Far Cry 3 Review and Gameplay

3D Rendering Of Free Roam Map

Far cry 3 is a long awaited sequel to Far cry 1 and 2. Far cry 3 is a story in which Jason Brody  and his friends gets abducted by pirates and escapes the island. Far cry 3 has a very interesting storyline which involves free roam and missions in which you have to travel to points to start it. The free roam is somewhat like GTA and can be considered as a loss of originality. However, this is not the case. The whole storyline and game play is much different from GTA and is considered as a upgrade to the free roam. Far Cry 3 has a high render distance which allows you to be able to see nearby islands. These islands, even though a part of the background, can be traveled to. This feature impresses me a lot because i have not seen this before in a FPS game. Next, the game play type is mainly first person shooter in which you have to shoot people to survive. Far cry has also added stealth options such as take downs which are silent killing methods. Take downs can be further improved through upgrades until a point where you can kill everyone with take downs in a matter of seconds. These take down moves needs skills and must be carried out silently or you might alert the guards. Far Cry 3 lacks variety of weapons. There is very few guns but each one can be customised to your liking. This makes up for the lack of weapons. Each of the weapons can also be given a paint job to your liking. The game runs on a currency system. You need money to buy weapons, upgrades and paint jobs. There are a few ways of earning money. One is through chests, collecting relics, looting enemies and completing missions.  You also are able to craft. Crafting means you can make potions to heal you, help you in battle and even upgrade items like loot sacks and wallets.

The plot is about Jason Brody and a group of friends being abducted by pirates on a trip to an island. Jason's brother grant decides to escape and Jason comes along with him. On the way, Vaas, the person who is in charge of the pirating, kills  Grant and Jason escapes. Jason is then rescued by Dennis, the head of the Rakyat rescues him and slowly turns him into a member. Jason then slowly rescues his friends one by one, killing many in the process of doing so. Jason was caught by Vaas many times and was sent to death many times but he escaped each time by luck. Jason then after becoming a fearsome Rakyat warrior decides to stay in the island and head the Rakyat. This displeases his friends who are trying to escape the island. Jason then confronts Vaas in his base and kills him with a knife. Jason then moves to Hoyt's island. Hyot is the head of the pirates and owns the whole business. Jason then slowly finds Hyot and kills him. He rescues Riley, his brother, and then returns to Dr. Earnhardt to finds him about to die. Jason then goes to Citra's temple where he has to decide whether to save his friends or stay in this island with Citra.

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Hitman Absolution

Hitman Absolution is one of those games which you cant stop playing. Hitman the series is always about Agent 47 going around assassinating and killing people wearing that stylish suit. The game offers many game play difficulties in which you can easily win in easy, but whats the fun in that? Maybe if you are not used to or never played FPS games before go for the easy but for people who played games like Max Payne 3, Far Cry 3 go for a higher difficulty. This game allows you to change costumes whether to become a cop to be able to hold firearms or just a regular chef in Chinatown. The majestic game play which is highly customisable works well with the high graphics capability to give you the most best silent killing game. You can go around killing people with AKs or shotguns but that would probably leave you dead in high difficulties and even take all the fun out of silent kills out of it. The story starts of as you Agent 47 trying to assassinate a lady called Diane Burnwood. You shoot her and as her last request she asks you to protect a girl called Victoria which you do. The story from then is about Agent 47 trying to find out why the agency had asked him to do such a action to Diane. This leads to Agent 47 going through alot of places which may vary from a wrestling arena to Chinatown. This game though tends to lack in excitement when you execute an assassination. If you played dishonored you would know how pumped up you would feel when you warp behind someone and take them out by surprise. The plot is quite bad at some points and neutral at the others. What i like is, like Dishonored, it has many ways to play the game. You don't need to go through one way to finish the game. You can climb through windows, run through sewers or even enter any room you like. This accessibility gives Hitman a break from the quite bad plot. Overall, i think that Hitman Absolution is   quite a good game. I have played it and well, i haven't stopped playing it yet.