The Himalayas are a daunting place for even the most hardened of explorers, with exploration possible both on the ground, in the air and through the many lakes that are dotted around the mountain sides. It is that sheer size however that makes it come across as a little intimidating. In fact, Far Cry 4 is so massive, both in style and size, that I’d guestimate at near on 100 hours will need to be placed in its open arms if you even wanted to think about completing every single thing on offer. As with all decent open-world sandbox style titles, Far Cry 4 is gifted a main story campaign that would eat up many hours of game time by itself, but if you put it alongside the numerous side missions, jollys around the countryside and general huge scale of exploration on offer, Ubisoft have thrown us a game that could well keep us going right into 2015 and possibly beyond.
It’s thanks to Pagan Min that Ajay will get to take in the remotest of remote Himalayan places, discovering small factories, smaller villages and even smaller caves, all frequented and filled with loot, hidden masks and just the right number of NPC’s to stop things from getting boring. And Pagan Min quickly takes a bit of a liking to old Ajay, subjecting him to a bit of abuse, a bit of love and a bit of his crazy crazy ways. But Kyrat is a war torn region, one that sees the crazy, self appointed tyrannical king, Pagan Min rule over each and every citizen that may still be present. Set in Kyrat, a hidden region of the the Himalayas, Ajay Ghale has returned to his birthplace in order to fulfill his mother’s last wish to have her ashes scattered over her homeland.