Far Cry New Dawn Review

While the story can be a bit jadded, the game has all the explosive magic we love from a Far Cry game | Far Cry...

Far Cry New Dawn review

At a lower price point than usual, you might expect Far Cry New Dawn to deliver a shorter, more truncated experience than its predecessor, but this is a still a sprawling apocalypse to wade through. And despite the overwhelming similarities to Far Cry 5, in many ways it’s a stronger game - more streamlined, less frantic, and built around a central hub that’s genuinely enjoyable to upgrade. Far Cry’s gameplay isn’t as revolutionary as it once was, but it’s still a thrill to take out an enemy encampment on your own, or tear through a forest on an old rusty motorbike, and so it’s tricky to not enjoy yourself in New Dawn. However, the lurching creep of microtransactions makes the whole affair feel uglier that it ever should, and when you marry that with glitches, bugs and some the fact the map is largely the same as before, New Dawn feels a little cheap and occasionally a little nasty. Enjoyable, sometimes very much so, but also pretty inessential.

Great bad guys ; Homestead-upgrading is enjoyable ; The classic Far Cry loop is still great fun ;

Overly familiar ; Grim microtransactions ; Buggy and glitchy ;