Welcome to the Jungle (again) as Push-Start checks out the Far Cry 3 demo walkthrough

If you missed Ubisoft’s E3 conference and wanted to know how Far Cry 3 was coming along, well now you can check it out thank to the gameplay demo being uploaded on Youtube.

As in the other Far Cry games, Far Cry 3 starts off with bad s*** that has already happened and you just happen to be someone getting caught up in crossfire. You are Jacob Brody, who along with his girlfriend has become trapped on a remote island, due to being shipwrecked. Now she’s disappeared and it’s down to you to find her and get off the island before the crazy inhabitants kill you in one way or another.

The demo sees us with Brody exploring his surroundings and come upon a view of a village. Whipping out his camera, he sees hostiles harassing and executing the inhabitants of the village. Snapping pictures, Brody has his guard down and only notices one of the crazy attackers sneaking up on him when it’s too late. When he comes too he is in the presence of a nutjob called Vass, who we can only assume is the leader of the tropical crazies (my name for them insane soldiers that inhabit the island). He starts giving a speech that revolves around the famous definition of insanity by Albert Einstein (“doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”). After a somewhat long winded speech he kicks a brick down a cliff, which just happens to be connected to you via rope, and you go down with it into some water pit to drown along with the rest of captured villagers.

Before this occurred though there were two prompts to have the ropes loosened. Now in the water you get a final prompt to get free before you drown (seems like Brody has been up to date with his breathing exercise as he is able to hold his breath for quite a while). After managing to get free Brody – who is quite rightly angry – decides to take the fight to the crazies, which sees him taking down a soldier and nabbing a gun and end up in a hectic gunfight before escaping a chopper. Almost. A missile launcher sees to it that you don’t get free and Vass makes an appearance, asking you a familiar question. And the gameplay demo ends.

Gameplay looks familiar to Far Cry 2 but more tightened up. It now seems like you can sneak up on the AI more successfully then in Far Cry 2, where they seemed to be able to spot you even when you was well hidden. It helps that you have a mini-map at the bottom left of the screen as this shows you were enemies (and most likely other people and objects) are and you have a alert reticule, that shows if your hidden or not (white means you are, red means to start firing back). The graphics at this stage look fantastic and the move back to a more tropical setting looks to be for the better as their is more vivid colours compared to Far Cry 2‘s majority of graphics composed of different shades of brown. Also not being infected by malaria is welcome bonus.

Far Cry 3 may not reinvent the FPS genre, but it looks set on track on giving us another fantastic collection to the genre. Expect it for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2012.

Here is the E3 2011 Far Cry 3 demo shown in full

And here is screenshots taken from the trailer