Fans of The Mandalorian will have to wait a full year until the next season hits Disney+, but one Far Cry 5 player is making that dry spell easier thanks to a new custom map. As with most installments since 2008’s Far Cry 2, Far Cry 5 features a fully functional level editor that allows creative gamers to craft their own stages, either from original ideas or as loving tributes to other famous properties.
These have covered a wide range of games, movies, and TV shows, providing players with even more content to shoot their way through after they clear Far Cry 5’s campaign, which sees them trying to take down a crazed cult leader in the backwoods of Montana. Fans have rebuilt the city of Solitude from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as locations from The Legend Of Zelda, Joker, and Breaking Bad. Hence, it was only a matter of time before Star Wars was used as a source of inspiration inside Ubisoft’s user-generated sandbox.
As reported by Kotaku earlier today, a talented YouTuber named Andrew Birtles posted a trailer for his Far Cry 5 Arcade level based on The Mandalorian. This brief teaser, which says that the level was built on the Xbox One but is available to download on all platforms, features a strikingly accurate recreation of the desert world of Nevarro, where bounty hunter Din Djarin famously took up the task of protecting an infant Jedi named Grogu. Several vehicles and locations from the series are recreated in great detail, such as Djarin’s trusty ship the Razor Crest, and the whole thing is topped off by the voice of Werner Herzog as taken from The Mandalorian’s pre-release trailers.
The saga of Djarin and Grogu has been a tremendous success among Star Wars fans, with The Mandalorian earning high ratings on Disney+ throughout its first two seasons and spawning numerous spin-offs like this winter’s The Book Of Boba Fett. Naturally, talk of a Mandalorian-based video game hasn’t been too far behind, even as Djarin himself has started making appearances in crossovers like Fortnite’s most recent season alongside fan-based mods for Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and Star Wars: Battlefront II.
In the meantime, Andrew Birtles’s Mandalorian-based Far Cry 5 level is a great tribute to one of Disney+’s first exclusives, recreating the look and feel of the fabled galaxy far, far away with near-perfect detail. Not everything is an exact translation - instead of Stormtroopers, players have to make do with gunning down generic helmeted goons - but the desert shanty town of Nevarro and the Razor Crest look like they were pulled straight from the show. Overall, it looks like it could be a fun way to hold fans over until the next season of The Mandalorian finally releases early next year.
Source: Kotaku, Andrew Birtles