Far Cry 3

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
AdventureSandboxShooter

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

First-person gunfights, explosions, and stealth knife takedowns against human pirates and mercenaries with blood spray and bullet wounds.

Substances player uses or trades
High

Drugs are central: the player harvests and burns marijuana fields, ingests hallucinogens during scripted trips, and moves through drug-trade storylines.

Dark themes graphic
High

Sustained bleak subject matter including insanity, human trafficking and slavery, captivity, and the protagonist's descent into killing.

Sexual content strong
High

The story includes a strong, explicit sex sequence between the protagonist and a tribal figure, plus recurring sexualized dialogue.

Language strong
High

Frequent strong profanity, including repeated use of 'f***,' in cutscenes and enemy chatter.

Nudity partial/artistic
Moderate

Partial nudity is shown during the sex scene and in some suggestive character depictions.

Crime & lawlessness player commits crime
Moderate

The player kills pirates and mercenaries and blows up drug operations while the enemy factions run trafficking and slaving rings.

Torture depicted
Moderate

Cutscenes depict captives being tortured and interrogated, including a scene where the antagonist inflicts pain on a bound victim.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

A scripted scene shows a finger being severed, presenting on-screen dismemberment as the focus of the moment.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

A few tense, disorienting hallucination and cave sequences create dread but the game is not a horror title.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Hunting is a core crafting mechanic; the player shoots and skins wildlife such as deer, sharks, and tigers to make gear.

Suicide & self-harm referenced
Low

A tense scripted moment presents the option to turn a blade on oneself as part of a manipulative choice.

Who can reach your kid

User-created content

What it is

Far Cry 3 is a first-person action-adventure set on a lawless tropical island where you play Jason Brody, an ordinary vacationer captured by pirates who takes up guns, knives, and explosives to rescue his friends and survive. It is a violent open-world shooter with realistic gunfire, blood, stealth kills, and explosions, plus hunting wildlife to craft gear. The story leans into mature themes—drug-induced hallucinations, human trafficking, captivity, torture, and madness—and includes strong profanity, a graphic sex scene with partial nudity, and sexualized dialogue. There are no microtransactions; the game is primarily single-player with a map editor and older online multiplayer.

How it's framed

The game frames the island as a brutal, amoral place and follows Jason's transformation from frightened tourist into a capable, increasingly ruthless killer, presenting violence and drug use as tools of survival and even empowerment. It treats the villains' cruelty and the drug-warped visions as spectacle, and its ending questions whether Jason has lost himself to the violence, leaving the morality of his choices deliberately ambiguous.

Details

Developer
Ubisoft Montreal, Massive Entertainment, and Ubisoft Shanghai
Publisher
Ubisoft
Released
Dec 4, 2012
Metacritic 88critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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