It seems like almost every game coming out these days has some sort of online functionality, but it’s rarer to find a game in which the online mode has truly added value to the experience. However, this current trend of being connected is not going away anytime soon, and it actually could prove to be a brilliant addition to Far Cry.

I can’t think of another game in which the setting and gameplay lends itself to a giant multiplayer mode better than Far Cry. Imagine a hundred other players all roaming around the same exotic location, with cars and guns aplenty- either teaming up to take on enemy camps, to storm heavily guarded fortresses, or to hunt each other across the map in giant death-matches.

Far Cry 4 already implemented a co-op mode in which you and a friend could play side-missions together, and I genuinely had some of my all-time favourite gaming experiences whilst playing with a friend. Ubisoft will be looking at the success of their own Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Bungie’s Destiny and Rockstar Games’ massive money-maker GTA Online as benchmarks for what they could create in the Far Cry universe.