Far Cry 5 may have something to say, but its E3 demo focuses on the usual wacky combat
Far Cry 5‘s announcement rode in on a wave of controversy. Where past games took players to far-off lands where the player murdered the locals, Far Cry 5 is set in a small Montana county. The enemy is a group of largely white Americans. Its heroes are a ragtag group of resistance fighters, fighting against a cult — a group whose imagery is drenched in patriotic Americana and Christian symbols.
But its first demo, for all of the conversations around the change to the game, felt largely like the Far Cry games that preceded it — its Montana location serving less as a statement than as a playground.
A great deal of buzz around the game has been given to its politics, though Far Cry 5‘s development reaches back much further than the election…