Far Cry 5

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  1. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    4
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fc5
  2. Havoc-M2
    Aug 31, 2023
    0
    Very generic and boring. It's just far cry 3 for the 5(!!) time now, just in a different stetting.
  3. NateDalton06
    Apr 26, 2023
    4
    I've played through all the far cry games after two and this is the worst on by far. I enjoyed new dawn more than this rubbish. It was a huge let down for me because I love the far cry games.
  4. Lionel355
    Apr 22, 2023
    3
    El peor far cry que he jugado....
    Ni lo pude terminar.
    Juego aburrido que no explora mas la jugabilidad, misma historia que el 4 y el 3 pero de peor calidad.
    Buenos graficos y nada más.
    El resto de cosas son negativas.
    No lo recomiendo a menos de que seas un fan toxico de Ubisoft
  5. spncosti
    Mar 26, 2023
    2
    So baaad, the smallest fov ever making the sensitivity feel like **** it s like looking through a zoomed camera. Worst gun placement on screen, you only see the barrel of the weapon! So many bad design choices, limited gun selections, you only have a few weapons in a shooting game! The story it s like it isnt even there!
  6. Emaytch
    Jan 22, 2023
    2
    ok... so you start with a nearly one hour film (no skipable)... why ?? it's should be a game, we should be able to play it if we want.... It's like if you wanted to watch the Last of us series... but YOU HAVE to play one hour of the game before...and then, it's feels like a much much lesser good version of Tom Clancy's Wildland. I liked some of the exploration... but some times, you'reok... so you start with a nearly one hour film (no skipable)... why ?? it's should be a game, we should be able to play it if we want.... It's like if you wanted to watch the Last of us series... but YOU HAVE to play one hour of the game before...and then, it's feels like a much much lesser good version of Tom Clancy's Wildland. I liked some of the exploration... but some times, you're parachute in a world where you HAVE TO do some challenges (yes, it's changes the pace... but, again, not skippable, and very often the same challenges (escape a house in fire...)). It's not an entertaining game. There are so much bugs (enemies you killed come back when you look the other way around, or animals you just killed disappear because you looked, for an instant, in another direction...… Expand
  7. AR021
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    BADEST far cry ever The best is farcry4 and then 6 and then 3

    Far cry 5 is very bad
  8. MaxieZeus
    Sep 20, 2022
    2
    Worse version of 3 and 4 with a worse villain and story plus that terrible ending. Skip on this one it's not worth it.
  9. bodasactra
    Aug 4, 2022
    4
    Review for Game Pass 2022 arrival:
    Relentless random combat that escalates forever, disjointedly fast story pacing where you can't digest an event before another starts, annoying set piece battles that always end up as a defense against a bum rush making the special weapons provided for the set battle pointless. Worst of all, a progression bar that triggers main story cut scenes and    Review for Game Pass 2022 arrival:
    Relentless random combat that escalates forever, disjointedly fast story pacing where you can't digest an event before another starts, annoying set piece battles that always end up as a defense against a bum rush making the special weapons provided for the set battle pointless. Worst of all, a progression bar that triggers main story cut scenes and battles seemingly no matter where you are or what you are doing. The context of the cut scene triggers makes no sense, literally pulling you right out of immersion without any way to stop it.

    A spoiler free example of what to expect.
    You're walking and get spotted by random enemies, as you fight more enemies keep arriving, randomly and enemy called support teams. It amounts to a slowly escalating population of a small town coming in on foot, cars, ATVs, planes, helicopters. Fight meh combat until death or run, like you are suddenly a walking U.S. airport on Thanksgiving day. As you run you get into another random fight just seconds later with the same exact people still chasing you, rinse repeat, no escape, what is happening. Tactics, strategy? No, this is Sparta. What seems like random fights might have an unrecognizable minor NPC killed that somehow moves the progression bar. Just don't free any captives during the battle, they are actually supposed to be separate encounters but large battles can end up involving these bar movers and that triggers cut scenes. Cut scenes just trigger when the bar is full no matter what.

    You may encounter a small grain warehouse or other type farm/town like structures that are small enemy bases. Clear them and your allies arrive in numbers, after the battle of course, in standard Far Cry style, and you have a new base. Then, almost instantly, in the middle of your fresh won base, in broad daylight, surrounded by friendly armed forces, totally out of context, a cut scene starts and your a prisoner in a van at night engaging with main villains. What is happening? The van is struck by a something and tumbles over, a person pulls you out talking as if they have known you for a long time but you have no clue who this person is. Before you can try to get a grip on that mess instantly a set piece battle begins. Man the stationary weapon or we'll all die. Its an overhead targeting mode weapon so you can't see the immediate area around your body. You aim and fire the weapon in this top down mode and suddenly you are being beat to death as you man the weapon but you can't see the enemy doing it. You must exit the weapon mode to live and its now a standard gunfight for the rest of the banzai rush battle. The cool weapon mode was pointless when it could have been great.

    While this game somewhat had the basic repeated formula of previous Far Cry, the ridiculous combat pacing and insane random cut scenes made me feel like the game was washing me along like river rapids while I struggled to get a breath. Its even worse when you come back after a day or two and the insanity starts right off again. Its was enough to give me an anxiety attack just anticipating giving it another shot in hope it improved. I was relieved to give it up and uninstall. I have no clue about the story, I was to busy trying to understand how I got plucked out of the game into a cut scene that may as well been on Mars. I loved 1-3, skipped 4, so I can't say Far Cry fans will like this iteration. If you can get it free, try on the feel, but I would not pay more than $10 for this nightmare. Nice graphics though and a good fps test for PC builders.    … Expand
  10. Gurpgork
    Jul 6, 2022
    0
    Intro on hard is impossible, enemies with auto aim and kill you in 1 hit. ruins the whole game
  11. Ridikulasan
    Jan 21, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Possibly the worst game I ever played and I played hundreds. The gameplay is repetetive and doesn't do anything to set itself apart from other games of the genre or from previous entries. The visuals aren't bad but I experinced visual bugs and missing textures. AI is as dumb as a bag of nails. The characters are a hit or miss, in my opinion, the only good antagonist is John and the rest have no depth to them, Jacob is a dumb soldier, Faith is a manipulative hippie basicly and Joseph is your stereotypycal zealot with Charles Manson vibes. As for the main character and everyone around you, they're forgettable and have nothing to add to the story. And my god the story....... What can I say it's a trainwreck from start to finnish. It gets interupted everytime you reach a milestone in RP or resistance points by you getting kidnapped and you not being able to prevent it. It has no nuance and it's too preachy about the way we live, but it falls apart because Joseph is a huge hypocrite. And in the end, no matter what you do YOU lose and he has WON. And as a last slap, in the "good" ending HE IS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. Don't buy this game there are so many better ones out there and cheaper in 2022.… Expand
  12. Busso1234
    Jan 8, 2022
    0
    gioco pessimo ,ma il più grande errore è stato la mancanza del doppiaggio italiano, trovo vergognoso da parte di ogni casa produttrice di videogiochi che nel 2021/2022 non implementare il doppiaggio italiano considerando anche che il mercato italiano è uno dei più grandi in europa e nel mondo, su progetti che vengono a costare milioni non doppiare significa insultare un mercato che tigioco pessimo ,ma il più grande errore è stato la mancanza del doppiaggio italiano, trovo vergognoso da parte di ogni casa produttrice di videogiochi che nel 2021/2022 non implementare il doppiaggio italiano considerando anche che il mercato italiano è uno dei più grandi in europa e nel mondo, su progetti che vengono a costare milioni non doppiare significa insultare un mercato che ti supporta ma che adesso non lo farà più ,perchè in italia qualsiasi persona che ha aquistato far cry 6 dice che non comprerà il seguito senza doppiaggio ,basta vedere anche le altre critiche su questo sito… Expand
  13. tmdrzk
    Dec 11, 2021
    4
    This was my first Far Cry game ever, finished it yesterday.

    There is basically no storyline, and when there is it's reaaaally bad. Like introducing magic/psychic BS bad (Faith's region) or teleporting you without sense to enemy base just to make a cut-scene (all regions). The gameplay is nice, but the amount of outposts, tedious side-missions (there are fun ones also, but mostly it's a    This was my first Far Cry game ever, finished it yesterday.

    There is basically no storyline, and when there is it's reaaaally bad. Like introducing magic/psychic BS bad (Faith's region) or teleporting you without sense to enemy base just to make a cut-scene (all regions).
    The gameplay is nice, but the amount of outposts, tedious side-missions (there are fun ones also, but mostly it's a grind) and random enemies only serve to prolongate this game to a 20 h experience instead of a 10 h one. The game makes everything painstakingly repetitive, so it loses it's freshness and it becomes a grind to get resistance points very quickly.

    All the time I played the main storyline and side missions I had a thought "oh, it's like Borderlands 2 but much worse".    … Expand
  14. Luahanseng
    Nov 3, 2021
    3
    Far Cry 5 on PS5
    Game Completed : Nov 3, 2021
    Playtime : 45 hours To be clear, i completed this game just to get over with the franchise. If this is how far cry goes, then the franchise is a trash for me. The game is garbage and before i tell you why, i will first give the very few good points about this game. You can say this is a triple A because of its sandbox system and it does    Far Cry 5 on PS5
    Game Completed : Nov 3, 2021
    Playtime : 45 hours

    To be clear, i completed this game just to get over with the franchise. If this is how far cry goes, then the franchise is a trash for me. The game is garbage and before i tell you why, i will first give the very few good points about this game. You can say this is a triple A because of its sandbox system and it does feel good specially if you ride the chopper and vehicle but thars about it. Why i think this game is trash:

    1. Whenever you progress the game, very often i guess 10 times per region? you will be dragged to this very awful, linear, not very immersive ugly, and very very repetitive mandatory shooting story system. Im guessing it is how they progress the story? Its the worst idea. Its not immersive at all and to make it worst, very repetitive.

    2. Everything about how they execute its story, narrative, is god damn cheesy in a very bad way specially when they play the song "only you" while you are out shooting enemies over and over. POOR TASTE

    3. You couldnt care less about the characters, and their dialogues. Everythings feels like just fillers.

    4. Its a re-skin of Assassins Creed i guess UBISOFT as a whole. Dont trust this awefull developer. Overall, its a TRASH.    … Expand
  15. Arda_104
    Oct 16, 2021
    0
    İ think all the Far Cry series are same
    İ dont recomend this game because the graphics and gameplay is very bad
  16. Buzzkill17
    Sep 6, 2021
    0
    Awful story, awful characters, awful game mechanics. What a travesty this game is.
  17. DavidHoltzer
    Aug 8, 2019
    3
    Every aspect of this game is uninspired. Mute protagonist says everything especially in an fps game. The villain isn't much better and quite frankly the other characters are worse and i forgot about them. The AI is bad but our human team mate are totally brain dead. The missions are tedious and i didn't enjoy the side quests either. The location is worth mentioning because it's fitsEvery aspect of this game is uninspired. Mute protagonist says everything especially in an fps game. The villain isn't much better and quite frankly the other characters are worse and i forgot about them. The AI is bad but our human team mate are totally brain dead. The missions are tedious and i didn't enjoy the side quests either. The location is worth mentioning because it's fits perfectly in an uninspired game like this.… Expand
  18. Copyzero
    Aug 11, 2021
    3
    Este jogo simplesmente não funciona, é completamente bugado, o stealth é péssimo, o combate é o pior da série, armas de curto alcance toscas, inimigos bucha de tiro, personagens bossais e um enredo vergonhoso.
  19. Cumio31
    Aug 8, 2021
    1
    Piece of shytty game jdksjdjsjjfjnsjsnbxbsnnnjkgkgkksnkxkfjfjkajxnnfjkdkksj
  20. mnKx
    Aug 7, 2021
    0
    You should treat ubisoft as they treat their costumers, like ****
    Don't buy this overpriced ****
  21. NerdGaming
    Jul 14, 2021
    2
    Eigentlich bin ich ein riesiger Far Cry Fan, aber was Ubisoft nach dem 3. Teil mit dieser Serie gemacht hat ist einfach ultra schade. Die Welt ist wieder nach der bekannten Ubisoft Formel gemacht, tausende belanglose, schlecht geschriebene und langweilige Nebenmissionen und viel zu viele Gegner auf der Karte, natürlich gibt es auch wieder die Türme, die man machen muss um die Karte weiterEigentlich bin ich ein riesiger Far Cry Fan, aber was Ubisoft nach dem 3. Teil mit dieser Serie gemacht hat ist einfach ultra schade. Die Welt ist wieder nach der bekannten Ubisoft Formel gemacht, tausende belanglose, schlecht geschriebene und langweilige Nebenmissionen und viel zu viele Gegner auf der Karte, natürlich gibt es auch wieder die Türme, die man machen muss um die Karte weiter freizulegen,
    Dazu kommt noch das das Gunplay miserabel geworden ist und das ist bei einem so bekannten Shooter wie Far Cry schon wirklich peinlich, die Charaktere bleiben alle blass, die Handlung hat unzählige Fehler und es kommt zu keinem Zeitpunkt auch nur ein kleines bisschen Stimmung auf.
    Meiner Meinung nach lohnt es sich einfach vorne und hinten nicht dieses Spie kau kaufen, ich hoffe einfach mal das sich Ubisoft bei Far Cry 6 auf die Anfänge zurück besinnt und wieder ein Spiel raus bringt, das mit den ersten 3 Teilen mithalten kann.
    -NerdGaming    … Expand
  22. BazieW
    Jun 12, 2021
    4
    Far Cry 5 put you in a sandbox in Montana, but take away all the fun of it with forced story progression. Kids these days can't play game if it takes more than 4 hours. Game looks good and soundtrack is good, some very good and funny characters. There are some fun elements and if doing properly this could have been great. But this story progression just overshadow all the good things, soFar Cry 5 put you in a sandbox in Montana, but take away all the fun of it with forced story progression. Kids these days can't play game if it takes more than 4 hours. Game looks good and soundtrack is good, some very good and funny characters. There are some fun elements and if doing properly this could have been great. But this story progression just overshadow all the good things, so no, it is not that good after all.… Expand
  23. garret1452
    May 29, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Far cry 5 is a game that takes a great idea for a story but manages to turn it into a Ubisoft game. What do I mean by a Ubisoft game? I mean a generic boring game that crashes every single time I fast travel. I played this game at launch, and about two weeks ago, all the way through both times. While it looks fine and plays fine, it takes a potentially interesting story with a idea and made it boring. Somehow managing to turn a cult in the U.S.A into something dull. The actor playing "The Father" is clearly talented and doing a great job, but his character is easily predictable, as he justifies everything he does with "God said to do it" which gets old really quick. The three sub bosses are a little better, but they're just three mentally ill people who have a place to hurt people which is as far as they go. The allied characters are all just one note bit parts like the sniper lady is from a military, or the preacher just an unhinged preacher. In that it remains dull. Having the character you play as not speak, or even have a real name, can work in some games, but here it just feel lazy. The side missions are a little better but not by much. They just allow for a little more fun. Overall if you have ever played a Ubisoft game since Far Cry 3, you've played this game. Yet some how it's worse then a game that came out 6 years before it. In addition, this game is laden with microtransactions and it is important to remember that Ubisoft not only defended employees who committed sexual assault on female employees, but also allowed said abusers "resign" with a very large sum of money and no legal action placed.… Expand
  24. Satisfaction
    May 11, 2021
    0
    This game feels like AAA bargain bin game - a lot of issues related to its performance and progression (not to mention copy-pasted elements from FC3 and FC4) are hindering the joy you might get from this visually good game.
  25. kyomehuang
    Apr 1, 2021
    3
    The script writer must have a pretty messed up mind to come up with such ridiculous endings, so zero point for the plot. I would give a zero to the gameplay as well, since I can still encounter the atonement bug 3 YEARS after release! The 3 points are only meant for the graphics. This is the first time I rate something on metacritic, I took the extra effort to register an account just soThe script writer must have a pretty messed up mind to come up with such ridiculous endings, so zero point for the plot. I would give a zero to the gameplay as well, since I can still encounter the atonement bug 3 YEARS after release! The 3 points are only meant for the graphics. This is the first time I rate something on metacritic, I took the extra effort to register an account just so that I can express my anger after playing through. This game is my first one into the franchise, and I really hoped, after bearing all the harassing in-game environment and the naive bad guy mumble jumble, to be able to kill the antagonist in the final boss fight, but surprise surprise, the game resorted such a borderline sociopathic ending like a gigantic feces-soaked middle finger rubbing my face. I'm not someone who only appreciate happy ending, I like well plotted very bad endings too, but this, this is far beyond disgusting. I will never even touch this franchise ever again. C'ÉTAIT VRAIMENT UNE HISTOIRE DE MERDE !!… Expand
  26. CombatFork
    Mar 23, 2021
    4
    Loved 3. Liked 4, but forgot it entirely. 5 is the worst in that trilogy. You're thrust into the role of a nameless, faceless, voiceless US Marshall attempting to stop a doomsday cult. That's about as much backstory as you get. After the opening scene, you're then dropped into this comically redneck world that contrasts with the tone of the main story too much. After accepting that thisLoved 3. Liked 4, but forgot it entirely. 5 is the worst in that trilogy. You're thrust into the role of a nameless, faceless, voiceless US Marshall attempting to stop a doomsday cult. That's about as much backstory as you get. After the opening scene, you're then dropped into this comically redneck world that contrasts with the tone of the main story too much. After accepting that this game has nothing smart or interesting to say, then you experience all of the technical faults this game has. You'll be exploring, maybe rappelling up a cliff to grab a prepper stash, only for a horde of cultist which you previously cleared to respawn randomly and down your companion, forcing you to abandon what you were doing to help. Same could be said of when you're fishing have to abandon a fish mid hook to deal with cultist that have spawned in the area and are now shooting you. Ruins the flow of the game. Other times, you'll clip into walls, steel beams, cliffs, etc, forcing you to do a hard reset. The driving is a shade above awful and you literally have 2 radio stations to help you ignore how bad the driving is. The gunplay is terrible. 3 and 4 felt snappy and precise enough to make it exciting. Gunplay in 5 is goopy, drifty and just full of awful recoil. The world of Montana is very pretty, but honestly pales in comparison to an Island paradise (3) or the Himalayan mountains (4).

    I'm glad I purchased this on sale, because this is among the most disappointing games I've played in some time.    … Expand
  27. TheMrCtulhu
    Feb 22, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Игра переполнена очень, очень спорными и нелогичными моментами и решениями. Почему гг безликий болванчик? Почему так много откровенно кринжовых костюмов и фриковатых масок? Это что за фортнайт недоделанный? Зачем это в Far cry?
    Почему стрельба стала пустой? Почему противники настолько тупы? Почему убрали стильный и крутой килл ножом? (правда, вернули в new dawn) Что за сраный кринж кидаться лопатой?
    Почему меня, зачастую против моей воли, ведут на встречу с антогонистами? В этот момент я занят другими делами в мире игры? Почему с Иаковом одна и та-же полоса препятствий? И оружие в этом моменте розовенькое, это вся атмосфера в зад.
    Аркада. Это что за отстой вместо нормального коопа/мультиплеера?
    В общем, плохо. Реально, это для меня самый слабый Far cry из всей серии.    … Expand
  28. hyun8801
    Jan 22, 2021
    1
    being kidnapped and interrupted from exploring 12 times is ridiculous. Lazy writing. Another one of those Ubisoft open world copy and pastes
  29. DKKenny
    Jan 7, 2021
    4
    There is little difference between the voice lines of npcs which are part of the cult, and real life Christianity, lines which only refer to harmless things like loving God. This game is basically a church shooter sim, and others say it’s repetitive at its core.
  30. Xvatch
    Nov 26, 2020
    4
    Beautiful open world environment and enemy theme but gunplay is close to being terrible with often poor hit detection and general gameplay is and always was full of glitches and bugs. With better gunplay and less choppy delay in controls it could have been good.
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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 83 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 83
  3. Negative: 0 out of 83
  1. 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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  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 21, 2018
    80
    A mostly excellent sandbox that delights with its gorgeous world, breadth of activities, and stellar shootouts. It can be a bit grindy, mind.[June 2018, p.93]
  3. GameGrin
    May 7, 2018
    85
    Far Cry 5 established itself as one of the best in the series, The game features some gorgeous scenery, an engaging story and the overall story is great fun and the theme is very realistic. The game mixes up the missions so it doesn't get repetitive halfway through the game. Far Cry 5 is a great entry to the series for newbies and veterans alike.
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