Buy Far Cry New Dawn It's been a little less than a year since Far Cry 5 debuted, and the follow-up is already here. If that seems like a quick turnaround for a major franchise, it is.

I loved Far Cry 5 . I will not deny that. In fact, after beating it nearly one year to the day on Xbox One X, I repurchased the game on Steam as a benchmark for my brand new gaming laptop.

Busy earnin' I respected Ubisoft's decision to shake things up with a head-turning closer, but in the moment, after dismantling a doomsday cult from the bottom up (and putting an irreversible dent in Montana's wildlife population), I only felt deflated.

Far Cry: New Dawn is something of a paradox. On the one hand it's exactly what the series needed, a significant mechanical shakeup that's breathed life into ideas that grew stale two or three entries back. There's complexity, here. Friction , you might say.

worth the $40 it's so much fun playing co-op with a friend. graphics are great and hours of gameplay.

Since its debut in 2004, the Far Cry series has hopped all around the globe and time itself from the Nepal-inspired Kryat to the prehistoric Stone Ages . However, FAR CRY NEW DAWN marks the first time the franchise has returned to a location.

Late game skills are a solid addition; Building a base gives you something to work toward

Story comes up short and character moments fall flat; RPG systems give the game an odd; jarring difficulty curve; Tags

Pink is the new brown when it comes the to apocalypse. At least, that seems to be the idea that Far Cry New Dawn is fully embracing with its borderline-cartoonish palette. This open world, first-person shooter is the sequel to last year's Far Cry 5, and it certainly embraces the recent trend of...

Repeatable outposts

Forgettable villians in a series known for memorable ones

Hope County has got thoroughly shafted by life, if you ask me. First in Far Cry 5 its inhabitants survive a psychopathic cult leader an...

Having a base to upgrade gives a sense of achievement; Loads to do; Genuinely inventive missions; Timber the dog rides in your sidecar

Expeditions don't wow you; Villains have unrealised potential

Far Cry fans are no strangers to visiting exotic locales, but New Dawn's vibrant post-apocalyptic setting promised to introduce some drastic changes to the aging series. While the neon-hued flora and mutated fauna successfully shake up the landscape, the superficial progression changes and formulaic...

Far Cry 5 was a satisfying adventure, from its vast open-world journey across the rural landscape of Hope County, Montana to its central conflict against maniacal cult leader Joseph Seed. However, its conclusion left the game open with dangling plot threads.