Far Cry 5

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  1. akarnokd
    Apr 8, 2018
    7
    Far Cry comes to the United States where guns are plenty but ammo is premium. Where you get harassed by wild and household animals every 5 meters except when you take a hunting mission and they practically disappear from the landscape. The landscape is fabulous and helicopter sightseeing is fantastic, especially because plane controls are terrible with mouse and keyboard. There is no rainFar Cry comes to the United States where guns are plenty but ammo is premium. Where you get harassed by wild and household animals every 5 meters except when you take a hunting mission and they practically disappear from the landscape. The landscape is fabulous and helicopter sightseeing is fantastic, especially because plane controls are terrible with mouse and keyboard. There is no rain so you can wash your cars with sponges, bare chested bald bullet sponges easily eating multiple high caliber bullets to the head. You'll be tasked to take down a family, but they will take you down first, 9 times, while you fly through the sky or hide in a bunker nobody ever heard of. At the end you'll face a choice, an important choice, whether or not start the final main mission to witness a pointless and unsatisfactory ending.

    Pros:
    - U.S.A. setting
    - Visuals are stunning
    - Well optimized
    - Side missions are varying and interesting
    - Characters are funny
    - Hunting, fishing (after you get high power gear)
    - Cars, helicopters
    - Chaotic firefights while chased by an airplane and wildlife at the same time
    - Free roaming
    - Mars setting in later DLC!

    Cons:
    - Constant harassment by enemies and wildlife
    - Terrible scripted main missions
    - Repeatedly getting abducted from anywhere (seriously, when you see the prompts, just stand next to a road and wait)
    - Not enough and underpowered weapons (i.e., no Vector SMG?)
    - Unable to carry more of .50 cal ammo and bait (due to balance?)
    - Story is basic and weightless
    - Ending(s)

    Verdict: 7/10 - buy if you never played Far Cry before, wait otherwise (for patches and all-in-one release).    … Expand
  2. dominath
    Apr 7, 2018
    4
    The story is nothing compared to other Far Cry releases (never had to skip cinematics before); graphics are "meh" for a game in 2018; the playtime is like 15-20 hrs with every side quest and collectibles; allied NPS's are dumb as hell; the game is less than 30 GB so everyone can imagine how small the map is; the announced DLC's are lame. If you ask me, this was all about the unsuccessfulThe story is nothing compared to other Far Cry releases (never had to skip cinematics before); graphics are "meh" for a game in 2018; the playtime is like 15-20 hrs with every side quest and collectibles; allied NPS's are dumb as hell; the game is less than 30 GB so everyone can imagine how small the map is; the announced DLC's are lame. If you ask me, this was all about the unsuccessful multi-player and money (especially when you check an in-game shop). I totally regret that I pre-purchased the Gold Edition.… Expand
  3. antzware
    Apr 7, 2018
    2
    I will have to go with "not recommend" for the simple fact that I did not have fun with this game, its story elements annoyed the hell out of me, they made very little sense and gave me a bad experience. I only finished the game so the 60 euros I paid would not be wasted, otherwise I wanted to stop after 35% completion.
    Maybe the only positive things about the game is that it looks    I will have to go with "not recommend" for the simple fact that I did not have fun with this game, its story elements annoyed the hell out of me, they made very little sense and gave me a bad experience. I only finished the game so the 60 euros I paid would not be wasted, otherwise I wanted to stop after 35% completion.
    Maybe the only positive things about the game is that it looks amazing and the voice acting is very good.
    The non-linear story makes everything seem so generic and repetitive and the flow of things on each region identical to one another. Some parts of the story are straight out of science fiction books and the best way Ubisoft knows how to raise the difficulty is to make enemies bullet sponges and throw any common sense out of the window. The game's ending goes WTF all the way and makes no sense at all. Again they defy logic just for that unexpected factor.
    Borrow this games from a friend, rent it or wait for a big sale but don't waste your money on the full price.

    While I did not encounter game breaking bugs there were quite a few like car hitting dead wolf and flying into the air, a very strange experience with a plane twerking in the air, teleporting instantly on the ground than taking off directly with no speed gain required, mission objective not being completed properly.
    In the beginning I had on average 55 FPS in 4K but the game kept complaining to update my graphics drivers. After the update it dropped 15 fps in 4K to 40 on average, even less and I was forced to play in 1080p.    … Expand
  4. Vasot
    Apr 7, 2018
    4
    Good graphics and well optimized for PC but that's where the positive things end with this game. Unfortunately the story and the characters are very boring it's like watching a weird and cliche bad movie. As for the gameplay this hasn't much improved it gets repetitive fast and the enemy A.I is really stupid. Most of the time the enemies just appear out of thin air (enemy spawning isGood graphics and well optimized for PC but that's where the positive things end with this game. Unfortunately the story and the characters are very boring it's like watching a weird and cliche bad movie. As for the gameplay this hasn't much improved it gets repetitive fast and the enemy A.I is really stupid. Most of the time the enemies just appear out of thin air (enemy spawning is crazy) they run to your face without cover they even just crash their cars all the time while following you they are hilariously stupid. Game has 3 endings and all of them are bad (not going to spoil them for you). Game also includes Denuvo DRM which i hate with passion also includes micro-transactions (another thing that i hate) and some annoying bugs. They ask 60 dollars/euros for this sorry but it feels like a scam. It's like playing a mod of Farcry 4 and not a new game. (Didn't bother with multiplayer)… Expand
  5. MrRedMarsmallow
    Apr 6, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely loved the game but the ending completely ruined it for me. It's like Ubisoft basically took a massive dump right in my mouth. I don't even feel like playing it anymore because the ending is that bad. If you're going to play it do so, just don't complete the campaign.… Expand
  6. cr207
    Apr 6, 2018
    8
    + It's beautiful
    + It's fun
    + It's compelling + First game I've played relentlessly to completion in years + Well written dialog + Wordy and rambling questgivers can be escape-keyed to a shorter dialog (amazing!) - Being kidnapped into boss missions - Repetitive - Not a fan of gratuitous cruelty - Bosses, while well written, really overstay their welcome TL;DR: If you like    + It's beautiful
    + It's fun
    + It's compelling
    + First game I've played relentlessly to completion in years
    + Well written dialog
    + Wordy and rambling questgivers can be escape-keyed to a shorter dialog (amazing!)

    - Being kidnapped into boss missions
    - Repetitive
    - Not a fan of gratuitous cruelty
    - Bosses, while well written, really overstay their welcome

    TL;DR: If you like shooters, I'd recommend it.    … Expand
  7. ShaMana
    Apr 6, 2018
    2
    Sadly worst Far Cry experience till date. The story is completely passable, the endings are incredibly disappointing. The whole experience feel like a massive waste of time. There is no character development, there are barely any characters to speak of. All people are bland stereotype goodies/baddies. The Father is dull as heck. The gameplay was also horrible. They've removed the towersSadly worst Far Cry experience till date. The story is completely passable, the endings are incredibly disappointing. The whole experience feel like a massive waste of time. There is no character development, there are barely any characters to speak of. All people are bland stereotype goodies/baddies. The Father is dull as heck. The gameplay was also horrible. They've removed the towers but instead the game is choped in to a million pieces almost completely disconnected. The game says everyone will get a unique experience but that's incredibly poorly realized. They've added a whole conditioning mechanism which is an incredibly poor excuse to drive the game forwards. You are messing around, flying, driving, sometimes even in the middle of a mission and the game goes "Well, it's time to cut to black" And you are literally instantly teleported to where you need to be to progress the story. And that happens all the fin time. You just start to enjoy what you are doing and the game teleports you somewhere on a seemingly random place. All characters including you teleport around and do what the story needs them to do regardless of previous occurrences or positioning. They are captured seconds after you've rescued and secured them in a river of blood. It's a nonsensical progression that has been cheeply disguised under something im sure they thing incredibly clever: Drugs and mind conditioning. But thats a game. It's supposed to be a fun joy ride and not "Hyh" moment every time a cut scene starts. Additionally the AI is the worst imaginable, and the game relies overly much on it to progress on some missions. I've failed missions multiple times just because lets say an AI decides to land a chopper on the water and destroys a mission important vehicle. What follows is a reset. The open design now feels restricted. With old Far Cry games most boarders felt natural. It was rare for the game to stop you forcefully and here happens all the time if you move few centimeters away from the bound of the map or the mission to improvise. I love Far Cry 2, 3 and 4. I find them exceptional games. Far Cry Primal is ok, nothing much to rave about. But this game disappointed me so badly. And the progression .... because they know people don't like to do all activities the game is like this time you don't gain experience but we will force you to fish and try to do chain takedowns with the retarded AI or yeah and to use the AI partners if you with to get points. And i can't count the times how many times an partner AI sits face to face with an enemy watching him stupidly and the next second turns around and starts shooting in my position and blowing a near by barrel pretty much killing me instantly, or a vehicle, or just shoots to the bad guys through me. Piece of advice use the animals, they don't drive and are bloody killing machines. I've taken outposts sitting behind the bush and the bear slaughtering everything in sight. So the freedom is disguised with cheap plot devices. The AI is shoved in your face but it's terrible. The story is boring. The setting is bland (no offense fake Montana), and lets not forget OP weapons, i played with 1 sniper and one Rifle from start to end. and the end was running in the middle of firefights shooting from the hip mowing down baddies.

    But the music was really good so 2    … Expand
  8. Thylbanus
    Apr 6, 2018
    8
    So, Ok. Simple and spoiler free here. If you know and are aware of the Far Cry series, this is just as formulaic as the others. This is a fun, turn your brain off adventure that will challenge your creative side. The lessons learned from previous games is evident. It has been greatly improved. There is still room in regards to customization of your gear, but this is one of thoseSo, Ok. Simple and spoiler free here. If you know and are aware of the Far Cry series, this is just as formulaic as the others. This is a fun, turn your brain off adventure that will challenge your creative side. The lessons learned from previous games is evident. It has been greatly improved. There is still room in regards to customization of your gear, but this is one of those games that has taken queues from the community to improve and did so.

    The most important thing, ALL of the potential political fear about this game is unfounded. It goes out of its way to avoid anything to the effect. To the benefit of the game. I would have probably just rolled my eyes and shut it off if it got too preachy. I play games to get away from the constant news feed. THANK YOU UBISOFT! We have had a dicey relationship, but you did right with this one.

    The story isn't overly complex, or deep. Just like every other Far Cry game. The characters are somewhat sympathetic, but not to the point that compared to Vas. They peaked with Vas when it came to interesting characters, but i think it might be as much the actor as the script. Each of them does have their own appeal/revulsion and it is quite clear what is good and what is bad. Very white hat/black hat.

    Finally, THEY DID DLC RIGHT! This got an extra +1 from me for actually not having ANY of the DLC a direct connection to the main game. It isn't slices of the full game separated off. It is TOTALLY side stories that only tangentially connect to the main game. They haven't been released yet, but you can see where they come from.

    To be vague and not spoil anything, the three are "Dead Living Zombies" probably relates to the drug storyline. "Hours of Darkness" a Vietnam story, seems to be tied to a sidequest about a Vietnam vet. I'm guessing his past. Finally, "Lost on Mars" seems to be tied to another sidequest that is a strange science fiction X-Files type.

    So yea. Fun game. Not overly complex Far Cry storyline. If you are looking for deep storytelling, you wouldn't be considering a Far Cry game.    … Expand
  9. strongchong00
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    I honestly have no idea what all the negative reviewers are talking about. Everyone I know loves this game, and I absolutely love this game as well. If you are a fan of the previous Far Cry games, you will absolutely eat this one up. Freaking. Awesome.
  10. 0gnacy
    Apr 5, 2018
    0
    Well, this game sucks. I bought two copies, intent on playing coop with my wife. We had a blast playing borderlands series before, and assumed Far Cry 5 would be good. Nope.

    Gun mechanics sucks - big time. I liked how it worked in Far Cry 1 - in the realistic difficulty mode. You were shot, you were dead. You shot someone, they were dead. Not here, though. All the gun have an air gun    Well, this game sucks. I bought two copies, intent on playing coop with my wife. We had a blast playing borderlands series before, and assumed Far Cry 5 would be good. Nope.

    Gun mechanics sucks - big time. I liked how it worked in Far Cry 1 - in the realistic difficulty mode. You were shot, you were dead. You shot someone, they were dead. Not here, though. All the gun have an air gun feel to them. You can unload a few bullets into someones head and see them walk away. Also, accuracy is crap meaning no matter what your skills, except for a few weapons (e.g. the magnum pistol) you will be frustrated. My wife gave up on this, as she is a more demanding player. I decided to continue in singlaplayer. This whole "bliss" crap made me give up.

    The whole story is crap, but okay, I can live with that if I am not fricking forced to sit through all the cut scenes. Not here, though - the lame, boring, exhausting cut scenes involving the forgettable and boring NPCs are not fricking skippable. I am here to play for 30 mins after i am back from work and the last thing I want is to be forced to watch minutes of boring cutscenes. Sorry, but no more Far Cry for me. This is a piece of ****    … Expand
  11. DarkBee
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    Buying Far Cry, you always know what you get - a quality shooter in a beautiful open world with a simple storyline and a colorful villain. The games of the series have not changed much since the time of Far Cry 2, but they are selling perfectly. Players are happy with everything - in the general mass only a few with each new part are indignant that one Far Cry from the other is supposedlyBuying Far Cry, you always know what you get - a quality shooter in a beautiful open world with a simple storyline and a colorful villain. The games of the series have not changed much since the time of Far Cry 2, but they are selling perfectly. Players are happy with everything - in the general mass only a few with each new part are indignant that one Far Cry from the other is supposedly not distinguish. Games are really similar, it's logical, the series has its own niche, even its genre, in which there is no competition today. Therefore, I will not again raspinatsya on this topic, and I will not reduce the Far Cry 5 assessment for the fact that it is similar to Far Cry 4. I'd rather focus on what is good and new in the game. This time we go to Hope County, Montana - the northern state on the border with Canada. A picturesque peaceful place with clear lakes, dazzlingly beautiful mountains and forests. Here there are plenty of wild places where time flows slowly, and people live a simple village life. But, of course, with the typical American features: checkered sleeveless jackets, crumpled baseball caps, shotguns in pickup trucks and oversized patriotism in the heads.

    Visual coloring Far Cry 5 works on the top ten. The nature of virtual Montana hits the heart - this is one of the most beautiful games this year, and in our time it's hard to surprise the picture. It is pointless to describe this. Mountain rivers, wheat fields and impenetrable coniferous forests are perfectly combined with well-maintained farms, pastures and tiny towns, creating an incredibly cozy, warm atmosphere. Even despite the GTA-chaos.

    And it's not so much in technology, as in the scrupulous manual work of the authors of the game - for all these years Ubisoft still got a hand and learned how to make worthy, sticky open worlds. The finest elaboration here in everything - from natural species, to interiors and the installation of street lamps. Far Cry 5 is very nice to watch. Always. It's nice to listen to it, because the game performed perfectly on three sides: an excellent sound design, an excellent original soundtrack from Dan Romer and a crazy selection of licensed tracks - the best punk playlist in games since the times, probably FlatOut 2. My rating Far Cry 5 10 | 10    … Expand
  12. rattus_norwegic
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    I know the basic rules about taste and opinions and all that, but honestly, the users giving 0's, 1's and 2's to this game are just impossible to take seriously. I mean, really? Personally, this is the Far Cry game that I have been waiting for. I couldn't care less about the main story, but I actually don't mind, and that speaks volumes. Because that's basically what defines a true sandboxI know the basic rules about taste and opinions and all that, but honestly, the users giving 0's, 1's and 2's to this game are just impossible to take seriously. I mean, really? Personally, this is the Far Cry game that I have been waiting for. I couldn't care less about the main story, but I actually don't mind, and that speaks volumes. Because that's basically what defines a true sandbox game in the first place. And as far as sandboxes go, FC5 is one of the best, if not *the* best that I've ever been in. If you enjoy free-roaming and tons of content, then there's probably no better game out there.… Expand
  13. naxilo
    Apr 4, 2018
    10
    Not a bad entry into the Far cry family. Fun with plenty to do and best played with a friend. Props to Ubisoft for making a down to earth game featuring montana.
  14. Crackfarmer
    Apr 4, 2018
    6
    So i've completed the Game within 10 hours.

    Bought a legitimate copy, not pirated. But now i wish, i did not buy it. The Story itself is nice and i like it but a lot of things ruin the fun for me. Clutch Nixon missios are beyond stupid and annoying. The Game forces you to do the main plot, at a given % of one region liberated it forces you to fight the bosses. You have to skip    So i've completed the Game within 10 hours.

    Bought a legitimate copy, not pirated. But now i wish, i did not buy it.

    The Story itself is nice and i like it but a lot of things ruin the fun for me.

    Clutch Nixon missios are beyond stupid and annoying.

    The Game forces you to do the main plot, at a given % of one region liberated it forces you to fight the bosses.
    You have to skip main plot in order to do everything.

    The Collectibles are stupid, side missions like ran deers over and bring the flesh is retarded.

    But the main thing what ruined the fun is the ending, regardless of what you pick, you cannot get back into the game and complete leftover stuff.    … Expand
  15. KaiES91
    Apr 4, 2018
    5
    The game is... so lala. The gameplay itself is horrid fun, no doubt about that, but the story... such potential, wasted by bad writing. And the endings are seriously bad. Just... after having sat through first was was supposed to be the 'bad' enging and then the 'good' ending afterwards, I've lost all interest to play this game for a while. At this point, I consider the bad ending theThe game is... so lala. The gameplay itself is horrid fun, no doubt about that, but the story... such potential, wasted by bad writing. And the endings are seriously bad. Just... after having sat through first was was supposed to be the 'bad' enging and then the 'good' ending afterwards, I've lost all interest to play this game for a while. At this point, I consider the bad ending the good/canon one, ignoring the twist at the very end.
    Add to that a couple of annoying bugs and the presence of Microtransactions, and I am really not impressed by the game. I was so certain I'd by the seasons pass after finishing the main story, but now I most certainly wont.    … Expand
  16. Master_
    Apr 3, 2018
    0
    Far Cry 5 it's like earlier versions and like 6th part. It's all the same like in 3,4 and primal. Clearing 100 posts, kill stupid npc's, use some vehicles. Fishing is a new feature.
  17. Lireal
    Apr 3, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. All 3 endings, the good, the bad, and the "hidden" ending, are absolute garbage. The ending to Mass Effect 3 was better, and reflected your choices from the game more. No matter what you choose, no matter who you save, no matter how many outpost you liberate or collectables you find, you are screwed in the end. Insanity or a nuclear wasteland Montana are all that await you after hours of gameplay.

    This is a massive F-YOU from Ubisoft.    … Expand
  18. Hackerbee
    Apr 3, 2018
    9
    Probably the best Far cry game yet, there are some minor bugs but considering that this is at release some are to be expected nothing game breaking from my time spent in game, here are the list of all the good and bad points in my opinion.

    THE GOOD: 1. The graphics are phenomenal, I am running it maxed out on a GTX 1080, easily getting 100+ frames consistently, & it is one of the best    Probably the best Far cry game yet, there are some minor bugs but considering that this is at release some are to be expected nothing game breaking from my time spent in game, here are the list of all the good and bad points in my opinion.

    THE GOOD:
    1. The graphics are phenomenal, I am running it maxed out on a GTX 1080, easily getting 100+ frames consistently, & it is one of the best looking games I have ever played, especially the environment.
    2. The models for the firearms are the best I have ever seen especially on the AK,
    3. The only recent game to have a such an open world allowing you to play through the story from any 3 directions, (there are some minor annoying sequences that can not be avoided for the sake of story progression)
    4. Freedom of movement, method and variety of gear and vehicles was great.
    5. lots of available support characters,
    6. loads of side quests/content available if you want to explore the world more.
    7. decent bullet physics, (it auto-ranges based on aim-point with all sights to make it simpler to aim, but you can see the bullet drop effect at least, and the shot delay is accurate.
    8. COOP through the whole story mode if you want, it is awesome. they finally got this right (wish the range was a little wider though)
    9. multiplayer is there, and has potential one of its most exciting features is that you can create your own maps and share them with the community. it is a great idea.
    10. voice acting is great, and the main characters are will acted, the other NPCs also have very good voice acting.
    11. they removed all the tedious repetitive animations, for skinning picking stuff up etc: makes playing the game a whole lot more fun and a lot less chore like as in previous games (you had to go through a 2-5 second animation every time you picked something up or skinned an animal)

    THE BAD:
    1. The ending OMFG (not saying anymore due to spoilers) if ME3 made you angry, oh boy...
    2. Weapon damage values are odd and immersion breaking, 5.56 is fractionally better than pistols for damage at range --> 5.56 rifles need to be buffed, 7.62x39 AK is stronger than a .308 (7.62x51) in this game? um.... no, the DMR styled weapons in this game need a buff the .50 needs to one shot anything walking heavy armor too... for immersion sake, you can compensate by making the AI aim better.
    3. the fixed events required to continue the story, are pretty forceful when you do hit one (every dot on the map faction progression bar) you stand no chance of getting away, and there is no point in delaying it anyways.
    4. the seed family's back story could have been explored more.
    5. would like a little more firearms selection instead of the same 3-4 firearms with different skins, you could put other readily available weapons from the area into the game for ex: SKS, Ruger mini/Ruger mini 30, Browing HP, various other makes of bolt action, like a varmint bolt action chambered in .223 (5.56), or classical hunting rifles, Winchester model 70, Remington 700 etc. Glocks, Berettas, a vector, FNFAL, FN SCAR H/L, HK416, G3/G4, G34, Swiss arms SG5xx Series. Lee Enfield, Springfield, M1 Grand in 30-06,
    6. AI is a little on the easy side, they do dumb stuff get stuck and are picked off easily, on any difficulty.
    Great game really shines in single player, and COOP is much improved from previous games, multiplayer has potential but could do better, fore ex: (a class based progression system with weapon unlocks on larger maps like a Farcry battlefield with 24 people on each team would be great idea).
    got my monies worth out of it, glad Ubisoft did not screw this up, it has its faults but I would call it a clear success and a great game.    … Expand
  19. zero3384
    Apr 3, 2018
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I want to like this game. i really really do...all they had to do was give me a game that was fun and exciting and just had tons to do with a good story. Something missing from Farcry 3...4...and especially Primal.

    This game's world is big, entertaining, and lush. There's things happening all the time and it's easy to get lost in it. But then when you actually start gaining resistance points....you get railroaded into a "captured" mission. These stupid sequences interrupt everything you're trying for...going fishing? Too bad...wanna hide from the capture parties? Oh well....you can't defned yourself, you can't hide, and you can't escape them. It dampens your fun.

    The reall killer though is the story and how it ends. You've finally come face to face with Joseph Seed....it's time for the final confrontation

    A. You turn around and leave

    or

    B. You capture him...he blows up Hope county...and then takes you prisoner to start his cult again

    This left such a sour taste in my mouth....literally, everything I did was for NOTHING. There is no closure...all the torture, the brainwashing, the literal agony your character goes through....and you don't get ANY closure. Furthermore, after the credits....well, you can do all the side stuff in hope county...but there's no one left to shoot, all the bad guys are now gone....it becomes empty and boring.

    Again, I wanted to enjoy this game...I loved some of the characters (Hurk is still as awesome as ever) and some missions are just too insane for words (reclaiming the Widowmaker)....but the story just ruins all hype I had for this game...to the point where I regret getting it.

    A 4.5/10    … Expand
  20. RustyCoin
    Apr 3, 2018
    7
    PROS:
    1. Open world full of life and action
    2. Super fun gun play 3. Lots of fun different quests 4. Lots of cars, boats, helicopters and planes with even more skins on them. 5. Guns for hire - you can now recruit one (two with perk) guy to help you fight, and there's various of classes of them too. 6. No mini-map also plus in my book (it kinda makes you to be more aware of your    PROS:
    1. Open world full of life and action
    2. Super fun gun play
    3. Lots of fun different quests
    4. Lots of cars, boats, helicopters and planes with even more skins on them.
    5. Guns for hire - you can now recruit one (two with perk) guy to help you fight, and there's various of classes of them too.
    6. No mini-map also plus in my book (it kinda makes you to be more aware of your surroundings)
    7. Optimization is not bad (totally better than AC: Origins was on a release)

    CONS:
    1. Sometime AI is just terrible and super dumb
    2. Story is "meh" and the characters of the game are not so memorable (comparing with FC3 or even FC4 - pagan min was awsome)
    3. There are some few annoying bugs
    4. Game's world sometimes is way too chaotic - you can't drive in a new area calmly for even 2 minutes without encountering lots of random enemies, then bear attacks you out of nowhere, then helicopters starts shooting rockets at you, then reinforcements come etc. So If you want to travel calmly, you need to do it in the woods by foot.
    5. This game lacks of guns. There's only about two proper assault rifles - AR-C and AK-M and those too also aren't so good too.
    6. Those f*****g microtransactions. Although you simply can buy everything with in-game currency, the prices for weapons and cars (boats, planes) skins are insanely high.
    7. No more crafting. Instead of that you have to make lots of stupid challenges to get perk points and with those you can unlock new abilities like extra gun slot, carry more ammo, swim faster, walk silently etc. (sp for example: you wanna get 3 perk points? kill 15 enemies with flamethrower, wanna get another 2 or 3 points? hunt down 3 grizzlies etc...).

    I haven't tried co-op, although I've read lots of forum about how stupid it is, when someone joins friend's game there's no story progression, no guns progression etc... For me Far Cry always been about singleplayer and I still think it's worth buying it. You'll get lots of different quests, great gameplay there's really a lot of doing in this game.

    EDIT: Those gamers who says it's too easy, put difficulty on hard, turn off x-ray vision and indicators as well. Then the gameplay, for example liberating outposts will be pain in the ass, no joke.    … Expand
  21. serdtgyui
    Apr 3, 2018
    3
    All the other reviewers saying that this game is too easy haven't played on hard mode. To begin with, in the first 5 minutes, you need to escape enemies in a pick up truck. The game automatically removes your health to make things "intense". However, if you changed the difficulty to hard in the first minutes, it will take one or two bullets to kill you after the game drains your health onAll the other reviewers saying that this game is too easy haven't played on hard mode. To begin with, in the first 5 minutes, you need to escape enemies in a pick up truck. The game automatically removes your health to make things "intense". However, if you changed the difficulty to hard in the first minutes, it will take one or two bullets to kill you after the game drains your health on purpose. You will be constantly using med packs as enemies kill you instantly. My FC5 experience started off with a brief mission that I needed to try at least 8 times. After that, expect to be killed almost instantly by flamethrowers. No matter how well you did in FC4, expect to play with medium or easy difficulty. You won't be able to complete the missions with a bow this time. As soon as you shoot someone, enemies magically know where you are and will rush at you.

    There is no minimap, so you will most likely wander around with no real purpose, wondering what you're supposed to do. The enemy presence is absolutely insane. If you walk on the road, expect a truck full of enemies to drive by you every 10 seconds. I'm not having fun with FC5 at all. If you enjoyed FC4 like I did, keep playing FC4.    … Expand
  22. InsidiaGaming
    Apr 3, 2018
    5
    First off the actual game play itself is not too bad, in fact I'd say it's on top with the top AAA games out today. That's unfortunately where I believe it ends for Far Cry 5. Following the success of Far Cry 3 and the memorable antagonist Ubisoft have basically made the series about the antagonists, so much so that in Far Cry 5 there is actually zero back story to the character you play,First off the actual game play itself is not too bad, in fact I'd say it's on top with the top AAA games out today. That's unfortunately where I believe it ends for Far Cry 5. Following the success of Far Cry 3 and the memorable antagonist Ubisoft have basically made the series about the antagonists, so much so that in Far Cry 5 there is actually zero back story to the character you play, you're just known as "Rookie" or "Rook", the story is about the bad guys as usual not about you.

    The AI isn't perfect by a long shot, and in fact at times have proven to be more of a liability by getting in the way, starting a gun fight when we're supposed to be quiet and just generally getting in the way. There really isn't too much going into the back story of any of you're "companions" either, all you'll basically know is there names, a small piece about them and what the specials are.

    The enemy AI has eagle eyed vision, they literally can see you from a mile off at times way before you see them, considering you're the one approaching it's a bit unfair at times. Especially when the game decides to drop you smack in the middle of a bunch of mobs.

    Faith's area frustrated me greatly, i get the whole drug area but I should be concerned about being spotted, or killed by peggies not having to keep one eye open just in case a bear decides to spawn next to me, kinda spoilt it a little. Also some NPC's have bugged and not done what they were supposed to be doing (ie instead of using the radio at the tower I escorted him to he just stood there) so I've had to reload from the last checkpoint a number of times.

    Until you've liberated an area going along the road is just too much trouble, I once stent 20 minutes trying to get out of an area I've fast travelled to because there was several patrols and a bunch of planes all in that area.

    No actual online co-op aside from having people on your friends list? Kinda **** considering you can make your own maps, you have a pvp section and all to me that's a big piece missing. If they are planning on adding this then they need to do this now because in a months time we're going to be playing something else.

    At least it doesn't rape your CPU like Origin's does.    … Expand
  23. dadlefish
    Apr 3, 2018
    10
    [Giving this game a 10 instead of the deserved 9, to counter all the know-nothing haters]

    I'm 50 hours into the game, and I'd say I'm about 60% into the campaign, with a LOT more to do beyond that. I'm going to play the game for at least 100 more. Here's why. Simply walking in Hope County is AMAZING. The level of immersion, the beautiful surrounding, the living and breathing    [Giving this game a 10 instead of the deserved 9, to counter all the know-nothing haters]

    I'm 50 hours into the game, and I'd say I'm about 60% into the campaign, with a LOT more to do beyond that. I'm going to play the game for at least 100 more. Here's why.

    Simply walking in Hope County is AMAZING. The level of immersion, the beautiful surrounding, the living and breathing environment is everything I could have hoped for within an open world game. I'm even enjoying fishing, which I thought I wouldn't care for.

    There's plenty to be done, but I think the best way to do it is to just stroll around the map, reach places you haven't been before, and tackle the nearest objective - be it a prepper stash looking to be uncovered, a cult outpost to liberate, a story mission or just the occasional civilian that's about to be killed unless you save them. This is immersion at its best, and the design decisions Ubisoft had made into the game are nothing short of spectacular.

    There are a few cons to the game, however, which is why I mentioned it deserves a 9. First of all, the story lacks the depth I would expect from such a setting; There's no emotional attachment to any of the characters - not really; And there are quite a few bugs - some graphics glitches and some audio problems around your guns for hire talking between them. But despite all that, I'm having a total blast.

    I found many of the hating comments so hilarious that I have to react -
    1. "This is like Far Cry N" - DUH. What did you expect? To get Uncharted 4? If you don't like the Far Cry franchise, don't buy this game. It's better than the rest of them in terms of how the open world is set, and it's worse than some of them in terms of story. That's all.
    2. "Game is too easy" - I don't find it extremely easy on the Hard difficulty, but this isn't Dark Souls. This is not the same genre, simply put.
    3. "There's no direction" - Unbelievable. This is not CoD. This is an open world game. The whole idea is not to have a direction, but to make your own story.

    I could go on and on, but this is ridiculous. You should buy this game - it's awesome. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going back to ruining Joseph Seed's day.    … Expand
  24. Whizzle
    Apr 2, 2018
    8
    Easily the best of the series. I had a hard time putting it down and I'm generally very picky about the games I play, especially single player games.

    Very rarely do I find a game that I want to go around and do every single side mission and objective in the game but this game I did. My suggestion to anyone who wants to play it is to take your time beating the game and don't rush from    Easily the best of the series. I had a hard time putting it down and I'm generally very picky about the games I play, especially single player games.

    Very rarely do I find a game that I want to go around and do every single side mission and objective in the game but this game I did. My suggestion to anyone who wants to play it is to take your time beating the game and don't rush from story mission to story mission.

    The story is quite good as well. It's not some fairy-tale happy ending that every other game does. If you really paid attention to the story and you know all 3 endings, especially the "big" ending..it should leave you thinking and wondering like a good story does It's a mixture of mind control and religious freaks and they did a good job with the protagonists.

    People saying the story is predictable likely don't even fully understand it. The story is deeper than meets the eye and there are numerous explanations and theories as to how everything happened.    … Expand
  25. stew_cee23
    Apr 2, 2018
    9
    People who expect a good story from Far Cry games do not understand this franchise, the stories have NEVER been the attraction: it's all about the engaging environment, fantastic gameplay/combat mechanics, and high audio/video production values (which this game does exceedingly well). Playing Far Cry for the story is like watching a Stallone action movie expecting a complex plot andPeople who expect a good story from Far Cry games do not understand this franchise, the stories have NEVER been the attraction: it's all about the engaging environment, fantastic gameplay/combat mechanics, and high audio/video production values (which this game does exceedingly well). Playing Far Cry for the story is like watching a Stallone action movie expecting a complex plot and Oscar-level performances.… Expand
  26. VikingProducer
    Apr 2, 2018
    10
    The most amazing game I played in the last years.

    Cant believe ppl are complaining about it, the story is good and the game is amazing.

    Played for more than 50 hours.

    Cya
  27. F7GOS
    Apr 2, 2018
    9
    Far Cry 5 for the most part can seem like its simply re-tracing the steps of it's predecessors in a new setting. Dig deeper though and you will find a lot of little changes, nips and tucks which makes this installment the most complete experience since Far Cry 2. I wont get into the plot specifics or talk about the story but it is passable if not really anything we have not seen before.Far Cry 5 for the most part can seem like its simply re-tracing the steps of it's predecessors in a new setting. Dig deeper though and you will find a lot of little changes, nips and tucks which makes this installment the most complete experience since Far Cry 2. I wont get into the plot specifics or talk about the story but it is passable if not really anything we have not seen before. The real area where the game shines is in the expended game play options and the visual presentation. It looks gorgeous even on modest hardware and is very well optimized on even cheaper hardware.

    The game is also nicely multi threaded with load being distributed fairly evenly even on a 16 thread processor. ultra settings at 1920 x 1080 and 60 fps is more than achievable with a mid range GPU ( Something like a RX 480 / 570 or GTX 1060 will have no trouble at 1080p)
    The game also uses around 3Gb of VRAM at max settings at Full HD though meaning that you may need to turn down the settings if you are running an older card with 2GB of frame buffer.

    The game world is open from the get go and is more of a sandbox - with no tower climbing to populate the map. missions and side quests are found by talking with the population of Hope County and this change alone adds to the games immersive nature. In saying that Far Cry 5 never takes itself too serious - perhaps why the story never really delves too deep into political issues - but this is all done in the name of fun.

    Which is most certainly is.

    All in all its a gorgeous game, fantastically optimized and lets you loose in a dense, opportunity full sandbox wrapped up in a story that never gets too intrusive.

    It feels larger than ever before, action moments are more frequent and the presentation is top notch.

    If you like Far Cry games you will like this. it's not a revolution but it when it gets its hook's in you.. it's Bliss.    … Expand
  28. MassivelyIndie
    Apr 2, 2018
    8
    Are you looking to test AI? Perhaps quantify an NPC's reasoning skills? Well you should probably look somewhere else. Even with that said, the game doesn't deserve a knock because there are some very serviceable AI that will KILL you dead!

    The story is deeper than the harshest critics are allowing. It is well thought out and may seem shallow if you are hell bent on picking it    Are you looking to test AI? Perhaps quantify an NPC's reasoning skills? Well you should probably look somewhere else. Even with that said, the game doesn't deserve a knock because there are some very serviceable AI that will KILL you dead!

    The story is deeper than the harshest critics are allowing. It is well thought out and may seem shallow if you are hell bent on picking it apart....but remember we are here for escapism not a literature study. Its fun, cohesive and climatic in the scope of this game.

    Gameplay is superb. Like in most Ubi games, it has all what you'd expect and its executed flawlessly thus far. It runs very well and havn't experienced any optimization problems. I am on a GTX 1070 and I'm 60fps+ on ultra.

    15 hours in, the game is still a riot of a good time. If you are familiar with the FC series, this setting is as wonderful, open and teaming with wildlife. I like it more than the acclaimed Far Cry 3 tropical setting. While its not as big, in my opinion its much richer. With the countless trails, lakes, rivers, mountains, forests, vistas farms and cabins. It has it all.

    I can honestly say that this purchase has been worth it so far as I have not even tried the Arcade Mode in which players create maps and objectives for pvp. While that area deserves its own review, don't convolute the two.

    Far Cry 5 is worth a buy in my opinion.    … Expand
  29. socokid
    Apr 2, 2018
    10
    LOL these reviews are hilariously terrible... (and why metacritic user scores SUCK). This is a solid, incredibly fun game. Not sure what to say. I'm over 40 hours in and still have a lot to go, but I'm having a dang blast.

    I usually choose a helicopter pilot and the plane pilot as my companions. Death from above while I take 'em out on the ground. There are so many different ways to lay    LOL these reviews are hilariously terrible... (and why metacritic user scores SUCK). This is a solid, incredibly fun game. Not sure what to say. I'm over 40 hours in and still have a lot to go, but I'm having a dang blast.

    I usually choose a helicopter pilot and the plane pilot as my companions. Death from above while I take 'em out on the ground. There are so many different ways to lay your path of vengeful destruction upon these crazies.

    BACK TO THE GAME    … Expand
  30. Gr1mr34p3r
    Apr 2, 2018
    10
    This game is amazing. I don't really get all the negative Reviews. As for the criticism I agree that the AI can be improved and storywise it might have been better to stick to a named character...

    Other than that FarCry 5 is an absolute blast to play. The shooting mechanics have been changed massively compared to the previous games. Weapon ballistics make the game much more realistic    This game is amazing. I don't really get all the negative Reviews. As for the criticism I agree that the AI can be improved and storywise it might have been better to stick to a named character...

    Other than that FarCry 5 is an absolute blast to play. The shooting mechanics have been changed massively compared to the previous games. Weapon ballistics make the game much more realistic and the gunplay way more satisfying. This in combination with the improved hunting mechanics alone allowed me to enjoy hours of roaming in the gorgeous setting of Hope County, Montana without following the main quest.

    There is a lot of stuff to do in the campaign and in my opinion the story and side missions are quite varied and fun. I really enjoy the new exploration focus and the removal of the minimap.

    Visually this must be one of the best looking games that I've played lately.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 22 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 31
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  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Sep 13, 2018
    60
    Far Cry 5 is a nice and funny FPS that you’ll enjoy most in co-op. The well-proven concept would deserve a rejuvenation and adding a story that is adequate to the rest of the game. [Issue#285]
  2. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 6, 2018
    80
    This fresh take on the Far Cry franchise is clearly visible content-wise, but a tad more discrete on the style. If you're not bothered by the slightly repetitive formula, you'll enjoy the many strengths of this episode.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Apr 30, 2018
    73
    Far Cry 5 doesn’t propel the series forward — it just refines all of its elements and relegates the infamous towers to the dustbin of history. So if you‘re allergic to open worlds from Ubisoft, don’t say I didn’t warn you. But if you’re eager to meet new wacky characters, complete dozens of missions and enjoy the sights, welcome to Hope County, sinners!
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