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I often wait until the price drops on games before buying them, particularly on "formula" games such as Far Cry.
Despite being Far Cry 6 - this is the 4th game in the Ubisoft world. The original Far Cry was made by Crytek, who went on to build the Crysis games. While the first game was well received, it had the Trigen levels that most players hated. That aside, it was a major title that was well liked. Far Cry 2 was a major departure, a very serious game that had very questionable design choices, particularly with the respawn of enemies when you were a few feet from a cleared area. It was widely panned, despite spectacular (for the time) visual effects.
Far Cry 3 was the first Ubisoft outing, and was a smash hit in every way. Built on the Dunia engine, modified from Crytek, it was visually stunning and introduced a host of game features, hunting, a vast array of vehicles, side activities like races, in an open world arena with a truly memorable and sinister villain.
Far Cry 4 brought out the Dunia II engine with even more advanced graphics, and a new villain.
Far Cry 5 changed location from the jungles of the Pacific to the American heartland, and a new villain.
Far Cry 6 is set in Cuba and has a new villain.
To start with, this is an Ubisoft game and requires the Ubisoft game client. Even if you buy this from Steam or Epic, you'll still be forced to use the Ubisoft client, which is a truly terrible client. They actually run third party ads in the game client, which I find nearly offensive. And there are micro-transactions in the game - which I entirely ignored with no detriment. I guess you can buy skins and other things that don't affect gameplay.
On to the game itself. Far Cry 6 looks really good - for a 2016 game. It still runs the Dunia II engine from Far Cry 4, which was groundbreaking at the time, but is showing its age at this point. To be fair, Far Cry 6 is a Christmas 2021 game, about a year and a half old. The Dunia II engine was enough ahead of it's time in 2016 that it would hold up to anything in 2018 or even 2019. But this still puts it about 4 years behind bleeding edge. You're not going to find DLSS or Ray Tracing. Textures are good and lighting is adequate. It looks good, it just doesn't live up to Far Cry standards for being the leaders in advanced graphics.
The game is set in Cuba, though they call it Yara. You play as Dani - a guerilla fighter leading an insurgency against Anton Castillo who has found a cure for cancer using tobacco. Here is where the game runs into one of it's most serious foibles, it tries to create a world in concert with 2023 politics that is in stark contrast to the world created in the game. Yara/Cuba is a world stuck in the 1960's with crushing poverty and a complete lack of technological advance - except that everyone has a new smartphone. The failure to advance the player is told, isn't because of communism and the failure to develop industrial or scientific sectors; no it's because the embargo, despite showing that Russia is a sponsor state. The writers wanted to show Cuba, but didn't want to admit that the real problem was and is communism. The major enemy is "international corporations," though throughout the game only a single Canadian corporation is ever seen, with literally everything else owned by the state.
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Despite being Far Cry 6 - this is the 4th game in the Ubisoft world. The original Far Cry was made by Crytek, who went on to build the Crysis games. While the first game was well received, it had the Trigen levels that most players hated. That aside, it was a major title that was well liked. Far Cry 2 was a major departure, a very serious game that had very questionable design choices, particularly with the respawn of enemies when you were a few feet from a cleared area. It was widely panned, despite spectacular (for the time) visual effects.
Far Cry 3 was the first Ubisoft outing, and was a smash hit in every way. Built on the Dunia engine, modified from Crytek, it was visually stunning and introduced a host of game features, hunting, a vast array of vehicles, side activities like races, in an open world arena with a truly memorable and sinister villain.
Far Cry 4 brought out the Dunia II engine with even more advanced graphics, and a new villain.
Far Cry 5 changed location from the jungles of the Pacific to the American heartland, and a new villain.
Far Cry 6 is set in Cuba and has a new villain.
To start with, this is an Ubisoft game and requires the Ubisoft game client. Even if you buy this from Steam or Epic, you'll still be forced to use the Ubisoft client, which is a truly terrible client. They actually run third party ads in the game client, which I find nearly offensive. And there are micro-transactions in the game - which I entirely ignored with no detriment. I guess you can buy skins and other things that don't affect gameplay.
On to the game itself. Far Cry 6 looks really good - for a 2016 game. It still runs the Dunia II engine from Far Cry 4, which was groundbreaking at the time, but is showing its age at this point. To be fair, Far Cry 6 is a Christmas 2021 game, about a year and a half old. The Dunia II engine was enough ahead of it's time in 2016 that it would hold up to anything in 2018 or even 2019. But this still puts it about 4 years behind bleeding edge. You're not going to find DLSS or Ray Tracing. Textures are good and lighting is adequate. It looks good, it just doesn't live up to Far Cry standards for being the leaders in advanced graphics.
The game is set in Cuba, though they call it Yara. You play as Dani - a guerilla fighter leading an insurgency against Anton Castillo who has found a cure for cancer using tobacco. Here is where the game runs into one of it's most serious foibles, it tries to create a world in concert with 2023 politics that is in stark contrast to the world created in the game. Yara/Cuba is a world stuck in the 1960's with crushing poverty and a complete lack of technological advance - except that everyone has a new smartphone. The failure to advance the player is told, isn't because of communism and the failure to develop industrial or scientific sectors; no it's because the embargo, despite showing that Russia is a sponsor state. The writers wanted to show Cuba, but didn't want to admit that the real problem was and is communism. The major enemy is "international corporations," though throughout the game only a single Canadian corporation is ever seen, with literally everything else owned by the state.
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Cont.
