An representation recovered connected the backend of the Xbox online store seems to uncover that Ubisoft is gearing up to motorboat a “Game Of The Year Upgrade Pass” for Far Cry 6. That’s…fine, I guess, but it raises the question: Which tract retired determination thought it was the champion crippled of 2021 and awarded it specified an accolade?

Last year’s Far Cry 6 was a bully game. I said arsenic overmuch successful my review. It’s a coagulated open-world shooter with immoderate neat ideas, a wonderfully elaborate tropical land to explore, and immoderate floppy bits that don’t rather work. Hey, it’s a Ubisoft game, that past portion is legally required. While I liked it, we present astatine Kotaku didn’t telephone it our Game of the Year oregon thing similar that, and nary different sites did, either. Or truthful I thought.

As archetypal spotted by information miner Aggiornamenti Lumia connected Twitter, a leaked representation from Microsoft’s Xbox store appears to uncover a new, upcoming integer upgrade of Far Cry 6, dubbed the “Game Of The Year Upgrade Pass.” This is apt conscionable a rebranded “Ultimate Edition,” perchance including immoderate caller content, but mostly made up of aged DLC and updates each bundled unneurotic into 1 large package.

Kotaku has reached retired to Ubisoft astir this leaked DLC content.

But, whatever, I’m not present to excavation into what could be successful this new, still-unconfirmed GOTY upgrade of Far Cry 6. Instead, similar others online, I’m present to question its precise name. Seriously? Who retired determination successful 2021 was calling Far Cry 6 the crippled of the year? Of course, I ideate some diehard fans online felt that mode but that doesn’t look similar capable to warrant a afloat GOTY Edition oregon upgrade oregon whatever. Were determination truly immoderate websites that besides felt that way? Well, yes, it turns out. At slightest two, but I person immoderate questions for them.

First up, on its database of the champion games of 2021, gadget and gaming website BGR gave Far Cry 6 its apical spot. This isn’t rather the aforesaid arsenic a crippled of the year, but it is the tract calling it the champion crippled of 2021 and that’s adjacent enough, particularly erstwhile truthful fewer different outlets did thing similar. However, the blurb attached to Far Cry 6 is simply a spot odd, calling the Far Cry franchise a “legacy crippled series” that astir folks consciousness “obliged to play.” It past mentions that the latest sequel has a large storyline “like each the other games successful the series,” and says that immoderate mightiness adjacent telephone it the champion introduction yet. It sounds, though, arsenic if BGR isn’t arsenic certain.

Looking around, different tract that gave Far Cry 6 its crippled of the twelvemonth was EFTM, a manner website astir tech and cars. It formally declared Far Cry 6 the champion crippled of 2021. Oddly, the blog announcing this quality starts by saying Call of Duty is fantastic. It past pivots into a barely-related thought astir how, erstwhile a caller Far Cry game releases, it’s clip to “drop everything and play” it. What if I’m holding a portion similar a buffoon astatine the nonstop infinitesimal a caller Far Cry game comes out? Can I clasp onto that?

EFTM writer Trevor Long explains that Far Cry 6 has a large storyline that besides tin beryllium ignored but besides helium hasn’t adjacent finished it yet, and mightiness ne'er decorativeness it. And portion I don’t deliberation you request to decorativeness a crippled to reappraisal it oregon person captious thoughts astir it, I bash deliberation you should astir apt decorativeness it earlier calling it your authoritative crippled of the year. But hey, you bash you, Trevor.

Finally, I recovered 1 different tract that thought Far Cry 6 mightiness beryllium the champion crippled of 2021. It’s a precocious schoolhouse website called Tstorm Media and in a 2021 reappraisal of Far Cry 6, the writer suggests it could beryllium the champion crippled of the year, but doesn’t commit. Sorry, Ubisoft.

So yes, technically, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 did person a fewer authoritative Game Of The Year awards oregon mentions online. Sure, it wasn’t from IGN or GameSpot or Kotaku or Polygon or PC Gamer oregon RPS or VGC or The Gamer or Gamerant or Game Informer or…