Far Cry was a big part of the start of an era in open-world FPS titles during the early-to-mid-2000s. The series' exotic locale sandboxes and FPS gameplay broke new ground and were the beginning of publisher and later developer Ubisoft's presence in the genre space. With six mainline titles and multiple spin-offs under its belt over 20 years, Far Cry has long been a standard of AAA open-world action titles.