Finally playing it!! My review(courtesy of a friend)
After the absolute rip-off that was Watch_Dogs(I still haven't been able to complete the campaign, thanks to crashing and stuttering, and no help at the UBI forums. No refunds either), a ginormous sink of hard-earned money, I vowed never to buy a game from Ubish!t again, and cancelled my ACU pre-order.
Turns out, I was right. Save a butt-load of money, considering ACU is even worse of a PC-port than WD. But a week ago, I installed and re-played FC:Blood Dragon, my favorite FC, and just wanted to play the next instalment.
Now, in my defense, I just couldn't wait, and also wanted to save money for DA:I(hell, I just don't want to give any more money to Ubi anymore). Aaaand.......
First things first: Is it as buggy as ACU or WD??
NO. But it is still slightly glitchy. Not as good as FC3 was, technically.
Setting
lighting above Low, darkens the world completely, making it hard to see. There is crashing on startup,and -most importantly, the
map doesn't show on pressing M(completely black). One fix: press alt+tab twice to minimize and maximize, and it might work. Or go to data_win32 and delete there patch.dat and patch.fat(Backup first!!).
There are some other
problems with Nvidia drivers, but it's running fine on my Laptop(512 MB AMD Radeon HD 7660G (Integrated) and 2 GB ATI Mobility Radeon 7670M HD Graphics (Dedicated)).
Some other mouse acceleration problems, but easily fixable.
Apart from that...Kyrat is big. Sometimes too big, because sometimes getting from one objective to another on foot starts feeling like a chore. On the other hand-
AUTO-DRIVE!!! Fantastic addtion, as you can let the car drive by itself and shoot/take in the view. It has tooons of things to do:assassination missions, hostage rescues, escort quests, resource collecting, bomb defusal, and hunting challenges and obviously outpost takeovers. You can
drag and hide bodies now. Call in
Guns for Hire token as some AI support(didn't need them much but useful as meat shields nonetheless).
Karma System-new to FC but like the old Good/Evil sort of meter. Cliche.
If I was an american or a European...I wouldn't have have as much fun in this game as Iam having. The atmosphere is
Indian, guys. The accents, the abuses(chut!ye, MC!!
), the wear, the conditions, the cynicism, it's all Indian(technically Nepali...but u get my point), and it's loads of fun. No, the characters aren't as charasmatic as FC3(sadly).
Pagan Min is great in his own right, but honestly he just isn't there much...and
you really miss Vaas. Two opposing leaders of the Golden Path rebels, whose bickering drives the majority of the campaign, are only as interesting as their conflicting points of view on how to run the country once Pagan is out of the picture.
Sabal is a traditionalist, whereas
Amita wants to bring the country kicking and screaming into the 21st century; though the choice between them is never a black-and-white one. I haven't finished the campaign yet, so I can't say anything on end-of-game twists or anything.
All in all there are more weapons, more vehicles, more modes, more ground to cover, and dare I say-for an Indian at least, who recognises the Himalayan atmosphere...more fun. I'll wait and see if any more DLCs come out,
and buy the GOTY edition(yeah, I'll buy it. But only after all tech fixes/patches are done, not before. I am kinda sick of Ubisoft PCport sh!t.)
