Far Cry 4 is adding a flyable vehicle to the series for the first time, upping Far Cry 3's exploratory ante an additional iota and giving co-op players something to do. Less a helicopter and more a ceiling fan welded to a chair, the Gyrocopter provides an aerial advantage only rivaled by its vulnerability. When we won't have any protective shell deflecting fire, and we're trying to fly the damn thing while simultaneously shooting from the hip, only veterans and lunatics will survive. We assume there will be areas of the map you can't reach without a Gyrocopter, and we'll hunt them down the first chance we get. Again, how will Ubisoft justify an edge-of-map border? We can't imagine they'd let our motorcycle crash into a magic wall like that that Cabin in the Woods picture.
14. Soak In The Locals
Beyond a handful of fully mo-capped main characters, Far Cry 3's local denizens were a bit on the underdeveloped side. We're hoping for more than a slight variation on a few cookie-cutter side missions from the same three NPCs. Heck, animations and voiceover that more closely match the quality of the main characters would be brilliantly immersive. We do know that Ubisoft sent some developer chaps to the Himalayas for real to gather their cultural data on a more human level. Those authentic, ambient flourishes are often the very tangible difference between parody and believability.
13. Just Stare At The Mountains
We've been doing this as long as video games have let us. If you give us a view, we're going to stare at it. When things die down civil war-wise, we'll probably just carry on as a peaceful Kyrat tourist... who occasionally kicks things. Being in a fictional slice of Nepal means we probably won't see Everest. Just Cause 2 and GTA V had some honorable mountains worth mentioning, but when it comes to unadulterated hiking, raw exploration, and mesmerising, panoramic nature views, nothing yet has compared to Skyrim. If Far Cry 4 wants to be King of the Mountain, its peaks need to be more than just something to look at. How high, how deep and how far will we be able go?
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