Ubisoft has showed off a boatload of new Far Cry 4 footage at E3 2014 so far, with a new gameplay trailer released alongside a video showing the first five minutes of the game.
Outpost missions return, and this time you’ll be able to cause havoc in the Himalayas with a friend, zipping about in a custom helicopter and spooking the local elephant populace into stomping all over your enemies.
UPDATE Ubisoft Community Dev Kim Belair has confirmed in a Playstation Blog post that co-op in Far Cry 4 is drop in/drop out, slotting seamlessly into your singleplayer campaign. Called ‘Guns for Hire’, the mode allows both players to team up to take down outposts, earn cash and experience and explore the mountains of Kyrat. Whether this stretches to co-op story missions hasn’t yet been confirmed.
It’s looking great, too. There’s a radical change in level geometry, with lots of narrow, winding mountain passes that drop away before you into breathtaking valleys. Traversing the world is done via the usual mix of vehicles and foot-slogging, with wing-suits returning and a big focus on grappling tools and mountaineering. Shooting looks as satisfying and over-the-top as you’d expect; this time a big-ass crossbow replaces the bow as your stealth weapon of choice.
Alongside the gameplay footage is this introduction to main villain Pagan Min, in a very Far Cry opening sequence that features a whole lot of things going very, very wrong. Pagan Min seems to know protagonist Ajay Ghale, who’s returning to the mountains to scatter his mother’s ashes, but so far we don’t know that much else about either character. Other than that Min has a Vaas-style fondness for both charismatic verbosity and sudden bursts of violence.
Far Cry 4 is out on November 18 for PC and consoles.
