Today, Ubisoft® announced that Far Cry®3, the open world first person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal and Massive, will be available tomorrow on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Sony PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows® PC.
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EDIT: Okay, never mind. The title says highest rated game. The full article says highest rated shooter.
It's definitely the best shooter, I can't argue with that. :D
But grats to Ubi for another great release; 2012 seems to have been a good year for them.
Excellent!
This year was great for Ubisoft.
Two of the greatest titles this year came from them... AC3 and FC3.
Graphically is a huge overhype (not trying to troll).
Atleast when it comes to PC, its huge hype.
Poor textures, poor water, poor asset density.
What I mean, is I ran both crysis/warhead and farcry 3 guess which was more impressive graphically?
2007 game.
Its a hard fact i've been trying to look past, but cant. Farcry 3 does have amazing character models (with SSAO disabled); gun models and its animations are top notch.
Still, reviews are overhyping this game like they do COD; 9/10s are bullshit these days. This game is a pure console port, all the PC effects were an afterthought and the overblown SSAO proves it.
Hype train, N4G marketing FTL.
Overall being as honest as I can this game is a solid 7/10 and no more should be given. (I view COD as a 6.5/10).
Better than COD.
this game was on my "maybe radar" but after hearing all the 9's and 10's its getting....now its a must!!!
I wish games released on Friday here in the U.S. :-/ That way most working gamers like myself would have a whole weekend of free time to sink into a new release. Plus, Midnight releases on a Friday would be EPIC. Tuesday releases kinda blow because even with
Not to sure if you read correctly but I said TYPICALLY which means usually they don't win. I'm well aware that cod4 won but how many shooters have won since then?? Or how many won before that??
Maybe it's that "ever" you threw in at the end. It kind of implies that there are no exceptions, which could make your statement confusing.
Borderlands2 is still a contender though.
Yeah, I got it early, it's on console though so I can't really compare it to borderlands 2 because I got BL2 on PC.
in comparison: Borderlands 2 is avg 89 on 360 (59 reviews) and PC (36 reviews) and 91 on PS3 (29 reviews.
All it will take is one or two review sites looking for hits to pull those numbers down quickly.
I enjoyed FC2 alot despite it's flaws and feel it deserved better.
Haven't played Multiplayer/Co-op yet but Singleplayer is amazing.
And i consider myself a gamer of variety. Planetside 2 is much more interesting.
It's only a 91 on metacritic with ONLY 18 reviews so far.
Talk about jumping the gun here....
Halo 4 is an 87 with 82 reviews
CoD BO 2 is an 83 with 63 reviews
What a pathetic article.
I wish meta critic would just disappear, games should be judged on there wn merit not against other shooters etc
I have responsibilities and a full time career. I don't have the luxury to play every shooter. I use reviews (just like I do when buying a car) to determine what game is worth my money and time.
I for one am happy that metacritic is around. It gives me an "over all" understanding on where the game lies with other shooters on an average scale measured by the collective reviews and opinions of the gaming industry.
If I only had $60 and 10 hours available...am I going to buy a game that on meta would be a 68 meta score reviewed by 58 reviewers or am I going to buy a game that is rated 93 on meta reviewed by 60 reviewers....
It's a no brainer. My money and time are important to me and don't want to waste it on playing an average game when I could have been playing a stellar game.
90/100 based on 92 reviews? last time i checked, that's higher than Halo's score.
Why you would use N4G's review collection when the topic was Meta is beyond me...but whatever.
My point is still valid.
Halo 4 is rated 8.9/10 and has 331 reviews.
So only a .1 difference yet Halo 4 also had 239 MORE reviews then Far Cry 3.
http://n4g.com/channel/halo...
Please, next time try and compare apples to apples. If the comparison is based using Meta, then stick to the topic. If you want to use a different collective source, then use it for both titles, not just 1.
if you think FarCry 3 will escape the reviews tomfoolery that's been going on lately, you've got a rude awakening coming.
Nice hype though.
It seems really unoptimised as the graphics are not anything special but are really damn demanding.
It also has frame stuttering issues on DX11 when you try to turn on MSAA for some reaon but all in all Im having lots of fun with it so i cant say its a bad game.
8/10 from me simply because of the performance issues.
So the big world thing doesnt do it for me as the draw distance isnt that great.
Its just unoptimised IMO, because if a game with its graphical quality (not knocking it) requires a 690 to run on 60fps then id have questions....
Unless MSAA really is that much of a performance hog.
Hopefully we'll get some performance patches from Ubisoft soon, as well as some performance drivers from Nvidia and AMD.
PS: PC gamers without high grade video cards can forget about smooth performance.
That ten minute long one made me hyper lol
Just for sake of disagreeing with personal opinions as we all know its going to happen ;)