With over a year of development under their belts, the team is looking to fund the next six months in order to open up alpha gameplay to backers.

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Unlike more narrative-driven games, or games like Dark Souls which focus more heavily on gameplay rather than questing, Skyrim and its predecessors lean much more heavily on fetch-quest style gameplay and open-world exploring, two things that translate well into online universes.

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Open world games often compromise gameplay and pacing for player control, but Far Cry 3 maintains a delicate and impressive balance between corridor narrative and sun-on-your shoulders exploration.

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The gameplay varies from huge open battlefield expanses to tighter combat inside a building on the brink of collapse to a driving sequence in an SUV under attack from a chopper.

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The gameplay is intricate, rewarding, and open.

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Building open world games is something we are mastering right now and we believe that properly joining nonlinear gameplay with an excellent story telling will bring a totally new quality.

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