Game Tech: Far Cry moves to open world
In March, the fifth entry to Ubisoft’s Far Cry series will arrive, dealing with themes that are eerily relevant to real-world America. Set in the modern day, Far Cry 5 will tell the story of Hope County, Montana, a fictional county that has been overtaken by a preacher named Joseph Seed. The preacher had once promised salvation from an ‘inevitable collapse’, but instead developed a doomsday cult, backed by military. Cut off from the outside world by fear and intimidation, the people of Hope County must rise up against Seed and his congregation Eden’s Gate to escape his violence and return to a normal life. And by ‘rise up’, of course, we mean rely on the player to single-handedly take down Seed’s entire organization in increasingly violent ways.
Far Cry 5 will take a different approach to more recent entries in the series, placing a more prominent focus on the outposts from previous games and less of a focus on objective markers and specific goals. The director Dan Hay claims he would like the game to become an ‘anecdote factory’, where two players might start at a similar point and head in the same direction, but come back to each other an hour later with different stories about what happened to them.
