Ubisoft Unleashes Its Inner-Caveman with Teaser Stream

Pre-historic Far Cry on the horizon?

by Sammy Barker Mon 5th Oct 2015

Dinosaurs are back in a big way, and Ubisoft seems poised to capitalise on the craze. The publisher's just uploaded a mysterious livestream (!!!) to its YouTube channel which teases an impending announcement. The footage shows a cave drawing of a Neanderthal with a bow, and in the background there's the sound of breathing and snarling beasts. What could it all mean?

Well, one theory – by way of Kotaku's ever reliable Jason Schreier – suggests that the French firm has been working on a pre-historic Far Cry game, and this teaser would certainly fit the bill. There's no word yet on when we'll learn more, but we could picture ourselves capping raptors while riding on the back of a t-rex. Heck, we'd even put up with climbing Stone Age structures if it meant that we got a pet triceratops.

Update (20:30PM BST): Dinosaurs could be out at the expense of mammoths, assuming that this tweet by Ubisoft Switzerland is accurate. We're a bit bummed, to be honest. The livestream is changing all the time.

Update (01:00AM BST): Far Cry Primal seems virtually official now. There's more through here.

[source youtube.com]

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rjejr
Mon 5th Oct 2015

First thing that came to my mind was Turok. Wiki says no sign since 2008. so I'll stick w/ that. Well that or AC 6.

Edit - OK, Wiki also said Turok 64 was just announced in August being remade for PC so probably not.

After watching and listening to the vid I'm now going w/ a Mark of Kri type game. I know the sequel was lackluster but I really like the first. Eagle scout was cool at the time.

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get2sammyb
Mon 5th Oct 2015

@rjejr I think Disney (!!!) owns Turok.

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rjejr
Mon 5th Oct 2015

@get2sammyb Quick, name me 1 thing Disney doesn't own. Just assume your first guess is wrong.

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DominicanGlory
Mon 5th Oct 2015

Jason Schreirer is a hack with no dignity.

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get2sammyb
Mon 5th Oct 2015

@DominicanGlory Why do you say that?

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ricklongo
Mon 5th Oct 2015

I hope it isn't Far Cry. I've been craving some pre-historic exploration, but I'm not big on first-person titles.

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DominicanGlory
Mon 5th Oct 2015

@get2sammyb because he used to post on another board as Suikodish and said that if his boss or a publisher asked him to skew a review he would do it. He's also a bad writer, an ignoramus and well, you get the idea

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teknium_
Mon 5th Oct 2015

Please, please DONT be farcry...i was same as the guy above, soon as i saw it i thought turok which would be awesome...i hope ubisoft arent trying to get the jump on guerilla games(would be easy to reskin fc4 using their engine) with dinosaur/man/technology type thing..(yes.. I realise turok was that kind of game, especially the later ones, but you get what i mean...)

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NomNom
Mon 5th Oct 2015

Trying to steal the hype of Horizon Zero Dawn.

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sham8nix
Mon 5th Oct 2015

Apparently it's a game called far cry primal some popular game series I've never heard of

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tenderbeefcake
Tue 6th Oct 2015

I like the Far cry games and I would love a prehistoric far cry. What is everyone's problem with far cry? Big beautiful environments with bad guys to fight and animals to hunt. What's not to like?