Far Cry 3

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8.4

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  1. dunuch
    Aug 31, 2023
    4
    Disappointing. The pros:
    Great story telling, solid driving and moving mechanics, the tattoo system is fun.
    The cons: where to start? The game is way too easy, the enemy spo
  2. DoomDoc_
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
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    I am giving this game 3/10.
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  3. VirtualC
    Jun 16, 2023
    0
    Unplayable on modern systems.
    Ryzen 7, RTX 3060 = 45 FPS?
    I'm running Windows 11 with two screens (game running at 1440p monitor with the ultra preset)

    Also the game crashes every 5-10 minutes. Ubisoft please fix. I've heard it's a good game so it would be a shame to lose this game.
  4. danield80
    Jan 31, 2023
    4
    Far Cry 3 is a typical Ubisoft piece of schütt game. Open world full of nothing but treasure chests. Besides the main storyline there isn't much to do. Few side quests worth s_it, repetitive camp captures, bounties, races and map revealing towers we all know from Assassin's Creed.

    There's a non-functional crafting mechanics which require you to do grindy work, hunting animals, picking    Far Cry 3 is a typical Ubisoft piece of schütt game. Open world full of nothing but treasure chests. Besides the main storyline there isn't much to do. Few side quests worth s_it, repetitive camp captures, bounties, races and map revealing towers we all know from Assassin's Creed.

    There's a non-functional crafting mechanics which require you to do grindy work, hunting animals, picking plants. Simply put, you can't carry two weapons unless you skin two goats. This garbage mechanic is present in following year's AC Black Flag. But you won't get short on money due to UBIquitous chests. You can't do anything with your money, only buy guns and ammo, certainly not hides, right?

    The gameplay offers stealth even lamer than any AC game released in 2009 or later, health system is very forgiving, it's easier to die climbing a tower than in combat. The game didn't get hard enough to make me hunt tapirs or cassowaries.

    The story is teenage cringe with disgusting elements such as incestuous and coomer themes. You even get to choose a bad ending disguised as a coomer one. Shame on anyone who chose this ending.    … Expand
  5. Sir-Olex
    Jan 25, 2023
    0
    The best game of the series. I play this game every few years and have a lot of fun.
  6. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  7. Demodestroier
    May 15, 2022
    3
    It’s ok mechanics wise nothing really good about it, all the environments look identical and it’s quite boring but there are some good things about it
  8. tunahan43
    Feb 15, 2022
    1
    çok fazla söz etmeye değmez .overrated bir oyun .far cry 5 daha efsane iken far cry 3ün abartılması baya saçma.Şu oyunun far cry 5den artısı yok .
  9. gsu
    Feb 13, 2022
    1
    a **** game to put my dick in the table that made this game **** you die 17 thousand times on a mission if you are not attacked by animals you are attacked by pirates ****
  10. psmoon21
    Nov 11, 2021
    0
    Boring, typical and stuffed as ubisoft knows how to do. The story is typical and cliche, with various mindless actions and decisions, typical missions to endure enemies or rare, with dreams and magic potions. Vaas is a pretty bad villain and hoyt a little better but still, friends are hateful, like all characters.

    Clear the map, towers, areas ... skills that you learn with points    Boring, typical and stuffed as ubisoft knows how to do. The story is typical and cliche, with various mindless actions and decisions, typical missions to endure enemies or rare, with dreams and magic potions. Vaas is a pretty bad villain and hoyt a little better but still, friends are hateful, like all characters.

    Clear the map, towers, areas ... skills that you learn with points instead of learning and improving them. stupid i.a., who stare at a wall or lose you if you are behind a plant, bad physics, bad moves for a first person game.

    Perhaps in his year of departure all this was not so evident but today he has aged very badly. There is nothing that stands out for the better.    … Expand
  11. ComandanteCobra
    Oct 21, 2021
    4
    Well,,it does not stand the test of time.
    I played the first one ages ago...and i Liket it. Great single player game.
    Then i tried the second one...dind't like it very much because of the open world mecanics and repetitiveness
    In 2020 I tried the third one (i'm late i know) and find it average and dated sadly....flat gameplay, story, dialogues, graphic....
  12. Milhocreoilo
    Sep 12, 2021
    4
    Is this the best Far Cry? Same thing to do, same thing, same thing all the game. If you like... whatever.
  13. anvamit
    Sep 10, 2021
    0
    Вшивый отстой от юбиков. Игра либо для ретардов, либо для совсем детей. Идиотский сюжет и прочие фишки от криворуких разрабов. Никому не советую.
  14. BFG-1337
    Apr 4, 2021
    3
    First of all this isn't Far Cry 3, technically it is but this is "American prick In tropical jungle grinding and stupid story simulator".

    Story: Horrible for my taste, its like a reality show more than a game, feels like one of those TV shows where people are "stuck" together on an island and have to survive and then fake drama starts happening. Its really horrible Combat: Passable,    First of all this isn't Far Cry 3, technically it is but this is "American prick In tropical jungle grinding and stupid story simulator".

    Story: Horrible for my taste, its like a reality show more than a game, feels like one of those TV shows where people are "stuck" together on an island and have to survive and then fake drama starts happening. Its really horrible

    Combat: Passable, but since this game is oriented on combat id say its not passable for what it is. It doesn't feel good enough, really feels cheap.

    World: Beautiful world, lots of animals.

    Atmosphere: Its very watered down, feels like im on painkillers playing this game, like Im not connected to my environment. Not a nice feeling

    Compared to Far Cry 2, ohh, this game really sucks hard. As a game itself it isnt any better because its really a shallow game that failed in my opinion right on release. Far Cry 2 was really atmospheric and had really good gunplay, this was a cashgrab on the name of Far Cry.

    Ubisoft :D    … Expand
  15. wavegab
    Sep 12, 2020
    3
    You are tasked to hunt an animal. You are required to use a bow. It takes you 2 seconds to fire a charged shot with minimal damage, and equal time to heal yourself for minimal health. The target needs one second to swipe you twice which could kill you instantly. Great balance as always ubisoft.
  16. Voyou
    Aug 2, 2020
    3
    Wusses code checkpoints and play football.
    Real men code a full menu that lets us save whenever we need, and they wrestle.
    Ubisoft couldn't code a competent interface if they tried to, and they probably play golf. Special mention for the very most annoying tutorial ever. They are self-aware, and still they don't get how much of a failure they wrote. You can't teach that level of    Wusses code checkpoints and play football.
    Real men code a full menu that lets us save whenever we need, and they wrestle.
    Ubisoft couldn't code a competent interface if they tried to, and they probably play golf.

    Special mention for the very most annoying tutorial ever. They are self-aware, and still they don't get how much of a failure they wrote. You can't teach that level of asininity.

    Refunded.
    Too bad, the gameplay seemed rich and the stealth seemed fun.    … Expand
  17. Darius_84
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    Not playable decently in 2020. Don't buy, you would just waste money.
    And ubisoft support sucks.
  18. pavel2
    May 31, 2020
    4
    A huge let down after playing the masterpiece Far Cry 2.
    This should not even be named Far Cry anymore. Bad story and annoying characters and NPCs, I really hated this game. Very generic, copy and paste island and mediocre and cheating (poker) minigames.
  19. Sweetard
    Jul 11, 2018
    4
    There are some enjoyable parts in the game as well as not enjoyable which are mostly caused by bad AI and even worse and partly unfair battlegrounds. And even if you play it just like a shooter and not like a storytelling/ RPG like game it doens´t feel different to other games, so you find in every genre this game wants to fulfill/ fulfills better games with reasons to play it once againThere are some enjoyable parts in the game as well as not enjoyable which are mostly caused by bad AI and even worse and partly unfair battlegrounds. And even if you play it just like a shooter and not like a storytelling/ RPG like game it doens´t feel different to other games, so you find in every genre this game wants to fulfill/ fulfills better games with reasons to play it once again or with a story that goes more into depth, better/ deeper character(traits), a better weapon handling and management of resources.… Expand
  20. gyigyo2
    May 1, 2018
    1
    Far Cry3 is the worst far cry ever made in my eyes: The protagonist is a stupid rich kid, with he's friends, Jason Brody the little stupid rich kid learns in 2 day how to be a MASTER survivalist man in the jungle,.The story is a lacking in everything, is so stupid and simple revenge, easily predicted story, with bad, lame endings. VAAS is an overrated villain, he is so lame, and stupid, IFar Cry3 is the worst far cry ever made in my eyes: The protagonist is a stupid rich kid, with he's friends, Jason Brody the little stupid rich kid learns in 2 day how to be a MASTER survivalist man in the jungle,.The story is a lacking in everything, is so stupid and simple revenge, easily predicted story, with bad, lame endings. VAAS is an overrated villain, he is so lame, and stupid, I wonder why he has so many fans, psychopath, broken-mental man.

    Pros: some new things in gameplay
    Cons:
    -Story
    -Characters
    -The world
    -Music
    -AI
    -Endings    … Expand
  21. VampireIdle
    Jan 14, 2018
    4
    I didn't play this Game very long, main reason being that there is an auto save bug. It constantly is stuck in the Auto Save animation but it doesnt actually save. Which means its basically like playing a PS2 Game without a Memory Card.

    I know that this Game is great and it has an amazing Story (watched it as a Lets Play a long time ago) but it is really sad that this Game is broken on    I didn't play this Game very long, main reason being that there is an auto save bug. It constantly is stuck in the Auto Save animation but it doesnt actually save. Which means its basically like playing a PS2 Game without a Memory Card.

    I know that this Game is great and it has an amazing Story (watched it as a Lets Play a long time ago) but it is really sad that this Game is broken on PC and not working at all. Thankfully I got this Game on Sale, sadly I wont be able to get a refund as it took me 3 years to even recover my uplay account.

    I don't recommend this Game as its broken with no fix from ubisofts side in sight. Stay away from it and buy Far Cry 4 that one does actually work on PC.    … Expand
  22. ShinsFortress
    Apr 24, 2016
    2
    Looks nice, sounds okay, with plenty of action when I want it.

    An okay game saddled with the awful Uplay. I already have a platform that the game WAS BOUGHT ON, Steam. Why do I need another platform?
  23. elmejorjuego
    Nov 2, 2015
    0
    hoped that, being this the third instalment of a sequel, it might have a chance of actually being something good. The only good thing that comes out of it is the idea behind it all, which is a shame. It feels and looks like you're playing and it is so repetitive... the whole picking items up and crafting stuff is confusing, boring and not very believable. You can hide but there is nohoped that, being this the third instalment of a sequel, it might have a chance of actually being something good. The only good thing that comes out of it is the idea behind it all, which is a shame. It feels and looks like you're playing and it is so repetitive... the whole picking items up and crafting stuff is confusing, boring and not very believable. You can hide but there is no cover option, which makes a whole sense in this type of game.… Expand
  24. slick_trick
    Sep 29, 2015
    3
    Terrible game and nothing to do with Uplay. I have no problem with Uplay whatsoever. What I don't like about this game is that its lame. FIrst of all the protagonist you play I did not get into at all. He's like an average everyday guy who supposedly has to rise up and learn how to survive under the guidance of a somewhat westernized native who finds him on the island after escapingTerrible game and nothing to do with Uplay. I have no problem with Uplay whatsoever. What I don't like about this game is that its lame. FIrst of all the protagonist you play I did not get into at all. He's like an average everyday guy who supposedly has to rise up and learn how to survive under the guidance of a somewhat westernized native who finds him on the island after escaping some real life modern day pirates who kidnap him and his friends. It all sounds great on paper but the execution is so terrible and cliche that it made me cringe. First of all the main character is a dork.. completely unlikable. They went out of their way to apparently make him someone that the average gamer can supposedly relate to.. so I guess they made him "nerdy" or "geeky" or god knows what.. I don't know.. but the guy is annoying. And apparently it worked because 10's of thousands of reviews say how great the game is. Personally, I don't like it all and find it cliche, obnoxious, and off color. Secondly... the gameplay itself is agonizingly boring. You better have a monster of a computer because once the brilliance of the island environment wears off the gameplay itself is stupid and incredibly dull and boring. There are a *few* parts here and there that were well done (infiltrating a shipwreck was one)... for the most part wandering around the island and happening upon the same supposedly realistic modern day pirates driving around in a jeep or "hunting" wild animals was just plain ridiculous. I honestly don't know how so many people have given this game such a great review... but I assume its because they can relate to protagonist being a dork who supposedly rises up and learns how to survive. Personally I found it obnoxious, trite, and annoying. Over the years I go back to this game every so often to try to get into it and it is just so painfully boring in their sad attempts to make it so "realistic" the game pales in comparison to FC1. FC2 I also tried to get into and also found that game terrible after many attempts to get past the first hour of gameplay.… Expand
  25. ingreenblue
    May 5, 2015
    3
    Wallet crafting (put the money in your pockets, for God's sake). Lame RPG crap. Ugly HUD and map. Hand holding. Jason Brody. Lack of immersion. Console focus. A step backwards from Far Cry 2.
  26. Marick
    Feb 22, 2015
    3
    Far Cry 3 is an open world, action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed mainly by Ubisoft Montreal in conjunction with Ubisoft Massive, Ubisoft Red Storm, Ubisoft Shanghai, and Ubisoft Reflections, published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. After a vacation goes awry,Far Cry 3 is an open world, action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed mainly by Ubisoft Montreal in conjunction with Ubisoft Massive, Ubisoft Red Storm, Ubisoft Shanghai, and Ubisoft Reflections, published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 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.Jason Brody, his older and younger brothers Grant and Riley, his girlfriend Liza, and their friends Daisy, Keith, and Oliver, vacation in Bangkok to celebrate Riley getting his pilot's license. While skydiving, they land on an archipelago named the Rook Islands, controlled by pirates under the control of Vaas. Grant and Jason are held and taunted by Vaas while the others are taken to be held for ransom. Grant engineers their escape but is killed by Vaas; distraught, Jason manages to scramble away. He is met by Dennis Rogers, an inhabitant of the island working with the Rakyat tribe to seize control back from the pirates. Dennis sees the potential in Jason to follow the Rakyat "path of the warrior" in rescuing his friends, and gives him a tatau that gives Jason the strength and knowledge to defeat the pirates.… Expand
  27. leoviale
    Dec 3, 2014
    4
    I had high hopes for this game, I didn't like the 2nd one, but the first one was something new and lots of fun. This one on the other hand started ok, but then it turned out to be repetitive, and I got bored tbh, even if I tried and tried to keep going. Graphics are great, hate the vanishing stuff and I had some performance issues. Can't say it's a bad game as I didn't beat it, butI had high hopes for this game, I didn't like the 2nd one, but the first one was something new and lots of fun. This one on the other hand started ok, but then it turned out to be repetitive, and I got bored tbh, even if I tried and tried to keep going. Graphics are great, hate the vanishing stuff and I had some performance issues. Can't say it's a bad game as I didn't beat it, but definitely not my type of games, and I love open world FPS.… Expand
  28. charbash20
    Nov 29, 2014
    3
    This game is utterly ruined by the lack of a genuine quick save. I can't keep track of how many times I died during the heat of a gun fight, only to have to reset from a spawn location, having to search out the fight and start all over again from scratch. Ruined the experience for me 100 percent.

    Where are the days where video game designers actually made games with the players in    This game is utterly ruined by the lack of a genuine quick save. I can't keep track of how many times I died during the heat of a gun fight, only to have to reset from a spawn location, having to search out the fight and start all over again from scratch. Ruined the experience for me 100 percent.

    Where are the days where video game designers actually made games with the players in mind? If I want to quick save my game (like I could in the excellent Far Cry 2), then why can't I? It should be my choice. Why am I paying for an open world game, with my hard earned money, if it won't even give the essential features I want?

    On top of that, you are forced to install UPlay (Ubi's own form of DRM) to play this. If you purchased this through steam (like a lot of people have) having to install another layer of DRM is a huge pain in the ass. Way to stick it to the customers even more.

    The graphics are great, the story is actually really interesting. It's a bold game, and for that, I'm giving it a 3. However, the game is unplayable for me, so I can't give it a higher score. A 3 is a solid F, and that's what it deserves.

    Far Cry 1 and Far Cry 2 are still great games, and I recommend those. (I got 1, 2, 3, and Blood Dragon for 40 on steam, so not a huge loss for me). Stay away from 3 though. Obviously not made with the player in mind    … Expand
  29. alboin
    Nov 29, 2014
    3
    Far Cry 3 is definitely a weird game. It will mind **** you so much and than leave you in your insanity. Just like that, like nothing happened. So we should start from the beginning. You are rich spoiled child who was kidnapped by some insane ****ed up island king of inbred tribals. Suddenly you are torn out from your dream life of parties and boredom into cruel reality. But kidnappers areFar Cry 3 is definitely a weird game. It will mind **** you so much and than leave you in your insanity. Just like that, like nothing happened. So we should start from the beginning. You are rich spoiled child who was kidnapped by some insane ****ed up island king of inbred tribals. Suddenly you are torn out from your dream life of parties and boredom into cruel reality. But kidnappers are too dumb and you and your older brother manage to escape. After short period of time your brother lays dead and you run through unknown jungle. You slip, you fall and you lose senses. When you wake up the real game begins. Now you can explore whole island on your own no matter what. You can liberate small forts on the island which will make roads safer (so they say). After liberation of some fort a car full of Rakyat, the tribals, will appear and take over the place, quoting stupid things 'till the end of time. Another thing of importance to the tribals are radio towers. If you can climb them up and destroy technical device of island king Vaas(and Vaas doesn't give a **** whole game), you will reveal a part of map and also make Vaas blind in this area. The side quests and collectibles will now show on the map too. But when you liberate whole island and explore whole map nothing happens. Not a single thank you. Tribals just don't care. And there is much more of what they don't care about. So you go and start side quests. And now some weird **** will happen. You can come across a guy who needs photos of dead pirates for his personal sick business. You will find a guy who's daughter was kidnapped by aliens and he needs to locate all of his packages. But when you do quest just ends and he doesn't give a **** about his daughter anymore. You will search for husband of one tribal woman, who thinks her husband is cheating on her, just to find him with another man. And so it goes like this, until you realize that all of Rakyat are pretty ****ed up bunch of liars and you just want to put them all down. So you will turn on to the last things you can do in this game: hunting for animals and relics. But sooner or later you will start to feel guilty for genocide of rare species, because bigger bags you make, more animals it takes. Until one point, when you need a rare animal and than you need to find a specific quest and hunt it with special weapon. So after lots of carnage you have all the bags and animals have no meaning in game anymore, except small enemies. Relics are scattered all over the island. You can find statuettes, memory cards and letters of japan soldiers from WWII. The informations on discs and letters are boring and just flat, and relics and letter spawn randomly on the island. So sooner or later you will return to the place where you took one relic, just to find another few meters further. So after a while it's boring and pointless too as all other activities. And after all these things you will return to the main story, where **** hits the fan. You will rescue all of your friends and slowly develop your "warrior" skills through some short missions of simple story. You will rescue you stupid stoned friend, who would certainly die but doesn't give a **** about gratitude after you save him. Your mean **** girlfriend, your older brothers girlfriend and at last your younger brother. And as this happy bunch you want to leave island. In this saving process you will inhale and eat so much drugs it would kill an ox but you will just walk away with a headache just to please everybody on this godforsaken island. You will please a tribal queen Citra just to disappoint her at the very end and also kill some god and island king and Rudolf's gay uncle and most evil boss German and ... and after all this ... you will be still mean **** and spoiled kid and yell yuck when you skin an animal and with big meaningless tattoo after all this ... you will stay on the island! There is no way home. No return. You will just stay there, kill bandit bosses with the knife like real Rakyat even if you rejected them at the end. You will encounter same two men patrols of pirates and mercenaries and the tribals won't still give a **** about you and drive like crazy killing their own on the roads and smashing the cars into trees. And than you will realize that this is a nightmare ... and it won't end until you uninstall the game... And still, it's not all I hated about this game, but I don't want to think about it anymore.… Expand
  30. Budget_Security
    Nov 8, 2014
    4
    I can only recommend this game at Steam's 75% off price.
    FC3 has much the same problems FC2 had. Gameplay may have improved slightly, but its just as dumbed down, arcade and formulaic as last time. The world is still not persistent (which is important in an open world game that has some RPG elements). Corpses and loot vanish within seconds and vehicles just spawn or disappear right next    I can only recommend this game at Steam's 75% off price.
    FC3 has much the same problems FC2 had. Gameplay may have improved slightly, but its just as dumbed down, arcade and formulaic as last time. The world is still not persistent (which is important in an open world game that has some RPG elements). Corpses and loot vanish within seconds and vehicles just spawn or disappear right next to you, and so on. The usual checkpoint save system does not help here either - it does not save often enough and resets everything. The story is more engaging, but felt too unbelievable and often didn't make sense. I also didn't like the OTT drugs-debauchery-insanity-glorified-violence theme. The side-quests are mostly the FedEx variety, and among the worst I have ever seen. The game world has a bit of a theme park feel - everything is too close together (an enemy camp, friendly camp, and hunting range all in the space of a football field or two). Much of the landscape feels man-made, and no where near as impressive and natural as the island in Crysis 1. The enemy AI, which was one of the few really good things in FC2, seems to have been dumbed down in FC3, probably to make the stealth gameplay more accessible. Graphics, while ok, are clearly limited by the Xbox360 specs. Crysis 1 still looks better despite being 5 years older.

    Its not all bad though: the flip side to the flaws is that the game is very accessible to casual gamers. Also, the story's ancient temple exploration segments were just as good as the best parts in 2013's Tomb Raider. A pity there was not more of that. FC3 is also a good PC port, including adjustable FOV and mouse acceleration settings.    … Expand
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#9 Best PC Game of 2012
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#6 Most Discussed PC Game of 2012
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#11 Most Shared PC Game of 2012

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 43
  3. Negative: 0 out of 43
  1. PC Master (Greece)
    Feb 6, 2013
    89
    Far Cry 3 is a classic shooter at its core, but there are various RPG mechanics, skills and upgrades under the hood. It’s a fabulous playing ground and one can but marvel at the wondrous ways the various elements interact with each other. [January 2013]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Jan 29, 2013
    75
    Exhilarating, colorful, mindless – that's Far Cry 3 in three words.
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  3. Hyper Magazine
    Jan 24, 2013
    90
    Tighter and more accessible than Far Cry 2, the third outing is a master class in open world shooting. [Feb 2013, p.59]
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