Far Cry 5: A game about fighting a christian extremist militia in present-day Montana.

[DetlefK]

http://kotaku.com/far-cry-5-is-a-game-about-resisting-an-american-militia-1795576487

What most clearly sets Far Cry 5 apart from its predecessors is that it isn’t about shooting up a beautiful island run by a madman in the South Pacific or a lovely region run by a madman in the Himalayas. It’s about blasting through a section of modern Montana controlled by a Bible-thumping madman who runs a heavily-armed militia. You’re up against “The Father,” Joseph Seed, who along with his family has spent the last dozen years sinking deep roots into the fictional Hope County while establishing a cult called The Project at Eden’s Gate. The cult is preparing for a big fight and/or the end of the world and are recruiting people in the town to do their bidding, whether those people like it or not.

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You spend the game building a resistance to the milita. While Hay didn’t explain how the game’s recruitment systems work, he did spotlight three characters—a preacher, a bartender and a pilot—and presented them as examples of everyday Americans living under the thumb of the militia who the player can tap to help fight back.

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Ubisoft is going out of their way to portray the militia as religious extremists distinct from more ordinary people of faith.





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Prepare for salt.

[denbot]

1. I dug the first Far Cry

I'll check this one out.

[Paladin]

2. They ought to be playing to their base, making the militia the Good Guys.

Militia Good Guys, up against the Evil Black Helicopter Government Forces. I'm betting that's how this "game" will ultimately be marketed.

[miyazaki]

3. Last Far Cry game I played took place in Africa with terrorists and blood diamond warlord types.

Just about all multiplayer modes of these games let you play both sides of the coin, as in typical WW2 games.
Not sure who the base is coming from a Canadian Developer.