

Yes, there's a lot of opportunity for unexpected thrills and memorable moments in the game's open world, but the story is beyond tone-deaf. This is a game where, no matter what you do, the "noble savages" who you've been saving either convince you to murder your friends before also murdering you, or else are symbolically killed via the death of their leader when you and your friends decide to go back home. Instead it comes off like an uncritical perpetuation of both. Far Cry 3: Its writer claims Far Cry 3 is a dark satire parodying the dude bro culture of games and the white savior trope. Hopefully we can make it through without any bear and/or badger attacks distracting us.ġ of 10 10.

It’s time to flip through the history book and relive all of these games, ranking them from the worst (and, uh, most racist) to the best. It’s still recognizably a Far Cry game, though, for better or worse. It’s the tenth (more or less) Far Cry game since 2004, and perhaps the biggest break from the tried-and-true formula of the past. Machine guns and jeeps are out of the picture, elegantly swapped out for bows and mammoths. Today’s release of Far Cry Primal will let you experience that patented Ubisoft open world action in a new way, dialing it back 12000 years to the early Neolithic.
