This is a great game--my new favorite. I have to give it 5 stars overall. The scenery is probably the best I've personally seen on the PS4. The weapons and equipment are pretty realistic, in my opinion. I just recently stopped playing Metal Gear Solid 5 after playing that and nothing else over the last 9 months. I believe this game is like Far Cry 4, GTA 5, MGS 5, and Fallout 4 all wrapped into one (with a little imagination). I own all those games for PS4, and I believe this game takes most of the best elements from the others mentioned above. The sheer number of vehicles and weapons and equipment is amazing. There are some significant pros and cons to this game, however. In no particular order, I don't agree with being able to switch to any weapons that have been unlocked whenever I feel like it. I'm not carrying all my unlocked weapons with me at all times--that would be extremely cumbersome. For the fun factor, tho, it is great. My favorite sniper so far is the MSR. I don't have the 50 cal unlocked yet, but I'm told it can even shoot down the Apache helicopter with 1 shot. My favorite machine gun is the M249. Nothing stands up to the 249 except the "Apache" Unidad helicopter, which incidentally looks almost exactly like a Cobra helicopter. I was carrying a bullpup assault rifle with a grenade launcher, but that pales in comparison now to the damage the trusty M249 deals out. I'm still using the standard 45 caliber pistol. I use everything suppressed except the 249. I absolutely HATE that (at least on Arcade level) I cannot drag off the bodies of enemies I've killed. I believe that should have been implemented into this game. I loved that on Far Cry 4. As for the Unidad, I think it's total BS that I can shoot down a gazillion Unidad helicopters, obliterate hordes of Unidad soldiers, and destroy lots and lots of Unidad vehicles, and they just keep coming and coming and coming--and then they kill me. I have pushed the Unidad alert level to LEVEL 4 on several occasions, just to see if I could kill them all. Even on Arcade level, I can't kill them all. Another thing that is hokey is a minivan should not be able to go up an almost vertical mountain. It is fun, tho. The vehicles take an extreme amount of damage before they blow up, generally. In real life (which I realize this is a game), I would not be able to take a Lambo-looking sports car cross-country and run over cactus after cactus and smash into stone walls, etc, etc, etc, without totaling the thing out in the first crash. I LOVE the sync-shots. It really helps with the stealthy sniper approach. When all else goes to hell, tho, I bring out the M249 and get to work. I really like being able to upgrade weapons, as with Fallout 4. I like stopping vehicles and pulling people out and taking their cars as with GTA5. The scenery really reminds me a lot of MGS5 and FC4. Not surpising, considering who produced this game. What I really, really, really like about this game is it IS fun. I have probably spent 30 hours playing so far, and it has gone by like a snap of my fingers (almost). And, I'm just on the very easiest level. I am going to have to get a lot better at this game to even think about upping the difficulty level. The AI on this game is really pretty good. My AI soldiers, as in my 3 teammates and the rebel soldiers, are really pretty good. They have senior moments on occasion and can't figure out where to go, but for the most part, they are right there beside me or at least very close in a gunfight. The enemy soldiers AI reminds me a lot of MGS5. One shot unsuppressed (and sometimes even suppressed), and they have my location, and they are coming for me and my team. I hate the SAM missle sites. I have gone in and wiped them out in order to steal an aircraft only to discover that there was another SAM missile launcher in range that enjoyed shooting me down. Flares would have been a nice touch to be able to drop out of an airplane or heli, I am going to try switching seats with another player and try decoying an incoming missile with a flare gun, but I bet it won't work. But I am going to try it if I can line everything up. I have gotten stuck in the map 3x so far. Each time, I have fallen down into a crevice somewhere, and the only way I could get out was to fast travel out. That used to happen to me in Skyrim back in the day. But for the miles and miles or km and km of map this game has, I suppose I can excuse a couple glitches here and there. I'm pretty sure this is operator error, but I am not good at base jumping yet. I've got it figured out how to jump out of a heli or an airplane, tho. The parachute is really cool. There are a ton of different vehicles available. I hardly have to walk anywhere, but I do it just to try to discover everything on the map. Usually everywhere I go there is lots of ammunition available, which is nice. Not sure how realistic that is, but it makes the game more fun. I don't like how I have to stand directly in front of the ammunition crates in order to re-load ammo. Same thing goes for the supply tagging. It seems like I have to be right in front and touching each crate in order to load or tag. When doing air-to-air combat, it is difficult for me to fly a heli and shoot the guns all at the same time while still trying not to get shot down. Luckily, my guys out on the sides of a small heli do a lot of shooting, and they take out a lot of enemies while I perform my "circle of death" going around and around a target. I'm sure some company will come up with a game better than this in the future, but for now, this game is the bomb. 5 stars.
*** UPDATE 4/3/17 ***
I still love this game. I'm level 28 now. I've unlocked a lot of cool weapons and gear. My favorite loadout is still the MSR in the sniper slot, M249 in the light machine gun slot, the P45T in the pistol slot, and the standard drone. For destroying vehicles and especially that pesky Unidad "Apache", I do switch to the HTI for a 1-shot kill. I have been using the explosive drone a lot for taking out SAM sites and generators. Some of the bases are almost impossible to get into, and the explosive drone really helps on occasion. For example, there is a Serpentidad (or something spelled close to that) in the bottom center of the map. It is crawling with Unidad. It also has a SAM site and a generator. Blowing up the generator opens all the gates, and destroying the SAM site helps with a mission underneath it on the map in order to steal a +3000 medical supplies helicopter. I had to attempt that mission 3 times to get it done. I got shot down 2x, and then I figured out that the SAM launcher was in that Unidad base. So, I had to take out the SAM site first in order to not get blasted out of the sky by missiles on the 3rd (and successful) attempt. So far, the SAM launchers and Unidad are my worst enemies. I can't say for sure how many, but I think I shot down about 15 Apache helicopters one time when I was discovered sneaking around the Unidad base after I had released all the prisoners out of the prison. It is ridiculous how many soldiers and land-based vehicles and helicopters spawn almost immediately after the previous units have been destroyed. They just keep coming and coming, in waves LOL, and the only way I have found so far to get the Unidad alert down from 4 stars is to run and hide somewhere that Unidad cannot find me. Eventually, they give up, but it takes a really long time to outrun Unidad. I have still been playing on the easiest level so far since beginning the game. I have discovered almost everything on the massive map, but I still have a long, long way to go before I can finish the game. I also think it is a bit unfair for me to spot and mark targets with my drone and my AI crew somehow targets them and can wipe them out with a single shot, sometimes even thru what appears to be solid walls. My recommendation is to get the MSR, HTI, M249, and the explosive drone as soon as possible. I also think that the fastest revive skills and best binocular skills are a must. The binoculars are very handy maxed out for when drones are jammed. I have now seen videos where the streamer uses the EMP drone almost exclusively to take down road convoys. I haven't done that yet. I usually just assault the escort vehicles from the air and then land next to the truck and loot it. From the ground, I usually shoot up the rear escort vehicle and then run the other 2 vehicles off the road and loot the truck. I love the helicopters for close air-to-ground combat. I fly, and the AI teammates shoot the crap out of everything once I give the order. I'm thinking I may start playing online, but I haven't done it yet. I'm thinking that human teammates will probably do better than the AI. BUT, the AI teammates are very good, in my opinion. The AI enemies are almost always very good. A couple times the AI teammates and the AI enemies have gotten stuck around vehicles or other obstacles, but usually they are very, very "smart", sometimes too smart, especially when I get surprised by an enemy AI it seems that way. I've gotten stuck in the map a couple more time and have had to fast travel out. Not a huge deal, but a minor irritation. Even when I happen to get KIA and re-spawn fairly close to the mission objective, I hardly ever do it the same way the second (or third) time around. It just seems like the AI soldiers surprise me sometimes by taking different routes, especially in the cities. At a fixed location, like a "steal an airplane" mission, they are pretty much in a concentrated area, but they do walk around a lot sometimes, and if they are alerted, they will come looking for me. I absolutely hate the "X" being the machine guns on my helicopters setup. The way I fly, I don't think I can (or will) change the button to control the fixed guns on helicopters. It is a huge pain in the butt to shoot missiles or fixed guns. In order to shoot from anything other than head-on, I have to tip the nose of the heli way down in order to shoot down from any significant height to engage targets on the ground. I believe I have crashed my helis several times because I was pushing too many buttons and manipulating the joysticks on my PS4 controller all at once. I love (and hate) the bullet drop on the weapons. I don't think there is too much side wind pushing on the bullets, but there is definitely bullet drop for many calibers once I'm shooting over 200m. I like this so much better than Far Cry 4 in that respect. The game is still really fun for me, and I'm going to keep playing it until I'm tired of it. 5 stars remains!
*** UPDATE 11/5/17 *** with SPOILERS
Still my new favorite game. I've discovered some glitches with the game since the last patch, but overall the game is still very good. I finished the game for the 2nd time on EXTREME/TIER ONE Level 19 when Karen Bowman shot El Seuno a few times and finished him off.
The good:
TREMENDOUS improvement in the helicopter controls over the "classic" controls. In my experience, I can't play the game on the hardest level (EXTREME) and Tier One without using armed helicopters. If you haven't learned how to fly helicopters, you'd better learn. I need them and so do you, especially to take out the armed convoy escorts. I've almost perfected the takedown of all convoys.
I like the realism that comes along with the helicopters. It seems like the wind and rain have an effect on flying. I also like that my helo doesn't slide down the fing mountain now every time I land at a slight angle.
Along with Tier One came the HTI BDC Desert Camo, etc, etc, etc, on STEROIDS, lol. I maxed it out to Level 15. Nothing else even comes close. This 12.7 / 50 cal sniper is an absolute MUST. I also leveled up my ACR to Level 30. It is the best assault rifle for me.
I also like the ballistics of each rifle in the respect that I have to compensate for elevation on all rifles, and windage and elevation on moving targets. No more putting the crosshairs on a target 500m away and headshooting him every time. I think this last patch improved on the distances targets are visible thru the high-power scope. My longest shot has been 795m. I've seen on the internet where somebody made a 1200m shot? On my PS4, I can't even see an enemy that far out, so that shot must have been on a PC, I think anyway.
The bad:
One shot (even suppressed?) and everybody in the world knows exactly where I am? I'm calling BS on that one. I haven't gotten stuck in the map lately, but today when I was transferring El Cardinel from a 4-door sedan to a helicopter, the game wouldn't let me cross some terrain. Really pissed me off. I had to put EC back into the car, drive the car right up to the helo, and then take him out of the car and stuff him into the helo. Good thing no Unidad or SBC were around or I would have gotten smoked. Still pissy about wave after wave after wave of SBC and Unidad that miraculously appear from thin air to fight me with soldiers and vehicles and never seem to run out. Still hate the SAM launchers. I have found that I can land close but still out of range and blow the SAM launchers up with Explosive Drones or C4 or grenades. Once you blow up a SAM launcher YOU CANNOT GET SHOT DOWN AND REVIVED, or the SAM launchers will miraculously re-appear--fully intact and ready to shoot you down. It is amazing how quickly a bunch of soldiers and drug dealers can rebuild a complicated piece of machinery like that... The only way I have found to defeat the SAM launchers is to blow them all up (there are 3) that surrounded the area where the mission was to "Open the Bank Vault". I used an armed helicopter to fly in and out of that area after I took out the 3 SAM launchers in the vicinity (and never got shot down or revived). It is almost impossible to defeat the hordes of soldiers unless you have an armed helicopter, did I mention that? The little SBC white helicopter with machine guns is the best one. The one with rockets is OK if the targets are (and they are rarely) stationary.
Still a great game, and I have been playing it and nothing else for almost 8 months. I am going to keep playing it until I find something better. Far Cry 5 is supposed to be coming out 2/27/18, so I'm sure I will need to be playing that when it arrives.
I paid about $60 when this game came out. Now it is about 1/2 that. If you like an intense action shooter where you can drive and fly and deal out massive amounts of destruction, you owe it to yourself to play this game. The harder levels require some careful planning to get thru the missions. No more smash and grab with brute force. The hardest missions for me were the ones where I had to remain undetected. If you like strategy/careful planning (sometimes) to go along with your mayhem, this is the game. Buy it and plan on spending a lot of hours playing it. 5 stars remains.
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