[b]This one is a shallow, infantile experience, picked it up on sale and - somehow! - it was still a waste of money.[/b]
The story is nonexistent — a basic revenge plot constantly interrupted by clown-level characters. The revolutionaries are a bunch of cartoonish banana kids with zero seriousness, while the only remotely decent character is the antagonist. The "forced goofy humor" is painful and never lands, feels like I'm rewatching the "Thor:L&T" over and over again.
Gameplay is brain-dead-ubisoft-style easy. Even on the hardest difficulty, I was steamrolling everything after the boring tutorial. Press W to win. Mini-games and races are so trivial you can grab a beer mid-race and still finish with a minute to spare. Progression is a joke — Ubisoft replaced meaningful upgrades with outfit bonuses. The Supremo backpack is visually obnoxious and mechanically pointless; I hid it immediately via mod and forgot it existed. The map is massive yet mostly empty or not worthy to explore.
Weapon and outfit design is the worst in the series. Snipers look like they were drawn on with sharpie by the set designers from Idiocracy.
Enemy AI is nonexistent, chaotic and trash. one moment they snipe you with a shotgun from across the map, the next they sit in an armored jeep two meters away doing nothing. "Secret" guerrilla trails are painted with thick blue lines, and their bases sit in open view right next to military installations. Immersion destroyed.
And when you think this game is low, then comes the helicopter piloting — once a highlight of the series — now fly completely flat (literally! you cant pitch down due to clunky and bad controls on PC). Ubisoft somhow managed to dismantle that too.
DLC stories (Vaas, Pagan, Joseph) are actually better than the base game narratively, but mechanically you're forced to replay the same loops 5-6 times for achievements.
Summary:
'Meh' as a game in general.
Failure as a Far Cry title.
You've been warned.
