Far Cry 5 is very much a ‘play it your way’ game, and it means business. The wingsuit is four Perk points, which wouldn’t have taken much longer if it was my priority.
The parachute costs one Perk point, which took far less time. It took about 45 minutes from the start before I was flying a helicopter. Played by Nic Healey with quiet messianic verve, he’s sinister and powerful, and no fun at all.Īnd yet the wider game knows, just as 4 did, that Far Cry at its best is a playground for fun. And like Far Cry 3’s Vaas, Seed delivers his long prophetic speeches right into the camera with a lot of eye contact, so you know he means business too. He and his three sub-bosses look like alt-right hipsters, all man buns, well-groomed beards, tattoos and artfully torn gauzy dresses, but their cultist hordes wear long leather coats and bandoliers, their beards are massive and unkempt, and they string up bodies upside down on signboards so you know they mean business. Now, though, it’s been taken over by a preacher called Joseph Seed, who is forcefully converting its people to his cause, a cult called Eden’s Gate. It’s earthy and proud, home to sport hunters and survivalists, Republicans and farmers, and just like the real Montana, it’s beautiful. It's a place of archetypes, even stereotypes, but they're closely observed and realised. While Hope County’s square miles of rolling pasture, small towns, sun-shafted forests, trailer parks, wide rivers and crystal creeks, summer camps and soaring mountains are fictional, they’re very specific constructs.
Since Far Cry’s baddies are so often sculpted by their settings, let's start with Montana, which is the series’ most authentic location yet. Which particular brand of environment and Kurtz-like do we get this time? Let’s find out. Specifically, we're in Montana, where Ubisoft have conjured a new set of colourfully monologuing nemeses who toy with you as they enact their Bad Plans while you try to ignore them so you can get on with the important business of hanging out with animal pals. Ah, a new Far Cry has appeared! Having torn up the Himalayas, Polynesia, Central Africa and The Past, in Far Cry 5 Ubisoft’s lidlessly searing eye for endless open-world violence has turned to the USA.
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