Far cry 6
A war-torn country in the grips of a brutal, charismatic dictator with an eerily convincing argument for his own power. A people pushed to the brink, a young, possibly reluctant, warrior uncomfortably wading into the murky, violent waters of revolution. A whole bunch of icons on a minimap that give up meager to moderate rewards for interactions. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
We’ve seen very little of Far Cry 6 at this point, but somehow I already feel like I know the whole game. The big reveal came with yesterday’s Ubisoft Forward, with an extended cinematic designed to introduce us to Anton Castillo, the dictator of Cuba-like country Yara, as well as his son, Diego. As is typical of the series, the opening cinematic was captivating, intriguing, and as professionally put together as a Hollywood Blockbuster.
As the game became official, pre-orders went live and Ubisoft started hawking them. Let’s look, for a moment, at some of those pre-order bonuses.
Pre-order bonuses for Far Cry 6
Our morally complex protagonist will apparently be shattering the chains of oppression with the aid of some kind of disc launcher and the help of a wheeled, customizable puppy named Chorizo. The revolution will be harrowing, but it will also be stacked with wacky, stream-friendly clips, necessarily. The absurd, explosive-obsessed Hurk will almost certainly be in there, resuming his usual role as jarring counterpart to the rest of the plot.
We have been here before, too. It’s been boiling in the series for a while, but 2018’s Far Cry 5 was the worst offender to date. The first of the series to be set in America, the marketing went heavy on the darker, weighty themes of the upcoming game: its treatment of how cults gain and hold power over their followers, its examination of the dark tones of violence coming to the foreground in America, its serendipitous arrival alongside Donald Trump’s presidency.
What we got was not, in any way, that. It was a nutty romp through a fictionalized Montana with plenty of sweet weapon skins and big explosions. At times, it tiptoed at least close to beginning to talk about some of the themes its marketing emphasized so heavily before scampering away again. Far Cry 5 was a fun game, with fun explosions and some great moments. But it was hard to shake the feeling that the marketing had exploited an angle that the game was nowhere near ready to deal with.
The stakes are higher now, and they were high with Far Cry 5. Images of unrest and police brutality resonate with deafening tones in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and the global protests that followed them. The fictional country of Yara looks like a much closer analogue to a real country—Cuba—than what we got in Far Cry 3 and 4, though it seems to be presented with the same level of exoticism we got out of those games. Already, Latinx members of the gaming community are expressing their wariness about how, exactly, Ubisoft is going to handle this new setting.
The pre-order pack in conjunction with the new trailer seem to make it as clear as day. This will be a re-tread of Far Cry 5, where the broader themes are only hinted at and the bulk of your time is spent with a sort of spit-shined wackiness. It will be uncomfortable, but it will also probably be cleaned up to the point where it will be difficult to point to individually offensive moments. The villain monologues will probably be good, because Giancarlo Esposito is good. They will be incongruous with whatever Hurk gets up to.
Maybe this won’t be the case. Maybe the game will be a harrowing, complex examination of power in this fictional society. But it’s hard not to stare at that pre-order bonus image and not see a franchise only doubling down on its deep strangeness. A franchise that, by all rights should be having a thorough identity crisis, but a franchise that over the years has just sort of decided not to.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/07/13/far-cry-6s-pre-order-bonuses-show-a-game-leaning-into-its-own-problems/
2020-07-13 16:28:00Z
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