It's post-apocalyptic, but not entirely in the way we'd normally expect. Seventeen years after the Great Collapse, Hope County is a very different place. The combination of nuclear winter and storms akin to the 1930s Dust Bowl have changed the original face of Far Cry 5.

government and military to plan for various outcomes, and Ubisoft relied on them to refine their model of Hope County. For Far Cry New Dawn, the team spoke to meteorological experts about nuclear winter scenarios. Ubisoft tends to spend a lot of time researching the backgrounds for its titles, even if many players don't always engage fully with the little details. So it's like killing two birds with one stone,' explains Far Cry New Dawn creative director Jean-Sebastien Decant. So we had the opportunity to finish one in a quite a dramatic situation, and at the same time set the table for another one set in the post-apocalyptic era. And we realized that we wanted to do a post-apocalyptic Far Cry.

We were hesitating in-between different scenarios, but the doomsday scenario was one of the most appealing. 'We were searching for the ending of Far Cry 5 sometime ago. It's quite similar to 2016's Far Cry Primal, with a shorter development cycle and lower price point ($39.99), using parts of the previous game. For the first time in the franchise, Far Cry New Dawn is a direct sequel to the previous game.

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