Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 is... exactly what you'd expect. Whether that's good or bad is really whether you enjoy dropping 30-60 quid for a mindless shooty action game. Ok, it's not new - but it's still great fun when you don't pay through the nose for the base version. It's simple, streamlined and enjoyable. You play as an oppressed citizen of a dictator-state island, where the dictator is selling the island's new wonder-drug Vivaro which can apparently cure cancer. Unfortunately he's also a complete bastard (insert shocked pikachu face) so within the first 3 minutes of the game, you go from "oppressed citizen" to "slaughtering guards with a machete" and off you go on the latest shooty collectathon romp.
Pros
- Giancarlo Esposito is in the game
- It looks amazing, and it runs really well. 100+fps on ultra
- You can ride horses
- Soldiers have different strengths and weaknesses, and special abilities. I actually like the strength/weakness system, but as there are 3 weakness (soft-target, armour piercing and blast rounds), 3 bullet types, and you can only carry 3 guns - it actually removes choice as you're basically required to carry one gun of each bullet type. Theoretically there's also fire damage and poison damage, but they seem to be very situational
- The gunplay and just the feel of moving around is generally awesome - similar to previous games but improved
- Great voice acting
- The guns feel great
- Lots of verticality and hidden routes in the towns and large city
- There's a mechanic where you can rescue captives from the enemy, and they turn into soldiers you can send on missions. I'd finished 40% of the game before I discovered that though, so it felt like rescuing people didn't do anything
Cons
- Expensive, but just get it on sale. Bought it for 35% off from Ubisoft, plus another 20% off with Ubisoft coins. Worth it for €30
- It encourages stealth, but you can't shoot out lights - and I'm not sure light sources even really make a difference
- It's SO EASY. Most of the time I can just walk into a base and shoot all the guards in the face before they react
- I often had to replay entire missions because the auto save didn't work reliably
- At the very beginning of the game, I couldn't move. Had to 'reload from autosave' to start the game. I started a new game later on too, and exactly the same thing happened again. Not a great first impression.
- The game crashes when I try to take screenshots (which is why this review has no screenshots)
- I failed one of the main assault missions (Benitez' fortress) for "leaving the fortress without killing Benitez" while I was still inside the fortress. Tried that mission again and it crashed 2 minutes later. On the third attempt, the tank you're meant to escort to the doors got stuck on a rock