FAR CRY 5

Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Montreal) Format PC, PS4, Xbox One

The inherent appeal of open-world games is being able to go wherever you want, and do whatever you like on the way. You’d expect Ubisoft, maker of approximately 862 open-world games in 2018, to know this. We will remember Far Cry 5 not for its sandbox, but the number of times a tranquiliser dart or hallucination yanked away control and spirited us away to another clumsily written set-piece.