I'll start off by saying this game can have it's moments, the challenges can be fun, the missions where you're tripping out with guns blazing are awesome, the whole vibe of the game is cool and fresh, Montana is an awesome setting for a farcry game and it looks great.
BUT... The reason I'm giving this one star is because there is no excuse for how lazy this game is, coming from a multi billion dollar company is an embarrassment.
-The gunplay is clunky, probably better on PC with K+M.
-The AI is absolute trash, they run away from you, sometimes don't know where to go, don't even seem to know what's going on, they're boring, not challenging at all, and it gets incredibly repetitive. Same with most companions in the game.
-Hit registration is absolute trash, sometimes you shoot people in the head and nothing happens.
-BUGGY, I really enjoy clearing out compounds full of enemies just to have them all immediately spawn back in when I walk ten feet away. This has happened multiple times, it's so ridiculous it's just funny at this point.
-There is no organic flow to the game. Enemies and wild animals just spawn randomly everywhere all the time, it's constant and I get it farcry is supposed to be chaotic but there's just no "regional context". Enemies will even spawn randomly anywhere in areas that have been "liberated".
-Story is pretty mediocre and awkwardly paced, alot of filler in between the cool missions, there is a handful of cool characters but really most of them are not memorable, and kind of just average, nothing special.
-All the outposts are copy, pasted. Although you can get very creative with throwing bats and literally just running around the NPCS and beating them to death, it gets REALLY repetitive. Again probably has to do with the fact the AI is brain-dead.
One star. Mostly because they never fixed the AI and they're a billion dollar company. Theres no excuse for that. Ubisoft needs to make games that are actually good again and that won't happen of they keep getting away with these lazy, under produced money grabs.
If you don't like a challenge and think it's fun to shoot at brain-dead AI, then maybe this game is for you.