Storskurkarna i Far Cry 3 och 4 har varit minnesvärt psykotiska, unika och härligt färgstarka. Detta tack vare finurligt skriven dialog och brutalt stabilt skådespeleri från gubbarna som i mocap-dräkter gestaltade Vaas (Michael Mando) samt Pagan Min (Troy Baker). Inför det femte spelet hade Ubisoft redan skrivity färdigt karaktären och hans dialog (Father "Seed") när letandet efter "rätt" skådespelare inleddes men enligt producenten Dan Hay stötte de på problem och hade det svårt att verkligen hitta rätt man för jobbet att gestalta den frireligiöse knäppgöken som ställer till med oreda i Ubisofts fiktiva variant på Montana. I en nygjord intervju med Gamespot säger han såhär:

"We took a long time to find him. To be honest, it was a little bit scary because it went around in circles for a while. Everything hinges on finding the right guy. We were doing all this work and building all these characters, and we ... felt good about all these different characters. But we still hadn't found the Father. We had good writing and everybody was feeling good about it. Things got pretty heated, and I was thinking, 'OK, are we in trouble?' Meanwhile, I'm trying to put on a brave face."

Till slut hittade man dock Greg Bryk (Saw V, Frontier) som enligt Hay var helt perfekt för rollen, och tackade lyckligtvis ja till jobbet.

"Somebody pulled me aside and said, 'You gotta watch this.' So I went over to my desk and I loaded it up, and it was Greg. And I think part of me, it's interesting to breathe a sigh of relief at the same time as holding your breath. Because as soon as he started talking, I was riveted. I was like, 'Thank god we found him,' but at the same time, I was holding my breath because his performance was so good. I was in this loop of breathlessness. After about a minute, he finished his monologue, which didn't feel like a monologue, it almost felt like a love letter. And I was just like, 'This is the guy.' We all think we're pretty smart and we think that it's hard to allow somebody to swim in our minds and take us away from our lives and go into theirs. I really had a hard time believe that someone was going to be able to convey that to me--to join their cult. He didn't do that. He didn't try. What he simply tried to do was challenge my assumptions that everything is OK. As soon as I believed that his opinion that everything was not okay and that it might be prudent to be prepared for the 1 percent chance that it wasn't going to be OK. I was like, 'OK, that sounds reasonable.'" Länk

Här på Gamereactor har vi redan spelat recensionsversionen av Far Cry 5 i cirka tio timmar och gillar det, skarpt. recensionen dyker upp på måndag medan spelet släpps på tisdag nästa vecka.