Far Cry Primal - PlayStation 4 Standard Edition

Fun game

I'm a huge Far Cry fan. I've been playing since Far Cry Instincts on the original Xbox. Yes, the game has changed a LOT since Instincts, which IMO is one of the greatest FPS games I've ever played, but I like the changes. Far Cry 2 was a bit of a letdown for me, but it was by no means a bad game. It was extremely fun, I just didn't really enjoy the malaria aspect of it, but I guess it made the game a bit harder/stressful. Far Cry 3 and 4 are basically the same game, with different characters. Both were great IMO. I played both of them until 100% completion. So just understand that this review is coming from someone who actually enjoys the games a lot.First of all, the graphics are pretty damn good. Not the best on the PS4, but the game map is HUGE, so I give it a pass. There are some graphical glitches here and there, especially when you're with your beast (no game breaking stuff, just little pop in here and there). The character models are great, the setting is amazing, it really feels like you're 10,000 years in the past. Obviously, the characters are all going to look like Conan or whatever you're imagining. They're ancient humans...they're wearing fur and whatnot. The foliage looks great, the water looks real, no real gripes about the graphics at all, other than the small minor glitches.The game play is where it's at. It's really different from Far Cry 3 and 4 (unless you used the bow and arrow a LOT in 3 and 4, which I did) because the main weapons you use are spears, clubs, and arrows. There are some side weapons like shards and hives as well. The spear is OP, it kills everyone in one throw. You can also use the spear as a melee weapon as well, but it's not as strong. The arrows are pretty weak unless you get a head shot, and the two handed club is pretty OP as well, assuming you're pretty close in range. Overall, the game plays differently, but at the same time, it's the same...I can't really explain it. If you're like me and you enjoy open world shooters, this is a GREAT game.I won't go into the story, since I'm not finished with it yet.

This game adds a very nice and much-needed bit of variety to the first-person action/shooter game genre. I really like how UbiSoft took a different angle on where to take the Far Cry series, taking a game back to prehistoric times was a big departure that many game franchises could not pull off successfully. Far Cry Primal does it, however. The game itself is of course beautifully rendered and detailed, it is incredibly easy to lose yourself (In a good way) in the massive and immersive world. There are plenty of fauna to hunt, plants to harvest, fellow cavemen to fight to the death, and lots of other activities and side quests to keep it interesting for a long time. While it might seem like only having a few very basic weapons would be a huge hindrance to the game play and make it a complete bore, it actually works quite well. There are of course upgrades and classes to the various weapons to give it a touch of variety, the main ones you use being the club, the spear, and the bow. There is just something about charging up a big club swing and bashing in the head of an attacker from a rival tribe, watching his lifeless body tumble off a cliff, and seeing it fall into a field where sabretooth tigers are mauling deer to death while you are riding your woolly mammoth away from the scene. It's that kind of game... Brutal, uncensored, and simplistic.The plot of the story isn't as deep as some of the previous Far Cry titles, but we also can't forget that people who had barely mastered spoken language probably aren't going to have incredibly deep relationships or touching monologues. They are just concerned with surviving another day, and doing it any way possible. By having relatively simple character relationships, I think it even adds an extra element of realism to it. Wonderful execution on what could have been a horribly boring game in the wrong hands. I would highly recommend Far Cry Primal.

fun game.

If you're looking for guns, bombs, and general high tech rampaging, this isn't the game for you.If, however, you're looking for a caveman simulator the eschews the drudgery of day to day life and focuses instead on primitive warfare and riding/commanding prehistoric beasts...this game is perfect.Don't listen to the other reviewers jaded by years of high powered sniper rifles, moronic titles that mash humans and dinosaurs together, and AI enemies that run twords death like lemmings. If you wanna know what it was to be early man; to be constantly hunted, to be forever on the brink of death, to struggle for your every possession or meal, to rage against the darkness with only a sharpened stick and a pointy stone... with a bit of The Beastmaster thrown in for good measure... this. is. your. game.Beautiful scenery, native language(s), hulking beasts, amazing attention to detail, and ultimately, a very real depiction of convergent/divergent human evolution shaped through the hands of one proto-sapien. It's absolutely everything I ever wished a sandbox game could be. Though it took WAY too long to appear, I can now forgive every complaint I ever lobbed at others for pushing too far into futuristic tech and neglecting the visceral, raw, and terrifying feel of combat and survival in an age when melee was the only way, and every weapon was a precious creation of your own hands. Let your inner caveman out to play, you won't be sorry.Edit: Save for the physical items (and the Blood Shasti Club, which is just a reskin of the standard club in game), everything that comes with the deluxe edition can be had in the standard for Club Ubisoft points, which you earn in game anyway (and you may have earned already with their old Uplay system, I had more than enough points from something to buy it all from start). Unless you REALLY want the CD (and the score isn't bad, so maybe you do), or a physical map, don't bother with deluxe.