and more cursed due to it being overused in every single Ubisoft game even to this day.

It is a great, memorable experience that has the staying power of any of the ultimate classics of videogame history like Bioshock and Spec Ops: The Line.
(But… not 100% as great as those of course)

So…

To end this review, I ask you….

Did I ever tell you the definition…. Of insanity?

For a 10+ year old game, I was genuinely surprised that - past the technical limitations of the time, the game is still genuinely fun and engaging to go through the story and complete some of the side activities.
I can't comment on the rest of the side activities like the hundreds of collectables or the radio towers/camps as there's a lot of "Ubisoft" padding that was avoided.
Past that, genuinely engaging gameplay and graphics that still look pretty good nowadays. Story was pretty good but the performances really sold the characters (other than MC Jason who sounded scrawny for a hardened killer lol).
Weapon unlocks and new equipment throughout the story kept things interesting. Set pieces were all also very fun (looking at you, skrillex weed and also classical music while Jason spits one liners)
I wanna give this a 7.8/10 since the Ubisoft padding and technical limitations mostly.

[Classic Edition] These modern Ubisoft games don't have lot of substance to them already, so replaying one of them was just a bad idea. There's not a thing in this that wasn't done better in subsequent games, and it did not hold up well on a replay. The Ubisoftification of open world seemed to really take off after this game and I really felt it here. Fucking BO-RING. Climb the tower, liberate the outpost, nothing interesting to do in between, and no creativity in how to do so.

The story is not nearly as smart as it thinks it is, with the main character actually saying the line "What have I become?" Wow. I truly am affected by his plight. We are the true monsters. Culminating in the amazing ending of "will you choose to kill this person and betray your friends because... I dunno because you feel like hitting right trigger instead of left trigger today, I guess."

For the villains, Vaas is just as disappointing as I remember, Michael Mondo's performance is the best thing in here, and the game just goes "okay enough of that!" And what the fuck is up with all the other villains? They're boring as fuck sure, but the two of them making damn sure you know they rape young boys? Real strange choice. Like Ubisoft was thinking them being war mongers and slave traders just wasn't enough.

And I don't know what they were thinking with these hallucinations. Fucking time wasters is what they are. Shitty QTE boss battles, crappy walking sequences, super lame giant tribal monsters to blow up with your infinite arrows. Oh and that jumpscare at the end. Hoof, yowzers. I nearly fainted I was so scared! Maybe it was supposed to be more like an alarm clock, because God knows I was falling asleep at this point.

The Far Cry Game that popularised the series. Refreshing after playing the mess that was Far Cry 1 and 2. This being one of the first and best Ubisoft open world formulas before the formula got stale didn't hurt the game either. The main character sounds like Anakin from the Star Wars prequels based on his tone and pattern of speech so I never took him seriously. The love story line and bad ending/choice are laughingly bad as no real connection is built between the two and Jason changes too quickly to be believable. Every boss fight is a terrible quick time event knife fight as well. But besides those points, the game holds up well and is pretty fun to mess around with if you are not sick of the standard Ubisoft formula yet.

Good for its modern day price as of 2023 (dirt cheap).

Simplesmente cinema, o jogo da franquia Far Cry que me fez amar esse universo e jogar todo o resto com o mesmo nome... A ambientação desse game é fenomenal, um clima praiano com tubarão, dragão de komodo, jacaré e outros animais selvagens esse jogo te deixa imersivo na história e tudo mais! Já começa épico com uma música que sempre que escuto me lembro de cada momento que joguei o game, um game que me marcou horrores, no Xbox eu joguei cooperativo uma vez com meu primo e no PS4 vi que não tem mais essa opção, uma grande pena! Um jogo digno de você explorar tudo ate os mínimos detalhes

10/10

Far Cry 3 did a hell of a lot for the future for FPS', both good and bad, but on its own, it's not a good game. The story is interesting enough and Vaas is an incredible character but they try too hard to implement stealth that basically doesn't work (Ubisoft moment). The gunplay is mediocre, most cars drive like shit and the whole crafting system is flawed. The fact I have to find specific types of animals that don't show up on the map just to get a tiny bit more inventory space is backwards and very frustrating.

I've also had CONSTANT crashes.

I will give this game some props in the character department, as most of them are very interesting and stand out in their own way. Having played a bit of this game before, I think I was blinded by nostalgia thinking this game was going to be a lot better than I had imagined and that might have soured my experience, but sadly it just wasn't fun for me and I don't want to put any more time into a game I have stopped enjoying.

"Eu já te contei qual é a definição da insanidade?"
Que obra prima esse jogo meus amigos, com um dos melhores vilões da história dos videogames, um história excelente, ótimos gráficos, uma jogabilidade viciante e um lindo mundo aberto, extremamente vivo. FarCry 3 é o ápice da franquia, trazendo inúmeros momentos extremamente marcantes e sendo muito divertido, com um enorme arsenal de armas e formas de destroçar seus inimigos. Tanto que até hoje os outros FC tentam copiar a fórmula e magia que esse jogo possuí, sem sucesso. Até o modo coop dele era divertido de jogar, com boas mecânicas e até com uma história bacana.
Veredito: Um dos melhores jogos da geração do PS3, brilhando em inúmeros elementos, desde seus gráficos, história, personagens e até mesmo em sua gameplay e mundo aberto. Um jogo obrigatório para fãs de videogame.