This Week on Outside Xbox

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Hello once again, Eurogamer, Mike from Outside Xbox here. Thanks for having us over for a quick update on what we've been up to this week. Shall we take our shoes off at the door? Yes a cup of tea would be lovely. Oh go on then, just one biccy.
Distressing as it may be, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and no sooner did we think we'd got our list to Santa finalised, Far Cry 3 arrives and blows our (and everyone else's) trousers clean across the room. Jane's been chatting with Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer for the game who, for context, was in charge of the confounding Truth puzzles in Assassin's Creed II and the plot of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
He's a fiercely intelligent chap whose fingerprints are all over Far Cry 3's exceptional storyline and he argues that even the scenes that might initially appear to be crass titillation are attempts to subvert the usual videogame clichés.
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