


And he has to rebuild.Įarly gameplay revolves around learning the crafting system, hunting, and doing missions to rescue tribespeople and build up the Wenja village. A few minutes later, our stoic lead in Takkar of the Wenja Tribe is painfully alone. Instead, Far Cry Primal takes the concept and runs with it in a cold open featuring hunting, stealth, and finding an enemy tougher than you in a sabretooth tiger.

Entering Ubisoft?s San Francisco offices on a rainy Tuesday morning to play Far Cry Primal, I could only think one thing: who thought shuffling a large open-world first person shooter into the Mesolithic Era with cavemen was a good idea? It?s absurd, confusing, and has a lot of chance to wander into goofy, abject failure.įrom minutes one to two hundred of forty of playing the game, that awful turn never came.
