If you’re going to bring down Kyrat’s ruler, then it’s worth spending a little time upgrading your character, and this is done by earning skill points generated each time that you fill your experience bar completely. It’s very easy to find yourself getting overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content on offer, and there’ll be times when you'll find yourself miles from your intended destination, due to a serious lack of self-discipline and focus on your travels. On top of enemy outposts to liberate and bell towers to scale, there’s races, hunting, a combat arena, collectibles, convoys to hijack, and assassinations – to name but a few – all seeking to distract you from the main path. Outside of what you’d class as the game's main missions, there’s also a raft of side content for you to undertake. This enables the developer to deliver some truly exciting sequences that will see you taking flight down a tight canyon in a wing suit and fighting demons with the help of a tiger companion. These missions are some of the best in the game, as they’re not constrained by having to fit into the open world. These miscreants will not only send you on errands that criss-cross the open world, but also on tasks that will take you off the map completely, and into mission specific areas such as the Himalayas or the mythical land of Shangri La. In between fighting the good fight on behalf of the rebels, you’ll also bump into a number of characters who also want your assistance. It’s not until you get a little way into the release that you start to realise that this approach is designed to serve the structure of the game's main campaign, which has you deciding the path that the uprising will take. As a result, it’s hard to have any strong feelings about him either way, and this makes him feel like a reaction to the backlash that the previous game incurred. In comparison to Jason Brody – the unlikable protagonist in the previous game – Ajay is somewhat of a blank canvas, with not a huge amount of dialogue with which to build his character. Regardless, your character, Ajay Ghale, has arrived in Kyrat to scatter his dead mother's ashes, but in no time at all he manages to run afoul of the country’s psychotic King, and is forced to join up with the freedom fighters of the Golden Path. While graphically this is a real showcase, there are the occasional signs that the game engine may be pushing against its limits texture pop-in becomes quite obvious when you’re moving at high speed in a vehicle, and while this is understandable given the scale of the world, it's still a little disappointing to see.