Does Far Cry 5's avoidance of current news stories and the negative political environment make it a tamer tale of religous zeal running mad? Not at all. In fact, it's a much stronger story by directly avoiding those comparisons.

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Ubisoft has been looking for a way to curb that toxic behaviour, and in a new blog post it looks like the developer and publisher may have evolved a system that it has been testing since last month.

According to Ubisoft, Far Cry 5 is now the fastest selling game in the series, the second biggest launch for an Ubisoft game and has so far managed to rake in over $310 million in sales from both physical and digital units being moved.

The first Far Cry 5 live event is now…uh…live, and Ubisoft wants you to get your hunt on. Not just any hunt mind you, but an expedition into the rocky Montana wildnerness where you track down and kill live game with fire.

PC gamers will get to twiddle the knobs that control how Assassin's Creed Origins works - changing things like player movement speed, attack damage, assassination damage, NPC detection, hit boxes and a lot more.

Far Cry 5 is a game that wants you to have a friend by your side. You can do just that in co-op, or should you prefer it, you can have a gun for hire backing you up at the drop of a D-Pad hat. Which one is the best though?

In a game where anything can and will happen, from random skunk attacks to having an Eden’s Gate plane crash directly on top of you because Hurk Drubman the junior got a little too trigger-happy with his rocket launcher, having fishing as a diversion is a welcome change of pace when you need it in Far Cry 5.