Once enticed with bait, animals can be tamed which enlists them by your side, working together. Fighting, which can be reduced down to clubbing, is brutal and difficult, which is why there is an emphasis on taming wild animals, a skill learned early thanks to the token Shaman. It takes a few hits to take someone out and the same can be said for you. It’s literally survival of the fittest when all that stands between you and death is a stick with a rock on the end of it. But it’s the blunt, close-up weapons that are much more interesting to play with. Naturally, any blow to the head from an arrowhead or a spearhead is going to take someone out instantly. Though the gameplay is too proven as a commercial venture to change it now, it is nice to at least see a change in location and aesthetic, and it’s nice to see Ubisoft actively look for ways to keep the franchise experience varied in other ways.Īs there are no guns to be found, naturally the feel to combat has changed too.
It’s a formula that is starting to get old, which is why this change in setting is refreshing. In addition to these quests, the protagonist can hunt (and tame) wild beasts, as well as take over enemy held encampments that act as fast travel spots once cleared. Like previous games in the series, Primal gives leading man Takkar a journey across a vast wilderness to complete, with quests dolled out by members of his village. But here, these skills (while still exotic) seem to make more sense because they fit in with the animism and primal, earthy power that the environment itself is constructed around. It seemed to be insignificant, an afterthought. I remember vividly in Far Cry 3 thinking for hours on the stupidity of giving a random holidaymaker powers through tattoos on their arm. It makes Far Cry make a little more sense. Taking the game away from the very modern settings of previous entries makes it an enjoyable and interesting experience. Nick’s full review.įar Cry Primal is based in 10,000 BCE, which places it some time around the Mesolithic era, in the fictional setting of Oros.
Related reading: Also on PlayStation 4 is Far Cry 4. So, somehow, this is the restrained game in the series. If anything, the excessiveness of the later games in the series at times often felt like Ubisoft had given up and just gave into players wanting everything, including the kitchen sink.
Everything has been stripped back, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There’s something very primitive about Far Cry Primal.
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