With Far Cry 6 on the horizon, Ubisoft are offering a near five-day trail of 2018’s Far Cry 5. Running from the 5th of August until the 9th August, the five-day weekend trial is available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC.
Users can preload the game from this very moment in time. The game becomes available to play:
PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4: 5th August at 8.01am IST/BST/UTC+1
Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One: 5th August at 8:01am IST /BST/UTC+1
PC via Ubisoft Store: 5th August at 2pm IST/BST/UTC+1
PC via Epic Games Store: 5th August at6pm IST/BST/UTC+1
Stadia: 5th August at 6pm IST /BST/UTC+1
The Fifth One
Far Cry 5 follows an unnamed lawman/-woman on regular day at work in rural Montana. While arresting a deranged-but-popular cult leader, their helicopter is pulled to the ground by Preacher John Seed’s fanatical followers.
Once we escape the unruly-yet-pious mob, we then pick off Seed’s siblings in an increasingly chaotic Hope County. The ending is divisive but we won’t spoil it for any Neophytes about to hop in to FC5‘s Montana.
Hype
Far Cry 6 is set for release on October 2nd and Ubisoft will be hoping that the well-received Far Cry 5 can put a few players in an open-world mood before then. Of course, ideally a few of you would buy FC5 and to help, Ubisoft are offering steep discounts.
For the duration of the free weekend, players can avail of discounts of up to 85% on the full game itself, the game’s season pass and other related content.
Of course, should you choose to continue the game at any point after the trial, your progress will be saved on whichever platform you had your trial on.
You may be wondering how a weekend could be five days long; Ubisoft are French and they do a four-day working week there. But that only explains one day. Maybe it’s a bank holiday there…
