After most of the world was destroyed by a nuclear conflict, the leaders of the major powers negotiated a cease-fire that was not destined to last. History develops in an alternative to our world. Seriously, Far Cry 3 is a wonderful game. Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon Is an action-adventure first-person shooter released as an addition to the original, with a separate storyline set in the setting of old action movies and computer games. It does so much right that the things it does wrong stand out that much more, and this is just a way to process it all. I wouldn’t care enough to list it all out like this if I didn’t love the game so much. Between this article and my last one, that’s everything I don’t like about Far Cry 3.
I’m not even saying that I need to be Vaas the whole time or whatever. And for what? For Hoyt? Please. In most games, Hoyt would shine as a fun, dynamic villain who’s more interesting than most, but next to Vaas, he’s like a plank of wood with a face drawn on it. Then, the game tosses it all away halfway through. He’s the kind of character that sticks with you for years, like Andrew Ryan or the G-Man. Every scene with Vaas is arresting and unsettling, and it’s terrifying in all the right ways.
Michael Mando absolutely crushes it with his performance as Vaas with the kind of hard emotional swings =that make a person truly scary. I wasn’t kidding about this one. Far Cry 3 lives and dies by Vaas.
