Black Friday Sale
Looking for hostile environments to throw the discerning Far Cry fan into on our very own planet isn’t difficult. Turn on the news and within 15 minutes you’re shown images from a far-flung, war torn country. While this is a saddening display which eats away at our very humanity, they often make interesting locations for a video game to be set. Maybe, however, the designers should be casting their glance back over to western society. What’s the most violent place you could possible be in the western world?
A Black Friday Sale of course.
You’re a staff member at Big Stuff Market, the premiere retail outlet of Somewhere, America. This isn’t just any big shop though. The company pretty much owns an entire shopping mall, filling it with lawsuit-dodging subsidiaries named Moonbucks and CJ Penny. As a simple cleaner the day isn’t going to really affect you. Then the Black Friday rush comes and this usually docile shopping mall becomes a fight for survival. Someone breaks the pet store window, setting loose hundreds of angry rabbits hellbent on revenge.
Coffee shops become outposts and small settlements rise where the shopping masses have become feral. Multiple factions hide within department stores just waiting to kill in the name of discount prices. Never get between a flipped out Little League coach who’s buying supplies for the year. The blue rinse brigade patrol the walkways armed with boiled sweets and AK-47s eager to show you pictures of their grandkids while you bleed over a 75% off sign. This is the true vision of hell on Earth, and Far Cry as a series could easily take you there.
It’d most certainly be a departure from a outdoor norm, that’s true. Then again, going out into the city isn’t necessarily any safer than in the mall.
