Full disclosure; I played this series backwards after loving Far Cry back, disliking Far Cry 2 liking Far Cry 3 (really like the approach of challenging how video game protagonists put an average person in an unaverage situation to eventually come out a hero). After really enjoying Far Cry 5 I thought I would give this series a second chance and play through Far Cry 4.
Sadly, the repetitive requirements of killing and skinning hundreds of animals takes most of the enjoyment out of the game.
You’re introduced to the main “villain” in a wonderful cinematic opening, and then never see him again until the finale and a few scene peppering in as he talks to you over the radio. That’s probably why Far Cry 5 stopped you in your tracks to splice in part of the story before you continued on through the main quests. In FC4, I literally just spent the first 20 hours of the game, exploring areas, hunting so I could carry more weapons, ammo and health packs, and finding collectables. I’m not even sure why the bad guy is bad at this point of the game, 20 hours in, other than the game is telling me that he’s bad. In Far Cry 5, it’s made perfectly clear why the head cult leader is bad, and why you’re there to stop him (In the game’s defense, there’s a reason for this, but the payoff doesn’t work well).
This game consists of four types of things to do; saving people from animals, saving people from bad guys, climbing towers and liberating towns. Rinse, wash, repeat. You’ll die by animals more than you’ll die by bad guys. Since when can an eagle take away three quarters of your life? And seemly you can’t walk down a road without being mauled to death by bears, tigers, jaguars, roaming packs of wolves. A honey badger takes three arrows to kill where a bear takes four. There’s so much wildlife you can’t think straight. The only positive thing to say about animals in this game is the perk that allows you to ride an elephant and ram bad guys and flip over cars.
The vehicles are a mess. Everything drives like you’re on ice with no handling. The makeshift helicopter is probably the only vehicle worth piloting.
Something is off with this game’s graphics. I know we are talking about a four-year-old game at this point. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the models or environment, but everything looks like I’m looking through a screen door; Hazy, dull, not in focus and I’m running the game on ULTRA with motion blur turned off.
There’s nothing practically interesting about the story missions. Most of them are just defend this area as you learn more about the culture of your home nation Kyrat. You speak to the main villain over radio once in a while… but outside of the opening dialog there’s nothing very menacing about him.
The game does some interesting things with choices and who to back. And there are some missions that get quite psychedelic (just like Far Cry 3) but there’s nothing overly great about this game. Getting to the end was more of a chore than seeing it to the end and saving your friends in Far Cry 5. By far the least interesting game in the series thus far.
1. Far Cry 5
2. Far Cry 3/Blood Dragon
3. Far Cry
4. Far Cry 2
5. Far Cry 4
Sadly, the repetitive requirements of killing and skinning hundreds of animals takes most of the enjoyment out of the game.
You’re introduced to the main “villain” in a wonderful cinematic opening, and then never see him again until the finale and a few scene peppering in as he talks to you over the radio. That’s probably why Far Cry 5 stopped you in your tracks to splice in part of the story before you continued on through the main quests. In FC4, I literally just spent the first 20 hours of the game, exploring areas, hunting so I could carry more weapons, ammo and health packs, and finding collectables. I’m not even sure why the bad guy is bad at this point of the game, 20 hours in, other than the game is telling me that he’s bad. In Far Cry 5, it’s made perfectly clear why the head cult leader is bad, and why you’re there to stop him (In the game’s defense, there’s a reason for this, but the payoff doesn’t work well).
This game consists of four types of things to do; saving people from animals, saving people from bad guys, climbing towers and liberating towns. Rinse, wash, repeat. You’ll die by animals more than you’ll die by bad guys. Since when can an eagle take away three quarters of your life? And seemly you can’t walk down a road without being mauled to death by bears, tigers, jaguars, roaming packs of wolves. A honey badger takes three arrows to kill where a bear takes four. There’s so much wildlife you can’t think straight. The only positive thing to say about animals in this game is the perk that allows you to ride an elephant and ram bad guys and flip over cars.
The vehicles are a mess. Everything drives like you’re on ice with no handling. The makeshift helicopter is probably the only vehicle worth piloting.
Something is off with this game’s graphics. I know we are talking about a four-year-old game at this point. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the models or environment, but everything looks like I’m looking through a screen door; Hazy, dull, not in focus and I’m running the game on ULTRA with motion blur turned off.
There’s nothing practically interesting about the story missions. Most of them are just defend this area as you learn more about the culture of your home nation Kyrat. You speak to the main villain over radio once in a while… but outside of the opening dialog there’s nothing very menacing about him.
The game does some interesting things with choices and who to back. And there are some missions that get quite psychedelic (just like Far Cry 3) but there’s nothing overly great about this game. Getting to the end was more of a chore than seeing it to the end and saving your friends in Far Cry 5. By far the least interesting game in the series thus far.
1. Far Cry 5
2. Far Cry 3/Blood Dragon
3. Far Cry
4. Far Cry 2
5. Far Cry 4