Far Cry 3 is a weird game.
I was willing to give
it a pass and a polite dismissal based on its less-than-appealing E3 showing;
it didn’t look like anything special besides Call of Duty in the jungle with more knife action. But then again, almost everything this past
E3 looked like some variant/bastard child of CoD and Uncharted, so I
hope you’ll forgive me for being a little jaded. Still, the fact that my brother hyped up the
game to an insane degree -- i.e. saying “Far
Cry 3 is gonna be so awesome” in the same tone he’d used to describe Darksiders 2, Borderlands 2 and Resident
Evil 6 -- didn’t inspire much confidence.
Doubly so when he mentioned the co-op option; I started having PTSD
flashbacks to RE6 and its room full
of explosive Beyblades.
So Far Cry’s been out for a while now.
What do I think of it? Well, let's see if I can sum it up in three points. This should be a piece of cake.
1) Ignore
multiplayer. It completely misses the
point of the single-player game.
2) I like the campaign.
3) The campaign is
notably flawed from the outset.
This is a game that’s incredibly easy to nitpick and
chide. Incredibly easy. But you
know what? It’s not a deal-breaker. Well, not yet at least.