Far Cry® 5 Reviews

A great Far Cry game with an interesting plot and creative antagonists. I love the side characters and hired guns with their own missions. There is always something to do; whether it be story, collectibles, destroying vehicles, clearing outposts or racing against time.

The best thing about Far Cry 5 is the theme—the atmosphere, the villain, and the scenery are fantastic. The world looks incredible, and the open-world freedom with all kinds of vehicles is great. But once you scratch beneath the surface, the game quickly turns into the same thing over and over again. The story? Forgettable. The main villain is cool, charming, and well-designed, but everything else fades into the background. The game is best played stealthily, which is why I ran with a silenced sniper and shotgun. Sadly, the companion system ruins stealth completely. They’re more of a nuisance than a help, breaking mechanics, making noise, and just generally being useless—I ditched them as soon as I could. What’s actually fun? Stashes and outposts. The little puzzle-based treasure hunts are super creative, offering parkour, gliding, and other fun challenges. Clearing enemy camps through stealth is also enjoyable, but there aren’t enough of them. Progression-wise, leveling up feels pointless. You get all the useful perks early on, and the rest are just filler. Worse yet, resistance progress means nothing—you can take over the whole map, but enemies never let up. They still spawn everywhere, sometimes instantly. I once had an absurd moment on a bridge where enemies kept respawning under and on top of it, creating an endless firefight that made zero sense. Now, the NPCs… My God, the NPCs. This game has some of the worst AI I’ve ever seen in a game. Enemies are brain-dead but have inhuman aim at the same time. One second, they’re standing in the open, letting me pick them off one by one. The next second, they’re sniping me from miles away with a pistol. Then there are civilians. My God, the civilians. These people are suicidal. They walk into enemy fire, stand in front of moving vehicles, and react to danger in the dumbest ways possible. If I had a dollar for every time an NPC ran towards an explosion instead of away, I’d have bought the entire game three times over. But the worst offenders? Friendly NPCs. These people are not your friends. They will block your movement, steal your vehicle, and ruin stealth missions by loudly announcing their presence to enemies. I've had allies kill themselves with their own grenades, drive into rivers for no reason, and randomly shoot at nothing, triggering enemy reinforcements. It’s like they’re working against you. At least the game runs well—solid 50-60 FPS on high settings, and the visuals are fantastic. At the end of the day, Far Cry 5 is just another good-looking, brainless, repetitive shooter. You can buy the best weapons in 3 hours, progression is pointless, and the game doesn’t evolve much from start to finish. It’s fun in short bursts but gets stale fast. If you want to have several hours of fun go for it when it's on sale... this thing is not worth the full price by any means. 4/10 – Gorgeous but shallow, with NPCs so dumb they belong in a comedy game.

Overall game seems pretty fun. I spent a lot of time in it. Was enjoying myself until I got to the ending. That's probably the dumbest boss fight I've ever seen. All the hype and the desire to struggle the main villian, leading up to... that. What a waste of time.

Why was it so bloated !! One of those games where I "forced" myself to play all the boring parts to get to the decent ones. This is a huge letdown after the fourth and especially the third that are among my favorites games. The narrative is completely thrown out of the window in favor of the sandbox. This game felt like it wanted to waste my time, always giving just enough crumbs of gameplay so that I don't drop it. If playing as a camera holding a gun with no name, no past, no future, no voice, not a shred of emotions, fighting vilains that are at best forgetable in a sandbox that is stupidly tedious to play through, is something that you enjoy then maybe this is the game for you.

this is the 5th time I have played it - what I like about it is that there is a ending to it, would recommend it to all that like a first person game that has a lot of action to it.

Far Cry 5 is one of the best games in the series. The environment, the villain, and the story are pretty good. The side quests and characters are also quite fun. [h2]Achievements[/h2] [b]Required time:[/b] 65-75 hours [b]Difficulty (in my opinion):[/b] 6 out of 10 [b]DLCs required for 100%?:[/b] Yes, 3 (Lost on Mars, Hours of Darkness, Dead Living Zombies) Getting 100% of the achievements is also quite varied and not too grindy. The main game itself makes up about 40-50% of the time needed for 100%, and you only have to learn about half of the skills and collect a small portion of the collectibles. So, it doesn’t overstay its welcome. The game includes a few co-op achievements, but they can be completed quickly with a partner. There aren't any really missable achievements. So you can take your time and enjoy the game at your own pace. The three DLCs are more time-consuming, though only the last one (Dead Living Zombies) presents a medium-level challenge. There’s also an annoying achievement requiring you to kill 5000 zombies... but at least there's a trick to do it AFK. Finally, you need to replay the main game in New Game+ on the hardest difficulty. That might sound tough, but if you use the Mars DLC weapons, you can basically melt every enemy’s face off. :-P Apart from a few sections where you're stuck with a preset loadout, the difficulty becomes trivial.

It really is a fun game, but (like a lot of Ubisoft games) it has its bugs, unnecessary grind, and questionable design choices. In terms of the FarCry series, its one of the better ones, and its story alone is worth the playthrough!

This game was fun. It is not the best in the series, nor is it the worst, but man do I hate having to follow a character for 10 minutes while they dump their childhood traumas on me (looking at you Jess). Jess is the most egregious case, but there will be multiple times where you have to follow a character and I swear Ubisoft just does this to extend playtime. And why the fuck am I faster than them if we are meant to be walking together. Its so annoying to have to adjust my pace to theirs especially due to how slowly they fucking walk. But anyways that is honestly my only very big annoyance with this game and with a lot of Ubisoft games actually, but besides that, its a very solid entry in the franchise. All 4 villains are fantastically portrayed and it really is a shame that they decided to go with a silent protagonist, some banter between dep and John would've been fun to listen to, something in similar fashion to what we had between Ajay and Pagan in FC4. I wish I could say the same about the allies we get, but I already forgot all of their names except for Jess, Hurk and the 3 fucking animals. Barely any of them are memorable and the allies that are important to the story, some of them you almost never get to see them as the story progresses. Also Montana is beautiful. Not in the podium but at least top 4 when it comes to Far Cry games. Time for DLCs. Hours of Darkness, Lost on Mars and Dead Living Zombies are the only content expansions for Far Cry 5. The deluxe pack just gives you vehicles/weapons to use in the main campaign. As for the three big expansions, Hours of Darkness and Lost on Mars are the only ones worth checking out. Dead Living Zombies is a waste of time and getting the achievement for 5000 zombie kills was mind numbing. 7/10

[h1]Ultimate Hell Yeah Simulator[/h1] Imagine you’re sitting there fishing in a peaceful lake, drinking a beer with some chill music in the background, and suddenly a bear just fucking mauls you. That’s this game, beauty mixed with chaos. A stunning landscape where you can hunt mystical LSD bears with helicopter missiles. Missions range from running over deer for roadkill meat to saving a sheriff from some MK-Ultra, other-dimensional brainwashing. It’s a proper redneck simulator with some insane villains, maybe not as iconic as Far Cry 3's Vaas, but still incredibly memorable. Especially Faith, whose dreamlike sequences give me IRL fever dreams. However, this game has a huge amount of issues, it’s not a good game. In fact, it’s buggy, the AI is horrible, and stealth is borderline useless when the game suddenly decides you’ve been spotted. And why does a single-player game have microtransactions? If Ubisoft had spent as much time and money fixing the game instead of trying to turn it into a Garry’s Mod clone with recycled assets and DLCs so bad they make you want to uninstall, it could have been something great. Then there’s Arcade mode, somehow even worse, with an achievement for playing five Arcade Hero maps, which is hilarious when 95% of them just crash the game. There are so many things wrong with Far Cry 5, but that’s the thing, it’s still really fun. And isn’t that what Far Cry is supposed to be? Ultimately, it comes down to what you want. If you’re looking for great storytelling, go play Far Cry 3. But if you just want to lose yourself in a beautifully broken sandbox of explosions, cultists, and wildlife that actively hates you, this is exactly what you need.

[h1]Far Cry 5 Review[/h1] [b]After the release of Far Cry 2, our series, which fell into a deep silence, reappeared in 2012 with Far Cry 3, which is considered the best game of the series by many players, and began to throw us into a story that was based on crazy bad guys and that we fought against these people who established a kind of dictatorship. This theme, which also received positive reactions from players, was also processed in the following games and when we came to 2018, it invited us to America with a brand new Far Cry, Far Cry 5.[/b] Far Cry 5, which takes place in modern times, invites us to the state of Montana in the United States. Our story, which sends us on a mission to arrest a cult leader named Joseph Seed, who calls himself "Father" in the fictional Hope County, begins our story after the chaos. Since I don't want to give spoilers, I will try to give very little information about our character and the story. However, the game's plot, in the shortest summary, is based on destroying the crazy bad guy, as in previous Far Crys. First of all, I would like to talk about the Eden's Gate Turkish version of the cult founded by the game's main antagonist, "Father" Joseph Seed. The Eden's Gate cult, which has a structure similar to the cults we have seen all over the world and in Turkey, believes that the world is coming to an end and promises heaven to its members. [u]After a short brainwashing, this cult, which turns its members into slaves, turns Hope County into a cult base and tells everyone living in the region that they are either with us or dead. This cult, which commits many different crimes such as kidnapping, murder, and gun possession, has become so fed up with some people in the region that a group of people try to rebel against the cult. However, the cult's power is so great that all the uprisings are somehow suppressed.[/u] We, on the other hand, revive this uprising or the resistance as the game tells us, somehow give hope to people and start a great armed resistance with the anti-cultists to overthrow Joseph Seed. Since the game is compatible with the co-op logic, our own character does not have a specific story. You create your own character when you start the game anyway. The other characters in the game constantly address you as Officer, and you will understand the reason for this when you start the game. We cannot not talk about our main enemy Joseph Seed a little. Joseph Seed, who sees himself as a kind of prophet, is one of the best villains I have seen in the series after Vaas, the villain of Far Cry 3. Seed, who shows his psychopath to the player very well in terms of both his speech style and behavior, is one of the characters you will constantly want to encounter throughout the game. Likewise, the other characters, who are the siblings of our main character, are designed successfully, although not as much as Joseph. The game successfully introduces each of their own character structures to you. On the other hand, I can say that the same care has been taken for our friends who are with us in the game. All the characters I encountered in the story manage to make a difference with their originality and different personalities. I did not come across anyone who grinned with their characteristic features throughout the game. I can say that Ubisoft did a successful job in this regard. Let's come to the gameplay features of the game. First of all, there are not many surprises for players who played the previous versions of Far Cry. The conflict feeling and weapon mechanics of the game are quite similar to the previous Far Cry games. However, I should also state that I am not saying this to criticize, Far Cry has already been a beloved production with its basic gameplay features for many years. Whether it is the shooting feeling of the game or the way you hold the weapon while running, they are all well-established and successful. On the other hand, there are minor changes in the way we play the game. As you know, situations such as climbing to such and such a hill, climbing to such and such a radio tower and opening the area, which we frequently encountered in previous Far Cry and other Ubisoft games, have been removed in Far Cry 5. There is even a small surprise in a dialogue about this. Instead, the game constantly asks you to continue the story of the game by giving small side missions. Again, like in previous games, we can attack the sect's regions and capture the region. After each region we capture, new missions await us. The structure of the side missions in the game is designed quite successfully, each supported by small stories, and the rewards given after the mission are also successful. I can say that you are likely to encounter a new weapon and a new vehicle after almost every new mission. While we are talking about the regions, I would like to briefly mention the world of the game. First of all, we encounter a very different region compared to the previous games. A part of the American state of Montana, famous for its nature, is at our disposal. Visually, the town theme, which we often see in Hollywood movies, is the main theme of Far Cry 5. While we are talking about the regions, I would like to briefly mention the game's world. First of all, we encounter a very different region compared to the previous games. A part of the American state of Montana, famous for its nature, is at our disposal. Visually, the town theme that we often see in Hollywood movies forms the main theme of Far Cry 5. Details such as bars and gun shops in small towns look very nice. These small towns, especially illuminated with neon lights in the evening, manage to endear themselves just like we love the small towns of GTA: San Andreas. Other regions generally consist of large meadows, forests and fields. However, as I mentioned before, it is quite enjoyable to wander freely in these regions that we often see in movies. We should also state that the game also rewards exploration, and this reward is quite moderate. Although today's games try to intensify the feeling of exploration, they cannot adjust the reward for this correctly, Far Cry 5 has successfully established this balance. For example, being able to buy a brand new vehicle after an exploration manages to satisfy the player. The customization part of the game is kept to the right amount. There are 2-3 different parts that you can attach to your weapons, and you can also change the coating of the weapon. It is also possible to customize your character with different clothes, and you can do all of these from the shops in the game. To do this, you need the money you earn in the game, and of course you earn these with the help of side and main missions. I really liked the way the story of the game works. The reason for this is that while you normally go to point A and trigger the main mission, this situation works differently in some missions in Far Cry 5. While you are moving to the main mission point that the game tells you, something unexpected can happen to you on the road and while you are saying "What the hell is going on?" the main mission can start all of a sudden. The main missions that make you use different mechanics in the game do not always bore the player in terms of voice acting and structure. Far Cry 5 manages to pass the class in this regard. Let's come to the visuals of the game. First of all, let me state that I played the PC version of the game. In other words, I experienced Far Cry 5 with the best possible visual quality. After turning all the graphics to the highest level, the fog and light effects at the beginning of the game look very nice. As for the sounds, I can give the game full marks. Character voices, environmental sounds, and music are all really successful. The divine music, which is appropriate for the story and theme of the game, both puts you in the right mood and completes the theme of the game. Thanks for reading!