Far Cry 4 kicks off with a serious bang. The prologue gives you a perfect taste of what you're in store for: gorgeous visuals and textures; a vastly epic landscape; intense action with bullets flying and elephants stampeding; and the wickedly insane tyrant Pagan Min.

Beautifully detailed with a living; breathing world; Stunning graphics – a very cinematic experience; Loads to see; explore; and do across the map

The protagonist is dull – not very relatable or endearing; The story won't get you hooked; but then you won't be playing this for the story; RPG mechanics could do with fleshing out

Concept: Continue Ajay Ghale's Kyrat journey with a fully featured (but smaller) take on the Far Cry 4 experience Graphics: The yetis are cool and genuinely intimidating, but most of the same assets (and minor graphical quibbles from Far Cry 4) appear here Sound: The music and sound effects carry...

Great game, deserves 5 stars but what can only be described as dishonest marketing by Zavvi loses it 2 stars. The cover art shows the limited edition but Zavvi will only supply the standard version. Will definitely make me wary about shopping with them again.

While each of Ubisoft's previous sandbox shooters has felt like a reinvention of the franchise, this year's offering hews so close to the structure of Far Cry 3 that it sometimes feels like a re-skin. But does it really matter when the end result is this much fun?

There truly is nothing quite like Far Cry. The sandbox shooter series has seen random tourists become Rambo-like killing machines that tear a bloody path across tropical locals, and this latest addition to the series continues that trend.

Fantastic game. I took my time with it. Gave me a sense of adventure. One of my favourite games on PS4

It's the same game you played, but just different enough and executed well enough to seriously recommend getting if you love this genre.

The Far Cry series has a unique pedigree. From the very first title, it became the embodiment of cutting edge graphics and established the standard to which all other titles were compared.

Or India Se Kyrat: A Far Cry 4 Diary: Day 7 Once in a while, a game comes along that gets the iLL Staff so hyped, we write spoilerific diaries of our playthroughs. And more than one of us wants [...]

TR; Dynamic; living breathing sandbox; Some interesting missions and choices; Looks finished; unrushed and progressive to the franchise soul; Carnage: The single handed grenade launcher; buzzers and charging elephants vs raging rhinos

TR; Cliched dialogues; weak protagonist and crumbling storyline; Pagan's light rarely shines; Bugged dynamic events and contextual prompts; Server Connectivity

I purchased this as a Christmas gift that my husband wanted. He has played all of the FarCry games to date and has loved them all. Can't wait to see how he likes this one