Far Cry 6 - Ishvii Reviews

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