Far Cry Primal Hands-On Review - 9 Things You Need To Know
7. Its STUNNING
After Far Cry 3 and 4 I wasn't sure that I'd ever be impressed by a video game jungle ever again. There's only so many different ways you can show the same mountainous greenery over and over again before it gets stale, no matter how impressive the graphical fidelity. After only ten minutes with Primal though, I was eating those words. Not only is the title technically impressive (the series always has been), the prehistoric setting breathes new life into each and every in-game environment. Sure, there's still a lot of familiar Far Cry assets being used, but the change of time period facilitates some completely gorgeous and imaginative locations. In my playtime, I blew through camps by a riverside, sleuthed through the marshes at the bottom of a mountain and tried my best to scale the highest point I could see. You can do all that in previous games in the franchise, true, but the prehistoric paint job and the attention to the period's detail means you can't do it in quite the same boots-on-the-ground way as Primal. The world just seems that bit more rich and memorable when you're not flying over the top of it all the time.
