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It takes less than 30 minutes to see Far Cry 4’s alternate ending

• Egon Kilin
• November 17th, 2014

Publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world first-person shooter set in the Himalayas is out this week, but if you were hoping to see a full walk-through from start to finish before that (wouldn’t see why, but still…), you are strangely in luck. Apparently, in the beginning of Far Cry 4, our protagonist is kidnapped by Pagan Min – the game’s despotic ruler – and is told to wait at his dinner party until he resolves some urgent matter. Of course, the game tells you to get out as soon as possible, but what if you actually wait for Min? Apparently, he’s kind enough to allow you to pay your final respects to your mother, after which you are finally able to “shoot some goddamn guns,” as Min puts it.

Far Cry 4′s story follows Ajay Ghale, an English-speaking Nepalese native who returns to Kyrat – a wild and untamed region of his home country – to scatter his mother’s ashes. Once there, he becomes caught up in a civil war, as the people struggle under the despotic regime of self-appointed king Pagan Min (Troy Baker). Far Cry 4 ensures that the open-world gameplay and story complement each other, unlike its prequel, where the open-world nature of the gameplay was often at odds with the plot, as it allowed the player to perform protracted acts of exploration despite situations in the narrative which were supposedly time-critical.

In addition, the writers chose to minimise the amount of voice-over from the player-character to allow gamers to better immerse themselves in the role, and have added Tarantino-like dark humour, in order to address the contrast between the game’s heavy violence and any enjoyment the player will get from experiencing the game. Far Cry 4 launches on November 18th in North America and Europe, and November 20th in Australia, on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.