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Far Cry 4

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A Solid 4 out of 5

review by thready

Update 12/24 They fixed the memory leak issue for the most part. The game is worth 4/5 IMO.

UPDATE: The game keeps black screening and CTDing so until they fix this, I'm going to harass their customer support every day.

Ok, let me start by saying I hate Ubisoft. I think Uplay is a disaster. I think their business strategies in terms of DRM are horrific. I think they need to be brought down a level for some of their disasters. Now, here's Far Cry 4.

I downloaded this game today and I played it for an hour before writing this review. I believe that is enough time to figure the game out and judge whether or not I will enjoy it in the future. It's also enough time for me to experience any technical issues if any come up. I'm playing the newest version, 1.5.0.

Here are some of the issues that past gamers have complained about.

Mouse acceleration (fixed in new patch, now there's a check box)

Stuttering (They said they improved it greatly, but many people still experience it a bit. I experienced a tiny bit during high action moments but only moments when there were a lot of objects on the screen, like in big open areas with lots of trees)

Black screen (I didn't experience this)

My specs: FX 8350, R9 280X, 16 GB RAM

I turned it to borderless windowed mode, which allows me to not worry about Vsync. I set everything to high, with shadows and post FX on medium, with SSBC ambient occlusion, God rays enhanced, with 2X MSAA. I'm not big on antialiasing, so I just turn it on the lowest setting even if my PC can handle the higher settings. I didn't measure my FPS, but a few times it dipped down to 30 especially with big open spaces that had many characters moving around and lots of trees to render. During action parts, I wouldn't be able to tell if it's 30 or 60 FPS honestly. But it did stick to around 50-60ish during most parts of the game.

The control scheme is exactly like FC3. You throw rocks to distract people, you have a camera that you can tag enemies with, you have a weapon wheel, etc. Many of the animations are sped up versions of FC3's animations like skinning an animal, wrapping a wound, looting a body. And just like with FC3, you go disable radio towers to open that place up in your map. I really don't mind these things being the same though. I look at it from the perspective of it being the same franchise, so it needs to feel and play similar. It's kind of like The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Both trilogies have so much in common, but they're supposed to. So the similarities don't bother me.

There are as many differences as there are similarities, though. The missions are not just handed to you. You go to a letter on your map, a la Grand Theft Auto, and you pick the mission up and play it. I haven't gotten too deep in the story, but I'm not reviewing the story. But the plot is pretty cool nonetheless. The voice acting is great and the NPC animations are lifelike. They probably did some mo cap here.

And as for the graphics. Remember when you first played Skyrim? Remember how amazing the nature looked in that game? The trees, the mountains, they all looked amazing. That's the feeling I got with this. The nature looks fantastic. The facial models, human proportions, vehicles, flags blowing in the wind, etc are fine, but dat nature tho.

So that's what I think of the game. What do you think? FROM YOUR DIAPHRAGM! HEEEELP! AAHHAHA!

ProsCons
Graphics, same gameplay as FC3 (if you liked FC3), Troy Baker deserves a video game OscarTechnical issues, same gameplay as FC3 (if you didn't like FC3), install size

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