Christian cults and Doomsday preppers take center stage in Far Cry 5.
Set in America for the first time, in Montana, players in Far Cry 5 will have total freedom to navigate this serene-looking yet deeply twisted world solo or entirely in two-player co-op as they fight for survival and freedom, when the game releases on February 27th 2018.
As the new junior deputy of fictional Hope County, Montana, players will find that their arrival accelerates a years-long silent coup by a fanatical doomsday cult, the Project at Eden’s Gate, igniting a violent takeover of the county. Caught off guard and drawn into a power struggle, players must disrupt the carefully laid plans of the Project at Eden’s Gate, and fan the fires of resistance to help liberate the Hope County community and themselves.
Under siege and cut off from the rest of the world, players will join forces with residents of Hope County and form the Resistance. The fight against the cult will take players to unique locations throughout Hope County that provide different gameplay experiences. During their journey, players can fly planes to engage cult forces in aerial dogfights across Big Sky Country.
While tracking down cult members and gathering resources for survival across farmland, forests, mountains and rivers, players can get behind the wheel of iconic American muscle cars, big rigs, ATVs and boats. Vehicles also provide refuge when under attack by animals or as a way to quickly escape when things don’t go as planned.
To take down the cult, players will need to utilize any and all weapons at their disposal, including ranged weapons such as guns and grenades and melee weapons like a sledgehammer or baseball bat. Additionally, players can recruit Guns for Hire from a large cast of characters, or even Fangs for Hire, specialized animals like bears and cougars to complement players’ playstyles whether they’re going in stealthily or forcefully.
How players approach each situation and the chaos they create in Far Cry 5 is up to them. Far Cry 5 will also see the return of the map editor, giving players the opportunity to create and play an infinite amount of new playgrounds. The map editor will include new features that add a new dimension to the content created by fans, with more details coming soon.
After years of playing so many shooters that take place overseas and shooting enough brown people to make even a detached person like myself pause, it’s nice to see something hit a little closer to home. This of course isn’t the first shooter, or game in general set in the States, but it’s might be (or is one of the few) that focuses on homegrown bad guys built around groups of people that often seem a bit scary in real life as it is.
Nearly every Far Cry game has been a departure from the previous installment and that’s something I can respect, especially for a company like Ubisoft that loves releases tower climbing simulators. That said, we’ve been here before as Ubisoft loves showing off impressive as hell concepts and videos only to end up releasing something half developed and broken to all hell.
We have our fingers crossed with Far Cry 5 and hope to get more information regarding the game when we visit E3 next month.
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