As a franchise, Far Cry is thought for providing robust single-player gameplay because of its open worlds and quite a lot of choices for gamers. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, nonetheless, desires to additionally deliver in additional multiplayer followers to the franchise. Talking at Saudi Arabia’s New World Sport Convention (by way of GameFile), Guillemot spoke about how the purpose with Far Cry is “actually to deliver the multiplayer points extra predominantly pushed, in order that it may be performed for a very long time by gamers.”
It’s price noting that Far Cry video games have featured some types of multiplayer relying on the title. 2013’s Far Cry 3, for example, provided a separate recreation mode that threw as much as 4 gamers collectively into linear ranges as they gunned down enemies. Far Cry 4, alternatively, provided extra sandbox gameplay in its co-op multiplayer.
There have additionally been makes an attempt at bringing aggressive multiplayer to the Far Cry sequence, with 4 and 5. Ubisoft in the end left them behind when it got here to creating Far Cry 6, which solely provided co-op multiplayer.
As for what may be subsequent for the Far Cry franchise, Ubisoft has but to make any concrete announcement t. Nonetheless, there have been rumours going round of Far Cry 7 being in improvement. A report from December 2024 indicated that the title, codenamed Blackbird, would supply a departure from what gamers have come to count on from the sequence.
On the gameplay aspect of issues, Far Cry 7 allegedly affords some new components, together with new motion choices like tactical sprinting, vaulting and sliding, amongst others. It’s rumoured to characteristic a loot system, very similar to different tentpole Ubisoft releases like Murderer’s Creed Shadows and 2019’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
On the time, experiences indicated that the builders have been optimistic about how Far Cry 7 was shaping up. Nonetheless, one other undertaking being labored on – codenamed Maverick – has been the topic of inside skepticism. It’s allegedly a standalone extraction shooter set in a fictional model of Alaska with permadeath.
The title was additionally initially anticipated to be launched in Fall 2025. Nonetheless, plans have seemingly been modified since then; a more moderen hearsay has indicated that Ubisoft is planning to launch Far Cry 7 in 2026 or 2027 as a substitute. It’s anticipated to joined by different main Ubisoft tasks, together with a Splinter Cell Remake, Murderer’s Creed Hexe, and a brand new title within the Ghost Recon franchise.
Whereas we haven’t actually seen a lot about Far Cry because the 2021 launch of Far Cry 6 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Collection X/S, Ubisoft has been engaged on enhancing the efficiency of a few of the older titles for current-gen consoles. Earlier this 12 months, Far Cry 4 obtained an replace enhancing its body price on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S.