Following the seemingly endless teaser stream from yesterday – which you can see alongside all of the speculation below – Ubisoft have officially announced Far Cry Primal. As was leaked, it’s a Stone Age spin off from the popular FPS franchise, that’s set to appear on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 23rd 2016, with a Windows PC release to follow in March.
Taking players back to 10,000BC, you’ll step into the role of Takkar, the lone survivor of a hunting group, stuck in the land of Oros with the sole goal of surviving. It’s a time period in which humans were far from the dominant species, armed with rudimentary spears and bow and arrow, which is bound to make those moments where you’re terrorised by a seemingly invulnerable eagle all the more challenging.
There’s a feeling that this is a much larger scale production than Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was, as well, with Ubisoft Montreal as the lead studio in collaboration Ubisoft’s studios in Toronto, Shanghai and Kiev.
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Well this is a surprise, Ubisoft seem to have something prehistoric to announce but we have no idea what it is. A live stream has just popped up with what appears to be a cave painting of a man dressed in animal skins, and we expect it to start showing us something more any second now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQmt-60nUY
What could it be? A cave man themed spin off of Far Cry or Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Cave Man are our guesses, but whatever it is it’s rather unusual, games don’t get announced this time of year as publishers are focused on the Christmas market.
Developing, as they say on other websites.
UPDATE: Well the feed has been live for almost two hours and some new images have appeared, what appears to be a spaceman on the bottom left and a large hand print. The image is very slowly zooming out but we’re still in the dark, guess away!
UPDATE 2: This looks like it’s going to be a very long reveal, rather than just a holding page before a video kicks in, which is what we assumed. We will check back in the morning and see what has happened, hopefully that irritating soundtrack of someone having a damp orgasm will have ceased by then.
Other staff guesses for what it could be: Call of Jurez: Prehistory, Driver: The Early Years, Just Dance: Flintstones, Petz: Dinosaurz, Shaun White: Mammoth Boarding – and I apologise for this last one – I Just Invented The Wheel, Man!
UPDATE 3: We’re back, as Ubisoft Switzerland have just tweeted this
Think bigger >> http://t.co/FnSNw9uf7g pic.twitter.com/Cj3ZzYFBEh
— Ubisoft Switzerland (@UbisoftCH) October 5, 2015
UPDATE 4: Kotaku’s Jason Schreier tweets “I heard a while ago that Ubisoft was working on a prehistoric Far Cry – guess they’re about to announce it. FWIW I heard this one’s set in the Ice Age so I’m not sure about dinosaurs. Mammoths maybe? Sabre-toothed tigers? As a few people have pointed out they can reskin FC4’s elephants as mammoths! Might be called Far Cry Primal.”
UPDATE 5: A hastily deleted tweet from IGN Turkey.
UPDATE 6: Morning. It’s still going. Woo.
UPDATE 7: The video has reset and has started from the very beginning again. Tsk.
Source: Ubisoft
gazzagb
I’m guessing it’s going to have something to do with Far Cry Sigma that appeared on Steam, maybe it’s some sort of Blood Dragon-esque gam or DLC?
Advanced Imouto
Maybe you now get to play as a cave man in For Honor?
hazelam
they’ve picked up the rights to One Million Years BC and are now making a game?
TSBonyman
I wonder if it has anything to do wit that Wild game?
rSp8
Please be a sequel to From Dust. Probably exclusive caveman DLC for the Assassin’s Creed Syndicate season pass….
JR.
Far Cry 4 spinoff like Blood Dragon but with Cavemen and Dinosaurs. Anything else will be disappointing.
bunimomike
Good that you have your disappointment ready just in case. What a strange comment! :D
JR.
Well I guess I got half my wish so I’m only half disappointed :) My disappointed face :I
Old School
Maybe that Assassin’s Creed Syndicate will have as many bugs as Unity.
colmshan1990
Ancestors maybe?
The creator of Assassin’s Creed announced it back at E3.
Although I think he’s in a legal battle with Ubisoft last I checked so maybe not…
NicholasHeathfield
This makes me think of Guerilla Games’ new project, “Horizon Zero Dawn”. You know, with the cavemen and the robot dinosaurs.
bunimomike
I wonder if they’re seeing the fun people are having with Ark: Survival Evolved (on the PC) and how the Far Cry world lends itself well to that. A prehistoric version could be fascinating.
zb100
I’d be up for this. :)