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Far Cry 4 is an open-world first person shooter adventure game created by Ubisoft.
The gameplay consists of mainly first person shooter action, where the player is tasked with going to different areas of an open-world map in order to shoot particular people to complete a task. Players can slowly upgrade their equipment/weapons through what they earn in completing certain tasks. This is repeated until the player finally finishes the game.
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Pros
Pro Open World gameplay done spot-on
Far Cry 4 captures exactly how fun open world games can be. Key to this is the freedom you get. Apart from the main story, you can pretty much do whatever you want, whenever you want. You can escort a truck, fly around a bit in a gyrocopter you found, release prisoners from enemies, capture a bell tower, do a psychadelic drug mission for Yogi & Reggie, go into the arena to fight all sorts of enemies and animals, challenge yourself in a Shangri La mission and so on. When capturing an outpost or a fortress you have full freedom in approach and a lot of tools at your disposal. You can do stealth take downs as much as you can, go on a rampage with an elephant, lure predator animals into the camp, shoot them up from above in a gyrocopter,.... And all of this can (and should!) be done in 2-player online co-op
Pro Options in play due to creativity
There are so many ways to tackle a situation that makes this game what it is. In one instance you could lure an animal towards enemies in order to kill them, or in another you could run everyone over with a truck. Even better is that explosives can be attached to things, even vehicles, so you can even send the vehicle towards a crowd and blow it up from a distance. Basically you are free to choose how you want to approach just about every situation in the game and those that feel like playing around have the chance to get really creative, which is half the fun.
Cons
Con Environment feels too familiar
While Farcry 1-3 all had different locales that had their own styles, 4 looks much like 3 and is not that much of a departure. For those looking for a different experience it is not going to be found in 4 sadly. However, Far Cry 4 in many aspects feels like the game that Far Cry 3 should have been. It introduced fortresses as a more challenging version of outposts, a round-based arena has been added where you have to survive as many waves of enemies as possible, things like convoy conquest and truck escorting were added, missions in the fantasy world of Shangri La were added and the game simply has a wider array of interesting characters. Far Cry 4 learnt from the mistakes made in Far Cry 3 by keeping the ultimate confrontation with its most interesting villain till the very end. Meanwhile the game has other well done villains to pursue: Paul, Yuma and Noore. Besides villains, the game also features other fun and interesting characters like Yogi&Reggie, Badhra and Longinus and even improved upon a Far Cry 3 character called Willis. Far Cry 4 is in every way a much bigger game than Far Cry 3. So the con that Far Cry 4 is similar to Far Cry 3 is correct, but it's a major improvement.