There are times where you will stop to just admire the vistas, or auto-drive just to idly look at the great mountains whiz by like giants. If there was a heaven, it would look like Kyrat, minus the mad despot of course. Ubisoft has just created a stunning, beautiful Eden that borders on the mythical. In this department Far Cry 4 will make your collective jaws drop. In addition to that there’s a wealth of side missions for you to complete, including a weird Shangri La like hallucination mission. Taking over the various enemy outposts is a lot of fun and you can do this either in stealth or with carefully planned mayhem using assortments of guns and gadgets at your disposal. However, Kyrat throws in a lot of distractions. If you play through the game’s straightforward campaign, Far Cry 4 will get over pretty fast. Driving in Far Cry 4’s mountain roads are as tricky as driving in North India, so if getting behind the wheel lets you see the game over screen so often, the game has included a helpful autodrive option so that you can enjoy the scenery or shoot enemies without distraction. Which you can set about doing either on foot or in one of the vehicles, including killer rickshaws and in some cases on the backs of the local fauna. There’s no NRI coming back to India love story unfolding in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge style here - just visceral first person shooting action from beginning to end.įar Cry 4 is a sandbox shooter, which means you can explore the country of Kyrat from edge to edge. The interesting part is watching Ghale’s background unfold as he finds out the truth about his parents.
From brave Golden Path members to mad hatters all strewn about the place - all of whom have one purpose in the world: to keep you on a steady supply of missions and things to do and blow up. Just a device meant to acclimatize you to Kyrat, to make you hate the bad guy and to introduce you to all manner of characters. The story for most part is okay, with a signature ham attached to it. As they say, right out of the frying pan and off the mountainside. Luck's on his side though, as he is rescued by the rebel group, called Golden Path, in a very cool car chase sequence with some cheesy Bollywood music playing on the car radio, as Pagan Min’s men are trying to blow him to kingdom come. Things go horribly wrong for him as he has a pretty scary face-off with Pagan Min. You play Ajay Ghale, a NRI who has returned to India on the final wishes of his mother to scatter her ashes. Firstly, it’s fictitious secondly, it’s run by a megalomaniac despot Pagan Min. Don’t fall off your chair yet, adding Kyrat to your summer travel itinerary. Welcome to Kyrat, a beautiful little country nestled deep in the Himalayas.