A picture discovered on the backend of the Xbox on-line retailer appears to disclose that Ubisoft is gearing as much as launch a “Sport Of The 12 months Improve Move” for Far Cry 6. That’s…effective, I assume, nevertheless it raises the query: Which web site on the market thought it was the very best recreation of 2021 and awarded it such an accolade?
Final yr’s Far Cry 6 was a very good recreation. I stated as a lot in my overview. It’s a strong open-world shooter with some neat concepts, a splendidly detailed tropical island to discover, and a few floppy bits that don’t fairly work. Hey, it’s a Ubisoft recreation, that final half is legally required. Whereas I favored it, we right here at Kotaku didn’t name it our Sport of the 12 months or something like that, and no different websites did, both. Or so I believed.
As first spotted by data miner Aggiornamenti Lumia on Twitter, a leaked picture from Microsoft’s Xbox retailer seems to disclose a brand new, upcoming digital improve of Far Cry 6, dubbed the “Sport Of The 12 months Improve Move.” That is doubtless only a rebranded “Final Version,” presumably together with some new content material, however largely made up of outdated DLC and updates all bundled collectively into one massive bundle.
Kotaku has reached out to Ubisoft about this leaked DLC content material.
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However, no matter, I’m not right here to dig into what may be on this new, still-unconfirmed GOTY improve of Far Cry 6. As a substitute, like others on-line, I’m right here to query its very identify. Severely? Who on the market in 2021 was calling Far Cry 6 the sport of the yr? In fact, I think about some diehard followers on-line felt that means however that doesn’t seem to be sufficient to warrant a full GOTY Version or improve or no matter. Have been there actually any web sites that additionally felt that means? Nicely, sure, it seems. At the least two, however I’ve some questions for them.
First up, on its listing of the very best video games of 2021, gadget and gaming web site BGR gave Far Cry 6 its prime spot. This isn’t fairly the identical as a recreation of the yr, however it’s the web site calling it the very best recreation of 2021 and that’s shut sufficient, particularly when so few different shops did something comparable. Nevertheless, the blurb connected to Far Cry 6 is a bit odd, calling the Far Cry franchise a “legacy recreation sequence” that almost all of us really feel “obliged to play.” It then mentions that the newest sequel has a terrific storyline “like all the opposite video games within the sequence,” and says that some may even name it the very best entry but. It sounds, although, as if BGR isn’t as sure.
Wanting round, one other web site that gave Far Cry 6 its recreation of the yr was EFTM, a way of life web site about tech and vehicles. It formally declared Far Cry 6 the very best recreation of 2021. Oddly, the weblog asserting this information begins by saying Name of Obligation is implausible. It then pivots right into a barely-related thought of how, when a brand new Far Cry recreation releases, it’s time to “drop every thing and play” it. What if I’m holding a drink like a buffoon on the precise second a brand new Far Cry recreation comes out? Can I maintain onto that?
EFTM author Trevor Lengthy explains that Far Cry 6 has a terrific storyline that additionally might be ignored but additionally he hasn’t even completed it but, and may by no means end it. And whereas I don’t assume it’s essential end a recreation to overview it or have crucial ideas about it, I do assume it is best to most likely end it earlier than calling it your official recreation of the yr. However hey, you do you, Trevor.
Lastly, I discovered one different web site that thought Far Cry 6 may be the very best recreation of 2021. It’s a highschool web site known as Tstorm Media and in a 2021 overview of Far Cry 6, the creator suggests it might be the very best recreation of the yr, however doesn’t commit. Sorry, Ubisoft.
So sure, technically, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 did obtain a couple of official Sport Of The 12 months awards or mentions on-line. Positive, it wasn’t from IGN or GameSpot or Kotaku or Polygon or PC Gamer or RPS or VGC or The Gamer or Gamerant or Sport Informer or…