#Ubisoft far cry 6 review series#

As a result, it’s a perfect story for Far Cry 6. It is, ultimately, a narrative for people who are spending most of their time charging around the place and ignoring the story except when it involves a huge action set piece. He’s little more than a tutorial island dalliance, and Far Cry 6 loves to pick characters up and drop them to move onto something more exciting, to a point where no one’s story really matters anymore. One musical number and a burnt down biolab later and you guys are the best of friends, with him finding the time to forgive you before the game dispenses with him entirely.

One character hates you for indirectly killing your childhood best friend and his love interest. So too is anyone that’s even vaguely revolutionary, even if they execute someone on live television, or make weapons out of depleted uranium and turn them loose across the island. Rojas is good despite her one-woman assault on the island of Yara – specifically after we’re told that several soldiers are just trying to earn a living to support their family and don’t want to fight. Outside of Rojas, nearly everyone you meet is a two-dimensional character that has been arbitrarily dropped into the good or evil box. I found myself genuinely grinning at a few of her quips and when I realised her character was actually singing away with the in-game radio as we drove, it was a really nice moment.

#Ubisoft far cry 6 review series#

The Far Cry franchise has typically put all of its energy into a series of madcap villains and left their protagonists as blank slates or vapid brotagonists, but Rojas – I played the female version, voiced by Nisa Gunduz – is probably one of the more likeable psychopaths I’ve spent a Far Cry game with. In spite of the shockingly bad overarching story, Dani Rojas is actually incredibly likeable and feels distinctly human. It’s plot cowardice, and it serves no purpose as within about 15 minutes of game time everyone Dani Rojas – not that one – has ever loved is dead and you’re filleting people with a machete. It’s somewhat worse because this entire opening has you sneaking through a city being searched for by a scant few guards because your character doesn’t realise they’re a nigh-unstoppable tropical fuck storm that can visit death on anyone until after the opening sequence has run.

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A taut opening sequence shows that Ubisoft has a decent idea of what a tense shooter – one that really makes you feel the fear and outrage of fighting under a despot – could actually mean, but after this shocking sequence, Ubisoft lightens up the tone and never really tries from this point on. Ubisoft has talented teams but they don’t do much with them and they’ve stagnated each of their franchises the past decades while other AAA companies are pushing theirs forward.Far Cry 6 has ended up with rather a lot on its shoulders, hasn’t it? A controversy about whether the game is or isn’t political – every piece of art is political, obviously – and then the promises of telling a story that will try to be sensitive and thoughtful means there’s a frisson of excitement here: will this be the Far Cry that manages to tell a mature story? It’s fine enough as usually it’s entertaining, some people just want more and that’s an okay criticism. That’s AC, GR, and FC gameplay right there. Open map, go to each ?, power up character. Breakpoint was critically bad and most players were unhappy with it because it further strayed from ghost recon and did a lot of things worse than Wildlands where they got it right.Ī lot of older fans feel abandoned, and it doesn’t help that all Ubisoft titles feel like reskins of each. Wildlands was a massive departure of what ghost recon was, but Wildlands at least was good overall. Most peoples issue with ghost recon are more of an Ubisoft issue where they’ve abandoned some core elements to their franchises or certain franchises in general. It’s akin to marvel movies where you don’t see them for some great art display, it’s mindless fun and entertaining.

Reviewers have solid points they can gripe about, but at the end of the day Ubisoft games are fine filler material.

Games can be fun for players but not necessarily great games.