14 DAY TRIAL // Far Cry 4's missions will apparently also take you outside the main game world setting of Kyrat, the game's Creative Director has confirmed.
The single-player campaign of the upcoming first-person shooter puts players in the shoes of a Nepali native called Ajay Ghale, returning to his homeland of Kyrat to scatter his mother's ashes in her birthplace, but is then caught up in the civil war that has taken the region by storm.
The intro cinematic that developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed at this year's edition of the E3 game show in June disclosed to the world that players would have to go toe to toe with an evil and flamboyant despot named Pagan Min, and during a recent interview with Red Bull, Alex Hutchinson, Far Cry 4's creative director, has mentioned that players will also get to visit some new locations.
"The core of the game is developed in Montreal as well as the main missions and most of the open-world. We try to leverage our co-development studios' talents on self-contained elements of the game, so they can have a certain degree of independence in production while sticking closely to the core creative vision of the game," Hutchinson explains.
Ubisoft Montreal is in charge of creating Far Cry 4's main story missions, but the company's Toronto and Shanghai studios, lending a helping hand in realizing the great vision of the upcoming open-world first-person shooter, are working on sections that don't take place in Kyrat.
"Ubisoft Toronto is working on a series of missions set in an all new environment outside of the game world, and so is Ubisoft Shanghai. We'll be showing their work off shortly, so stay tuned," Hutchinson states.
The game's Creative Director has also confirmed that Red Storm Entertainment, a team currently involved in the development of the upcoming massively multiplayer third-person shooter Tom Clancy's The Division, is also in charge of handling Far Cry 4's competitive multiplayer mode.
Far Cry 4's E3 reveal included gameplay footage showing how the cooperative mode allowed two players to tackle the challenges of the campaign in tandem, and also showed a lot of juicy mechanics such as riding elephants into battle.
The game also promises to wow its audience with its cutting-edge graphics, and the mountainous setting makes for some breathtaking vistas and adrenaline-packed action sequences, where you can jump off cliffs, soar through the skies, and glide over the ridges of the Himalayas.
Far Cry 4 is slated for a November 18 release in North America, and a November 21 release in Europe, coming to the PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms.
