Will Far Cry 6 have a post-apocalyptic theme?
Out of nowhere, Ubisoft has announced that new a Far Cry game is coming.
The proper reveal will come at Thursday night’s 2018 Game Awards, but before then, they have revealed this mysterious trailer.
It starts out on a shot of a barn, which somewhat resembles the rural American setting of this year’s Far Cry 5.
But it then quickly a mushroom cloud appears, and everything becomes engulfed in flames.
And then we get close-ups of a hand attaching a circular saw to a crossbow.
Take a look.
Every Far Cry game has had a different setting, with new characters. In chronological order, we’ve gone from a Micronesian archipelago, to the African savannah, to a Pacific island, then the Himalayas, and finally rural Montana.
A post-apocalyptic setting would be a good change of pace for the fifth installment.
However, there has tended to be several years between games. What this feels more like are the spin-off times, such as the retro-futuristic Blood Dragon, or the prehistoric Primal.
Plus, it’s not hard to imagine an ending to Far Cry 5 where the Elder’s Gate cult get their hands on a nuclear bomb, and do the unthinkable.
We’ll just have to wait for the Game Awards to find out – alongside the rumored Crash Team Racing announcement.
