The Far Cry games feature a robust single-player campaign with later titles offering co-operative campaign support. The Far Cry games, due to the history of their development, do not have any significant shared narrative elements, but instead share a theme of placing the player in a wilderness environment where they must help fight against one or more despots that control the region as well as surviving against wild animals that roam the open spaces. There have been six main games in the series, along with three standalone expansions the first game, initially developed for Microsoft Windows, also saw a number of ports to video game consoles. The following games in the series have used a Ubisoft-modified version of the CryEngine, the Dunia Engine, allowing for open world gameplay. Subsequently, Ubisoft obtained the rights to the franchise and the bulk of the development is handled by Ubisoft Montreal with assistance from other Ubisoft satellite studios.
The first game, Far Cry, was developed by Crytek to premiere their CryEngine software, and released in March 2004. Microsoft Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, Arcade, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5įar Cry is a franchise of first-person shooter games, all of which have been published by Ubisoft.
