Video games are more than just games. Depending on the title, you can get powerful stories that give you interesting messages about life, love, and the world itself. Now, it’s true that not every game needs this, in fact, many games have made their names off of simple violence, or the quest to be the best in the world. And that’s fine. But, when a title appears to be something more, but then isn’t? It confuses people, and that’s the word being used for Far Cry 5 right now.
The upcoming title from the popular Ubisoft franchise is seeking to be the biggest and grandest one of the bunch, which is no small feat. Set in Montana, you are a sheriff who has to try and dethrone a cult who has taken over the fictional Hope County. From the moment the game was revealed the cult was front and center, and they’ve gone to great lengths to make this cult feel real. Yet, that’s as far as they go in regards to the message of the game apparently.
For Ubisoft has done a special event where they showed off Far Cry 5, and publications like Forbes got their hands on it, and were left wanting more. Mainly, they want to see Ubisoft blasting what the cult symbolizes, but they don’t. And they don’t take certain other obvious parallels to the real world either:
“Ubisoft seems to want to stop short of saying anything meaningful about the current state of America.”
Apparently, they go out of their way to try and isolate what the cult really is, which is actually hurting the games story and its impact it could have on the world. Forbes also notes that when Ubisoft was pressed on these issues, they became incredibly defensive. Yet that just makes us more confused, because why would you pick this setting and this group of “evil doers”…and not go all the way with the story?
