Nice looking game, but in many ways, disappointing. I loved FC2 and played through it so many times. FC3 suffers from trite Hollywood syndrome, the player is pulled out of the experience and reduced to an observer or a mindless button pusher by all the sequence based interuptions to gameplay. The player has the ability to melee, but instead, he has to just jump on a button and hope for the best during an animal attack. Instead of choosing different ways to carry out a mission, one must do things in specific order, using specific methods. and suffer through bad Sci Fy channel clique's where characters act as blubbering children, playing out formula scenes, and acting like idiots. A player is punnished for exploring instead of following the story line. I spent hours of ridiculous deaths trying to reach an unopened area tower, and when respawned, placed in completely different locations than where I left off. I was obstunate and did open new areas, but the ability to really choose your own path is not available as it was in FC2.

Games that try to be movies, with too many cut scenes and loss of personal control are a trend that needs to die off like the Hollywood cliche's that they contain. The value of a game is in the experience, not the story line. After the first playthrough, the story line surprises are over. When the story is a predictable moralized cliche' like this one, there are really few surprises. I give this game a 9 out of 10, grading on a curve, considering that most games produced these days are trash.