Far Cry 5 is a 2018 first-person shooter, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft. It is the successor to 2014’s Far Cry 4, and the fifth main installment in the Far Cry series. Set in Hope County, a fictional region of Montana, United States, the game revolves around the Project at Eden’s Gate, a doomsday cult that has taken over the county at the command of its charismatic and powerful leader, Joseph Seed. Players control an unnamed junior deputy sheriff who becomes trapped in Hope County and must work alongside various resistance factions to liberate the region from the despotic rule of the Seeds and Eden’s Gate. Wikipedia
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Bosman, Frank G., and Archibald LHM van Wieringen. “Reading The Book of Joseph: A Communication-Oriented Analysis of Far Cry 5.” Journal for Religion, Film and Media 7, no. 1 (2021): 145-171.
Chraïbi, Elias René Mohamed. “The Depoliticisation of Far Cry 5.” Play/Write Student Journal: 21.
Dubois, Louis-Etienne, Tom Griffin, Christopher Gibbs, and Daniel Guttentag. “The impact of video games on destination image.” Current Issues in Tourism 24, no. 4 (2021): 554-566.
Fielding-Redpath, Ellie. “The Cult and Contemporary American Politics in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 (2018).” Implicit Religion 23, no. 1 (2020): 5-25.
Green, Amy M. “Far Cry 5, American Right-Wing Terrorism, and Doomsday Prepper Culture.” Games and Culture 17, no. 7-8 (2022): 1015-1035.
Grønvoll, Thomas. “Far Cry 5–Refusing its Own Politics.” gamevironments 17 (2022): 56-56.
Schoppmeier, Sören. “Playing to Make America Great Again: Far Cry 5 and the Politics of Videogames in an Age of Trumpism.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 20, no. 1 (2019).
Schoppmeier, Sören. “Notes on the State of Montana: The US American Spatial Imagination and the Retrotopia of Far Cry 5.” Video Games and Spatiality in American studies (2022): 33-50.
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Other games in the franchise
Far Cry 2 (2)
Far Cry 3 (3)
Far Cry 4 (2)
Far Cry 5 (8)