Far Cry 5's story is undermined by the introduction of Bliss

It is impossible to ignore how radical the central premise of Far Cry 5 is among the current videogame landscape. It positions a predominantly white group as the face of American terrorism - you needn’t look far to find the potential echoes of and influences on this in the current global climate - and is, theoretically, as ripe for political commentary as Wolfenstein 2 was last year.

However, after playing the game for a while, you realise that Ubisoft only use this potential as set dressing. They work hard to avoid engaging with the connotations of their killer cast and the ideologies that they fire from the hip. It is intended as light entertainment, a bombastic theatre meant to be blown up and driven across at high speed, when it could have been so much more.

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Nowhere is this more apparent than with the game’s introduction of Bliss, a fictional hallucinogenic drug that is clearly meant to be a stand-in for real opioids used by cults to control their followers, but that is implemented in such a schlocky and exaggerated way to shirk any relation to real world extremism.