Ubisoft said 'Far Cry 6' is political. But lots of games promise things they don't deliver.
Ubisoft might be on to something with Far Cry 6 in a way that its games historically haven't been: It's getting political. Or that's the promise, anyway. And the promise is what matters for our purposes here.
A blog post from Far Cry 6 narrative director Navid Khavari, released on Monday, (which was also, notably, a very offline Memorial Day in the United States) laid everything out. It amounted to a hopeful look ahead and a tacit acknowledgment of Ubisoft's recurring struggles with mixing games and politics — something the French publisher has repeatedly said it's not interested in doing.
"Our story is political," the blog post states right up front. "There are hard, relevant discussions in Far Cry 6 about the conditions that lead to the rise of fascism in a nation, the costs of imperialism, forced labor, the need for free-and-fair elections, LGBTQ+ rights, and more within the context of Yara, a fictional island in the Caribbean." Read more...
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