Dungeon Keeper 2 Retro Game Review

Dungeon Keeper 2 Review (PC)

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   Dungeon Keeper 2, a game from 1999, lives up even by today's standards as a classic Dungeon building game. Dungeon Keeper 2 has several upgrades and improvements over the predecessor, such as redone spells, additional rooms, and overall controls. In this game's story, you are tasked with collectible all of the portal gems, in order to open a portal and launch an invasion on the surface world. Along the way, you will collect pieces in the campaign at set intervals to summon the horned reaper aptly named, "Horny". He is no longer an inhabitable creature, but rather, a summoned creature, who will wreak havoc on your enemies.

   The game play from the original Dungeon Keeper is mostly the same, but more streamlined and less on the micro-management scale, allow for more control and focus on the game play. The new creatures in this game are more humanoid, rather than animal creatures, having people such as rogues, black knights, and others who can be summoned with the right rooms and conditions. 

  Spells in this game can also be upgraded to include stronger, more powerful variants. The summon imp spell, for example, can be upgraded to summon level 4 imps, which are quicker and stronger then level 1 counter parts. You can also store a limited amount of gold in your dungeon heart as well, a problem that was fixed in the original.

  The single player campaign in this game has well done maps and script events, with the narrator (in his evil voice), giving you a voice over on what you must do in the level. His voice is also good for periodically making funny remarks about you, or your dungeon, and livens up the gameplay. Other aspect I really appreciate, is the use of cultural references, and the voice interacting with you directly, telling you to go to bed if it is late at night, for example.

 Another aspect I enjoy is the multi player, which allows you to fight up to 4 other dungeon keepers in different maps, or you can make your own map with the level editor, and share with your friends, allowing for near limitless game play.

  Overall, this is one of those classic games that everyone should try at least once, with it's humor, excellent interface, campaign, and even multiplayer. This game will definitely have you attention if you are a fan of building dungeons, managing creatures, and being evil!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Facebook Game Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! arrives on Face book, does it hold up in transition?

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   Yu-Gi-Oh BAM is a variation on the popular collectible card game series, featuring quicker card games, dueling with friends, custom decks, card collecting, challenges and much more! Also featured as some of your favorite characters from the show, such as Yugi, Joey, Marik, Seto-Kaiba, and much more, including it's own story in text format and various extra challenges along the way.

   Starting off in the game, you will begin with a starter deck to begin with, following the story and unlock more chapters, cards, and earning coins, which can be spent on purchasing more cards to customize future decks. Game play is a bit different than playing an actual game of Yu-Gi-Oh!, such as only attack settings, rather than being able to switch a card from attack to defense and so forth, but most of the core game is intact. Spell cards are also featured, and can be deployed in the same manner as the original game, however, instead of 5 channels to lay down your monsters and spells, the game board is set to only 3, to speed up the games. Also of note is that the standard decks have been lowered to 15, making game play quicker as well, having to make more strategic use of your deck layouts. BAM suggests 10 monsters to 5 spell ratios, which makes sense, because of the lower amount of cards that can be played. 

  You can earn cards by playing the story chapters, completing objectives (which are needed in order to increase your level), dueling friends, or doing arena duels, which allows you to play against random people.  Dueling with others give you "card pieces", which is another currency needed to purchase booster packs and certain cards. The final currency given is the "Duel Points", only received from either purchasing them with real money, and completing certain objectives. All of these currencies can be used to purchase cards or booster packs, and some cards are added and removed in the rosters at certain intervals in updates.

  Overall, a person who enjoys Yu-Gi-Oh or collectible card trading games in general, will enjoy this game, and especially if they have friends who enjoy the same kind of games too! This game does a great job of keeping to the source material of the TV show and manga interpretations, and the cards and effects are very similar to their real life counterparts!

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Marvel Avengers: Alliance Facebook Game Review

Marvel: Avengers Alliance Game Review for Facebook

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  Marvel: Avengers Alliance is a turn-based role playing game from Playdom, featuring a huge number of Marvel heroes and villains in a game style similar to old Final Fantasy turn based game play. You can create your own S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent using a limited selection of hair styles and colors, and he will level up through combat, and can be accompanied by 2 other Marvel Heroes. Using research, you can unlock items, equipment, and new suits for your own agent, which changes his class type, and allows you to purchase new and powerful equipment to keep up with your enemies!

 earning S.H.I.E.L.D. points will allow you to research these items, as well as train (level up) heroes, and purchase certain items, such as suits and so forth. Command Points are points used to recruit new heroes to join your side, and each have different point values, from low to high cost. You can earn more S.H.I.E.L.D points by visiting allies, as well as earning Distress Calls. Distress Calls are a free action used in combat to summon a friend to help you in missions, which can turn the tide of a tough fight.

 The combat in this game is turn based, and with each turn you are allowed to attack with your equipment (your own character), or your heroes' special attacks (depending on hero), with each action costing a specific amount of stamina. If you are running low on stamina, you can recharge it, but you will cost a turn to recharge it, or you can use items and distress calls if your turn is your agent. Each character has their own class, which has a counter class, and using these strategically can mean the difference between success, or failure.

 Another aspect to customization is the training feature, which will open up "Iso slots", which are slots that allow you to purchase and add stat boosters, which are a permanent upgrade (unless replaced). These slots allow you to add more power to your heroes, enhancing their strengths or bettering their weaknesses.

 Marvel: Avengers Alliance features a large story, setup in chapters and episodes, where you will do most of your game time, and allow you to unlock more story arcs with each successful completion. The missions are presented on a city map, and the combat scenarios presented are shown, allowing you face low,medium, and high threats of standard enemies. Sometimes you will be allowed to deploy heroes on deploy missions, which will net you an item after x amount of turns, but will occupy the selected hero until it is done. Mini-boss and Boss fights are also shown in each mission, allowing you to fight super villains and henchman from Marvel Lore, such as Magneto, Loki, and many more! Completing these fights will also net you items, although completely random, like Deploy Missions.

 For Player versus Player enthusiasts, there is also tournaments, which allow you to fight other players and their selected heroes for exclusive items! You can purchase player versus player specific items to give you a boost in these season tournaments, to help give you an edge over your competition, and you will need it. My only complaint about these tournaments, is that they need to add a little more balance over certain heroes, but other than that it is pretty fun!

  Overall, I found this game to be a fun distraction that adds lots of play time to this facebook game, as well as challenge! Definitely for the classic role playing game fan, as well as any fan of the Marvel Universe!

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Dead Space 3 Review - Spoiler Free

                   Dead Space 3 Review - Spoiler Free!

  Dead Space 3, the latest in the Franchise, takes a different turn from it's predecessors, but manages to keep the game feeling like Dead Space! The addition of crafting workbenches (replacing the shops), customization of your weapons, cooperative game play, resource gathering, and multiple new game plus modes adds for a lot of replay value

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   Story  

  Dead Space 3's Story takes place not too long after the events of the second game, and also features a "previously on Dead Space" extra's feature, in case you haven't played the previous games.  This extra gives you a quick warm up, but I still prefer you play the previous entries to get entirely caught up on the events that came up to the third game's events. The story doesn't change that much between single and cooperative modes, but John Carver, the second player and key character to the story, offers more insight and extra dialogue when playing with a friend, as well as "Cooperative Missions", which adds more details on John Carver's back story.

Game play

 The game play is where this game really shines, and offers more in this game than the previous installments.  The aiming and controls are improved upon, as well as a dodge and crouch button to evade enemies, and overall just feels better.  The weapons in the game are a different beast now, as you can now craft your own weapons, and include a second weapon underneath, adding to a lot of customization features, with all the weapons from the previous games at your disposal. You can find these weapon parts by progressing through the story and optional missions!

 Crafting these weapons, suit upgrades, items, and more require resources. You can find these resources off of enemies, boxes, spare part boxes, and using scavenger bots. Scavenger bots can be deployed just about anywhere and found by progressing the story. When you deploy them, they will scurry about and collect items, and after a time they will return to the nearest crafting bench and you will get a tally on how much you collected. "Ration Seals" are a special resource I have found by using the scavenger bots, and these are used in buying the resource packs, which will give you more resources and special assembly parts only achieved through this method. You can also buy them with real money using your platform's currency (Microsoft points, Playstation wallet, etc), if you prefer to do so, but the big thing here, to quell any concerns regarding the micro-transactions, is that they are entirely optional and doesn't require purchase to get everything in the game!

  Another item you can find and craft are the microchips, and these alter your upper and lower weapons. Microchips alter the damage, firing speed, reload time, and clip size, and are found throughout the story and optional missions. Once you acquire any part, including weapon parts and more, you can spend your resources to create more of these parts, and share them with your cooperative partner, provided they aren't exclusive unlocks, like MK-V parts or progress unlocks.

  

  Also new to this game is the optional missions, which deter from the main path and allow you to explore new sections of the game, often providing new weapon parts and resources along the way. There is also "Cooperative Only Missions", which require a partner to explore, and open up more of John Carver's Backstory too.  These missions are really fun, and are worth your while to explore and find new parts, chips, and much more!

  You can also find artifacts as well in this game, which offer more back story to the universe of Dead Space, and are also part of the progress unlocks, which will give you new and exclusive items, such as powerful chips and new suits! As you complete these progress unlocks, you will gain access to these powerful items, and add the challenge to unlocking them all, and by playing the harder difficulties and New Game Plus game modes! New Game Plus offers a regular replay option, which lets you keep your items and play on harder difficulties if you wish, or play the new options, which include a "classic Dead Space mode", a "Hardcore mode", and a "Pure Survival Mode".

  Overall, Dead Space 3 is a great game that features high replay value, lots of collectibles, cooperative play, and great fun overall. I recommend this game to any Dead Space fun or survival horror fan in general!

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Halo 4 Review

Master Chief's latest adventure is a great new beginning!

   Halo 4, the first official Halo game created by 343 Studios, is the mark of a great new beginning for the Halo franchise!  The story, game play, high quality cut scenes, and the multi player all comes together to create a spectacular treat for any fan of the series, and I am looking forward to seeing much more of the series by the 343 Studios team and Microsoft.

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   Story (no Spoilers)

The story of Halo 4 is one of my favorite so far, featuring a great plot, good plot twists, and especially better character development. Previous entries in the Halo series had Master Chief with little to no personality, humorously being called a robot, because of his lack of character development and speech. In this game, he has personality and more emotion, especially when speaking with Cortana. 

  

I found the story to be more emotional and intense from the previous entries as well, and features several characters with their own personalities and agendas, which adds to an already great story plot. 

    Game play

The game play is where the game truly shines, featuring the story campaign, Cooperative and competitive game play, the Forge where you can modify and have your own map designs, and the theater, where you save, edit, and share footage from movies and screenshots you have taken! You can play multi player, where you design your own Spartan IV, altering their load outs, customizing their appearance with new armor pieces and colors, and leveling up your Spartan to unlock more options! As you level up you will gain a point, which can be spent to unlock load out items, each with their own unlock points requirements, so you can pick and choose the items you wish, instead of achieving them at a set level requirement.

   Spartan Ops

Spartan Ops is a cooperative game mode featuring a new story, with new episodes being released regularly. Up to 4 players can play this, and you will earn experience and level up, just like in competitive modes, with their own challenges and career stats involved.  With each new episode released, you can continue the ever evolving story of Fire Team Crimson, a team of Spartan IV's deployed on Requiem.

  War Games

War Games is the Competitive mode for Halo 4, featuring a wealth of game modes and types, including Slayer, Dominion, Oddball, Capture the Flag, and much more! These game types have their own rules and setups, such as Dominion being a capture and hold game type, and Oddball being a sports-like game where you carry the ball to gain points, and so forth.  The many variants of game types make the competitive war games interesting and never boring. 

  Forge

Forge is a map tool set, where you can modify existing maps, and use several tools to change them up and create new and exciting map designs, such as objects, spawn points, and many, many more! A person good at map design, can create entirely different designs, and share them with others so that they can play it too!  All game modes can be used for your Forge map, so if you favor a certain game type, you can create some interesting game play from the options available!

  Theater

Theater is the mode where you can save, edit, and share your favorite movies and screenshots from your adventures in any game mode. Got an amazing kill streak or funny accident that happened in multi player? You can go back, watch the film, and record at that particular time, take screenshots, and share them with the community.

  Overall

Overall, the combination of the story campaign's excellent story telling, cooperative, and competitive game play modes, plus the Forge and Theater, makes this game a must have for any Halo fan. I look forward to future installments of this game, and the multi player reminds me of Halo 3's in fun factor. The Multi player in this game offers long replay value, with the leveling up, multiple game modes, and customization options.  Spartan Ops feature new episodes on a regular basis, and multiple challenges and career statistics, you will be playing this game for a long time to come!

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Stormfall: Age of War Facebook Review

    Stormfall: Age of War Facebook Game Review

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   Stormfall: Age of War is a competitive war game on facebook where you build up a castle, attack other Lords, steal their resources, siege them, defend and attack outposts, and much more! The game starts off with a decent and length tutorial, teaching you the basics of the game, and all the nuances within. The tutorial quests feature a decent voice actor and a text summary, immersing you into the lore of the game and giving you more detail of what to do and what to accomplish. I found the tutorials in this game to be very helpful, especially to new players of Plarium's combat war games, such as Total Domination and others.

  Gameplay

There is much to do in this game, from raiding, sieges, building units, upgrading buildings, discovering new technologies, and much more! At first you will be building your main resource buildings, which include gold, iron, and food, and all of them are important in their own way. Iron is mostly used in constructing offensive units, gold for defensive units, and food is deducted for each unit and building that exists in your castle. You will also use all 3 resources in construction of your buildings and their upgrades, as well as upgrading and discovering new technologies and units.

  New Technologies will grant you access to more advanced buildings, better trained units, and newer units. Each day you will receive a random scroll, which can be applied to discover a new technology, should you have enough of the required scrolls. If you do not, you can always trade them with other players via the marketplace. Once you have unlocked an unit technology, you can spend resources to upgrade them up to lvl 20, with each upgrade level increasing their overall stats by 2%.

Skull Runes are a commodity given through level ups and other means. These Runes can be applied on a "Tech Tree" of sorts, which will allow you to do things such as increasing their speed, build times, group unlocks, and other attributes. You will see the requirement of skull runes in each tree below going further down on said tree, allowing more customization and diversity from other Lords, based on their own strategies.

Units come in two main flavors, offensive and defense, and 5 sub categories (Infantry, Calvary, Occult Beastiary, and Mountain Dwarves). Each sub categorie is different in their own ways, and defensive units are better at countering specific types. For instance, a Dwarf is a defensive unit suited to countering infantry and calvary units, which adds a unique layer of strategy for a facebook war game.

In this game you can join "Leagues", which are players united in a group, and form alliances with friends. You can also visit friends and create wraiths, which are special units created from friends only and you can summon them yourself with the Crypt, but only 3 a day, everyday. You can also defend your friends with reinforcements, trade, and much more as well, adding a layer of strategy and cooperation with friends, because this a competitive game, and you could use all the friends you can get!

Overall, this is a fun, competitive, war game and if you are into strategy games and player versus player combat. you will enjoy playing this game!

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Dungeon Rampage Facebook Review

Dungeon Rampage: Not your average Facebook game!

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Dungeon Rampage is an action RPG/Dungeon Crawler much akin to games like Diablo and their ilk, featuring randomly generated dungeons, multi-player action with up to 4 players at a given time, and lots of loots and characters to play with!

   This game is different from most Facebook games, as there is no energy bar present, so you can play as much as you would like without penalty! You start off in the Rookie league, and the game offers you a brief tutorial level, featuring the highlander berserker. This character is a heavy melee based character, and the opening tutorial will teach you some of the basics of the game. Each character has their own strengths and weaknesses, special powers, and 3 weapon slots using the Z,X, and Y keys. Some weapons can be charged up using mana to deliver powerful attacks and abilties, such as the hammer which sends a shockwave out and damages enemies in it's way.

  As you continue playing you will encounter loot chests, and have different levels of rarity. Common, Uncommon, and Legendary Chests, and these will require the required key in order to open them. Most of these will offer you weapons for the various characters, or perhaps some item boosts, like XP potions or power potions. 

 Each Character in the game has their own special power, which benefits the entire team for a brief time, but can come in handy during overwhelming odds. You get these by picking up gold stars, which can be found by destroying statues or by destroying the enviroment. Once you are ready to unleash it and have filled up your special meter bar, pressing the B button allows you to go all powerful and unleash your devasting power!

 Thankfully, almost everything in this game can be bought with the in-game gold, or for a small price you can purchase "Gems", which are the real money currency, in order to purchase new characters, styles, keys, and other items. Styles are basically different character models, and you can purchase pets which will help you out in your journey.

 You can also have up to 3 other players join you in your dungeon crawls, and they can join your game mid-game if you allow it. More players inside a dungeon will increase the difficulty and XP rewards given, but can be a big help in some dungeons and boss fights. Continuing onward through the different dungeon terrains, levels, and boss fights will lead you through different leagues of increasing difficulty.

  The action in this game is intense and reminds me of a cross between Smash TV, Diablo, and Castle Crashers. The character designs and cartoony style definitely gives me a bit of a Castle Crashers vibe, and the loot fest and money grabbing reminds me of Diablo and Smash TV, which makes for a fun combination.

 Overall, I found this game to be a fun, different style of Facebook game, featuring actual live multiplayer co-operation, high replayability through looting and XP leveling, and a wide range of characters to unlock and play! I definitely recommend this game to the Facebook game player who is wanting something different!

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Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Review (single player and Multiplayer)

    Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the latest from Treyarch in the Call of Duty Series, offers a compelling single player story and a great multiplayer experience, featuring cooperative game play against zombies, and its versus game play with multiple customization options, challenges, and unlockables.

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   Story

  The single player story is one of the best Call of Duty campaigns I have ever played, featuring multiple endings and story arcs, where your choices at key points in the game will determine the future of the story and of course, it's ending. The characters presented offer a great narrative in back stories, leading from the Vietnam war era, up to the present day, where it all comes to a head. I did not have a hard time understanding the story, because the characters and cutscenes presented keeps you up to date with the events going on. The single player campaign offers multiple difficulties to choose from and is highly replayable, especially for those wanting to see and unlock all the endings. Also included is the Strike Force Mode, which is also canon with the single player story and is different from the rest of the campaign, see below for more information.

  Gameplay

 The gameplay in the singleplayer campaign is standard first person shooter fair, featuring a change of "loadouts" for each mission, and offers a great control scheme and can be changed in the options menu if the default isn't comfortable for you. You have access to grenades, non lethal grenades like smoke grenades, emp and other types. This game also offers multiple weapons to choose from, even high tech variants and attachments, altering the way the gun behaves, such as better reload speeds, fire rates, damage and so forth. You even have access to special weapons, such as crossbows, ballistic knives, rocket launchers, combat axes, and others that offer unique combat choices.

  Strike Force Mode

 Strike Force Mode is an operation mode within the single player campaign, which is a bit different from the rest of the game. In Strike Force Mode, you instead command a strike force similar to that of an real time strategy game, commanding infantry squads, and mechs to achieve certain objectives within a time limit and a limit on how many troops you have for that mission. Tactical view is where the Real time strategy mode comes into play, allowing you to move troops and mechs about and seeing where enemies and emplacements are about, as well as your mission directives. I found Strike Force Mode to be a fun and unique game play mode, especially for a game like Call of Duty.

Multiplayer (versus and Co-op)

  Multiplayer for Black Ops 2 offers you the cooperative mode, which is their zombies mode, and the famous versus mode. I found both to be entertaining, even with some of their faults.

Zombies Mode

 Zombies mode is the cooperative gameplay, which features a horde-like wave by wave scenario with a transit system to visit the 4 maps currently available. Survive wave by wave, using parts found to create special parts that will open locked doors and power on devices. Vending machines will give you access to power ups, which will give you a big boost, especially for when the zombies arrive in greater numbers and powerful variants. You can earn points by killing zombies, barricading windows/doorways, and helping others. These points will be used to purchase more weapons, powerups, and upgrades, to which there is a nice variety of these to choose from and find. Using the bus that arrives from time to time, offers you a chance to leave the current map and head towards to next, all the while defending yourself from zombies trying to get inside the moving bus. I found Zombies mode to be intense and satisfying, and a great choice for people wanting a cooperative experience.

Versus Mode

 Versus Mode is a mode featuring multiple game types to choose from, such as Team Deathmatch, Demolition, capture the flag, and other various modes. As you play and combat other players on the field, you will gain XP for kills, objective completions, assists, and support assists, such as UAVs for example. As you gain kills with weapons, you will unlock decals, and attachments. The decals make the weapon look different from it's original design, with different camos and other colors, while attachments will make the weapon behave better or differently, depending on your tastes. Leveling up you will unlock access to more weapons and items, as well as "Unlock Tokens". Unlock Tokens can be used to unlock anything you have access to your current level, as well as scorestreaks. Scorestreaks are special assists given to players who gain the amount needed to summon them, such as UAVs, Stealth Choppers, A-10 Warthogs, and other support. You can select up to 3 of them, and the more powerful scorestreaks require more points, but well worth the effect.

  You have access to your own emblems as well, which you can unlock decals by accomplishing the different challenges presented for each, which have lead to some interesting and well designed emblem designs by the Call of Duty community. Also alongside this is the calling cards, which are unlocked by completing various challenges as well, to which there is many to collect and unlock.

  The versus does have it issues with lag at times, which is dependant on whom the host selected is, which might be very good or very bad depending. The maps given at launch feature either narrow corridors or wide open areas, leading to different strategies and preferred setups for each, with more map packs being released soon. 

  Overall

Overall, I found the single player and Multiplayer modes to be very fun and engaging, each in their own way. Despite the lag issues and a few others presented in versus multiplayer, I found it to be overall a worthwhile engagement and fun to play, and the Strike Force mode offers a unique twist to the Call of Duty series with it's real time strategy elements. A must buy for First Person shooter fans and competitive multiplayer fans

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Far Cry 3 Review (Single and Multiplayer)

   Far Cry 3, the latest installment of the franchise from Ubisoft, offers an excellent story,single player experience, full of side missions, activities such as poker and races, and animal hunting to say the least!

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   Story

Far Cry 3's story is an emotional roller coaster of Jason Brody trying to rescue his friends and family from pirates trying to sell them into slavery. The game does a great job of telling the narrative through cutscenes and interactive quick-time events at times to be more immersing  I will not spoil anything with the story, but there is plenty of plot twists, advancement, and dealing with many shady individuals in order to find your friends. Characters such as Vaas, can really steal the show with his insanity and immoral methods. In some ways, he can really become a fan favorite for a great villian, and the other people you meet along the way are no slouch in their character.

  Gameplay

 The gameplay in Far Cry 3 is fun and offers you two huge islands to explore (the other later on in the story). There is multiple activities to do in this game, ranging from story missions, side missions, racing, knife throwing, poker, random elements such as aiding civilians, collecting relics and war letters, plus much more! Climbing on top of radio towers will allow you to open that particular part of the map and unlock free weapons for you to use later. Along the way you will encounter outposts, which you will need to liberate by killing the enemies residing there, bonus XP for doing it stealthy and without sounding alarms!

  As you do these activites, killing enemies, skinning, and so forth, you will gain XP and levels, and with each level you will have access to 3 trees of skill types, (Shark, Heron, Spider). Spider, for instance, is more about stealth and survival, Heron, is about long range take down and mobility, and the Shark is about assault takedowns and healing. Some skills are unlocked by completing more story missions, and doing certain requirements listed, like skinning certain creatures or other requirements.

 You will also encounter "Trials of the Rakyat", which are scoring mini-games with it's own theme that can be replayed over and over to get a better high score. There is also skinning, which is required to unlock better storage of ammo, wallet size, and other increases in weapon and equipment holding. You also have the War Letters and Relics, which are scattered across the islands, and be collecting enough, you will unlock  more syringes, weapons, and so forth.

 You will play multiple activities like Poker and such, and for me, the poker games were the most fun and immersive. If you ever play Red Dead Redemption's poker games, you will feel right at home, plus if you are good at it, you can make some good money! I tried the knife throwing, and it feel somewhat clunky, but the shooting challenges weren't bad for me. 

 Animals act more like real animals in this game and will proceed to stalk you, chase you, and proceed to maul you and pin you if you aren't careful. Tigers, bears, and sharks are especially deadly, but even the more docile animals can be just as deadly if they get close. You will see Tigers, for instance, hunkering down and ready to pounce on not just you, but their animal prey and other humans too, which adds to their realism. Aligators will grab you and death roll, Tigers will pounce on you and try to tear you apart, and bears will raise up on their hind legs, roar, and slash, and so much more!

Multiplayer (Co-op and Versus)

Before we head into each section, playing multiplayer you have selection to your own custom loadouts for both versus and Co-op. Loadouts are similiar in style to loadouts in the Call of Duty series, which you select your primary weapon and attachements, plus a secondary weapon and its attachments. After this you will select your skills and battle cry, and a battle cry is a shout which gives different buffs to any ally in ear shot. Upon completing either versus or co-op you will have access to Decoder items, which you will put into a decoder slot and decipher it in real time. These decoder items have XP and weapon mods inside of them, depending on item, plus sometimes you will recieve speed ups which you can gift to others in your friends list, and you can gift weapon mods to your friends as well if you don't want them.

 Cooperative Section

The Co-op for Far Cry 3 feels like left 4 dead in quite a few ways, and is its own story, happening roughly 6 months before the single player story starts. You have a rag-tag selection of characters, with their own personalities. You can use your load outs (created beforehand) and can play with up to 4 players in the co-op story, and you can choose different difficulties for each story chapter too. Each story chapter has parts of pure action and shoot em up, and at times you will have competing parts, which are minigames to where you and your friends compete to reach up points for more XP. Some sections of the chapters also have defending areas and grabbing bombs to set up to blow up a building, bridge, or whatever. Each Chapter can last for quite a while, like 30 minutes to an hour depending on how fast you run through it. If you love Co-op and have other far cry 3 friends this will be fun for you, and you gain XP and everything just like in Versus (see below)

 Versus

The versus in this game is similiar to the Call of Duty series, with game modes like team deathmatch, and a domination style match type. By killing enough enemies you can use support items to call in air strikes, a UAV style map system to discover enemy players, and can use the loadouts made earlier for versus too! At the end of a match, the best player gets to humiliate the best player on the losers team or give him mercy, depending on what has been voted on. You can do things like sharing a beer, kicking people in the nuts, beating them up, and much more, which I found funny and hilarious. The versus mode was giving me some bugs like dying spontaneously and falling through the map, but I hope they will address this soon. The Co-op is still a great choice if versus isn't your thing.

  Overall 

Overall I found Far Cry to be a great single player experience with a great story and has a decent multiplayer addition as well! If you are more into the single player you will have a great time with it, and despite the bugs in multiplayer, it is still a blast and fun to play, and I highly recommend it!

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