I'm not sure, but it's definitely the star of the show.
I think one of the Turner Broadcasting stations played The Substitute & Striking Distance at least 10 times a week when I was a kid. I share Jeff's fondness for that movie, so it makes me happy to see that poster.
I couldn't tell you any of the finer details of either Far Cry 3 and 4's story other than you gotta kill the bad guys. Open world games in general aren't exactly well suited to having a narrative focus.
Middling reviews due to series fatigue wouldn't surprise me, but the amount to which professional reviewers are criticizing the game for basically not having a political message that aligns with their personal ideology (or really much of any political message) is depressing.
It's a game where the primary mechanism of interaction is killing things, honestly I wouldn't want it to attempt to have a serious message. That's better left to games that can actually focus on narrative.
There was an odd swing of political based dislike behind Far Cry 5. When the trailers first released, a bunch of "right wing" politico's got upset. Now the game is released, the opposite is happening, it's being attacked from the left. I wish people could just judge the game on its own merits and leave that stuff behind.
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