EXCLUSIVE: A New Bold FAR CRY Game Enters Growth at Ubisoft

A brand new recreation within the FAR CRY universe has handed its conception stage at Ubisoft and has entered growth at Vantage Studios.

The new recreation comes within the wake of points surrounding one other FAR CRY recreation in growth, codenamed Maverick, an extraction shooter that has since been canceled.

A New FAR CRY Game

Codenamed Kodiak, the brand new FAR CRY recreation is described as an open-world FPS the place “player interactions and player-driven stories take center stage”.

Kodiak handed its conceptualization stage earlier this month and has been constructed on the foundations of Maverick, however fortunately, the sequence will now be leaving the extraction-shooter market behind… At least for now.

The recreation has been described as “really ambitious” by sources and remains to be a number of years away from its launch.

Blackbird, the following mainline FAR CRY recreation, has additionally confronted hurdles throughout growth and has been repeatedly delayed internally as a consequence of points. That being mentioned, the sport is now seemingly on a superb path ahead, and also will have a multiplayer element, the place multiple participant can expertise the world collectively.

In an inside interview at Vantage Studios with Charlie Guillemot, Guillemot described Blackbird as “honestly impressive” and as “Act One”, suggesting that a number of mainline FAR CRY video games with related ideas are deliberate if Blackbird releases to a positively excessive reception.

Kodiak marks one other recreation in Vantage Studios’ pipeline, serving to Assassin’s Creed, FAR CRY, and Rainbow Six Siege dominate as dominant IPs with totally different experiences for various audiences.

What do you consider Ubisoft transferring the FAR CRY sequence away from an extraction-shooter? Are you trying ahead to studying extra about Kodiak? Let us know via the official Insider Gaming Discord Server.

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