FAR CRY 3
Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal in conjunction with Ubisoft Massive, Ubisoft Red Storm, Ubisoft Reflections,[2] and Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is the sequel to 2008's Far Cry 2.[11]
The game was originally set for release on September 4, 2012 in North
America and September 6 in Europe; however, it was subsequently delayed
until November 29, 2012 for Australia, November 30 for Europe, and
December 4 for North America due to the developers tweaking the final
release version of the game.
Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island somewhere in the vicinity of the Malay Archipelago, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[12] After a vacation goes awry, protagonist Jason Brody must save his friends, who have been kidnapped by pirates and escape from the island and its unhinged inhabitants.
Gameplay
Far Cry 3 is a first-person shooter, which also features role-playing game elements including experience points, skill trees, and a crafting system. The player has the ability to take cover behind objects to break enemies' lines of sight and also to peek around and over cover and blindfire. The player also has the ability to perform silent "takedowns" by performing melee attacks from above, below, or close behind. The game's narrative director, Jason Vandenberghe, said that the story mode map is around ten times larger than in the game's previous installments, indicating that it is still an open world sandbox game. Players are given the ability to survey and plan out their attacks with stealth takedown combinations and also tag enemies with the camera in order to track their movement once they break the player's line of sight.[13]
The game also includes a variety of side-quests. One such side-quest
involves the player hunting the many different wildlife species on the
island for upgrading purposes. There are even some rare hunts that the
player must undertake to reach the highest level hunt upgrades.[14] The rare hunts feature wildlife not typically found during normal play.PLOT
After tracking down and killing Vaas, Jason then moves on to the southern island, which is controlled by Hoyt Volker, a slave trader and Vaas' employer, swearing to Citra that he will kill Hoyt for what he did to both the islanders and his brother. After Jason kills Hoyt and rescues his younger brother Riley, he returns to find Dr. Earnhardt's house on fire. He looks for survivors and finds Dr. Earnhardt lying in a patio mortally wounded. He tells Jason before dying that he tried to save Jason's friends but they were taken by Citra and her warriors back to the temple. He returns to Citra to find that she has taken his friends captive. She has become absolutely enamored with him, seeing him as the reincarnation of the Rakyat's mythical warrior ancestor. After Jason walks through a hallucination, the player must then choose whether to execute his friends and remain with Citra or save them and leave the island.
If the player chooses to join Citra, Jason executes his friends and
has sex with Citra. Just after it, Citra stabs him, saying that their
child will lead the tribe, and that he dies as the warrior he has
become. If the player chooses to save Jason's friends, Jason comes to
his senses and saves his friends from execution. Citra attempts to
convince Jason to stay by claiming his friends will move on, and that he
should stay in the jungle and become king. Jason states that the
violence is over and that there will be no more blood. Dennis arrives
claiming that Citra saved him and the other followers. He attempts to
kill Jason for betraying Citra, but Citra moves in front of Jason and is
stabbed, mortally wounding her. Citra tells Jason she loves him and
begs him to not leave before she dies, with Jason sadly apologizing to
her. Dennis, shocked at what he has done, breaks down in tears over
Citra's body. Soon, Jason and his friends leave the island by boat.
Jason narrates that he can't come back from what he has done, as he
believes he's a monster and feels the anger inside him, though he also
believes that there is still somewhere inside him that's more and better
than that.Development
In February, the Official PlayStation Magazine suggested that the game was due for release at the end of 2011 as the following quote suggested, "Start taking the malaria medicine in preparation: Far Cry 3 could be arriving before the end of the year."[18] This statement was withdrawn in next month's edition where it was stated that the game would be shown on 2011's E3 and that the release date would be bumped back to 2012.[full citation needed] In May, the CVs of a couple of stuntmen listed Far Cry 3 as one of their previous projects.[19]
Far Cry 3 features a sandbox editor.[20] Furthermore, after confirmations of PC split screen on the Far Cry 3 official site as well as content delivery service Steam, the feature was dropped days before release.[21]
The game's writer Jeffrey Yohalem claimed that the intention of the game's plot was to make a statement about "what shooting means and what it does to humanity". The game's protagonist Jason Brody is not a trained soldier, but rather an everyman who is forced to become a killer over the course of the game. Yohalem claims that as a result the game examines "what happens when that guy is put into a situation where he has to survive minute by minute and save his friends? Will he pick up a gun and how does that effect him? [...] This is a story about a normal guy who picks up a gun and that can't end well".[22] Producer Dan Hay emphasized that the emotional "turns" in the characters were a major theme in the game, stating that "that was the emotional thing we wanted and when we first saw it, it was with Vaas." Hay further commented that the game merged the systemic feel and emotional feel from the previous two Far Cry games in order to take the game in a "very, very surprising direction."[9]
