I don't think I'll get this game for 2 reasons.<br>1. What I've seen of the story online looks garbage. It looks like some idiot at Ubisoft saw how much the left wing games "journalists" gushed over Spec Ops: The Line and wanted to basically copy that as their story, and basically say that the option you should've chosen is the "secret ending" where you ignore a dangerous psychopath who has harmed at least one person that we know of at this point, and who in response to an arrest warrant orders his cultists to basically forcefully convert or kill everyone in the region... yeah, fuck that. He's clearly not harmless, and clearly needs to be dealt with (and the best ending involves you getting about 6 minutes of boring gameplay from a full price retail).<br><br><b>[ENDING SPOILERS]</b><br>The game doesn't give you any kind of decent ending choice. Your choices are to basically accept the message that the game is basically FORCING you to accept which is... what? I'm not entirely sure... defeatism (any time you try to make the world better it makes things worse so don't even bother)? Anti-police/policing? Are they trying to shame us for enjoying shooter games?<br><br>So your choices are to either try to kill him, in which case you fail, you end up his captive and everyone else ends up dead (and the US gets fucking nuked), or you walk away and leave your comrades in arms as his prisoners and get brainwashed into attacking your other comrades in arms (and since they control the radio station it is believable that Joseph was behind the trigger song playing on the radio), but for some reason this ending doesn't result in a nuclear apocalypse.<br><br>"It means I was right" good for you, buy everyone died, so it means your efforts achieved nothing. Now if instead of a violent cult you made a Prepper community, things would've gone VERY differently.<br><b>[/SPOILERS]</b><br><br>2. This TMK is the first real country they've included, and it is clearly painting right wing Christians as dangerous (e.g. Preppers, which Watch Dogs makes a survivalist militia a major enemy faction, so it isn't the first time), yet if they were to do something similar like have Far Cry 6 be set in a fictional district in the UK fighting extremist Muslims (with a more moderate group aiding you like the Christian pastor in this game) who've taken over, are killing and kidnapping, forcefully converting etc the local populace, it would spark INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE and likely be banned in the UK and Muslim majority countries.<br><br>I'm not Christian or American but that double standard bugs the hell out of me.<br><br>And that's without getting into the premise... in an age of satellite dishes and satellite phones the idea that this could happen without anyone hearing about it is ridiculous, and they have planes and choppers that they can just fly out of the valley. At least with games like Far Cry 4, the idea is the world knows, but doesn't care.<br><br>As for Polygon... they're lunatics and have been for years (I thought that was basically common knowledge). If Ubisoft decides to let their comments influence how they design their games going forward they're idiots.