" comes close to trying to say something, but never actually does - and it's far more comfortable when it's being silly than serious" Keza MacDonald, The Guardian To enjoy it, you have to inoculate yourself against these sudden changes in mood." This is a game in which you will be listening to lurid descriptions of cannibalism and torture on one mission, then tearing down a highway in a monster truck with mounted machine guns the next. "Far Cry 5 doesn't succeed in reconciling these two sides of its personality, but then it doesn't really try. "It's emotionally confusing to be buffeted constantly between tense sadism and tongue-in-cheek tomfoolery," she writes.
This, she reports, becomes wearing as the game progresses. MacDonald offers the futher example of the story missions, which are "disquieting and extremely violent, with pretty graphic scenes of torture, indoctrination and religious frenzy". Now the only way to populate the map and identify missions is to explore it " comes close to trying to say something, but never actually does - and it's far more comfortable when it's being silly than serious, making you wish that it had committed wholeheartedly to playful satire rather than spreading its bets," she writes in her 3-out-of-5 review. However, The Guardian's Keza MacDonald observes this is "played for laughs rather than political commentary".
In reviewing the final product, it has emerged that the game features several semi-subtle references to America's divisive president - including a mission built around retrieving a compromising tape that's an obvious nod to Trump's alleged request for Russian prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed once used by the Obamas. Several reviewers note that the game's tone jumps wildly between the super-serious and the over-the-top, almost cartoonish attitude more recent Far Cry entries are known for. Like many reviewers, he also notes that the fact the cult's soldiers are a mix of races and genders "feels like a careful sanitising of the subject matter." He goes on to say that, despite Ubisoft's extensive research into how real-world cults operate and recruit, the Eden's Gate cultists are "just another army of expendable, dehumanised grunts, irredeemable from the get-go". "It wants to dissect anxieties about nuclear war and the rise of 'patriot' movements in the US, but it also wants to be an 'anecdote factory', in creative director Dan Hay's words - a game that teaches its player to think of the setting as a cauldron of apolitical 'gameplay' props, waiting to be jostled about until something explodes." "It wants to say something about our world, about evangelical ecstasy, gun advocacy and nihilism in America's heartlands, but all of that plays second fiddle to the real core of any Far Cry game: a fantasy of conquest that imposes its own criteria on the writing - casts split neatly between identikit footsoldiers and larger-than-life lieutenants, a struggle for survival that can only ever involve the gradual flipping of nodes on a map. but all of that plays second fiddle to the real core: a fantasy of conquest" Edwin Evans-Thirwell, Eurogamer "It wants to say something about our world, evangelical ecstasy, gun advocacy and nihilism. In his Eurogamer review, Edwin Evans-Thirwell describes a story that is "utterly at odds with itself." Originally perceived to be a commentary on real-life religious extremists and other issues in President Trump's America, Ubisoft has since distanced itself from this notion and this certainly appears to be the case in the final product. The fifth main entry in the franchise is definitely geared towards the latter, although this juxtaposes awkwardly with the game's narrative.įar Cry 5 is set in the fictional Hope County of Montana and tasks players with bringing down an extremist religious cult led by the Seed family.
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Instead, Ubisoft's newest blockbuster attempts to build on a series that has gradually shifted from the gritty, gun-jamming tension of Far Cry 2 to the action-packed, elephant-riding escapades of Far Cry 4. Nor does it try to, according to the game's reviews.
Let's get the most obvious question out of the way: No, Far Cry 5 does not make a political statement on the current state of the USA.
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