Far Cry 3 seems to have mastered the fun of the open-world game...and simultaneously missed the boat. When it’s really, truly open, the game sings. This makes it confusing when the game takes away the openness, like asking a kid what his favorite candy is, giving him a bag of it, and then taking it away when he eats one piece.
You’ll play as Jason Brody, a 20-something with two first names on vacation with a collection of other 20-somethings celebrating in the South Pacific. After a skydiving adventure leaves the lot of you on the only island worse for vacationing than Isla Nublar, you’re all kidnapped and prepared for selling into slavery. Naturally, you escape and so begins your quest to free your friends and (naturally) exact a little revenge.
Now, the cushy life of a w... |
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