Far Cry 4. I just started but so far it seems pretty much seems to play like Far Cry3 with some additional features. You get to ride elephants. There are rinos, badgers,tigers,eagles and all sorts of other animals that will attack you if you get to close. You can actually damage a animal hide making it not worth much.Like for example if you kill a small animal with a rocket launcher or a vehicle mounted machine gun you can pretty much count that animal hide worthless. There is a gyrocopter,although you can only go so high in it.If you hang around a captured base too long the enemy will attack it.Occasionally just wandering around there are hostage rescues that pop up in which you can kill the bad buy,help your guys fight off the enemy or blow up a co and get some experience or karma points. When you skin a animal you collect bait which is used to attract predators.Which you can sometimes use to lure a predator to attack a enemy base. You also earn the ability to call for help which you can use as decoys when attacking a enemy base and it doesn't count towards your presence being detected.
And so much more......there are places you can talk to the villagers. Not sure what good that does but I have a feeling there are Easter Eggs as of yet uncovered by me. The Bow is still one of the most powerful weapons in the game, because of its' versatility, stealth, you can retrieve your arrows, use "flaming" arrows (fun, fun, fun) and explosive arrows (also fun, you can down a helicopter with one or two). You can find weapons before they are available to buy, so keep your eye out. Riding Elelphants isn't half as fun as attacking with them, they are juggernauts (though not indestructable). The AI is much better in this game, normal mode is a real challenge. The Arena is a challenge, getting to level ten was work for me. The animals are ferocious, even birds attack you (Kyrat is not a friendly place) and Rhinos are no joke, rather face a tiger anyday. The bad guys do not dissapear from an area just because you conquered outposts or fortresses (which is another challenge) so there is no such thing as safe travel. And the bad guys get mortars and helicopters, that will keep you on your toes. The "Masks of Yalung" serial killer? Still trying to figure that one out for sure. Need any hints pm me, luv this game, best FPS I ever played. So it is like a super-turbocharged Far Cry 3 with totally different types of characters, personalities and agendas (much better graphics too). But that is what a series is about, right?