Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars

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User Score
4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 58
  3. Negative: 28 out of 58

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  1. jj350
    Jul 22, 2018
    4
    I just finished this game and had to write a review for it. It isn't awful, and it can be enjoyable at times, but overall the experience felt like a grind that wore away at me that I was happy to put behind me.

    I'll start in with the good before I get into what I didn't like about it. The setting is fun, the map offers a lot for exploration and the enemies have a fun gimmick taken out    I just finished this game and had to write a review for it. It isn't awful, and it can be enjoyable at times, but overall the experience felt like a grind that wore away at me that I was happy to put behind me.

    I'll start in with the good before I get into what I didn't like about it. The setting is fun, the map offers a lot for exploration and the enemies have a fun gimmick taken out of the movie Tremmors that can become quite challenging. Some of the weapons are also pretty fun to play around with, but you don't unlock those until late in the game, which is how I will lead into what I didn't like about this.

    What I didn't like is the grind of playing it. When you begin you just have jetpack (with very limited range) and a basic blaster pistol that won't get you far. You quickly discover how you need to slowly unlock better weapons while grinding away for currency to pay for them. Since this game is rather short (I beat it in about 4-5 hours) pretty much the entirety of your progress will be spent trying to acquire better gear. By the time you finally got all that great gear you would have loved to have while you were playing the game, it is already over and the only thing left to do is a few challenges and the final mission. In other words you never really enjoy playing this game, by the time you can finally enjoy it, it's over, and when it's over it's over. This game just abruptly ends and you just have some simple credits with a few illustrations of what could have been an ending, afterwards you just have the option to start a new game.

    So there you have it. This game is pretty much just a joyless grind that is over when it finally starts to get fun. I didn't even get into Hurk, who annoyed me to no end as I seemingly couldn't go a minute without him spewing some lame comments that I have heard repeatedly. I tried to see if I could mute him, no chance. Tried to see if I could dismiss him from my roster, no way. You are stuck with Hurk through the entirety of the game and he will never shut up and just talk and talk and talk endlessly throughout it. What could have been fun comic relief in small doses quickly becomes an obnoxious source of irritation that will never let up. To make matters worse the AI for his character is completely mindless, felt completely useless, and never seems to be able to do anything you want him to do.

    This leaves me with how I would score this thing. I said 4/10 because while it had the makings of something enjoyable the act of playing it the way you are forced to is not exactly something I particularly enjoyed. It has a lot technically wrong with it that can disrupt the experience and it felt unsatisfying in the end. This mess gets a 4/10 from me, after finishing it there is no way I would ever want to play it again, and I thought Hours of Darkness was good for playing repeatedly. This is just a lazy expansion that should have been given away for free.    … Expand
  2. Almostdead
    Jul 24, 2018
    1
    So boring, so dull, so thin, so bland, so stupid, so lazy, so pointless
    Even worse than the last DLC
  3. FanaticGamer89
    Jul 31, 2018
    0
    The biggest sin of this DLC is not the lack of content, the lack of variety or anything of the sort. It's the mere fact that the gameplay loop is so repetitive and stupendously boring I wouldn't play this game again if you paid me to do it.
  4. Dr_9658516
    Aug 5, 2018
    0
    This DLC was very Boring, Spider alien is so dumb.
    I hope next Zombie DLC will be good.
  5. TheDuckyOne
    Feb 23, 2021
    10
    Amazing. Idk what everyone that hates this is on about. Watch JarekTheGamingDragons review on this game please, he explains it better than I ever could. This DLC is phenomenal.
  6. Dzac98
    Jan 14, 2022
    4
    Overall it is boring. The movement system was the only decent thing. But the real problem is Hurk. I absolutely don't know who the **** though that this npc is funny. Listen him is a nostop torture.

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61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Cubed3
    Oct 1, 2018
    60
    From a pure mechanical point of view Lost on Mars is decent. It generally retains the fun of Far Cry 5 action in a different setting and story. The problem comes in the execution, with the previous originality and variety of missions and situations replaced by bland tower climbing and frustratingly repetitive boss fights. There is humour in Hurk and his tale and the AI 'ANNE' displays all the traits of a typically psychopathic computer system well. However, this humour only goes so far and can't assist in battling through the hours and hours of looped gameplay with weapon upgrades being the only meaningful reward for doing so.
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  2. GameGrin
    Aug 23, 2018
    100
    If you like sci-fi and Hurk, Lost on Mars has a treat for you. There’s a surprising amount to do, tons of aliens to kill, and even some Clutch Nixon challenges. A highly recommended DLC.
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  3. COGconnected
    Jul 24, 2018
    60
    It’s worth the $10 price tag for the standalone experience, but if you’re on the fence with this one, you won’t miss anything should you choose to pass.
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