I am not the guy who plays much open-world friv games as there is so much to explore and I get so carried away in it. So, had nothing to write about and someone had posted an image of it which appeared on my timeline and I said, “that’s it”. Its such a nice game with so much to explore. The map is big, loads of guns, at least a better than average multiplayer and more.

So because I had to write it in just one hour, I decided not to do so much research. The game designer of Far Cry 3 is Jamie Keen and to my luck, I was able to gather some of his interviews and some stuff about him. Jamie Keen has worked with DICE and EA too and has worked on all time favourite games like Freedom Fighter, Crysis, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and more. Jamie Keen is the lead designer at Ubisoft and has credit for 34 games according to Giantbomb.

The story revolves around Jason and his friends who are trapped on an island which is ran by some maniacs and some cool maniacs like Vaas. Some people call it “Skyrim with FPS” but I don’t really agree as Skyrim is a pretty large game when compared to Far Cry 3. Moreover, FC3′s completion time is just 36 and half hour. Except for the total completion, it was a big world to explore but still can’t compare it with Skyrim.

The designer of Far Cry 3.

Time to talk about the maniacs of the game, Jamie admits it was one of the challenges. What they wanted to do was to make the world more real. In those days, we often played games in which the player couldn’t interact with the open-world fully and the population wasn’t really good but in FC3, I used to get in the vehicle, start it and would crash directly into the enemies. You could always find enemies on the island. The game was unpredictable, one moment you are in a calm sea and just the next moment, a shark attacks on you.

But the most important thing here, FC3 was supposed to be a FPS and the developers wanted to give the players a stunning FPS experience and we all know, they didn’t compromise the quality. It was such a nice experience playing it online with friends on Uplaythough I didn’t like the Uplay service but even for the shortest moment, the quality wasn’t compromised.

The island is pretty big too and because of the technical limitations, you need to care about the loading time. It was such a big island which meant more loading time and that’s enough for pissing off the gamers. In most games whenever we enter a place we see a big loading icon which ruins the fun and makes it unrealistic. Of course, its really hard stopping these kinda things but the team has done a great job in handling these but FC3′s devs have put an end to it. For narrative purposes and some other stuff, they have to do it but while you are in open-world, you can’t sit back and chill because there aren’t any loading screens while exploring the island.

Next comes the story of Jason, his bro was sure an ex-military but look at Jason, he has no experience of something like that. Sure that adds some more thrill to the game but I didn’t really get one thing. You get shot on your leg and he fixes finger bones. Don’t really remember it but don’t want that in Far Cry 4. Other than that, its hard getting control of Jason as the game isn’t that easy. It takes some time to learn but gets the real feel of being a simple guy.

Animals were such a delight in FC3. Far Cry 2 had animals but the experience wasn’t that good. Far Cry 3 had predators and some more deadly animals and sure, a jungle without predators can’t be called a jungle. In my opinion, I had no problems with Vaas’ people because I could kill them with a gun but what if a predator attacks me or a shark catches me while I am swimming? That was really something good.

Now comes the best part of the game, Vaas. That deadly attitude has made him the best villain of video games. Even after 2 years, people love that guy, otherwise, they usually forget the villains. Vaas has taught us all the definition of insanity and thanks to the game I know something now. The words of wisdom are “If you ever crash into a tree, better heal yourself by removing the bullet from your arm even if you haven’t received a shot.”