Far Cry 5 Reveals Itself This Week, First Key Art Unveiled

<p>Ubisoft has been suddenly teasing the sequel to 2014&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Far Cry 4<&sol;em> because I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if you know this&comma; but E3 is in a couple weeks&period;<em> Far Cry 5 <&sol;em>sounds fairly interesting as it plans to bring players to America in the fictional setting of Hope County&comma; Montana&period; The first key art for the game has been released that is just as provocative as you expect from a game series where the villain is almost always the main character&period; You can check that out below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;125660" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-125660" style&equals;"width&colon; 1089px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-125660" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;24122917&sol;DAmqDvdXYAEAwE2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Far Cry 5" width&equals;"1089" height&equals;"1440" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-125660" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Far Cry 5&comma; Ubisoft&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>This key art follows the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ca&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;22&sol;far-cry-5-teasers-confirm-american-setting-full-reveal-this-week">slew of teaser trailers<&sol;a> that were released earlier this week&period; A full reveal will be coming this Friday&comma; May 26th from Ubisoft&comma; but for now&comma; allow me to highlight some of the major concerns that this poster already brings up&period; For one thing&comma; there is a lack of diversity in this poster&period; Now&comma; because it is focused on the villains&comma; it makes sense that <em>Far Cry 5 <&sol;em>would omit this&comma; but it also means that it is highly likely that either the protagonist or some faction or other is going to be targeted by the enemy for not being white&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s just speculation&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m concerned because <em>Far Cry <&sol;em>has notoriously been bad with its handling of touchy subject matter&period; It boldly confronts it&comma; but it often stumbles with the execution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It seems clear though that this will be a religious villain based on The Last Supper imagery and an American flag with crosses instead of stars&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m totally fine with that&comma; I just worry that Ubisoft is perhaps not the developers to be tackling touchy subject matter based on previous experience with <em>Far Cry 4<&sol;em> and <em>Tom Clancy&&num;8217&semi;s Ghost Recon&colon; Wildlands<&sol;em>&comma; the latter of which recently surprised me at how much it wanted to be fun while still dealing with serious issues&period; This poster continues with the same tone of previous <em>Far Cry <&sol;em>marketing&comma; and I have very serious concerns&period; However&comma; we won&&num;8217&semi;t know for sure until May 26th when the worldwide reveal happens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let us know in the comments below how you feel about the new setting&comma; key art&comma; or Far Cry as a whole&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Ubisoft&sol;status&sol;867413821345980417">Ubisoft Twitter<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;