{"id":84145,"date":"2015-12-04T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84145"},"modified":"2015-12-04T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:27:13","slug":"drop-bombs-from-your-freaking-owl-far-cry-primal-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84145-drop-bombs-from-your-freaking-owl-far-cry-primal-gameplay","title":{"rendered":"Drop bombs from your freaking owl: Far Cry Primal gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are the first to tame the beast, the Beast Master they call you; this is <em>Far Cry Primal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Far Cry Primal<\/em> is almost certainly inspired by <em>Far Cry 4\u2019s<\/em> Shangri-La missions, where you were granted control of Shangri-La\u2019s guardian, the <a href=\"http:\/\/farcry.wikia.com\/wiki\/Sky_Tiger\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Tiger<\/a>, and takes a much more serious approach than <em>Far Cry 3\u2019s <\/em>spin-off <em>Blood Dragons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather unfortunately, your pets can\u2019t go invisible this time round, but to be fair they\u2019re not going to be hunting demons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n_pMtquv7aA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Far Cry Primal<\/em> definitely takes itself a lot more seriously than <em>Blood Dragon<\/em>, which isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fairly brutal, offering a number of recognisable <em>Far Cry 4<\/em> traits, but also introduces a few new mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The basic premise behind <em>Primal<\/em> is that your clan has effectively been wiped out by a neighbouring faction, and it\u2019s up to you to whoop some ass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/image.noelshack.com\/fichiers\/2015\/49\/1449226360-6-fcp-screen-udam-beastmaster-reveal.jpg\" alt=\"Far Cry Primal\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To do so, you\u2019ll need a partner in crime, which is where your pets, the beasts of <a href=\"http:\/\/farcry.wikia.com\/wiki\/Oros\" target=\"_blank\">Oros<\/a> come in.<\/p>\n<p>As Takkar, the Beast Master, you\u2019ll be granted the ability to tame various beasts across the world. They\u2019re many of the same animals found in <em>Far Cry 4,<\/em> only more &#8220;primal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, you\u2019ll be taming beasts like wolves, jaguars, bears and sabre-toothed tigers \u2013 you\u2019ll even have the opportunity to summon swarms of bees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/image.noelshack.com\/fichiers\/2015\/49\/1449226011-2-fcp-screen-pet-wolf-beastmaster-reveal.jpg\" alt=\"Far Cry Primal\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And to make up for a lot of the variety lost when Ubisoft did away with modern weaponry, each creature offers the player unique abilities \u2013 and even a few passive bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>The dire wolf, for example, growls when enemies or predators are near, as well as revealing additional territory in your map and minimap.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the cave bear will attract your opponent\u2019s aggression and the jaguar will assassinate enemies without alerting others in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/image.noelshack.com\/fichiers\/2015\/49\/1449226014-1-fcp-screen-riding-sabertooth-beastmaster-reveal.jpg\" alt=\"Far Cry Primal\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also have the option to ride many of the beasts you tame, which is freaking cool, and yes, that does include the mammoth.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, you\u2019ve got your own personal owl, capable of scouting the area as well as granting you vision from the perspective of your owl.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all. You can command your beasts from air as your owl swoops across the battlefield, have your owl attack enemies and even drop a variety of bombs from your owl \u2013 we bet you\u2019re a little jealous Hedwig.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CfU_up3Spos\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Make your way from the bottom to the top of the food chain; sounds good to us.<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, these spin-offs are some of the best examples of variety from Ubisoft, and we quite enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p>Animal animations are fantastic, the game still looks a treat and you get your own personal sabre-toothed tiger. We\u2019re in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Far Cry Primal <\/em>releases for PS4 and Xbox One on February 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, and PC on March 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>You might also want to read<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84137-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-67.html\">This week\u2019s best gaming deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84115-the-witcher-3s-second-expansion-blood-and-wine-is-teased.html\">The Witcher 3\u2019s second expansion, Blood and Wine, is teased<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/84105-gta-san-andreas-hd-arrives-on-ps3.html\">GTA: San Andreas HD arrives on PS3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are the first to tame the beast, the Beast Master they call you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16030,1003,1969,15397,1239,1853,723,733,10065],"class_list":["post-84145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-far-cry-primal","tag-gameplay","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-trailer","tag-ubisoft","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84153,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84145\/revisions\/84153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}