Next Far Cry game is set in *spins wheel* Montana

[Syt]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/26/far-cry-5-trailer-details/

Far Cry 5 trailer reveals doomsday cult, planes, bears & 2018 release date

Far Cry 5's first full-length trailer is heavy on the plot, showing a cult that will bring people into its fold "by force if necessary" and all the grimness that entails, but it's also packed full of colourful car-chases, wide open countryside, and there's a bit where a man is being chased by a bear. Oh, and planes. There will be planes. The game will be out February 27th 2018 and you can see the trailer below.

You'll play as the new junior deputy of Hope County, a fictional slice of Montana, and the game begins at the point when the doomsday cult ('the Project at Eden's Gate') turn from quiet infiltration to violent takeover. Hope County is cut off from the rest of the world and under siege, and you'll organise a resistance against Eden's Gate, using planes to engage in dogfights, tracking down cult members and fighting on foot and in vehicles across "farmland, forests, mountains and rivers".

For the first time in the series, you'll create your character rather than using a built-in model, and the entire campaign can be played in co-op.

Ubi promise "iconic American muscle cars, big rigs, ATVs and boats" as well as the series-first planes.

I'm most excited about the Guns for Hire and Fangs for Hire. The former are human recruits to help in the fight and the latter are "specialised animals like bears and cougars". I will form the mighty ursine resistance.

Here's the official word from Ubisoft on that last part, as well as news of a map editor:

To take down the cult, players will need to utilise 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, specialised 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.

It all sounds very Far Cry, which is no bad thing in my book, but I'll be interested to see how the setting is used. Big Sky Country is looking gorgeous in that trailer, but I'm in the camp that reckons less story makes for more fun when it comes to Far Cry, and the cult already seem like a Big Presence. Give me bears chasing muscle cars; I want hijinks, not high concept storytelling or commentary.

If you are interested in the characters in Hope Country, you can learn a little more about them here.

Gotta say, I'm liking some of the music in these videos if nothing else. Once it kicks in, I mean. Not the melancholy stuff.

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdaoe4hbMso

ANd some more clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpwyzkZha0Z6i7hGiMlsERz4mQd5RoafB

[Valmy]

See this is the kind of fiction so outrageous nobody will ever confuse it with the actual Montana.

Right?

[Syt]

See this is the kind of fiction so outrageous nobody will ever confuse it with the actual Montana.

Right?

They just elected a guy who's against retirement because it's not in the bible, and because Noah built a boat when he was 600 years old.

[The Brain]

I will buy it.

[Grey Fox]

I will buy it.

My family thanks you.

[Ed Anger]

I might get it if I can join the cult.

[Syt]

PC Gamer sent a guy from Montana to the reveal: http://www.pcgamer.com/far-cry-5-first-look/

Gist: setting looks spot on, let's see if they can pull it off, listing a few points he's worried about.

Select user comments:

Ubisoft French game studio tries to do American..If their previous attempts are any indication, it will be stereotypical over the top garbage

I wouldn't play this crap if it was free. Those pesky white Christians are a big problem in the world aint they? (sarc) Ubisoft doesn't have the guts to take on the biggest problem in the world, Islamic terrorism. Whens the last time a white Christian group sawed off someone's head? Ubi = Cowards.

anti Christain properganda disgusting.

They would`nt dare have a scene like that is a mosque but its ok to parody a Christians because they are being murdered and persecuted daily around the world.

Clearly attack Christians uttly unacceptable in this current climate I want this banned creating white version of ISIS for this game is evil.

I'd love to know why games reviewers are trying so hard to turn gaming into some political medium? Is it because they feel inferior because they write about mindless, escapist entertainment for a living?

Most people who enjoy playing games do it to escape from therealities of the world for a while. Stop trying to mess that up for us.

You aren't writing for the New York Times and that is ok. I promise.

A game where we kill Americans. OK. No thanks.

The political agenda of this game is a huge brain washy turn off...

So now the Christians are the bad guys? You lying hypocrites can go to hell.

Etc.

[Syt]

[FunkMonk]

PC Gamer sent a guy from Montana to the reveal: http://www.pcgamer.com/far-cry-5-first-look/

Gist: setting looks spot on, let's see if they can pull it off, listing a few points he's worried about.

Select user comments:

Ubisoft French game studio tries to do American..If their previous attempts are any indication, it will be stereotypical over the top garbage

I wouldn't play this crap if it was free. Those pesky white Christians are a big problem in the world aint they? (sarc) Ubisoft doesn't have the guts to take on the biggest problem in the world, Islamic terrorism. Whens the last time a white Christian group sawed off someone's head? Ubi = Cowards.

anti Christain properganda disgusting.

They would`nt dare have a scene like that is a mosque but its ok to parody a Christians because they are being murdered and persecuted daily around the world.

Clearly attack Christians uttly unacceptable in this current climate I want this banned creating white version of ISIS for this game is evil.

I'd love to know why games reviewers are trying so hard to turn gaming into some political medium? Is it because they feel inferior because they write about mindless, escapist entertainment for a living?

Most people who enjoy playing games do it to escape from therealities of the world for a while. Stop trying to mess that up for us.

You aren't writing for the New York Times and that is ok. I promise.

A game where we kill Americans. OK. No thanks.

The political agenda of this game is a huge brain washy turn off...

So now the Christians are the bad guys? You lying hypocrites can go to hell.

Etc.

Special snowflakes sound like they need safe spaces.

[CountDeMoney]

If I can seriously fuck up some knuckledragging mouthebreather daughter molesters for Christ with a bear, I'll buy it.

[Grey Fox]

If I can seriously fuck up some knuckledragging mouthebreather daughter molesters for Christ with a bear, I'll buy it.

I will pass on the suggestion.

[Valmy]

I'd love to know why games reviewers are trying so hard to turn gaming into some political medium? Is it because they feel inferior because they write about mindless, escapist entertainment for a living?

Game reviewers? 

A game where we kill Americans. OK. No thanks.

So this guy never plays civil war games?

[The Brain]

A game where we kill Americans. OK. No thanks.

Hope he doesn't notice Tom Clancy's The Division. Or wait, that's New Yorkers.

[MadBurgerMaker]

This is going down in Montana?  So we get to be an ATF agent sitting in the woods watching the compound burn, or what?

[Razgovory]

This is going down in Montana?  So we get to be an ATF agent sitting in the woods watching the compound burn, or what?

That sounds good too.