Like that game, Far Cry 6’s Supremo and other DIY weapons never make the gameplay as over-the-top as you’d hope. Zanier weapons? Yeah, Far Cry 5 already started down that path and it didn’t make that game any better. But the formula is more predictable than ever. Far Cry 3 was widely praised when it released and it really was a great game, but now three main games later, almost a decade after its release, we’re still largely doing the same things, for better or worse. Both Far Cry and Far Cry 2 are quite a bit different from what followed. There are callouts to Far Cry 3-burning fields of genetically altered tobacco is a direct nod to that game ’s pot-burning mission-which makes you reminisce fondly about that 2012 game.įar Cry 3 was the first game in the series to really set the formula for what we have now. This, of course, is nothing new for the series.
If you get a bit of tonal whiplash while playing don’t be surprised. Far Cry 6 is the ultimate AAA open-world game, at once attempting to be a Very Serious game about colonialism and tyranny and a goofy FPS sandbox extravaganza.