Snow capped mountains loom large behind rolling hills of untamed forests.
The fictional country of Kyrat in Far Cry 4 is a mish-mash of Nepal, Thailand and Tibet in both its culture and visual representation. Far Cry 4 takes this theme and runs with it if Far Cry 3 saw players tumbling down the rabbit hole, Far Cry 4 sees them smack bang in the middle of Wonderland – and what a vast and hostile place it is. As the protagonist became the alpha male in ascendance, he also became more unhinged, the game hinting that becoming capably violent carries a psychological cost. There, players controlled a wide-eyed Western tourist on the run from bloodthirsty pirates on a tropical island and his only hope of survival was to become an efficient killing machine. The conceit helps ground participants in both the story and the action when everything is as new to the player as it is to the character they control, they’re essentially on the same learning curve.įar Cry 3 heaped the theme of madness on top of this rubric. Every game in the series has placed players into the boots of a protagonist who is a foreigner in the wild and untamed land they find themselves in. Ubisoft PC/PS3/PS4 (version tested)/Xbox 360/Xbox One £45 Pegi rating: 18+
