![]() ![]() ![]() While far from a perfect game, Far Cry 4 might just be the perfect Ubisoft game. What’s key to Far Cry 4’s success though is that it uses these familiar elements to elevate its strong points rather than relying on them to compensate for personality. It’s also intensely political without overtly stating a conservative or liberal worldview. It’s obsessed with search towers and sandbox gameplay. It stars a relatively blank-slate male lead, Ajay Ghale, returning to his fictional home country of Kyrat after spending his whole adult life as an American. In many ways, Far Cry 4 is the prototypical Ubisoft game. Yet out of all Ubisoft’s many hits and misses, none quite compares to Far Cry 4. The Tom Clancy brand tried to somehow take military fiction and not be political. ![]() ![]() Rainbow Six Siege was almost a dud, only to turn itself around into a hit. Assassin’s Creed is practically unrecognizable. Many studios have had impressive highs and terrifyingly bleak lows, with few boasting as many of each as Ubisoft. We’re well into the first months of the 9th console generation, and with it the closing years of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. ![]()
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