Farcry 3 is the best FPS game of the year with a huge tropical island sandbox, nice weapons, animals and new assets
I'm playing the game since Nov. 29th and almost spent 40 hours on it. First thing I can say is it satisfies my expectations. A remarkable size of area to explore with different animals and people or enemies to engage with. Nice veriety of guns and customization. Well balanced skill tree due to game progression and the choices of the player. As well as the crafting and looting system. The radio towers gives the player a climbing challenge and chance to discover the island slowly, (not showing everything at a time and not to ruining the suprises) so that's good and pushing you forward. Also gives you a chance to catch up all the details. Beyond all these, great shooting experince and gameplay.
Plus the game uses clever stleath mechanics and takedown combos which combines well with the gunplay. When you feel like you've seen everything still the game adds more guns, syringes, and suprises as you go forward
There's so much to do on the island beside the storyy missions. I.e playing poker, shooting contests, side missions, delivering packages or hunting missions... etc. There are huge veriety of animals and they are so live; hunting, eating, running or attacking... Also great characters with deep sence of personality and outsanding visual design.
Any negativity with this game? Sure.. Some of the side missons or hunting missions are little boring. Going forward sometimes is frustration because of the level design of topography and stairs. You sometimes get stuck when entering caves or doors. They are too narrow or on upper level. So you need to jump when entering a door. Also it's the same when controlling the cars on this island.
The island topography and pirates look the same and linear but not eyesore. There are defenetaly visual glitches. You may sometimes see object mapping changes due to distance and misguide you. AI is good, your foes have some clever moves but it's not that challenging and predictable.
Multiplayer? I haven't spend so much time on co-op and multiplayer but I couldn't get the enjoyment of the single player campaign when doing co-up or multipler. Online challanges are more like shooting the waves of foes.
As a conclusion: Nice satisfying gameplay with a huge area to explore and gives you freedom to approach each misson and other activities. Great RPG mechanics combined smoothly to a FPS game. Crafting, hunting and handling economy is fun, easy and not boring. The Island looks similar in everywhere but there are so much exploration places. And story goes exciting and interesting as well the story missions are challenging and pure fun. Even so much fun that the visual glitches or bugs can't ruin it. Fully recovers your money and time