Far Cry Primal: 8 Things We Learned From The Gameplay Footage

5. No Hang-Glider Or Binoculars, But Here's An Owl

While hang-gliders obviously didn't exist in prehistoric times, because aerodynamics weren't really a thing until Icarus came along (even then, his bummer of a story would put people off flying for another couple of thousand years). But people loved the hang-glider in Far Cry 4, so Ubisoft had to come up with something, anything, in the prehistoric age that could step up to replace it. What could it possibly be... Why, an owl of course. You're probably feeling pretty foolish that you didn't think of that one, right? Yes, in Far Cry 4 you get to possess an owl as if you were Bran Stark from Game of Thrones, before flying around a large area surrounding the player - scouting out enemy positions (much like binoculars in previous games), sending your animal friends into hostile villages, or even swooping down on enemies and tearing their faces off. Sound ridiculous? Absolutely, but Far Cry just wouldn't be Far Cry without some aerial action, so you may as well do it with a player-possessed owl that can communicate with other creatures. The fact that it doubles as your binoculars is a neat, if completely bizarre, way of killing two birds with one stone... or is it more like two stones with one bird?