At a recent preview event in Paris, Gamereactor caught up with Lucien Soulban, the lead writer on Far Cry 4, and discussed the story and setting of the next game in the series.
"What we ended up doing was actually embracing the freedom even more," Soulban explained. "We shifted over from having a story [in Far Cry 3] that was driven about the character, which means that the player is almost the chauffeur for all the actions that the character needs to do. And we shifted it over to say no, this in no longer about the character's story, this is the player's story."
"So what happens is the pacing is still there in terms of you have these missions, you're helping along the way, but what happens is we've put relevance on the open world... You can do the missions, you can do the open world stuff, and they still have relevance together."
The lead writer continued: "So what we wanted to make sure of is that at no point are you stepping out of the story... Everything is sort of interwoven. That really helps with the pacing because at no point do you feel you're not anywhere you're supposed to be."
Far Cry debuted on March 23, 2004, meaning that next week, it will have been 20 years since Jack Carver first washed up on the shore of a tropical paradise teeming with hostile mercenaries.
Yeah, 4 was good, was hard choosing which Golden Dawn member to side with, when they were both pieces of sh!t.
I've beaten all the main entries except 2 and 6, ended up uninstalling 6 to download something else instead.
I'd love a far cry pack with the original PC game (not the half assed port on ps360) instincts, predator even a port of far cry 2 to modern consoles back when these games had their own identity and weren't far cry 3 cut and pastel
Same here, I don't know why these games get so much hate. I've thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them, with only a couple of exceptions. I wish they'd hurry up and announce Far Cry 7. The only thing I'm concerned about is the rumoured time limit.
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Since the first game was released in 2004, Far Cry has set the standard on fantastic open-world shooters.
I would put 5 above 6 but agree with the other ratings. Though 6 has more refined gameplay compared to 5 it's lack of a compelling story really does hurt it imo but if you are a gameplay fiend and don't really care about story it makes sense.
everything I read about FC4 just makes me want it more....really excited to play this!
As seen by limiting the players access to the mountain areas...