(04-04-2018, 04:01 PM)pirkster Wrote: For someone who has zero experience or knowledge of the FarCry series... pitch me the quick sell.  What's to like/dislike about it?

To give you an idea of what I like, my favorite games are things like the original Tomb Raider series, GTAV (though I felt San Andreas is as good as any,) Red Dead Redemption, the Uncharted series, and Last of Us.

I'm not so big into online battle royale, etc like Fortnite, or any of the military games (COD and Battlefield.)  I'm more into single player stories that include those elements in missions.

Caveat:  I have only played two of the games-far Cry 3 and Far Cry 5.

It is considered a FPS, but I think it is more than that.

Not much in the way of platform jumping a la Tomb Raider or some parts of Uncharted.

The Far Cry games function quite well as single person stories, though they have on line multi player functions as well.

Unlike the Uncharted series, the Far Cry series involves different characters and different settings.  Far Cry 3 takes place on a tropical Island.  I believe Far Cry 4 takes place in Asia.  Far Cry 5 takes place in Montana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sthdNBoMJBQ

Caution:  the review contains profanity-both from the reviewer and the actual game clips.

 If you can get past some of the silliness of the reviewers, Angry Joe provides a good review of Far Cry 3, which contains many of the same game play elements found in Far Cry 5.

Typically, Far Cry games offer a detailed story with typically well developed bad guys and fun, if violent game play.

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