"Far Cry 4" has a release date set for November 18, 2014. Naturally Ubisoft is revving up the hype engine and release tid bits, here is a roundup of everything going on with "Far Cry 4"

In this new video from Playstation (below) we learn a bit more about some gameplay features available to us in this open world and what kind of story lies behind the locations.

The official synopsis of the game reads, " Hidden in the towering Himalayas lies Kyrat, a country steeped in tradition and violence. You are Ajay Ghale. Traveling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother's dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min. Explore and navigate this vast open world, where danger and unpredictability lurk around every corner. Here, every decision counts, and every second is a story. Welcome to Kyrat."

In a recent interview with the PlayStation Blog, Far Cry 4 Creative Director Alex Hutchinson and Narrative Director Mark Thompson discussed how meeting the survivors of a civil war ultimately changed the direction of the open-world first-person shooter. You see to research the game the team decided to actually take a trip to Nepal to study the environment, gather ideas, and meet the people."We needed to find somewhere that had a history of conflict - somewhere that could be politically unstable - the kind of place that you would go to that was on the edge of the map," Thompson explained. "Places that are referred to as 'failed states.'"

"In Far Cry 4 your character is actually from Kyrat and you're coming back. We put the player in the character's shoes, so they're discovering - or rediscovering - this location for themselves."

"When you come face-to-face with another human who has been through conflict, it makes you think about things a little differently," Thompson pointed out. "You think very seriously about what the conflict is and how you're going to be inspired by that to make a video game."

"Before we went to Nepal we were definitely more earnest. We were very focused on the Nepalese civil war, and what we had in terms of good versus evil was very much inspired by that. In Nepal I was talking to people who had been child soldiers in a conflict to save their own country, and we didn't want to misrepresent that."

"Sometimes you'll find that the game is self-aware, sometimes you'll find dark humor where you won't know whether to laugh or be mortally offended by it, but the puns you'll find are my [Thompson's] way of making the game a little less heavy - which I think a lot of shooters try to be."

Gamerant Reports narritive director Mark Thompson said," We have a lot of fun with things that we know people are going to take for granted. As soon as we put Pagan Min on the box and say that he's the bad guy, everybody knows that the game is going to be about killing this guy. We embrace that, we understand it, and we play with it. Pagan is very self-aware that that's going to happen, so... we have some fun with that in the way that he interacts with Ajay.

"He knows the inevitability of the story. He can see Ajay's arc before Ajay even understands it. The moment where he comes to meet him at the border he's like: 'No, don't mind this. You don't need to come back and learn about your parents, or your people. Come with me, I'm going to take you back to my palace, we'll have a party, it's going to be awesome!

"Any other villain would have tried to set the bus on fire with Ajay on it, and there would have been a gunfight, blah blah blah... you would be knocked out and wake up on the other side of the world, and slowly get revenge. Because... I don't know... your brother was on the bus and he died as well or something."

Developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai and Ubisoft Kiev. Again the "FarCry 4" release date for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 18.