Every Far Cry Game Ranked Worst To Best (Including Far Cry 6)
Every Far Cry Game, Ranked Worst To Best (Including Far Cry 6)
Far Cry is one of Ubisoft’s biggest franchises, and its games have covered a lot of ground around the world. But how do they stack up in modern times?
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Almost every game in the Far Cry series drives a protagonist to the breaking point and forces them to tear through enemy forces for survival, although some have better reasons than others. It’s unclear if the series’ “murder vacation” premise is what Crytek intended in 2004 when the Far Cry franchise began, but it’s certainly what Ubisoft has gone with since taking up the mantle with Far Cry 3 and defining the franchise’s modern formula. With the series’ trip to the fictional Caribbean island of Yara in Far Cry 6 fresh in people’s minds, it’s as good a time as any to look through the scrapbook and recall everywhere Far Cry has taken players so far.
In the decade and a half that Ubisoft has produced Far Cry games, it’s made much more than just the main, numbered entries. Starting with Far Cry 3, each game has had a spin-off that repurposes its map for something outside the box. This has led to both highs and lows for the franchise, but it always produces something unique between bigger entries.
There have also been a few arcade-exclusive Far Cry entries that provide a completely different experience from the core titles. Games like Paradise Lost, the Wii-exclusive Far Cry Vengeance, and Far Cry 5’s Hours of Darkness DLC certainly count in the grand scheme of things, but adding them to a comprehensive ranking would involve comparing apples to bloodstained oranges. Instead, below is a list of all mainline Far Cry games, ranked from worst to best.
#11 – Far Cry Instincts: Evolution
The third game to feature original Far Cry protagonist Jack Carver is also the worst game to bear the Far Cry name. Created as a bonus campaign for the Xbox 360 port of Far Cry Instincts, collectively called Far Cry Instincts: Predator, Evolution adds a few new weapons and vehicles and features more of Carver’s Feral Abilities in its stealth-action gameplay. It provided more linear Far Cry gameplay to those who wanted it at the time, but it was immediately aged out of playability by all the games that came after it.
#10 – Far Cry Instincts
A game from an era where porting PC games to console was such a technical challenge that remaking them was often the better option, Far Cry Instincts brings Crytek’s first open-world island to Xbox as a confined, linear shooter that stripped the original Far Cry of much of what made it unique. Jack Carver’s story still plays out as it does in the original, and the addition of Feral Abilities, like health regeneration and thermal vision, mirrored Crytek’s additions to the Crysis franchise. Both Instincts and Evolution provide a curious look at a potential future of the franchise, but Ubisoft ultimately went in a completely different and seemingly more fruitful direction.
#9 – Far Cry New Dawn
A weak and meandering continuation of the story of Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn fails spectacularly at satisfying anyone who criticized or even enjoyed Far Cry 5’s storytelling. It shows disregard for elements of its predecessor that connected with players and doubles down on that game’s pompous overreach.
Far Cry New Dawn is still a modern Far Cry game, so the shooting is enjoyable, and the new weapons are satisfying. However, more than any other entry in the franchise, thinking about what New Dawn’s narrative is trying to say for more than a few seconds is likely to cause a migraine.
#8 – Far Cry Primal
The best thing that can be said about Far Cry Primal is that it’s a noble attempt at something different. The entire series has the same issue fellow Ubisoft franchise Assassin’s Creed once had: a need for market dominance that produces too many games in too short a time frame, making the whole formula feel trite and boring. Far Cry Primal strips away many elements that seemed key to the Far Cry experience, coming out the other end as a recognizable Far Cry but not a particularly good one. It turns out guns are pretty vital to the whole experience, and the story of Takkar is just as a shallow survival game, rather than anything truly novel.
#7 – Far Cry 2
Ubisoft’s first attempt at creating something from Crytek’s Crysis prototype is a game that has been studied to death, thanks to the unique way its gameplay contradicts everything one might expect in a AAA franchise. Between jamming weapons, a constant need to inject malaria medicine, and the eternally respawning outposts of the game’s unnamed African country, there are plenty of thematic interpretations one can draw from its seeming refusal to let the player enjoy themselves. By the same token, Far Cry 2 is a college lecture in video game form. It’s a chore to play, by design, because it has valid points to make about colonialism. Thankfully, anyone who wants to learn that lesson now has several dozen video essays to watch and countless more scholarly articles to read in place of fighting with Far Cry 2’s obtuse mechanics and purposefully frustrating storytelling.
#6 – Far Cry
2004’s Far Cry is from another era entirely, both in terms of the franchise and in terms of video games, in general. It was a technical marvel upon release, thanks to its huge, open-world environments and the way players could take on challenges from any angle. It was known as “the outdoors shooter” for a long while, simply because every other FPS on the market had nothing but corridors and warehouses strewn across their levels. Crytek would continue this game’s lineage in its Crysis series and receive similar praise for it. It barely fits in alongside Ubisoft’s vision for the franchise, but it sets up enough of the gameplay to come to make it still an overall success that influenced everything to come.
#5 – Far Cry 3
Everything people love and hate about Far Cry can be traced back to Far Cry 3, the game where Ubisoft found the formula that made the series a massive success. Future sequels would improve on just about everything in the game, but Far Cry 3 still looms large in the minds of the fan base. The villainous Vaas is still one of the most charismatic characters to appear in a game to date, but he’s wasted in a misguided story that doesn’t know what to do with itself in its third act. It’s a rough outline for future games, with potential that still hasn’t fully been realized in a full sequel.
#4 – Far Cry 6
After striking gold with the established Far Cry formula and then delivering one interesting innovation, each new sequel feels like it continues to backslide into bad habits. Far Cry 6 has all the modern bells and whistles, and fighting across the island of Yara can be an enjoyable diversion, but the narrative – even with its compelling villain – fails to capture the interesting edges of Far Cry 5 or the cohesion of Far Cry 4.
There’s a lot of wasted opportunity in Far Cry 6, especially considering how the story’s themes could have resonated in 2021. While it does beat out the earliest games in the franchise due to its modern conveniences, there’s not a lot of reason for players to really dig into Far Cry 6 if they’re already familiar with the formula.
#3 – Far Cry 5
In sidestepping both its religious criticism and its views on American exceptionalism in an era of much turmoil, Far Cry 5 fails completely to tell a cohesive story. Nevertheless, there are points throughout the adventure that speak to what could have been, sublime twists on what the player might expect that make the game appealing, despite its obvious flaws – something it doesn’t share with its estranged follow-up. From a pure gameplay perspective, Far Cry 5 learned the lessons of everything that came before, presenting an effortlessly enjoyable trek through the fictional landscape of Hope County, Montana. Two games after Far Cry 3, the franchise’s gameplay formula had been drilled down to a science, and its worldbuilding surrounding the story is phenomenal, but the overall package still suffers from that initial reluctance to dive into what it really wants to say.
#2 – Far Cry 4
Easily the best full-length Far Cry game, Far Cry 4’s story of Pagan Min and Ajay Ghale is complicated in all the right ways. Characters feel fully fleshed out, motivations are clear but complex, and the game manages to toe the line between its Western viewpoint and its diverse cultural depictions. The game also learns from Far Cry 3 in several ways, streamlining gameplay (but still not quite getting to the promised land). Even if the whole open world breaks once players figure out the powerful combination of a grenade launcher and a mini helicopter, there’s a lot to like about this adventure.
#1 – Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
More than any other game in the series, Blood Dragon recognizes the folly of Far Cry’s origins and the desperate tones the games strive to achieve. In fact, it has the perfect tone for a game known to be a series of murder vacations, stripping away all measures of realism and self-serious philosophy for pure, heartfelt cheese and over-the-top action. Whereas other entries ask players to take stampeding through armies on an elephant and “bliss bullets” seriously, Blood Dragon winks through every plot contrivance and mechanical shortcut, delivering the most fun it can possibly muster in its compact runtime. It is a modern classic that deserves far more from its own follow-ups than a middling biking excursion and a Blood Dragon Netflix show.
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