I had the same thing happen with the tiger clearing out the base. It was funny as hell.

I had a similar moment with a leopard. I'm sitting on some outcrop watching this cat dodging bullets and molotovs. Thirty seconds pass and the whole camp is on fire and half the pirates are dead. I still haven't moved. Now the fire is out, the leopard is dead and there is but one remaining pirate staggering through the camp, bottle in hand. 1 Arrow later the camp and 1500XP is mine

The tiger bit is great. I was half-panicking, half completed confused about what was going on.

Another great video "like rearranging HDMI cables at gunpoint" - I know what he means!

OK, going to go buy it right now.

Fantastic game.

But he's totally right, the "stay on the island" ending sucks horribly. I won't spoil it though. Once you get to the end your can try 'em both out yourself.

Game of the Year.

Yup.

I'm loving it too, although it does have a few problems.

First, it's ridiculously easy. I'm playing on hard and I've ended up playing metagames to keep the challenge (i.e. no guns for clearing bases, knife and arrows only).

Second, the UI is awful. Crafting syringes is a pain in the arse. Everytime you craft a syringe you don't have equipped it asks you if you want to assign it a slot. Also once you've crafted all the holsters etc, you're probably carrying around half a rucksack of useless animal hides and good luck trying to sell them easily (double click on animal hide, confirm, repeat ad nauseam).

Finally, even though they've implemented looting there's no real reward for it. You end up with a few trinkets, and about $10 or so each time (while you've got about 10 grand in your wallet and nothing to spend it on, because you own all the guns).

But these are nit-picks. It's great fun, there are some memorable characters ("watch out for Vaas, he'll enslave your arse!") and the environment is just stunning.

Although I will say it's turned me into an ecological disaster. I was swimming out to an island and I say a manta ray. Did I stop to admire this majestic animal?

Hell no, I knifed that beastie to death in case I could get me a manta ray hat or something.

Then I was eaten by a shark. There's a lesson in there somewhere....

I'm really on the fence about getting this one, most of the reviews sound pretty good but I refuse to put up with the constant need for a server connection with Uplay in a single player game.

HDMI
Heych-DMI...
Silly accent confirmed.

I like how I have space to carry around the ingredients for 30-40 syringes, but I can only actually carry 11. Does it ever annoy me that I have a hotkey for mines and remote charges which I use ever so sparingly, but all my syringes and modified arrows have to share 7/8? It reminds me of Skyrim. Unfortunately there will be no mod scene to fix these niggles.

Oh, and Uplay is indeed bullshit. There was a pirated version of the game out before it was even released here, yet again their drm just serves to fuck over legit owners. I bought the game on steam, so its double dumb. Steam launches Uplay, Uplay launches FC3...

Hey, just so you know - there is a one time activation - but aside from that you can play the SinglePlayer game offline if you like

Rosebushes. Awesome right there.