DO NOT BUY Far Cry 5 - Terrible Game!

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So today I've been playing Far Cry

5, and as an avid fan of the Far Cry

series and franchise, I just had to play

this game. Unfortunately, it's been a bit

disappointing, and it's probably been one

of the worst FPS shooters I've played this

year. So the whole idea of the Far Cry

gaming series is that you're usually

abandoned on some kind of island in the

wilderness, and there's like a crazy gang

or cult of enemies that are hunting for

you. And then you've got to take them out

one by one, or you go to these outposts

and you've got to take out the outpost.

And this Far Cry game is no different to

any of the other Far Cry games. It's

exactly the same apart from instead of

being on some kind of island or in some

kind of tropical environment, you're now

in America in some kind of forest

environment where there's mountains and

forests in America. And basically you have

to do exactly the same thing that you do

in all of the previous Far Cry games.

It's completely the same. So the intro to

this game is painfully long. I think I had

to wait about 20 to 25 minutes for all of

the intro cutscenes and the story setup to

finish, and then I could finally take

control of the character and get into some

action. So I don't really know what the

story is about, which kind of just makes

you think the game didn't do a very good

job at explaining the story. So you begin

the game, you're walking really slowly out

from some helicopter, you go to a church,

and there's like a religious fanatical

cult leader doing a preach and you've got

to arrest him with your sheriff friend and

take him to the helicopter and you can't

skip any of these cutscenes, you can't

skip a single one of these intro cutscenes

and I hate it when games force you to

watch their boring cutscenes where they

think the story is so important to the

game and then the story is rubbish anyway

and they're trying to introduce the

characters and the characters are just

kind of generic and not really

interesting. At least let me skip the

cutscenes so I can get straight to the

action and the gameplay. And what makes

boring unskippable cutscenes even worse is

when they force you to take part in the

cutscene. So instead of just sitting there

watching it, you've got to actually walk

the character towards the cutscene trigger

point, and the guy walks so bloody slowly.

You've got to walk him over to the church

doors like he's a baby, you've got to hold

his hand and take him there, and then

watch this stupid cutscene of them

arresting the guy. I just think it's just

really poor planning and storytelling

because I have no idea who these

characters are, I have no idea what the

story is, What are these religious

cultists doing? How come they're so

powerful? Why are they armed to the teeth?

And why are we arresting him in the first

place? He doesn't seem like he's done

anything wrong. And everything in the

cutscene is so damn predictable. I didn't

have to even know about the game to be

able to tell what's going to happen.

They're going to arrest the guy, take him

to the helicopter, and then all hell is

going to break loose and somehow he's

going to escape. And lo and behold,

exactly what I predicted happens. The

helicopter takes off with him inside of it

and then crashes and he survives. He

manages to escape and that's where the

game begins. You've got to escape from the

burning crash of the helicopter wreckage

and run into the forests whilst his men

chase you down. Oh, how original. So you

escape from the wreckage and you have to

fight off his enemies, fight off his men,

and it's not really difficult at all. You

just rush at them, press F, and you can do

an instant takedown. Then you steal their

weapons and that's when you get a first

taste of the gunplay in the game. The

gunplay is very generic, very bland, very

uninspired. There's nothing new or

interesting. It's just very

run-of-the-mill, bog-standard, very plain

FPS shooting. There's nothing interesting

about it. Nothing new or innovative about

the shooting gameplay. I guess it's okay

if you've got nothing new to bring to the

FPS genre, but at least make it feel

satisfying and good. I can't even say that

the shooting feels good. It just doesn't.

It doesn't feel satisfying to shoot the

guns. It doesn't feel satisfying to take

down the enemies, and the enemies are so

bland and boring. They're just random

hairy bearded men who mostly all wear the

same outfits. So when all of the intro

faffing around is finally over, you've

done the boring generic car chase scene,

you finally get into the meat of the game.

And the meat of the game is just not very

meaty, if you could say that.

The game basically involves you just going

around different outposts trying to

liberate the island. You've got to

liberate the island from these religious

fanatic people, and you've got to save

civilians and recruit people and kind of

build a community. The gameplay in itself

is nothing new. If you've played any game

from Ubisoft, you know what it's about.

You just climb up these towers, these

observation posts, get a view of the map

so you can unlock the map, and then just

go around different outposts and you've

got to save people or you kill people.

It's really boring. There's also kind of

like a stealth element where you can sneak

up to enemies, but it's just not necessary

because the enemies are so easy and don't

put up any kind of You can just run

around, press F, take them down, and

that's it. There's no real challenge. So

you've got this massive open world which

mostly consists of just trees, mountains,

streams, and roads, and a few outposts and

little towns dotted around here and there.

And you'll spend most of the time

traveling between these points. So there's

vehicles— there's vehicles in the game,

and you can drive them to different

points, which is nice, it's convenient.

You don't have to run everywhere,

otherwise it will just take forever to get

to any place. And it's at this point the

game just starts to feel like a GTA 5

ripoff. It's like a poor man's GTA 5 set

in the forests and the wilderness, and you

can steal other people's cars, you could

ram them off the road, you could run

people over. I didn't really enjoy the

driving, mainly because you can't change

the camera mode to third-person view. I

really hate first-person view driving

because you don't really get to see what's

happening around you very well. You've got

to focus on what's ahead of you. If you

look to the sides, then you can't really

see where you're going forwards, and it

just feels very constrictive and

claustrophobic inside of the cockpit of

the car. I tried doing the missions, I

tried following the story, but the

characters and the story is just so

boring. It just boils down to you've got

to defeat these crazy religious people. I

don't even know why they're there in the

first place, and I don't really care, to

be honest. And I got bored. I just ended

up going around to random outposts and

just killing everyone, even the civilians

I started to punch and beat up because why

not? There's nothing to stop you. The

worst thing about this game is the fact

that it's £50 on Steam. They're charging

people £50 for this game and it's just

such a boring and bland game. I would not

pay £50 and I would not recommend anyone

else pay £50 for this game. Maybe if it

came down to £25, maybe you could

justify purchasing this, but at £50, I

don't really feel like this game is fun

enough or interesting enough to justify

spending that much money. So

unfortunately, I will have to give this

game my stamp of disapproval, and I'll

give it a 2.8 out of 10. Just not

a very good video game in all aspects.

Would not recommend.