On December 4th, 2012 the third installment of
the triple A franchise “Far Cry” was released in North America. The game
depicts the story of a group of young adults being captured and sold into
slavery while on vacation on an island known as “Rook Island” The secondary
antagonist Vaas is one of the most interesting characters I’ve ever looked at.
In the game he’s a synclinal villain that your character builds and incredible
hatred for as he kills your loved ones and attempts to kill you multiple times
through torture. The strange thing about it is that as you see more and more of
him you start to like him. I’m not sure why you do, or what causes you to but
you do build up a liking for him throughout the game. Perhaps it’s his insanity
or his extremely well voiced dialog and metaphors he makes. Vaas is the
definition of insanity “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results” and he even admits it during one of the cut scenes, he says
that exact like to you, but it angers him while he says it because he’s
attempted to kill you several times before and hasn’t succeed. Vaas makes the game, constantly in-game you
find yourself wanting to get into trouble with him just to hear him speak to
you, so when you finally do get into trouble its extremely refreshing. Further
more, Vaas’s voice actor looks identical to him in-game, this means Ubisoft
(The game developer) was able to make some incredible live action videos
promoting the game. He does a phenomenal job acting in the live action films
that make you want to purchase the game, and with cameos from McLovin from Superbad
it ads a comedic element to an otherwise serious issue.
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