Far Cry 3 confidently hits its marks as a quality Action/Shooter title.
89
Verdict
89%
Steam
90
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive Steam reviews (89% positive)
Healthy player count of 2,300 concurrent
Critically acclaimed (90/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
No significant drawbacks reported
Far Cry 3 is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the third main installment in the Far Cry series after Far Cry 2. The game takes place on the fictional Rook Islands, a tropical archipelago which can be freely explored by players. Gameplay focuses on combat and exploration. Players can use a variety of weapons to defeat human enemies and hostile wildlife, and the game features elements found in role-playing games such as skill trees and experience. After a vacation goes awry, protagonist Jason Brody must save his friends, who have been kidnapped by pirates, and escape from the island and its unhinged inhabitants.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
Do not buy this on Steam. It's an amazing game that I thoroughly enjoyed on PS3, but I can't even get it to launch. ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft.
Sadly the game is not optimised to play in 2026. I picked it up because I saw it's on sale with 75% discount and decided to replay this masterpiece and just ♥♥♥♥ around, but when I downloaded it all I got was a stuck loading screen. Ubisoft claims the game is fixed and optimised but after just one search I found multiple users facing the same issue and many fixes - none of them worked for me. Instead of playing the game all I got was endless troubleshooting and trying fixes. I then decided to just reinstall the game completely and after doing just that, I got yet another error message, this time from that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft launcher, saying the game is outdated and needs an "important" update. However every time I tried to install said important update I got stuck in a loop with the ubisoft launcher claiming I had no internet connection and thus could not download the updates. Which was funny because I had a youtube guide about fixing Far Cry 3 running in the background, so you can imagine where the problem was - thats right in that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiotic ubisoft launcher nobody asked for. I originally had the game on a disk and I have it in my ubisoft library but I wanted to also own it on steam since it's my largest and most used library. So after trying to play the steam version for 2 hours and getting nowhere I decided to give the ubisoft one a go. As you could expect, that version didn't work as well. I then promptly gave up on life and went to sleep while cursing the ever loving ♥♥♥♥ out of ubisoft. In conclussion Far Cry 3 is a great game but not everyone will be able to play it on PC. ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft Go pirate their games. They don't deserve anything. The definition of insanity was definitely applied here because I tried fixing it over and over again.
Masterpiece ruined by Ubisoft Connect launcher. You have to log in each time you need to play this piece of sh*t. Ubisoft added achievements to Steam, very good, but why did you not make it a standalone Steam version without the Ubisoft trash launcher? **also no online is sad** Also, to optimize the experience with high FPS, you need to do this because FPS is f*cked in this game: -install "Large Address Aware" -then in Task Manager - details, then - set affinity and make the game run on 4 cores only.
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