Ubisoft finally revealed Far Cry 6 in their Ubisoft Forward digital event and set the stage for another big open-world game. The reveal trailer focused on the new villain, portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad fame, and the scene of a fictional city in the middle of a full-scale class war. While the cinematic trailer was noteworthy, the title sequence trailer that came before the story trailer reveal was something.
The team behind that intro has been binge-watching a lot of recent HBO and Netflix dramas since the intro is very much in that vein of moody images with dramatic piano playing in the background. This similarity is not by accident, as Pedro Bromfman is credited with producing the music for Far Cry 6, and is best known for his work on the Netflix show Narcos.
It is difficult not to watch that intro and not expect a true-crime drama just to start playing. This title sequence did a fantastic job of creating a tense atmosphere and felt like a sign that the team behind Far Cry 6 is going all-in on the story. Stills of destroyed tanks, guerilla fighters, tyrannical leaders, and the Far Cry logo fading in through the smoke, a Far Cry mini-series feels right. Granted, this is just a shower thought based on a short title sequence. It is not that far fetched of an idea, look at the Last of Us mini-series being developed by HBO.
Having a sort of anthology series, or a parallel story set within the world of Far Cry 6, would be fun to follow. A show where we follow the lives of people that are not power fantasy protagonists you usually get in Far Cry and pose moral questions that the game’s narrative flirts with, but tends to be at odds with the gameplay. Movies and shows based on games have a history of being, to put it politely, terrible. While there have been some earnest attempts at creating TV shows based on games, they have not panned out well, looking at you Quantum Break. However, in recent years, for better or for worse, there has been a greater push for games to emulate films.
It would be nice to take the pressure of games being forced to emulate a medium its not by letting fans get their film fix outside of the game. Let a game focus on gameplay over story, and if you need your cinematic fix you have films and medium-budget TV. Granted, where people stand on balancing story and gameplay in video games varies for everyone. Who knows, maybe Ubisoft tossed around the idea and is just waiting to see the sale numbers. Then again getting more TV and movies based on existing properties and franchises instead of some new intellectual property feels like a nightmare of its own. This idea should not have been put out into the world.
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