Like every Far Cry game, this one starts off with a HUGE bang, and you truly do feel super vulnerable. A religious cult has taken over an entire county, and your attempts to capture the leader fail, and you're stranded with no help and no back-up. What a premise!
The gameplay is 10x better than Primal. Guns and vehicles make stealth a necessity. In Primal, you could just walk into an outpost, lure all enemies outside, let them chase you in a circle like zombies, and pick them off one by one. It was super played out. This game allows you to use guns for hire while clearing outposts, but they're so pointless and counterproductive that it's easier to do it by yourself.
The soundtrack is amazing. Sometimes I just open the menu and map to listen to the music. And the map is a huge step up from Primal's 2D map. You can see where things are with little models to see what they look like instead of just icons. Very helpful.
For the first half of the game, I was convinced they had learned from the mediocrity of Primal in terms of story, too. John Seed's region was AWESOME. He was undoubtedly the most grounded and believable of the 3 siblings. His methods involved pure torture and persuading people to just say one word: "yes". The characters in that region felt like real people as well like Pastor Jerome and Grace.
And then the other 2 regions were just nonsensical.
Jacob Seed used brainwashing to sway people to his cause. But his ideology has literally nothing to do with Joseph's. He's saying that only the strong survive, and the herd needs to be culled like any respectable fascist would say. That directly clashes with Joseph's "you are not too far gone" beliefs.
Faith Seed was probably the worst. We don't even get to see her in person, and then she dies because we killed her in the bliss. She doesn't even have a motivation other than indulging in drugs because her life sucked beforehand.
Since all your time is spent hunting Joseph's siblings instead of Joseph, you never actually feel like he's the bad guy, and you don't have anything really personal with him except for what happened at the start of the game.
This is all besides the fact that your original plan was to leave the county to go get help from the national guard, which there are PLENTY of helicopters and airplanes lying around for you to fly away in. This massive plot hole is painfully apparent throughout the game.
And then the ending... the dumbest climax of all time.
He predicted that the world was ending through a nuclear war... and he blames it on us because we didn't listen to him? As if us listening to a guy had anything to do with other countries nuking each other? And 3 nukes go off in the middle of nowhere in Montana... because that's TOTALLY the first place you would launch nuclear missiles to.
And this is all besides the point that despite LITERAL NUCLEAR BOMBS GOING OFF, we still want to ARREST JOSEPH SEED INSTEAD OF JUST SHOOTING HIM IN THE FACE RIGHT THERE AND THEN. ARRESTING HIM DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL RIGHT NOW. JUST KILL HIM AND GET IT OVER WITH.
This game fell apart so quickly and so avoidably. I was going to give it a 9 because of how good John's story was, and the other regions brought it to an 8, but that awful ending has to bring it down to a 7 (which is still pretty generous).
The gameplay is 10x better than Primal. Guns and vehicles make stealth a necessity. In Primal, you could just walk into an outpost, lure all enemies outside, let them chase you in a circle like zombies, and pick them off one by one. It was super played out. This game allows you to use guns for hire while clearing outposts, but they're so pointless and counterproductive that it's easier to do it by yourself.
The soundtrack is amazing. Sometimes I just open the menu and map to listen to the music. And the map is a huge step up from Primal's 2D map. You can see where things are with little models to see what they look like instead of just icons. Very helpful.
For the first half of the game, I was convinced they had learned from the mediocrity of Primal in terms of story, too. John Seed's region was AWESOME. He was undoubtedly the most grounded and believable of the 3 siblings. His methods involved pure torture and persuading people to just say one word: "yes". The characters in that region felt like real people as well like Pastor Jerome and Grace.
And then the other 2 regions were just nonsensical.
Jacob Seed used brainwashing to sway people to his cause. But his ideology has literally nothing to do with Joseph's. He's saying that only the strong survive, and the herd needs to be culled like any respectable fascist would say. That directly clashes with Joseph's "you are not too far gone" beliefs.
Faith Seed was probably the worst. We don't even get to see her in person, and then she dies because we killed her in the bliss. She doesn't even have a motivation other than indulging in drugs because her life sucked beforehand.
Since all your time is spent hunting Joseph's siblings instead of Joseph, you never actually feel like he's the bad guy, and you don't have anything really personal with him except for what happened at the start of the game.
This is all besides the fact that your original plan was to leave the county to go get help from the national guard, which there are PLENTY of helicopters and airplanes lying around for you to fly away in. This massive plot hole is painfully apparent throughout the game.
And then the ending... the dumbest climax of all time.
He predicted that the world was ending through a nuclear war... and he blames it on us because we didn't listen to him? As if us listening to a guy had anything to do with other countries nuking each other? And 3 nukes go off in the middle of nowhere in Montana... because that's TOTALLY the first place you would launch nuclear missiles to.
And this is all besides the point that despite LITERAL NUCLEAR BOMBS GOING OFF, we still want to ARREST JOSEPH SEED INSTEAD OF JUST SHOOTING HIM IN THE FACE RIGHT THERE AND THEN. ARRESTING HIM DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL RIGHT NOW. JUST KILL HIM AND GET IT OVER WITH.
This game fell apart so quickly and so avoidably. I was going to give it a 9 because of how good John's story was, and the other regions brought it to an 8, but that awful ending has to bring it down to a 7 (which is still pretty generous).