Far Cry 5

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  1. Catesfan
    Apr 30, 2019
    4
    Graphics: I played it on Ps4 and it looks and runs great, so i don't mind the fact that they use the same graphic engine for 10 years. Faces and emotions in cinematics look good. The bad thing is that 80% of all missions including main missons don't have that quality. People just stand still with stone faces and pronounce emotional speeches. It looks dated in 2018.
    Gameplay: many people    Graphics: I played it on Ps4 and it looks and runs great, so i don't mind the fact that they use the same graphic engine for 10 years. Faces and emotions in cinematics look good. The bad thing is that 80% of all missions including main missons don't have that quality. People just stand still with stone faces and pronounce emotional speeches. It looks dated in 2018.
    Gameplay: many people say this is the most fun Far Cry game ever had in terms of gameplay variety. I can not agree. Things you do on Island No.1 are the same things you do on other 2 islands and they are not that fun, because you did all that in previous games and because all those activities are executed poorly. If you captured one base, you've captured them all. It is a game for those who like spending hours to search for collectibles, get a badge and custom made rediculous rocket launcher skin. It is a game for those who like to come home, capture one base, kill some animals, sell stuff and buy a bigger grenade sack. It is not bad, it is just I think I got tired of that tedious activity. Oh, and I am also angry at Ubisoft for selling rehashed resourses over and over again for full price.    … Expand
  2. xANUGx
    Apr 1, 2018
    4
    The story is just terrible. You end up cutting any scene you can. The story cut scenes jump in and take control of your game over and over and over until you get pissed. All you want to do is run through the map playing the game and completing quests... then the story cut scene jumps in and ruins the gameplay experience.
    I was getting more and more frustrated as I played. The ending was    The story is just terrible. You end up cutting any scene you can. The story cut scenes jump in and take control of your game over and over and over until you get pissed. All you want to do is run through the map playing the game and completing quests... then the story cut scene jumps in and ruins the gameplay experience.
    I was getting more and more frustrated as I played. The ending was absolutely moronic. It finished off the stupid storyline with a far worse than imagined ending. I hated it. It ruined the game for me
    On the upside, the gameplay is fun and engaging. There are tons of bugs and glitches that annoyed me, but I kept coming back so I could blow up more stuff.    … Expand
  3. Vertran187
    Jan 3, 2019
    4
    Fun Game its what you expect from a farcry game the problem is the unlocks take to long to actually get playing the game normally.
    Basicly compare to the older game the weapons ate 3 to 4 time longer to unlock you finish the game well bebore getting the best weapons.
    this would have been 8 out off 10 but - 4 for Micro transaction in single player. wait for discount and what ever you do    Fun Game its what you expect from a farcry game the problem is the unlocks take to long to actually get playing the game normally.
    Basicly compare to the older game the weapons ate 3 to 4 time longer to unlock you finish the game well bebore getting the best weapons.
    this would have been 8 out off 10 but - 4 for Micro transaction in single player. wait for discount and what ever you do dont spend in game and encourage this BS.    … Expand
  4. Zanfire
    Mar 28, 2018
    4
    Ubisoft strikes again.

    As for many other titles released by the (in)famous software house, FarCry5 is doomed by bugs at day 1 release. After about 4 hours of play, I got a gamebreaking bug that forced me to restart my gamethrough from scratch (Ubisoft support obviusly can't help, and, as always, it ends up like hitting a gumwall with your head). The bug is related to a mission where you    Ubisoft strikes again.

    As for many other titles released by the (in)famous software house, FarCry5 is doomed by bugs at day 1 release. After about 4 hours of play, I got a gamebreaking bug that forced me to restart my gamethrough from scratch (Ubisoft support obviusly can't help, and, as always, it ends up like hitting a gumwall with your head). The bug is related to a mission where you need to recover a vehicle: as I died after getting back that vehicle, but before being able to bring it to final destination, I'm stuck into the mission as the the vehicole is not in existence anymore and I'm not allowed to "Exit Mission", as doing that simply bring me back to last saved checkpoint. And the suggested solution from the support team is to just cloud your saves often. Because yeah, I pay 60bucks to being forced to backup save each half an hour or so. Additionally the game suffers some fps drops even on PS4Pro and the manual save simply don't works.

    The game "per se" is still a good FarCry staple, plenty of activities and stuff to do, even if way too chaothic if the randomizer decide to strike hard on you (try to stay at a crossroads for few minutes, and you'll probably won't be able to move around anymore due to the amount of enemy vehicles will ammass in the area, just because they pass by and get involved in gunfight), with some nice new way on how acquiring objectives works. The graphics are very good (as long as you don't fly) and the gameplay is solid (the story is a bit of a meh, even if it does offers interesting bosses, opposed to the basci enemies that are so repetitive it hurts) but none of these good aspects are truly innovative and surely don't balance Ubisoft abitude to release unfinished, unpolished retail products.    … Expand
  5. 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
  6. Pitonas
    Apr 27, 2018
    4
    Having played all 6 far cries (blood dragon, primal). I conclude that this is worst part by far, it has nothing new or good in it. Ghost recon Wildlands supersedes this pile in every aspect. It seems Far Cry finally followed in footsteps of Mass Effect and Assassins Creed... Shame really.
  7. willisdun
    Mar 28, 2018
    4
    Sigh..... I'm trying so hard to like this game but the more I play this the more I feel this game was over hyped. Everything just feels so lame. There are a few tweaks but it's not enough to make the game feel fresh. The driving still sucks, The guns lack any kind of punch, the enemy a.i is fucckin dumb....Hopefully they cant patch this , but uhhh yeah you can buy it if you wish but ISigh..... I'm trying so hard to like this game but the more I play this the more I feel this game was over hyped. Everything just feels so lame. There are a few tweaks but it's not enough to make the game feel fresh. The driving still sucks, The guns lack any kind of punch, the enemy a.i is fucckin dumb....Hopefully they cant patch this , but uhhh yeah you can buy it if you wish but I was a bit disappointed. And this is coming from a fan of the series from the pc days.… Expand
  8. fazzolini
    May 5, 2018
    4
    Why did they have to make this game so boring? It is worse than Far Cry 4. This game sucks. I wanted it to be good so badly, but it keeps disappointing. The only good thing is the looks but it only takes the game so far. Disappointment.
  9. Metempsychosis
    Apr 3, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Has decent graphics, not good, for this generation. Most of my play sessions had at least one bug that killed a quest or was just generally annoying.

    The sound design is great, though.

    There is almost no variation in guns, and most of them are the same, so there is no point.

    Characters are pretty fun, except the 'villains'. They're just annoying, talking way too much when my character is the most passive waste of a main character when they're not shooting stuff.

    Most of the gameplay is fun (in the absence of bugs), but one particular boss fight forces you through very bad airplane controls to fight another plane and it's just frustrating. And there is no satisfaction of killing them because the game is too enamored with them to allow the main character to overcome them. You kill one of these **** and the game turns it on you as if you're the bad person. Because torture, drugging and brainwashing is now acceptable, apparently. This is all because of the sewage that is called 'story' with this game.

    The real problem is with the story, then. Turns out that the evil **** kidnaping people, drugging them, stealing, destroying property, abusing animals, torturing people, was right all along, and the only way to get a half good ending is to not play the game, giving up before the end of the prologue. And that is assuming that it's not all just in vain because of an asspull of a plot twist of nuclear weapons being detonated. In Montana. The obvious implication being that Joseph was right, actually had prophesized the future, was protected by God, and... I don't know. Nothing makes any sense in that ending to the point there are people theorizing it's a hallucination because of the drugs the guy dumps on the ground before the final fight. Makes more sense than the actual story...

    It's said that there are signs of it all over, like the radio, that I never listened to because every time I was on a car, there were murderous cultists crawling up my ass, trying to kill me or one of Joseph's lieutenants spewing their **** all over again, as if you're supposed to feel bad for playing the game. And that is when the NPCs weren't bugging and repeating their lines over and over.

    What a piece of **** So, I guess this is games now. A story that punishes you for playing the game. How about people punish Ubisoft for terrible writing by not playing their games? People complained of Mass Effect 3, but in that game, you didn't lose, even though you had won. People complained of Mass Effect: Andromeda, but at least, the whole gameplay isn't pointless because the villain wasn't right all along. People complained about ET, way back in the Atari 2600, but at least the story wasn't a pointless waste of time!    … Expand
  10. dyinginbeauty
    Jun 19, 2018
    4
    Amazing graphics, good FPS gun gameplay, and plenty to do here. Unfortunately the AI as well as a predictable, and shallow story let this down... This could have been an amazing piece of satirical social commentary as the trailers had nuanced to this. Sadly though, it is nothing more than a well presented and certainly playable FPS game that feels shallow and repetitive after a few hoursAmazing graphics, good FPS gun gameplay, and plenty to do here. Unfortunately the AI as well as a predictable, and shallow story let this down... This could have been an amazing piece of satirical social commentary as the trailers had nuanced to this. Sadly though, it is nothing more than a well presented and certainly playable FPS game that feels shallow and repetitive after a few hours in... I deleted it after about 60% complete - its just boring and empty.… Expand
  11. dendrahl
    Apr 4, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall the game is good with the variety of side missions and things to do in the game. The fictional Montana county of Hope is broken up into 3 areas each controlled by the Main bosses lieutenants. In each area the goal is to get to 3 levels of resistance so you can face off with the lieutenant and free that area. The problem is when you get to each level of resistance they send out capture parties to take you captive. And that is when the problems for this game begin. You get captured no matter what you do. Sure you can defeat the capture parties that come continuously and non stop but then you will get hit out of nowhere with a "Bliss bullet". You can be up in an aircraft or helicopter or in the middle of an outpost that is full of your specialists and half a dozen other non player characters. It doesn't matter you will get captured. If you are doing the math that's 3 levels of resistance times 3 areas and that equals getting CAPTURED 9 TIMES! That's right you will be captured and forced to do story missions at least 9 times throughout the campaign. It totally breaks any immersion that you may have and frustrates you to no end. All the people around you basically stand by and watch you get captured it is so unrealistic. I have stopped playing the game because of it. If you like being forced to do missions whether you want to or not then you will love this game, otherwise go play something else until UBISOFT decides to stop being lazy and actually think of other ways to move the story along. I can't believe this got through play testing and made it into the actual game. I have talked alot about this but it's only because it is that jarring and lazy. I could understand getting captured a few times even though it is a way overused trope but 9 TIMES? That is unacceptable. I will gladly change my review if they ever decide to remove the feature and come up with another non lazy way to move the story forward.… Expand
  12. CoreGamer1408
    Apr 9, 2020
    4
    The contemporary setting and local of this Far Cry game in the USA makes absolutely no sense and is a really dumb stupid premise. The US isn't a wild west second or third world crap hole country rife with lawlessness like Far Cry 1-4. The suspension of disbelief takes a whole new level with this one for sure this being in the USA. Did the National Guard/Military/FBI and CIA all go onThe contemporary setting and local of this Far Cry game in the USA makes absolutely no sense and is a really dumb stupid premise. The US isn't a wild west second or third world crap hole country rife with lawlessness like Far Cry 1-4. The suspension of disbelief takes a whole new level with this one for sure this being in the USA. Did the National Guard/Military/FBI and CIA all go on holiday or something?

    Primal, Blood Dragon, even Instincts was amazing, but kind of burnt out on the stale contemporary Far Cry open world shooters like this one. If I'd have never played a Far Cry game I'd probably rate this higher, but I have played like eight, so.    … Expand
  13. Xcero
    May 17, 2018
    4
    Review: the game is good, fun, if...
    The problem is: too unrealistically hard. Enemy spawn everywhere, get shot twice then down. Impossible to raid convoy without dynamite at close range or trap
    No dynamic weather, and last hunting become much more difficult and bear dog wolf lion spawn at random and **** hard to shoot, entire mags empt twice to beat up a dog,
  14. NapoMMC
    Nov 6, 2018
    4
    Any shooting/archery game will get from me 50% of the rating for lacking gyro aiming. The PS4 is with us since 2013, the controllers are awesome but nobody uses the gyro aiming. I just get frustrated for most of the game to try shoot something when it's so easy to add the damn gyro aiming and make it 10 times better with so little effort. When you get used to aiming close to properly theAny shooting/archery game will get from me 50% of the rating for lacking gyro aiming. The PS4 is with us since 2013, the controllers are awesome but nobody uses the gyro aiming. I just get frustrated for most of the game to try shoot something when it's so easy to add the damn gyro aiming and make it 10 times better with so little effort. When you get used to aiming close to properly the freaking game is over.

    It's a typical Far Cry game with most of the same Far Cry stuff in it. For the most part, as most of the other Far Cry games it's about an 8/10 but I can't stand the amount of laziness that goes into most recent games, including this one. I'll update my score when and if they ever patch the game with proper environment destruction and gyro aiming, but as it stands 4/10 => aka lame and lazy when talking about a game that can be easily made one of the very good games of this generation with jut a bit of love and care for the consumers.    … Expand
  15. Brownbelt2018
    Mar 27, 2018
    4
    Same, Same but a little bit different. Basically the same as Far Cry 4 but with a few tweeks to make you think that it's a different game. I played this for about 8 hours and it sadly feels the same as the last instalment. The graphics are probably the best thing about his game.I have just finished Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and in comparison this game is just way too easy. I will beSame, Same but a little bit different. Basically the same as Far Cry 4 but with a few tweeks to make you think that it's a different game. I played this for about 8 hours and it sadly feels the same as the last instalment. The graphics are probably the best thing about his game.I have just finished Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and in comparison this game is just way too easy. I will be returning this game to EB within the week and getting a preorder for Dark Souls Remastered! GG… Expand
  16. Glitch22080
    Mar 31, 2018
    4
    Don't believe the hype! I did my best to like this game after hearing mostly positive reviews, praising the open world, mission structure and the like. I thought I would be able to play it my own way... boy, was I fooled. Gone are the days of choosing my loadout and going for the stealth approach. Now the way the perk points/leveling system work you end up having to do things and useDon't believe the hype! I did my best to like this game after hearing mostly positive reviews, praising the open world, mission structure and the like. I thought I would be able to play it my own way... boy, was I fooled. Gone are the days of choosing my loadout and going for the stealth approach. Now the way the perk points/leveling system work you end up having to do things and use weapons you may never have wanted to use; like for me, running into a base with a flamethrower all the while hucking grenades just to earn a few extra perk points. The missions you do don't even contribute to your experience bar, because you don't have one, and therefore just end up feeling like mostly a time waste. Yes, doing many of the missions does propel you through the story by way of resistance points, but that won't make your character better and in turn leaves me less driven to do them; the storyline is one of the weakest in the series, after the opening introduction much steam is lost. The world in itself may be nice, but feels aimless in that you're given very little direction.

    If you just want an open world to explore, or find yourself hard up for some Ubisoft Club points, by all means give the game a wirl, it may be for you. I however find this game to be a downgrade in many ways, from the silent protagonist to the directionless mission structure, it is not for me and I feel very misled. At the very least do yourself a favor and wait for a sale.    … Expand
  17. 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
  18. MoPaint
    Apr 9, 2018
    4
    I have played all the Far Cry games and absolutely hated this one. I find that, for some reason, Ubisoft went out of their way to fill the game with shock factor instead of focusing more on the game play.

    It was quite alarming to see dead bodies strewn all over the place and people hung for bridges. This did not add to the game play whatsoever. Neither did a constant and seemingly    I have played all the Far Cry games and absolutely hated this one. I find that, for some reason, Ubisoft went out of their way to fill the game with shock factor instead of focusing more on the game play.

    It was quite alarming to see dead bodies strewn all over the place and people hung for bridges. This did not add to the game play whatsoever. Neither did a constant and seemingly endless stream of enemies to take down. You clear out an area, yet there were legions of enemies that continue to show up to shoot things up. It made no sense. If you cleared out an area, why aren't the people who now populate these areas taking care of these hordes of enemies. And of course, they only target you.

    I had multiple issues with collision detection throughout the game. Empty a full magazine at an enemy while they just stand there and three shot you. This happened many times. Too many.

    Some of the side missions were seriously bugged. One were you have to talk to a guy and get into his car for him to drive you to a new location. He wouldn't get in the car. And if enemies or a forest creature show up, in interrupts the whole thing and you have to clear everything out. Even then, you can't talk to the guy anymore to get the mission going again. Another mission where you have to follow a helicopter once the baddie gets into it. The guy wouldn't get in! Then when he did, the Helicopter would disappear off the screen and you fail the mission because it's too far away. Another where you have to kill bears. As I'm killing bears I clip one of the townspeople running away from it, and the town starts shooting at me! Another where you have to use your grappling hook to reach a cache of goodies. Good lord, was that bugged. No matter how many times I tried, the hook would glitch and I would fall to my death. Another mission where I scope out the entire area and there are no enemies at all save two guys trying to drown a civilian. I kill one of the guys and suddenly it's like some underground bunker opens up and 25 enemies show up out of the blue. They were nowhere in site when I reconned the area. No bunker. But they show up out of the clear blue sky.

    Gorgeous graphics. Water looks amazing. Too frustrating.    … Expand
  19. soquizzy
    Jun 22, 2018
    4
    Finally completed this game all missions and challengers.The graphics and art looks fantastic however after awhile it gets repetitive.The real gems in the game are few but are brilliant,The puzzles getting into buildings and compounds were done very well.The AI of the enemy's were the best in the series so far. Weapons seemed balanced and handle well would have loved a finerFinally completed this game all missions and challengers.The graphics and art looks fantastic however after awhile it gets repetitive.The real gems in the game are few but are brilliant,The puzzles getting into buildings and compounds were done very well.The AI of the enemy's were the best in the series so far. Weapons seemed balanced and handle well would have loved a finer detailed cross hair for scopes. Now the let downs that just make me mad.The NPC's in this game were so annoying I had to kill them to shut them up with there garbage banter.The avatars and NPC's are simple ugly and the the outfits are sad. My female avatar looks like a man she dosn't look female has no outfits what I would call female.Why no avatar customization ?.The developers really missed an opportunity to make some cash from decent avatars and outfits.Why no third person view ? First person view is so dumb in a video game why no option ?The cars,boats and planes are lame, they all operate and handle the same except for Nixon'[s trash vehicles that handle like garbage.The fishing mechanics are well done however all fish catches are the same except for line breakages depending on what rod you use.Why add Arcade when a monthly sub is required to use it. The story is just stupid so disjointed the ending was just lazy and ruined what credibility the narrative held.The finale boss fights with the seeds didn't make any sense there deaths were lame.The writers need to take a good look at the real cultists the corrupt governments of this world.plenty of reality there to make a good story. Don't need seeds and angels just add faceless UN soldiers come to take your property and national sovereignty and right to practice religion.The game Advocating Datura use is really stupid. All parts of the datura plant, also known as devil's trumpet or Jimson Weed, are poisonous. The seeds and young leaves of the plant contain the highest amount of toxic alkaloids.But I guess we all have an agenda, seems UBsoft 666 is no different.This game is a fail for me as a work of art it dosn,t bring anything worthy to the Farcry series and in my opinion it will be the last.If you like this game get Just cause 2 at least Just cause was original.I gave this game a 4… Expand
  20. xSPAZZx
    Nov 21, 2019
    4
    This game got a lot of negative press because it DIDN'T portray everyday Midwestern Americans using their 2nd amendment rights to defend their homes from a cult as the BAD GUYS!
    However, this all does not excuse a mediocre far cry experience. I felt like i was playing far cry 2 demo from 2006 (nothing seemed groundbreaking)
    PROS: +Initially fun until you realize all the areas are    This game got a lot of negative press because it DIDN'T portray everyday Midwestern Americans using their 2nd amendment rights to defend their homes from a cult as the BAD GUYS!
    However, this all does not excuse a mediocre far cry experience. I felt like i was playing far cry 2 demo from 2006 (nothing seemed groundbreaking)
    PROS:
    +Initially fun until you realize all the areas are repetitive, do stuff, cause stuff, get kidnapped, and rinse/repeat; it's good bubblegum but loses flavor fast.
    +graphics are stellar (I am on Ps4 NOT-PRO and no crash no major frps drop after 45 hours)
    +The setting (good to see small town america get some justice even if it felt a little over diversified for the sake of diversity; excluding this, it is a faithful depiction of a rural American town)
    +Music is excellent (obviously those who have disdain for America and specifically Middle America will find our folk music not their cup of tea (I'm speaking to you EuroGamer. Complaining about the setting is underhanded jab at America and ignorant as hell)
    +The Setting. I for one am happy I am not in ANOTHER foreign jungle where the people and setting are less relatable (see that's not fair for me to say about the previous far cry's, but the game critics certainly refuse to look at it from our side. Only theirs is valid...)
    -->The setting preference is that at the end of the day. Preference. And I thought this game was "bland and formulaic" it definitely tried to break its ubigame criticism by changing the venue. The elitist game journalists aren't happy that it shows everyday America in a positive light (imo)

    NEUTRAL:
    +Gun variety and main weapon customization (could be better. Putting a silencer on every weapon without a penalty kinda makes it foolish TO NOT USE silencers)
    -+Gunplay: kinda feels phoned in. Good enough but that's it, it's neither satisfying nor unsatisfying to shoot a weapon)
    -+Lack of a better melee/close quarter combat system. While I love all the melee weapons. The stealth implementation could have had more meat to it. I wanted a counter attack system while getting attacked with a mekee weapon (some kind of skill based trigger like having to press a few buttons correctly in a row?)
    -+ Story, not impressed. Felt contrived and rushed. As if far cry New Dawn was meant to be the true DLC to Far Cry 5...

    CONS
    ---Gameplay can and does get too chaotic for its own good (this is valid; but this is where most gaming journals end their empirical analysis of the game)
    -->NPC's while you are speaking or trying to get a mission/plot moving forward can and do get mauled by animals and/or cultists descend out of nowhere
    ----PLAYERS CHARACTER IS FACELESS AND HAS NO DIALOGUE (this is the real reason why this game deserves a point off. Your character doesn't speak--this may have been a foolish attempt to immerse YOU in the game... The lack of dialogue whatsoever is glaring and at times frustrating that you would remain solent while torture scenes occurred)
    ---Half stepping Political message: the game makes jabs at both Obama and trump. But I think the trunk lampooning was far more accentuated. By trying to appeal WITH HALF MEASURES, Ubisoft has alienated both audiences: the game critics wanted a politically charged game that satirized today's culture war, and gamers just wanted an immersive, rewarding, good single player (yes single player games are important) game with player character having a personality or at least vocal chords.
    -->This this game ended up alienating the PC crowd for not going "far enough" and the regular crowd for Ubisoft's attempt to pander to subversive elements in our country. We just wanted a good game good story.
    So I couldn't find MANY honest veritable reviews about the game without reading user reviews.
    Lazy video game journalists don't realize you must LOOT the body afterwards (criticism that $$ is hard to come by because they are trying to speed through the game to write their report and get back to their real life.
    The cult is NOT white supremacist as all the journals were desperately drooling. The cult is directly relayed to Waco Texas and David Koresh.

    UPDATE as of Jan 2019: game went to an 8...it's a modern fallout experience. It could have been more special sure. And stay away from the DLCs they are awful.
    Ubisoft not even a year into this game's release they are unveiling far cry 5.5 aka the actual DLC to Far Cry 5 aka New Dawn... Basically a DLC for $40 bucks. Ubisoft is milking its cash cow :/

    Honestly this game is okay. I am saddened. It's potential that went untapped because we the consumer didn't know the nefarious plan to double dip.

    I hope ubisoft burn. At first, I defended this game, but now realized Ubisoft buttered us up to spend 100$ on this Far Cry 5 "experience" by Achilles heel the DLC and coming out with a 40$ DLC    … Expand
  21. 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
  22. JohnnyWit2003
    May 12, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Annoying capture missions ruined what was a fun game. They happened several times while I was doing other missions and just take you away from the mission, once happening in an airplane???? The capture missions are not hard but kills the immersion and are also not enjoyable. The last straw was a timed dream mission with poor level design and an awful red filter making it hard to see anything. I only play open world games because I love the freedom to go where I want and do missions at my leisure. This game kills that experience.… Expand
  23. Doggokanjiz
    Jul 11, 2020
    4
    loved far cry 3 and 4, not sure why bit this game lost my interest very quickly, the story seemed good but it became very overwhelming very quickly and I couldnt be bothered to go beyond about 8 hours gameplay. glad I bought it for £10
  24. Drumroll123
    Jun 29, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just completed the game and I'm bitterly disappointed. The story could have been compelling, but none of the characters are properly fleshed out, the pacing is way off and the scenes depicted in the open world completely ruin any attempt at mystique around the Cult and the key characters.

    The most ready example is Faith - a young, attractive and seemingly vulnerable woman who is just the latest in a long line of troubled women to take on the personality of "Faith", all the others having been used up and murdered by The Father. It would be very, very easy to feel sympathy for her if there was a degree of ambiguity to her character. But just walking down any road in the region she controls, we see random men and women being murdered and their corpses mutilated by the side of the road. Tortured and chemically lobotomised prisoners tending huge drug crops. Mass graves pilied high with civilian bodies and those of her own followers. In short, you would have to be mentally disabled to actually feel sorry for the person responsible for that - no matter how cute she looks in her little fairy dress. It's also worth noting that all of your interactions with her are via hallucinations that may or may not have some level of reality to them. The result of this is that what should be a poignant moment after you kill her in the boss fight, just feels absolutely empty. To the best of my knowledge, your character only meets Faith in person for that fight - it's entirely possible that they've never actually spoken before and that all the sob stories she predictably fed you were entirely in your characters head.

    Add to that the fact that the "Resistance Points" build up way too quickly, so you have remarkably little time to get to know the characters - if you just walk from one mission marker to another rather than fast travel, you're likely to accrue enough resistance points to get you to the next **** session with the area boss. This leaves you with precious little time to get to know the side characters, making for a pretty lonely experience. The lack of character development does nothing to help an already crap ending - as you approach the final bosses compound you find it completely empty (boring) and immediately get taken to a cutscene in which ALL of the secondary characters have been turned into cultists and are threatening to kill the three police officers you start the game with. I think this is supposed to lead to some emotional turmoil, but the secondary characters are so forgettable that I couldn't even remember half of them and you spend all of two minutes actually talking to your police friends. So why the hell would I care? Also, this turn of events absolutely smashes the logical consistency of the game. The Cult had been amassing power for years (somehow not attracting the attention of either the local or federal government) and by the beginning of the game are at the absolute height of their influence. You the player then tear down their empire brick by brick, destroying their resources, killing their members, killing their leaders and eventually leaving them with literally just the crappy little ranch the endgame takes place in. The whole time the cult have been trying to kill you and the other characters. They manage to capture both the player and side characters frequently, but somehow they always manage to escape and come out on top, despite the cult at those points being so powerful. Now though, with all of their property destroyed, their outposts taken, their leaders dead and a gun in the face of the final boss, they have somehow managed not only to capture EVERY SINGLE ONE of the secondary characters, but also convert them to the cult - making them at least loyal enough to be trusted with dozens of fully automatic weapons right in front of the cult leader. If this was at all possible, why didn't the cult do it before? If they have that capability now, once all their stuff is gone and their people dead, they MUST have been able to do it at the beginning when they were at the height of their strength, but apparently they didn't bother. It makes an already weak ending just plain ridiculous.

    My final complaint is a lack of weapons to choose from, and also the existence of "prestige" weapons that can be bought from the beginning of the game and are essentially just the most powerful weapons in the game but with a unique paint job. They make the game far too easy and completely negate the drive to unlock more weapons, not that there's much to unlock anyway. The DLC guns being available in the main game is fun for a little while, but they're so overpowered that they get boring very quickly.

    Positives: Nice music and the gameplay is functionally the same as Far Cry 4, which is a good thing. Shame the rest of the game isn't anywhere near as good.    … Expand
  25. 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.
  26. ConsumerPro
    Jul 12, 2020
    4
    This was the game I was most excited for in 2018. So I was incredibly disappointed when it finally released. The silent protagonist ruined the immersion and the new approach to story telling meant the story was told pretty terribly aswell. The gameplay was OK but too many enemy vehicles driving around. The wprld was ok but not a scratch on previous games in the series. Had so muchThis was the game I was most excited for in 2018. So I was incredibly disappointed when it finally released. The silent protagonist ruined the immersion and the new approach to story telling meant the story was told pretty terribly aswell. The gameplay was OK but too many enemy vehicles driving around. The wprld was ok but not a scratch on previous games in the series. Had so much potential but ended up being boring and not even in the same league as games like Far Cry 3… Expand
  27. 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.
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 83 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 83
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  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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