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Hope County was already a terrible place to live in "Far Cry 5," what with the death cult known as the Project at Eden's Gate taking over large swaths of the region, forcibly converting the kindly townsfolk to their violent cause with a toxic drug called Bliss.

Life didn't get much better after the nuclear firestorm. Sure, it only took the valley that makes up the bulk of Hope County 17 years to go from a wasteland, to a fully functioning ecosystem where flora and fauna abound. But where there is man, "Far Cry" tells us, there is evil. That sinister force lurking in all human hearts is made manifest in Mickey and Lou, the leaders of an organization of raiders called the Highwaymen.