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If this rumour turns out to be true, then the entirety of Ubisoft will be praying to Clint Eastwood that Red Dead Redemption 2 gets delayed. The word on the street is that a new Far Cry game is due out in September, and it’ll apparently adopt a Spaghetti Western theme. Random? Not quite as random as the way this story started.

So, the Great Falls Tribune reported on a live action trailer that was shot near a church in the Montana prairie. The producer, Jeff Guillot, told the paper that the shoot was for “a sequel to an existing global franchise” scheduled to be released in September, and that the production “stretched more than 5,000 miles”.

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Red Dead Redemption 2, right? Well, that’s what everyone assumed, until sleuths discovered that Guillot has a long history with Ubisoft, working on oodles of its projects in the past. And last year, the French publisher polled players on possible settings for the next Far Cry, with a “Spaghetti Western set in the 19th century Americas” being one of the options.

Put two and two together and what do you get? Well, still five – but this is most curious, isn’t it? Personally, we love Westerns, so we’d definitely be down for a new Far Cry in that format. It’d be a shame for it to release right next to Red Dead if it does turn out to be real, though, wouldn’t it? After all, you can’t compete with Rockstar – no matter how big you are.

[source greatfallstribune.com, via vg247.com, nerdbite.com]