20 years ago the Far away Games count towards UbisoftThe most popular series and for good reason. The first person shooter series is largely seen as a tentpole franchise in which the developer and mega-publisher consolidated the open-world model of games that has become so ubiquitous in recent years, not only from Ubisoft itself but from other developers as well. The “Ubisoft” model really fit with Far Cry 3 in 2012 before becoming the trademark of many of the studio’s franchises, such as Assassin’s Creed And Guard dogsand now you have the chance to purchase the entire series for the price of a single game.
This weekend you can get every complete game in the series –Far Cry, 2, 3, Blood Dragon, 4, Primal, 5, New Dawn, And 6– with an insane discount on Steam and Humble Bundle. If you want a package with all these features, it costs $51.45. That’s a ton of storage that needs to be blown up. To torch fields of drugsand hallucinogenic trips, while at the same time problematically stumbling through a lot of conflicts that you should probably just stay out of!
If you want them all piecemeal instead, that’s an option too and you really just have to decide what you want. The Far away Games are many thingsand not all of them are great, but if there’s one thing these games can do, it’s transport you to alternate realities, different eras of human history, and vast new environments around the globe.
Let’s start with the most recent entry. You can pick up Far Cry 6 both on Steam and Modest package for just $15, plus a villain-themed expansion pass and sci-fi DLC for an additional $24. Far Cry 6 takes place in a fictional collection of real island states (mainly Cuba) under the thumb of a cruel dictator, played by Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Do the Right Thing) and puts you in the role of a guerrilla fighter trying to overthrow a fascist regime. Each of the game’s three villain expansions then pulls off a strange trick and lets you play as the villains from the previous three numbered entries.
A final DLC called Lost between the worlds continues the series’ tradition of jumping over the hump (more on that in a moment) and throwing you into a sci-fi expansion that makes absolutely no sense. However, if you want the most polished and latest incarnation of the formula, you can’t go wrong here.
Far Cry 5is now available for $9, and you can also grab the expansions for the same price, including a zombie-themed DLC and another that takes you to Mars. Although the game sparked controversy with its handling of the Montana setting and the ideologies of the residents of Hope County, it was probably the last title released before Far away Fatigue fully set in. It also brought a spinoff title called New Dawn which took place in a post-nuclear apocalypse, born from one of the 5‘s optional endings. Yes, these games are crazy and You can pick up New Dawn for the insanely low price of just $8.
Far Cry 4 and its prehistoric sequel (no, you didn’t read wrong) Far Cry Primal are also available on special offer for $6 and $7.49 respectively. Far Cry 4 is the last of these games that I looked forward to and played, and I thought it was pretty great at the time, as it offered a successful evolution of the tried and tested formula in a setting and story that I thought was better executed than the series before it. Alternatively, if you want to ride a woolly mammoth, I believe you can do that in Originally. Different tastes, I guess.
The first three games are all even cheaper. Far Cry 3 costs just $5 and is a neon-soaked 80s fever dream of a side game, Blood Dragon,
is $3.74. Far Cry 2which is now celebrated as a classic that really made the series a deep open-world game with conflicting systems and factions, costs only $3. The original and often forgotten Far away can be purchased at the same low price.
Overall, the Far away The series is probably a great way to explore the evolution of shooters and open-world games from the mid-to-late noughties to today. And even if you don’t care about many of the stories they tell, they’re endlessly interesting considering how much Ubisoft designed the games around emergent moments. And if you need any more convincing, it’s almost time for Ubisoft to announce a new so you might as well start catching up now!
