Ubisoft is teasing a new Far Cry reveal for The Game Awards. Will they be able to stay away from old controversies?
Ubisoft is teasing a new Far Cry reveal for The Game Awards. Will they be able to stay away from old controversies?
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Ubisoft is teasing a new Far Cry reveal for The Game Awards. Will they be able to stay away from old controversies?
First up, the teaser video.
Ubisoft has told us that this new Far Cry game will be revealed at The Game Awards ceremony, alongside a new Obsidian RPG and definitely not Borderlands 3 .
The teaser doesn’t give much away, but does tend to suggest that this new Far Cry title will be post-apocalyptic in nature. That means that – like Far Cry Primal – it will probably sit outside of the main series’ modern timeline.
Spare a thought for poor Ubisoft, by the way. They just want to make games where you travel to strange new places to shoot people and blow things up and kill lots of animals for some reason. Yet somehow, people keep suggesting there’s some sort of political undercurrent to the Far Cry series.
Whether that’s the colonialist white saviour elements of Far Cry 2, or the Mary Sue white saviour elements of Far Cry 3, or the racist-looking box art for Far Cry 4, accusations of bizarre, violent murdertourism have never been far from the series.
