50 Fun Facts About Far Cry 3

Which hit single, with gunshots and a cash register in its chorus, opens Far Cry 3?

Paper Planes by M.I.A. plays over the friends' carefree holiday footage, which turns out to be playing on a phone in the hands of their kidnapper, Vaas.

Which actor played Vaas in Far Cry 3 before becoming Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul?

Michael Mando improvised his audition instead of following the script, and the villain was redesigned to match his looks and mannerisms.

Vaas's best-known monologue in Far Cry 3 claims to give the definition of which word?

Insanity is the subject of the speech, which introduced Vaas in the E3 2011 trailer and was named Best Gaming Moment at the 2013 Golden Joystick Awards.

What does Vaas plan to do with Jason Brody and his captured friends in Far Cry 3?

Vaas means to sell them into slavery on behalf of Hoyt Volker, the crime boss whose trafficking ring is the real power on the Rook Islands.

Which holiday activity drops Jason Brody and his friends onto the Rook Islands in Far Cry 3?

Skydiving goes wrong when the group unknowingly lands among pirates and is captured, and Jason is the only one who breaks out of the camp.

Producer Dan Hay compared Vaas in Far Cry 3 to which film villain, rarely on screen yet unforgettable?

Darth Vader was the model because his appearances are brief yet stick in the memory, and Vaas likewise leaves the story around the game's midpoint.

What do players learn about the Rakyat leader Citra and the pirate Vaas partway through Far Cry 3?

They are siblings: Vaas abandoned his sister's tribe to become Hoyt Volker's right-hand man and lead the pirates who terrorise it.

What must Jason Brody climb and unscramble to reveal new areas of the Far Cry 3 map?

Radio towers each open up part of the map and unlock a new weapon, and the idea was later reused in the publisher's other games outside the series.

The giant reptile that gives Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon its name fires what from its eyes?

Lasers shoot from the creature's eyes, and players can lure it into enemy garrisons so that it does their fighting for them.

Which producer's track with Damian Marley plays as Jason Brody burns marijuana fields in Far Cry 3?

Skrillex made Make It Bun Dem with Damian Marley, and it loops through the mission Kick the Hornet's Nest while five fields go up in flames.

Which character is killed by Vaas after helping Jason Brody escape the pirate camp in Far Cry 3?

Grant is Jason's older brother, an Army reservist and the only member of the group with any combat experience when the story begins.

In the Far Cry 3 ending where Jason frees his friends, who kills Citra with a blade meant for Jason?

Dennis lunges at Jason for betraying the Rakyat, but Citra steps between them and dies in Jason's arms.

In the Far Cry 3 ending where Jason sides with Citra, what does she do to him after their ritual?

Citra stabs him, telling the dying Jason that their child will lead the Rakyat to glory, and the credits roll over the knife lying on a beach.

What does Jason Brody lose in his final knife fight with the crime boss Hoyt Volker in Far Cry 3?

Half a finger, from the ring finger of his left hand, is sliced off by Hoyt's dagger before Jason wins the fight and goes to free his brother Riley.

Hoyt Volker, the crime boss who employs Vaas in Far Cry 3, comes from which country?

South Africa is Hoyt's homeland: Ubisoft's official biography says a brutal upbringing by his mining-boss father left him sworn to outdo the man.

At which card game does Hoyt Volker murder Jason's undercover ally Sam Becker in Far Cry 3?

Poker night was meant to be Hoyt's last, but he had seen through the looped camera footage and struck first, killing Sam at the table.

Which Australian hitman holds Keith captive and demands the Silver Dragon knife as ransom in Far Cry 3?

Buck never means to honour the deal: once Jason hands over the knife he attacks, and Jason kills him with the relic itself.

Where does Dr. Earnhardt hide the friends Jason Brody rescues from the pirates in Far Cry 3?

A cave under his home keeps them out of sight, because pirates call at the house regularly to buy what the doctor makes.

What must Jason Brody gather so Dr. Earnhardt can make medicine for a poisoned friend in Far Cry 3?

A mushroom is the missing ingredient, and the errand, a mission called Mushrooms in the Deep, brings on a hallucination in which Jason hears his dead brother's voice.

Which CIA agent, met in Badtown in Far Cry 3, returns in both Far Cry 4 and Far Cry 5?

Willis Huntley trades favours with Jason on the Rook Islands, comes back as a minor antagonist who betrays the next hero, then reappears a third time to hand out a side mission.

Which weapon does a CIA agent hand Jason Brody to torch Hoyt's marijuana fields in Far Cry 3?

The flamethrower lets Jason burn both Hoyt's crop and the boat that ships it, a provocation meant to draw the kingpin out into the open.

Which Far Cry 3 character, added by the Monkey Business pack, straps explosives to monkeys?

Hurk justifies the scheme by saying the Navy did the same with dolphins, and he went on to become a recurring face in later Far Cry games.

Which of Jason Brody's friends escapes the pirates alone in Far Cry 3 and is found by Dr. Earnhardt?

Daisy slips away from a pirate convoy, and she later repairs the old boat the friends hope to leave on, having grown up around boats.

What has Jason Brody's younger brother Riley just earned, the reason for the holiday in Far Cry 3?

His pilot's license pays off at the end, when Riley flies the helicopter that carries the brothers away from Hoyt's airfield.

The name of Far Cry 3's Rakyat tribe is the Indonesian and Malay word for what?

The people is the literal meaning, and many of the words the tribe uses in the game's cutscenes are real Indonesian and Malay too.

Which name do the Rakyat give the warrior markings that grow on Jason Brody's arm in Far Cry 3?

The Tatau begins with a base inked as Jason comes round after his escape, and each new skill burns a fresh piece of the design into his forearm.

Which animal names the Far Cry 3 skill tree that upgrades stealth takedowns and hunting?

The Spider tree covers stealth and hunting, the Shark handles assault takedowns and health, and the Heron improves long-range takedowns and mobility.

Which item does Jason Brody find later in Far Cry 3 that lets him glide through the air?

The wingsuit arrives late, after hours of getting around by dune buggy, jet ski, boat and hang glider.

Which studio was the lead developer of Far Cry 3 and built its single-player campaign?

Ubisoft Montreal led a global production of more than 90 staff, with sister studios handling multiplayer, wildlife AI and the PC version.

Which Terminator and Aliens actor voices the cyborg Rex Colt in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?

Michael Biehn, the films' Kyle Reese and Corporal Hicks, took the role after the studio had first considered Dolph Lundgren.

Vaas of Far Cry 3 first became playable in an expansion to the sequel starring which villain?

Antón Castillo's game gave Vaas a 2021 expansion set inside his own mind, picking up at the moment Jason appears to kill him.

Which comedy actor plays a fictional version of himself, tortured by Vaas, in The Far Cry Experience?

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad's McLovin, starred in the four-part web series, which is set a few days before Jason and his friends arrive.

Which hairstyle worn by Vaas in Far Cry 3 could PAX Prime attendees get to promote the game?

A mohawk like Vaas's was on offer at PAX Prime, while at PAX East fans who shaved their heads or got a permanent tribal tattoo earned a free copy.

While filming Vaas's famous monologue for Far Cry 3, the actor spoke to what stand-in for the player?

A tennis ball marked the player's eyeline, and years later the closing scene of his own expansion shows an older Vaas talking to one on a deserted beach.

Before Vaas existed, Far Cry 3's planned villain was a bald, 300-pound brute known by which name?

Bull was pictured as a six-foot bullmastiff of a man, then reworked after an actor's audition, his fierce physique giving way to a volatile personality.

Which modernist novel inspired the decision to kill off Vaas at the midpoint of Far Cry 3?

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf, loses its central character midway, and the writer wanted the rest of the game to dwell on Vaas's absence in the same way.

Lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem defended Far Cry 3 by calling it the opposite of which blockbuster film?

Avatar was his contrast: he argued the islanders never needed Jason's help and were manipulating him, a reply to critics who saw a colonial fantasy.

Quotes from which classic children's novel were added late to Far Cry 3 to hint at its subtext?

Alice in Wonderland quotes went in late in development, because the writer wanted players to treat the whole game as a riddle full of clues.

Which Far Cry 2 affliction did the Far Cry 3 team remove because it made the game less fun?

Malaria went the same way as weapons that wore out with use, two Far Cry 2 systems the designers judged more of a chore than a pleasure.

Far Cry 3 was the first in the series to use which engine, an upgrade of the one behind Far Cry 2?

Dunia 2 was made to run better on consoles and added more complex rendering features such as global illumination.

Which Ubisoft studio, until then a maker of real-time strategy games, built Far Cry 3's multiplayer?

Massive Entertainment had only made real-time strategy games such as World in Conflict, and saw the job as a chance to diversify.

Which actor, the voice of Adam Jensen in Deus Ex, was replaced as Far Cry 3's Jason Brody?

Elias Toufexis worked on the part for two years before Gianpaolo Venuta took over, and he later led the cast of Far Cry Primal.

The adopted Rakyat warrior who rescues Jason Brody in Far Cry 3 was born in which African country?

Liberia was his first home; he fled poverty and war for the United States, spent a decade there, then found his place among the Rakyat.

Liza Snow, Jason Brody's girlfriend in Far Cry 3, is chasing which career back home in California?

Acting had just paid off with a Hollywood part, but she misses the shoot when the friends are kidnapped.

James A. Woods, the voice of Keith in Far Cry 3, went on to play which Far Cry 4 character?

Ajay Ghale is the sequel's protagonist, and the actor behind Jason's girlfriend Liza crossed over as well, voicing Noore Najjar.

Far Cry 3's four-player co-op story follows crew members of what kind of captured vessel?

A cruise ship, the MS Astrid, is sold out to pirates by its own captain in exchange for the payroll, and the four survivors hunt him across the islands.

What name is given to the mercenary army that guards Hoyt Volker's southern stronghold in Far Cry 3?

Privateers are the mercenaries Hoyt formed to seize the Rook Islands, and Jason later disguises himself as one of them to get close to the boss.

Far Cry 3 was promoted with a custom adventure map and texture pack made inside which other game?

Minecraft got a blocky version of the Rook Islands, complete with the game's characters, weeks before Far Cry 3 itself came out.

In which Asian capital are Jason Brody and his friends on holiday when Far Cry 3 begins?

Bangkok nightlife is where the trip goes wrong: a DJ the friends meet in a club points them towards the Rook Islands.

According to Far Cry 3's story, what first turned Vaas against his own Rakyat tribe?

Drug addiction came with the narcotics Hoyt Volker brought to the Rook Islands, and Hoyt then offered Vaas money and power as his right-hand man.