It's a numbing drug that Ubisoft has quite a lot of experience in peddling and has done so to great profit over the years. The feeling is like the opposite of a low-grade headache-like a 1-volt current directed to the pleasure center of my brain. There's a sort of low-yield enjoyment to the basic loop of hunting, gathering, crafting, killing, and capturing. Which isn't to say the game is totally without appeal. It's an allure that remains exactly the same from minute one to minute 1,000 and beyond. It's as if what makes a Far Cry game a Far Cry game was smoothed down and stripped apart to its endoskeleton and then packaged as a new product. As such, none of the traditional Far Cry elements stand out over the others. Yet the game's attitude never dips or spikes-nothing draws attention to itself as particularly harder, easier, more intense, quieter, more beautiful, or uglier than anything else. The central bad guys are more shouty, the drug-fueled hallucinations are more colorful, the naked breasts are more numerous, and the pseudo-edginess is more pseudo. One of the most promising things about Primal, then, is what it says about the performance of Ubisoft games going forward.Īll of what defines a Far Cry™ brand experience these days is here as well, only turned up a notch in accordance with the setting. The game looks and runs great on both the Xbox One and PS4, with snappy load times that I thought developers had given up providing in this console generation. At first, it seemed that Ubisoft had made a sort of populist survival game- Rust or Minecraft for the Assassin's Creed set.Īt least I didn't experience any technical hiccups during my long, steady grind through collectibles and side missions. I thought that after a brief introduction to Oros, I'd be left to hunt animals and interesting rocks, turn their carcasses into a better class of club, and simply subsist. For the first few hours of Far Cry Primal, I actually believed that there wasn't an overarching plot. They are introduced without explanation, and their stories barely interweave, except in sharing the common goal of toppling the nondescript enemy warlords. Once again, Far Cry's colorful characters serve primarily as waypoints on a meandering journey. The lack of a linear sequence plays into the gameplay design, as the "story" missions can be completed in any order (with a few exceptions). Even more than most Ubisoft games, Primal isn't so much a sequence of events as a flat, open-ended plate of tasks to complete and checkboxes to fill. If you're wondering where things go from there, don't bother. He simply does so with a club and spear rather than a bevy of automatic weapons. The apparently exceptional central character, Takkar, has the same habit of toppling warlords and leading tribal revolutions as the heroes of Far Cry 3 and 4 did. The time period is just about the only thing that sets the plot apart from the previous pair of numbered Far Cry games. In 10,000 BCE, a prehistoric tribe is looking to eke out a living in the harsh, though still apparently desirable, Oros Valley. The game begins by quite literally turning back the clock more than 12,000 years. This is all despite the game's setting being about as far removed from previous Far Cry entries as historically possible. But in terms of how that content is presented, it’s pure, distilled Ubisoft all the way. That doesn’t say anything about the game’s breadth, depth, or quality of content. It is, however, the most Ubisoft game I've played yet.
Links: Steam | Official websiteLet's get the bottom line out of the way up front: Far Cry Primal certainly isn't the best Ubisoft game-or even the best Far Cry game.
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