play station official magazine

041

PREVIEW

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t a Bliss-

induced hallucination after all. The

bombs really did drop. But they

didn’t just drop in Montana. The

end was the beginning of a global

nuclear apocalypse, we discover

when Ubisoft shows its homework to us in an

underground bunker somewhere in London...

The rain only returns after ten years of nuclear

winter. Through it all we see the husk of the cult’s

church, ravaged by snow and then harsh winds.

But with the rain, a new world blossoms. The

flowers resulting from a superbloom aren’t the only

survivors: holdouts across Hope County are seizing

what they can from this recovering land.

Pitched as a “New West with AR-15s and pick-up

trucks,” there are two key factions in this makeshift

world. As part of the Survivors, your new character

comes from the west coast to Hope County looking

to rebuild America, working with others to farm food

and fuel. The vegetables you grow don’t just feed the

hungry but can also become ethanol. (Did you know

that gasoline goes stale? Or that its shelf life is only

three years? News to us too.) Seventeen years after

the bombs fell, ethanol is the new black gold.

TWICE THE WOMAN

Here to cause problems for communal farmers are

the Highwaymen. Led by twin sisters Mickey and

FAR CRY

NEW DAWN

Standalone sequel presents a flower-

power post-apocalyptic future

FORMAT PS4 / ETA 15 FEB

PUB UBISOFT / DEV UBISOFT MONTREAL

“HOLDOUTS ARE

SEIZING WHAT THEY

CAN FROM THIS

RECOVERING LAND.”