Here’s Everything We Know About Far Cry 5 So Far
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Last week Ubisoft announced that the fifth Far Cry in the franchise is in development and that it would be getting a full unveiling this week. Since then the French publisher has drip fed facts about the game’s setting, teased its antagonists, but today it finally dropped a metric fuck ton of facts about the game, presumably ahead of its E3 full unveiling next month.
Being the wonderfully helpful people we are, we went out to check out a wee bit of Far Cry 5 in London yesterday, with the sole intention of getting you as much information about Ubisoft Montreal’s upcoming entry in the series. You know, because we’re nice like that. So, In our trademark bitesize formula, here’s everything you need to know about Far Cry 5.
Themes & Inspirations
Far Cry 5 is a game that centres around the three Fs: “Freedom, Faith and Firearms.”
The game tells the story of the rise of private militias. In a world of uncertainty and public unrest, the game looks to focus on a society on the brink of crisis. Sound familiar much?
Hope County, Montana:
Yes, it’s true! For the first time in the history of the franchise, Far Cry is making its way to America. Hope County, Montana specifically.
Hope County is a region full of flowing rivers, luscious corn fields, American flags, huge farms, grain silos, American flags, dense woods, baseball fields, and American flags. There’s American flags, folks, in case you forgot it was America. MINIATURE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR OTHERS!
You’ll find saloons like the Spread Eagle saloon with a scantily clad woman on a neon sign, and small towns, turned enemy encampments, like Fall’s End, littered through Hope County.
Throughout the many towns and regions of Hope County you’ll find locals going about their daily lives, whether it’s fishing, fighting back against the cult, hunting or just surviving.
In terms of confirmed vehicles, in the various videos we caught a glimpse of muscle cars, tractors, quad bikes, crop dusting planes, helicopters and fuel trucks.
Yes, there will be cows.
And of course, there’ll be bears! The fluffy mean fuckers, not the Chicago-based American Football team.
The Main Players:
You play an unknown, fully customizable Deputy Sheriff, sent into Hope County to apprehend the leader of the Project at Eden Gate cult, Joseph Seed, with two of your colleagues. In classic Far Cry form, it doesn’t take long before that plan goes to shit.
The main character is fully customisable. You choose your hero. You play as them. You shape the game world and your experience.
The game is fully playable in co-op. No word yet on how many players.
The main antagonist is the aforementioned Joseph Seed, a smooth-talking gentleman who dons yellow sunglasses, a black suit and a white shirt. He runs the local cult, “Project at Eden’s Gate” with his two sons and their half sister – also known as The Heralds.
The Locals:
The population of Hope County is divided. On the one hand, there’s those who accept the will and the way of the Seed family, but there’s also the resistance.
We were introduced to three locals that were fighting back against the Project at Eden’s Gate cult:
Pastor Jerome, a local priest whose flock has been led astray by false promises, noting that they were told what they wanted to hear. In a cutaway shot we see a revolver hidden in a bible as he utters the phrase, “If I am not their shepherd, then I must be the wolf.”
Mary May, a local businesswoman who runs The Whistling Beaver saloon (seriously) who is out for revenge after Seed and co. ruined her life. After growing up in the town and looking up to her father, the Project at Eden’s Gate came in, took her mother, took her brother and left her dad a changed man forever. She’s out for revenge.
Nick Rye, a wholesome family man who has a penchant for planes. The bearded, cap-donning, plaid wearing reflective soul talked about his family and their experiences in the war, and his son, and his dreams for said son. He’s ready to fight back, along with his trusty plane, armed with one hell of a chaingun.
The Project at Eden’s Gate’s mission is simple: to gain followers by any means necessary, whether it’s through intimidation or through spreading fear, with the locals at the centre of it all.
And there you have it, tons of information to digest. If that’s not enough, well, you won’t have to wait long until E3 next month where we have no doubt we’ll be seeing some more Far Cry 5, ahead of it's release in February 2018.