The Ubisoft open-world formula has had a pretty rocky history. Making its big first debut with Far Cry 3, Ubisoft's then-refined open-world formula broke new ground for the genre. An intuitive yet highly addicting loop, Far Cry 3 had players take down enemy camps to unlock new parts of the map, complete side activities to receive resources, and craft new gear using newly unlocked materials. Almost universally praised at the time, Far Cry 3's formula has since been run into the ground repeatedly by Ubisoft, with it being used for many open-world games under its banner, including the recently released Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.