I got New Dawn as a bonus when I bought Far Cry 5. I loved the ecosystem of Far Cry 5—the thrill, the AI companions, the different ways you could use them. A few months later, I booted up New Dawn, and I was genuinely struck by the game’s vibrant graphics, the cinematic flair, and the unique style of the enemies. It was like Far Cry crossed with Doja Cat—West Coast female rap energy. The first hour played like a dream.

But, oh god, that terrible loot system. In-game purchases disguised as “comfort features,” that constant need to scavenge, dig around outposts for resources—it sucked the life right out of the experience. Whatever beauty the game started with, it was buried beneath a mountain of grind. The cutscenes dwindled to nothing, and the only beauty left was water rippling under gunfire or sunsets glinting off irradiated skies. Occasionally, mutant animals would pop up and amuse with their looks, but that was it.

I get why people resent Ubisoft. They’ve managed to turn console games into an experience bordering on mobile apps, where microtransactions are the ticket to progression. It’s a shame, and I’m honestly curious about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Will they drop this model entirely?

Gorgeous open worlds, absolutely dreadful resource balancing.

A neon painted dumpster fire. Both literally and metaphorically. Far Cry 5 always felt a bit off with the whole urine jokes, but this. Well this is the whole litter box.

Do you hate playing video games? Do you want to suck all the fun out of something people love? With new Far Cry Credits you can do anything! "play" the "game"? uh no I'll stick to using my hard earned cash to skip all of that.

Dont waste your time with this garbage. Just play Far Cry 3 again, it has better graphics, better story, more features and no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ micro transactions.

I had no idea this is sequel to Farcry 5, thus played this first. It got me so interested with the vivid aesthetical theme, and the charming twins. Plus not knowing what happened before actually made me feel so immersed as the protagonist who is from outside hope county.
in fact it was so much fun and pleasing to observe what is happening, or to just walk around. But I can tell for sure, that for people who are looking for realistic, less fantasy-like game this can be disappointing.

my favorite moments:

"Y'know, rabbit, you remind me of our Mom. She had hope. She had dreams. She... she just wanted to ♥♥♥♥♥♥' make things better. I should've listened to her, but... Things just got carried away. Do what you gotta do."

and when I decided not to kill Joseph seed, started walking away, as the weather starts to clear and Joseph's screaming("release me!") echoing behind me

Honestly, probably the worst game in the franchise. I love the games and played all of them. This one sticks out as feeling half finished. There's something fun there, but the pacing, tier system, and sudden ramp in difficulty all just adds up to a big nothing uninteresting bullet sponge showdown with an enemy it feels like you've already ravaged, so why are they still so strong? 400 dogs appear out of nowhere to harass you while you lob endless projectiles at the two strong women bosses. It feels like they started developing a fun game and were then told to hurry along and finish it. Evertything from the race onwards feels honestly, meh, and rushed. Even before that, the map is tiny. Definitely only play this if you're a fan and it's on deep discount and you've nothing better to play.

The game is fun at first but gets old fast due to the rather boring world. Not a lot is going on and you don't feel like it's a war zone. The buildings and bases are thrown together so poorly and there is hardly any decent indoor fighting. Weapons are awesome and enemies are good enough, just wish there was better map and building design instead of this randomized garbage. Really feels like they just slapped together a cheap map and copied over the gun play from the previous games. Only worth your money if it's on sale, like $15 max, and if you have already played the other Far Cry games.

If you've played Far Cry 5 and you've enjoyed it, then you're most definitely gonna enjoy this one aswell.
The Father and The Twins were pretty cool here + you get to meet some old companions from Far Cry 5 and your old character from Far Cry 5, but he has changed a lot and I really mean it. I don't wanna spoil anything for you, so this is all that I'm gonna say.

There are a couple of small problems, this game was kind of short when compared to other Far Cry titles. I have 27 hours here, but in those 27 hours I've had only 10-11 hours spent on main story missions. The rest of it was spent on exploring, doing side missions, taking/retaking outposts etc. Yeah I don't know about the rest of you, but I would prefer more main story missions there, especially when the game's got a really interesting story. Don't get me wrong, because I've enjoyed this game, but near the end, there are so many interesting parts that were probably cut or rushed for no reason, I wanted to learn more about certain characters, I feel like there should have been more missions that were building up to certain things, 1 of the boss fights was kind of boring at least to me and it was in the very end. Game could have been done much much better had they not rushed, I mean who knows maybe they didn't rush the ending, maybe that was just what they've wanted to do originally, but I still feel like it was soo rushed at the very end.
It was a good game, but it could have been even better if the main story was at least 3-4 hours longer, there were lots of missed opportunities. But everything else that we've had was cool.

BTW IF YOU'RE NEW TO FAR CRY GAMES:
Sometimes killing ain't the only option... altough that's the only thing that's written on your objectives.


Altough this game is short, it's still worth playing, so consider buying it when it's on a discount. Also you can do Missions and lots of other things in Coop if that's your thing.

RELEASE MEEEEEEEE

Should just have improved upon or maintained features that made the previous title good, but they decided to make it worse.

Pretty bad game. The coop is made for the host to enjoy the game with fun perks while the other player achieves nothing and gets no Eden powers