Best Far Cry Games in The Ubisoft’s Open-World Series

Apart from Assassin's Creed, Far Cry is Ubisoft's most important and influential franchise. Almost every game in the Far Cry series pushes a character to the limit and demands them to tear apart enemy troops for survival, but some have more compelling reasons than the others. For the past sixteen years, this franchise has been known for immersing players in large, enticing worlds that are both familiar and unknown, spanning drastically different continents, historical eras, and even apocalypses, while allowing them complete freedom to make havoc and mischief. Far Cry 6's voyage to the fictitious Caribbean island of Yara still fresh in people's minds, now is as good a time as any to browse through the scrapbook and remember where Far Cry has led players thus far. Let's take a look at the top Far Cry games for PC and consoles without further ado.

Far Cry 3 (2012)

Far Cry 3 gets almost everything right in just the correct amounts, but the rest of the series, both before and after it, frequently swings too far in one direction. There's a lot to see, shoot, and blow up in this beautiful, charming area. Shooting mechanics are excellent. It's a fun traverse. Excellent stealth. A terrific antagonist. And simply a broad assurance that you'll figure out what makes a Far Cry game so awesome. The malevolent Vaas remains one of the best most fascinating characters to feature in a game to date, but he's wasted in a flawed tale that's lost its way in the third act. It's a skeleton for future games, with potential that hasn't been fully realised in a full sequel.

Far Cry 6 (2021)

Far Cry 6 returns to the war-torn tropical paradise setting that the series is known for, but with some of the most major new gameplay features in the series' history. Yara's hypothetical setting is enormous and seems inexhaustible in terms of new missions, activities, weaponry, and other items for the player to experiment with. And everything comes together under the direction of Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad, who embraces his role as Anton Castillo, one of Far Cry's most dangerous and terrifying antagonists. Far Cry 6 has most of the current bells and whistles, and battling throughout the island of Yara may be a fun diversion, but the narrative, despite its fascinating villain, falls short of Far Cry 5's interesting edges and Far Cry 4's cohesion.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)

Normally, the Far Cry series saves its strangest and most unusual concepts and themes for sequels and DLC packs, but neither of them really hit the mark like Blood Dragon, a '80s sci-fi action film-inspired take on the franchise. Michale Biehn (Terminator: Genisys, Aliens) is a gruff, brash cybernetic super soldier who arrives on a post-apocalyptic island where gigantic, lethal Blood Dragons prowl the earth, and all hell breaks loose. Blood Dragon is one of the most stylish, humorous, and straight-up wacky games ever developed, despite the fact that the campaign is short and snappy and many of the standard Far Cry mechanics - such as crafting - are stripped out totally. The developers clearly had a lot of fun with the '80s VHS box cover-inspired themes, and they nailed it.

Far Cry 5 (2018)

Far Cry 5 fails to tell a cohesive plot by avoiding both religious criticism and perspectives on American exceptionalism in a moment of great instability. Despite its evident problems, there are moments all through the voyage that speak to what could have been, exquisite variations on what the player might expect that make the game engaging, something it doesn't share with its estranged sequel. From a pure gameplay standpoint, Far Cry 5 absorbed the lessons of the previous games, resulting in an easily pleasant journey through the fictional Montana terrain of Hope County. Fishing, hunting, and a greater emphasis on exploration and melee combat are all included. To take down opponents, players might enlist the help of NPCs and even local wildlife. And prepared stashes served as type of treasure hunt puzzle rooms.

Far Cry Primal (2016)

Far Cry Primal is one of the oddest spinoffs of a mainstream video game series ever created. Primal returned the entire Far Cry experience to the stone era, substituting clubs and spears for machetes and machine guns, and four-wheel vehicles for... four-legged vehicles. Far Cry Primal cuts away many of the things that felt essential to the Far Cry experience, leaving behind a recognisable Far Cry that isn't especially excellent. Takkar's tale is more like a basic survival game than anything truly new, as it turns out guns are very important to the overall experience.

Far Cry (2004)

Far Cry, released in 2004, belongs to a different period, both in respect of the franchise and in terms of video games in general. It was a technological achievement when it first came out, thanks to its massive, open-world areas and the ability for players to approach problems from any angle. By Far Cry standards, the first game is a pretty linear, level-based game, yet it still has a lot of player freedom. You have the option of going in loud with explosives and hijacked trucks or sneaking through enemy camp sites, taking out waves of troops. At the time, that level of gameplay freedom was unusual in the FPS genre, and it would go on to define the basis of what the Far Cry brand has become renowned for since.

Far Cry 2 (2008)

Far Cry 2 was the first game in the series to take a nonlinear, open-world shooter strategy, and as a result, the game is both ambitious and undercooked. Many of the quality of life and growth features included in current Far Cry games hadn't yet been introduced, but it's difficult to deny how influential Far Cry 2 was on subsequent iterations. While the game's murky, sepia-toned aesthetics haven't aged well – as has been the case with many older games from the mid-2000s era – the vast African savannah environment gave players with plenty to do and explore.

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