Ubisoft wrapped up its DLC run on “Far Cry 6” late last year, but work is reportedly underway on not just one, but two new entries in the series.
Insider Gaming reports that the developer was originally developing a single new title going by the working title “Project Talisker”. Then the franchise’s executive director Dan Hay left Ubisoft Montreal to go to Blizzard last year.
Since then, the title has been split into two separate entries – a single-player mainline seventh entry in the series going by the working title “Project Blackbird,” and a multiplayer-centric title called “Project Maverick”.
The single-player title is tipped to be set in the Alaskan wilderness, fairly distinct from the prior entries locales like Africa, a Pacific archipelago, the Himalayas, Montana, and a Caribbean island.
It will also be switching from the existing Dunia engine to Ubisoft’s more modern Snowdrop engine, which powers “Tom Clancy’s The Division” and the upcoming untitled “Star Wars” game from Ubisoft.
The multiplayer title is said to be an “extraction-based shooter” akin to Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0’s DMZ. Certainly, it sounds as though the multiplayer title will effectively be a live service title and will potentially be using the Alaskan setting of the single-player.
The games are said to be fairly far off, with a Fall 2025 window being targeted – four years after the prior entry launched in late 2021.
Source: Kotaku
