“Far Cry 5” is, ironically, the 12th game in the long-running ‘Far Cry’ franchise, which was started shortly before the advent of the dire 7th Generation, in 2004, by a small-time developer called Crytek, but published by that French hive of scum and villainy known as Ubisoft. Soon after the release of the original “Far Cry,” Ubisoft simply bought out the IP and has been developing the sequels in-house ever since (hence why there are 12 of them in 16 years).
As but one of the uncontrolled deluge of samey FPSes that started receiving 7th Generation console ports of PC originals, the ‘Far Cry’ series wasn’t even a blip on my radar early on. It wasn’t until the release of “Far Cry 3” on consoles and its accompanying advertising that I was aware of the series and be... |
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