The Top 10 Most Anticipated Games for the 2014/2015 Video Game Season

06. Far Cry 4 (21 November Ubisoft)

The Far Cry series began as something of a dark horse in terms of popularity, building largely by world-of-mouth until it attained near cult-status among gamers.

Part of the reason for that is related to the other games that were released at that time, but the limited promotion efforts also played in to it. That can't be said about the current version though, which is not only getting heavy promotion efforts, it is getting a contest - and what a contest!

While this has nothing to do with the game itself, we thought you might be fascinated by the contest that Ubisoft is running to promote Far Cry 4 - it is called Quest for Everest, and if you ask us it is seriously madly messed-up.

Ubisoft plans to fly the winner to Nepal, then take them to a base camp on Mount Everest, where they will then presumably climb into their luxury tent in the freezing windy cold argh and, using the special system built exclusively for this contest, play a session of Far Cry 4. OK, really? Seriously? Yup, they mean to do just that.

When the rep told me that, my reaction was, hey! Cool! And when I say 'cool' I mean substitute a suite at the Gorge 5th Hotel in Paris, an Alienware gaming notebook, room service, and a half-dozen gamer grrls from Holland to dip my pommes frites in my ketchup while I game cool!

We're pretty sure that the prize for this contest is the same test that they give you to find out if you are crazy - just saying.

Anyway this fourth installment in the Far Cry series is a very well made and fascinating single-player story that follows Ajay Ghale - an English-speaking Nepali native who returns to Kyrat to scatter his mother's ashes. Awe isn't that sweet?

But wait, it gets better! Once there, Ajay gets sucked into a civil war that flares up when the peons who live there and who struggle on a daily basis under what can only be described as a despotic regime (and we are being nice there) under the self-appointed warlord and king, who goes by the monicker 'Pagan Min.'

What sets this story apart is the fact that for the first time in the series rather than tell the story of some idiot preppie white boy the game instead features main characters who are native to the country in which the game takes place - though that doesn't actually benefit them since, you know, people are still trying to kill them.

Ubisoft has announced that there will be three different editions for Far Cry 4 - a Limited Edition (LE), which includes the 'Hurk's Redemption' DLC Pack for gamers who pre-order the game, the Kyrat Edition, which will sport a map of Kyrat, a statue of Pagan Min, a propaganda poster and journal, and a special CE box, plus the 'Hurk's Redemption' DLC Pack. Finally there is the bog-standard retail boxed edition of the game, which pretty much just has the game.

For our money the CE is the way to go, because they pretty much had us at propaganda poster.

Posted: 1st Sep 2014 by CMBF
Tags: Destiny, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, destiny, 2014 2015 games