Far Cry 4
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person gunfights, knife takedowns, and explosives against human enemy soldiers with heavy blood spray; explosions and headshots produce gore.
The opium and heroin trade drives the plot; the player harvests and burns drug crops and experiences drug-induced hallucination missions.
War-torn civil conflict with atrocities, betrayal, extremism, and morally grey factions, plus interrogation and torture in the narrative.
A drug-fueled first-person sex encounter and other sexual situations occur, with strong sexual dialogue and moaning.
Frequent strong profanity including the f-word throughout scripted dialogue.
Some partial nudity appears in intimate and hallucinatory sequences, with characters shown in undress.
The player wages an armed insurgency against a regime, killing soldiers and destroying drug and religious targets.
Scenes depict captives being interrogated and brutalized, and antagonists torture prisoners on-screen.
Wild animals (tigers, elephants, boars, birds) can be fought and hunted for skins used in crafting.
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What it is
Far Cry 4 is an open-world first-person shooter set in the fictional Himalayan country of Kyrat, where Ajay Ghale returns to scatter his mother's ashes and is pulled into a bloody civil war against the flamboyant dictator Pagan Min. Players fight through outposts and missions using guns, explosives, stealth takedowns, and vehicles, with blood and occasional gore. The game centers on a regional drug trade: the player harvests plants, destroys opium fields, and takes hallucinogenic drugs during trippy story missions. It contains strong profanity, a depicted sex scene with audio (no explicit nudity), some partial nudity and revealing attire, torture and war atrocities in the story, and hunting/skinning of wild animals as a crafting mechanic. Online play is available (co-op and a map editor with user-made content), though the storefront data lists no in-game voice or text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence through a deliberately ambiguous lens: the player's rebel allies in the Golden Path are shown to be flawed and sometimes as ruthless as the dictator they fight, and the endings undercut any clean heroism. Drug use and killing are presented as ordinary tools of survival and rebellion rather than being condemned or celebrated, and the tone mixes dark, cynical satire with earnest scenes about loss and homecoming.
Details
- Developer
- Ubisoft Montreal, Red Storm, Shanghai, Toronto, Kiev
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Released
- Nov 17, 2014
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