In case all that didn't give it away, Far Cry 4 is overflowing with enough side quests and emergent gameplay to keep the player distracted from the main story campaign for hours. Upon defending the outpost the player is invited to take on an assassination mission, or perhaps go hunting for a rare animal, or take a hallucinogenic trip to Shangri-la through the discovery of an ancient thangka. A few hundred meters away a liberated outpost is under attack. While this is happening, a royal cargo truck is trundling up the road, inviting the player to either commandeer it along with its contents or simply blow it up to sabotage the enemy's efforts.

If the player drags their shivering, wounded body onto the river bank, they'll meet an angry bear that's overly keen to protect its territory. Flee from the eagle into a nearby river and a hungry demon fish is waiting for some toes to nibble on. It's impressive that the Golden Path and the Royal Army have any spare time to worry about fighting each other when at any moment one of Kyrat's astonishingly aggressive eagles might drop out of the sky and claw their eyes out with its talons, apparently just for fun, and Ajay is equally at risk. Roaming the hills of Kyrat, the player is more likely to be attacked by the country's abundant wild dog population than by anyone in a uniform. The Royal Army hate the Golden Path, the Golden Path hate the Royal Army, and nature hates everyone and everything in the entire world, including itself. Kyrat is caught in a three-way civil war between despotic self-appointed King Pagan Min's Royal Army, rebel faction the Golden Path, and nature.

Leave the Rook Islands behind and get your mountain-climbing gear on, because Ubisoft Montreal's much anticipated followup Far Cry 4 whisks players away to Kyrat, a transparently fictionalized version of Nepal and the native country of protagonist Ajay Ghale, who makes the long journey from America to scatter his mother's ashes at a mysterious place called Lakshmana.

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