Yesterday I talked about the protagonist, and how while there were clearly problems, in the end I found myself liking this spoiled kid's descent into cruel, terrified brutality. Because I care enough about how good it is to want to highlight its shortcomings, partly in the hope that at least some of them can be patched out to stop marring this glorious thing.

Why am I hammering this point home? Because I'm up at 7am to get an hour of Far Cry 3 in before I start work, despite having played it all last night and every spare moment of the weekend before it. So as I've said, while the whole of this article is negative, this isn't a statement that it's a negative game. But in the case of Far Cry 3, this isn't about picking up on issues that would pass in a more mediocre game - this is about really wantonly stupid mistakes, issues that defy the belief that any human being can have played the game before it was released, further evidencing the theory that this was indeed a game coded by tigers. And as I said yesterday, such experiences come at a price - when stuff is wrong, it looks very, very wrong. It is, overall, a very positive experience. A game that deserves celebration, a surprise treat from a series that never promised anything this involved, mad, and genre-busting. Yesterday I celebrated what is definitely a really fantastic game.

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