Far Cry 3

                Far Cry 3 came out in 2012 and was the third installment in the Far Cry series. Far Cry is a first person shooter based on a fictional island. Even though they are in the same series, Far Cry 3 has nothing to do with Far Cry 1 or 2. There are none of the same characters and it doesn’t take place in the same setting. Far Cry 2 takes place somewhere in Africa while Far Cry 3 takes place on an island. There is also a Far Cry 4 which takes place somewhere in the Himalayas and also has nothing to do with the previous games.

                In Far Cry 3 you play as a young adult named Jason who is trying to save his friends that got kidnapped by a group of pirates. Jason gets help from the native people who have him follow the “path of the warrior” which gives him the strength and knowledge to get his friends back. They gave him a tattoo that he can add on to later. As the player you get to choose which part of the tattoo to add onto and each part gives you a different skill or a different upgrade. This provides a pretty cool customization feature for your character and lets you play in whatever style you want.

                Other than just running around shooting people there are many other things that you can spend your time doing in this game. One of the big ones is you can go hunt animals. Much of the area you play in is forest and so there are many different animals that you can hunt. You can use the skin of the animals to make or improve your items. These items can help a lot when you play by letting you carry more grenades or more health packs or other things along that line.

                One of my favorite things to do in this game was clearing out all the outposts. There are over thirty different outposts and each of them has 6-10 enemies in it. This may seem like a lot but every outpost is different and clearing them out was fun every time. You can choose any strategy you want to clear them out. You can drive up to it in a car, snipe from a distance, or try and stealth kill everyone. This method is my personal favorite. I always think it’s really fun to try and take out every enemy without alerting the rest of them. It is also really hard sometimes and can take me many different tries before I end up giving up and just killing them all normally. However I think that it is really cool that the game lets you play in whatever style that you want. There are different skills that you can choose for each of the different ways you can play.

                Another one of my favorite things to do in this game is all the different challenges. There are challenges that you can do that have nothing to do with the story and just give you a score and keeps a leaderboard that keeps track of the best score. There are many different kinds of challenges. There is a sniping challenge, a challenge where you can only use handguns, and a challenge where you can only use explosives. My favorite challenge was one where every time you got a kill the gun that you use switches. The challenges each have a certain time limit but you can extend that time by destroying blue barrels.

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