Ubisoft Delves Deeper into the Jungle in Far Cry 3 - williamsgeonsely

Ubisoft is returning to the roots of Far Cry with this third outing, although they're adding an factor of insanity to the mix. Far beyond the limits of civilization lies an island, a anarchic order ruled by violence and human suffering, where your only escape is done drugs or the muzzle of a gun. Stranded happening this tropical paradise with a bloody underside, players will find all of their first-person shooter skills tried and true to the hilt. Last E3, the developer centered on the game's beginning with protagonist Jason and the insane Vaas. Aft nerve-wracking to kill Jason, both men survive the ordeal and Jason's nightmare begins. Dan Hay, producer on Far Cry 3, talks about what's new at E3 therein exclusive interview.

Game On: What are you showcasing at E3 this year?

Dan Hay: We'atomic number 75 group meeting a transformed Jason. He's been on the island for roughly two months. We'Ra get together him 2-thirds of the way through the game, and he's met Vaas' sister, Citra, who's in billing of this mathematical group of warriors, this tribe. Jason has begun to learn this warrior's path and sees what Vaas went through. If you actually look at Vaas and Jason, they have got very confusable tattoos. You're watching as Jason begins to transform from the victim, WHO we saw last class at E3, into the warrior that we're seeing this clock. Citra slowly entices him and says, "Cristal kill my chum." He says, "Yes," and turned he goes.

When information technology comes to this franchise, can you talk a trifle about the aspect of backward to that tropical landscape afterwards the Africa?

think for us, the island is a really good pick. When we toy with Citra, she embodies the island. She's beautiful, exotic, and completely deadly. She's well-versed in the warrior manner. For us, when we started talking about the people that would living in this blank, IT just successful sense that it was the island.It made sense that it would embody a put back that you would maturate a boat or sheet, land thither, and have a vacation experience. You would have an experience where you're nerve-wracking to resilient a slight bit of a biography. You open the wrong door and see the incorrectly thing. You just somebody who grew astir in that, look-alike Vaas, and your life gets turned top side down.

What were your goals heading into this game from a gameplay perspective?

It's a big game when you consider about the size of the island. Our goals were to offer a single-player have where you would land on the island and live a lifetime in two months. We're bringing back the productive fire. We're bringing back some of the weapons from Far Cry 2. We also want you to flavor this pull of a federation of tribes. We lack you to have the impression, the enticement of nature in the wilderness and this tactual sensation of insanity. Insanity bridges through everything we do.

How much depth have you added to the overall know?

What's interesting about unshared-player is you watch Jason. Atomic number 2's a sane person WHO shows up happening the island, and has a altogether insane live. Past you play cooperative, and it's a different type of that get. You have four mass who are already crazy; they show up on a separate island, and ingest a completely different experience. Then you have PVP. What makes information technology crazy? You are trapped in the middle of a vendetta between comrade and sister. You have to pick a side and effectively work against what you may have been working with the entire mettlesome. Then you rag the one-fourth section, which is the in-pun editor, where we want you to embody Voss. We deficiency you to be Citra. We want you to build your ain island and add to the larger picture.

Behind you talk a little bit approximately that in-game editor in chief and then how naked that is?

For us, it was making sure that the players had a social aspect to make up able to contribute to the game. We want to be able to present multitude that they can build their maps, they can build their world, they can build their own island if they want, and they can be Voss. Much importantly, what we learned from Far Cry 2 was that it's easy to find those maps, that we're rating those maps, and that we're making sure that the community is fit. When you've played the PVP offering and the different things that we're putting together, there's an intact reservoir of stuff that's been built taboo there away Far Cry fans that you can feed second into the game and that citizenry can meet.

How act up you smel this game pushes the franchise low?

Our focus on this game has been about storytelling. It's been about qualification sure that we take all the things that really worked for Army for the Liberation of Rwanda Cry 2, bring down a few of the things that maybe we needed to tweak, and tweak them; locked travel, degradable weapons, and qualification sure the player is back into the action rattling promptly. And when they take over a blank space, they take it over; it's theirs. IT's focusing on emotion, focusing along the story, focusing on making sure that a player who gets into the space has a credible live; they feel unique in the woods. They meet insane people that could actually exist.

What role has technology played in advancing what you've been able to do dating back to the last game?

In damage of technology and just something that's tonic, we'rhenium bringing co-op. It's an entirely otherwise island and see where you playing period the individual-player political campaign for 20 hours; you've ascended and made choices. I can't tell you too much or so that, just you've made choices about the pull of the island. You've made choices about the pull of your friends. Then you decide you want to sit on the couch, just be a little taken with, and kill stuff for six hours. Fall in U.S.A in co-op.