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If you've played any of the previous games, I think you basically know what to expect. If you've somehow never played the Far Cry series before, you can start right here. It's just as chaotic, crazy and nonsensical as a game gets.

--Watch 5 minutes of unfiltered chaos here--

Far Cry is all about getting from map marker to map marker. Running, sliding, flying, gliding, driving and airdropping into your missions all feels great. There is a sense of weight to your movement, which makes getting to your next objective actually fun, even if you have to sprint 800 metres through the jungle. Unfortunately the same can't be said about climbing and especially grappling, as I found it really tedious, mostly because the controls are bad for this (Mouse1 to ascend, Mouse2 to descend?). The most important gripe about all of the traversal though is that it resets your FOV while doing so.

In a game that launches into its accessibility menu before all else, the fact that swimming/riding horseback/driving/flying/every activity other than running and gunning resets your FOV to a nauseating default is baffling. I'm sure their reasoning is either performance or it causing issues with the animations, but you will spend probably 75% of the game not on your feet, so this is an incredible oversight to me.

In terms of "Story™"... well, yikes. There are no real stakes, there is nothing here to write home about. Using real actors is fine and all, but when they're given such paint-by-numbers dialogue... You will learn about "the evil dictator" through cut scenes as you slowly get closer to him through his associates in each region. The way your fellow Guerrillas act and talk about war is so nonchalant it could be considered offensive. The game ebbs and flows with "really serious" things and tries to convince you that war never changes etc, but it falls so completely tone deaf when the very next mission you're fighting an army of chickens or whatever.

Look, I get it, the game wants you to be an over powered one-girl-army with a cute little dog companion, wearing a festive little hat, taking on the evil military forces one region at a time. That's all well and good, but when the cut scenes try so hard to make you care about characters who you will forget about the second you stop playing, it feels a little... I don't know. Just skip the cut scenes I guess.

These issues aside, I didn't really run into any performance issues per se. Occasionally the AI seemed to get stuck, but is that really a bug, or just Far Cry being Far Cry? I did once spawn "dead" after a cut scene ended, and had to alt+f4 to get myself out, but for a game that has so many systems going at once, I think this is kind of expected. Not excused, but expected.

So why is this a positive review? Well, the gunplay and chaos is enough to carry you through. The puzzles associated with the treasure hunts were pretty interesting when compared to the standard gameplay. There are enough side activities to get lost in if that's your thing, but honestly just picking a direction, air dropping and gliding in to take over a new outpost never got boring. I spent 50 hours in Yara, completing many of the optional tasks, which grants you unique weapons and gear. Once I had all the weapons unlocked though, it was time to just chug through the main quest and wrap it up.

All in all, another solid entry in the Far Cry series. Not as interesting as 3 or 5, more similar to 4 I'd say. The series that epitomizes what a 7.5 feels like continues the tradition.
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