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Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

Game play thus far is pretty much on par with previous games in the FarCry franchise. I wanted to give it 4 and a half stars because it's not quite at a full five-star level; just a few minor nit-picky flaws. I love that it takes place in the U.S.! The environment feels like any of a hundred places that I have been to up in the mountains. Some evangelicals or preppers may object to this game if they perceive that they are being portrayed as a bunch of nut jobs. But the bad guys in this game are are a cult, not actually religious. They are truly creepy and evil.

Although the story situation is interesting, the character you play lacks any kind of personality. He is nameless and seems to have no skin in the game; no personal vested interest in fighting this war other than just doing his job as a young deputy.

Some differences that I noticed right away:
- You can customize the gender, race, and overall look of your character. Not that you really ever see him/her but some people will like this.
- There is NO MiniMap! I am not sure why they did away with this? To make a more "realistic" experience? I thought it might be an option that could be turned back on in the settings but no; the mini map is not there. This makes can hard to locate and loot dead enemies and animals. The dead do not have that visual "glow" like in previous games, so good luck finding them in the dense brush.
- The game is too easy at the beginning and there was no option at the beginning to choose the level of difficulty. I discovered that this can be changed in the options menu at any time.
- There is a noticeable delay when calling up the map, which is annoying. The map is much more beautiful, and realistic.
- Shooting an enemy disables them but there is a time in which they can be patched up and revived by their buddies. This makes the game much more realistic.
- That annoying CIA agent Willis is back and is just as arrogant in this game as in previous games.
- The map is divided into three areas and you can go into any of them right away. Unlike FC4 where you couldn't get to the north until you accomplished certain missions.
- The buddy system is awesome; especially the dog! It is similar to Primal. Although I lost him when I flew a helicopter; hope I can figure out how to get him back.

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Joshua B

Metal Case looks awesome art wise

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

Metal Case looks awesome art wise , came with the season pass and all deluxe edition content looking forward to FarCry 3 remaster when it drops the episode add ons look cool , enjoy arcade mode and the ability to create my own maps and scenarios , and finally the core game is fun World is huge and beautifully rendered , atomospheric story has me emerged from the opening , glad you can now explore all areas after you leave the first island freely and in any order you choose without having to climb 30 something towers etc... , you can still hunt but don’t need it for gear crafting just to sell pelts for money or kill 5 of this type animal get 3 perk points to spend or 2 of this kind to get 1 perk point etc , as far as perks I recommend getting the grapple first for one then swimming duration for 1 then the parachute for 1 then save up 8 to get the 3 rd weapon slot unlock and after 4 for the wing suit after you have those key perks everything else gets a bit easier so would then focus on health upgrades and capacity increases etc, game is really fun , also no more mini map hud is pretty clean only a directional bar via Skyrim or Fallout style open menu to look at over all map and mark areas , overall Ibwould highly recommend this game if you are a fan of the series or good first person open world shooters in general

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Paddy Hago

Nice addition to the Far Cry line. Worth buying it.

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

Overall, I like the game. As a couple others have said, once you get past the initial intro to the story and play a couple basic missions, everything is open to you. No opening things in stages.
Skill progression is nice in that you get points and spend them as you wish without having to wait for a particular mission to unlock it (with 1-2 minor exceptions I'll get to).
Immense world with mountains, flats, and 'forests'. Structures differ a little (not too much) but you can quickly tell which ones can be explored (most) and which are locked up. And most structures have things in them you can use; medkits, ammo, equipment as well as their being random packages spread out all over to pick things up in. Very useful.
Planes and full helicopters were added and the controls are pretty good, though a tad annoying on the helicopter (yawing - steering left and right - is controlled on the right stick, but climb and descend are buttons, so trying to climb, turn, and fly forward is near impossible). Also, unlike the gyro in 4, the helicopters and planes can be armed, so they're helpful.
Weapons are plentiful to buy and easily picked up. Upgrades are pricey (optics, suppressor, magazine), but you'll find a couple guns you like and probably stick to them.
The storyline is somewhat 'believable' if you follow doomsday stories/conspiracies. Obviously taken to extremes, but sort of like 4, you can see it. Enemies have their levels from cannon fodder to stormtroopers of death, with the weapons for their levels sort of carried over from 4 (guys with heavy machine guns and flame throwers take forever to die).
You can hunt (and fish, which is a cool money maker and time waster), but the skins aren't used for upgrades; need cash for those. You can sell skins for cash, so it works out.
Unlike what someone else said, the only things I've found the "microtransactions" good for are fancy weapon purchases or car/plane/helicopter purchases. I found Assassins Creed Origins to almost necessitate microtransactions if you want to make any progress on the game without it taking forever. Far Cry 5 - Not really. Helpful, but you can get along fine and upgrade things without them.
Now the quirks and downsides:
Minimap is gone - Everything is on a compass bar on top. It's a bit annoying as it's white lettering and in the sun it's difficult to see. Also, there are useful plants for "homeopathics" but you have to really watch your terrain as you're walking through to see them flashing. Enemies at a distance show up on the compass, but as you get closer they're gone. I sort of like it because it has a tinge of realism, but it can be a pain.
Also, you can use the hunting homeopathic to see all living things close, but after the timer runs out, if you haven't tagged them through binoculars or optics, they go away. Annoyance.
Melee weapons. You can pick up a lot of them and switch them around. Yeah. Problem is, if you switch to a gun or something, your melee goes back to your hands, not the pipes or bats you pick up. P.I.A.
Speaking of: If you played the opening right in Far Cry 4, you could get all 4 holsters opened up pretty early so you're carrying a good mix through most of the game. In this one; you get 2 holsters from the start, but 3 and 4 are opened through skills, with 4 being one of the "super skills" (unlocks when you get enough of the others), so it's a hassle.
You're gonna die. A lot. I played the last three games in the series alright and while I had my fair share of dying, once I understood the AI, it was easy to stay alive except in the most extreme of missions. Here? It's pretty easy to die as their hearing and sight is near superhuman. The vest is near worthless and you go through it fast.
Character editing. Pretty much worthless as you don't see your character (unless you die a lot). The fact you can make it male or female has no bearing on the game; the game doesn't act differently if you choose one or the other. Hell, you don't have a name other then "Deputy" or "Rook". Absolutely pointless addition.
Story cuts - This is why it's 4 stars and not 3. The storyline is great and the cut scenes for them, while a little time consuming, are definitely involved. Pretty good script, all things being equal. But they weave in the enemy cut scenes by capturing you through various methods, somewhat randomly. It's triggered at a certain point, but there's no indication of what triggers it; you'll just get a warning you're being hunted and you can run, fight, or whatever, but it's part of the game play and you'll be captured and suffer through it. Like I said, the storyline and script are twisted enough that it's good, but they way they do it is silly. They make it seem like you can avoid it ("You're being hunted" is a prompt you get on the screen and you would think that if you stayed out of site or something, they wouldn't find you) but you can't and it has to happen.
I definitely like the game and since it's still early in release, it'll be interesting to see what they add to the DLC. But there are enough annoyances that keep it from being awesome. Still buy it.

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Erik Maki

Great bang for your buck

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

Great bang for your buck! With the prime the discount for the gold edition is an absolute value. The base game is an incredible installment. The future of the DLC looks very promising. The steelbook is beautiful and farcry 3 will be available. Amazon got the game here early on release date. Thank you. The upgrades are more in the form of challenges, rather than looking for some fictional version of the species. The RPG system is fully upgradeable from the start. If you have 10 perk points you can buy something for 10 perk points. In other words the perks can be leap frogged. The addition of allies add another strong element of the game. Attention to detail like being able to put a rabbits ornament on your car dash is awesome. I like this game the protagonist is as good or better than 3, the rest of the gameplay is on par with 3. I actually think farcry 5 is my new favorite.

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Thomas

game okay, gold edition not worth it.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

ehh. games ending is crap. as for gold edition the stuff that came with it wasn't really very worth it. like, come on ubi, u can give me more downloadable stuff for that price. also my metal case deal was all warped when i got it.

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Will L

Don't order steelbooks off Amazon!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

I pre ordered this edition of Farcry 5 because I am a collector of steelbook cases. Now the game it's self is fun. But when I got my package the steelbook was bent and it looks like it had been stepped on. It now has a permanent bend on the spine and the front cover is completely dented in. Because of this I would not recommend buying steelbooks off Amazon ever again.

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Ara aka Babyface

Just say Yes!

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

My favorite Far Cry game in the series. Yes, it has some early buggy issues, but it will be fixed, nothing major that any other game doesn't have when it is first released.
The game grew on me, the story is strange but not so much far from reality in parts. Boomer is awesome!! My only wish is that Ubisoft would have pushed the envelope a bit further, and made it more edgy. Make a statement, and don't worry about hurting feelings! Movies do it all the time.
My favorite side mission are the stunts, so damn fun. Co-op play is a blast!!!
Coming from a hardcore gamer, I recommend.

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Apex Penguin

If you're in the mood for some Far Cry, just play the third one.

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

I feel mislead by this game. Going into it, I thought that I would be experiencing a story about a charismatic cult leader and his fanatical followers based somewhat in reality. But what I got was the usual Far Cry game-play with a main villain you barely encounter in a boring open world not worth exploring.

The main enemy was sold as a man who's words can convince anyone to do anything, but he delegates the hard work to his three lieutenants, each with their own gimmick; hypnosis, drugs, and, idk, "Saying Yes." The world is broken up into three main regions with the goal in each being "get enough resistance points to trigger the lieutenant of that region to fight you." Repeat in a different region. There is no real evidence in the game to back up why everyone is following the main cult leader.

The world is beautiful. And you have so many ways to traverse it. I preferred helicopter. But up close, the beauty falls apart. One thing that I noticed right away was the wind chimes. They are all over the place, but they don't chime, and when you hit them or walk into them, they move as if they are frozen in a block. It really took me out of the immersion. One deviation from the older games was the removal of the towers that you would climb to removed the fog from the map, which at first I thought I liked, but I found myself missing those mini platforming puzzles you had to complete to get to the top. And the new system is you remove map fog by exploring, but you can never get rid of it all because there are just small spots on the map you can't get to and it is really annoying. You can find maps and magazines that add markers to your map, but that is about it.

The hunting challenges are gone. You don't need to hunt to upgrade either, which I guess is more realistic, but it is also less fun. There are herbs to collect, but you find enough on enemies that you don't really need to scavenge them. They took away some of the target marking mechanics. Like, bears would be marked with the "vicious teeth" icon because they will fight you, deer with a different icon because they will run, and no marker at all for the herbs. You can go hunting to make money, but I never found myself short on cash. You can see which guns are the best right off, and so you can see right away which guns are the best. The weapon upgrades are weak as well. Bigger magazines, silencers, scopes, and skins. That is it for almost all of them. I love stealth gameplay, so I am fine with this, but there isn't much for those who want to go in guns blazing. The "Guns For Hire" system is still there. I used it enough to get the challenges and trophies, but I prefer going solo.

There is an arcade mode where players can create maps for you to complete. But it didn't really interest me. Same with the multi-player. Actually, the multi-player is just terrible. The available levels are terrible and the modes are random and it just wasn't fun at all. I avoided it for the most part.

The breakdown: All games start off as "Five Stars" to me. I have to minus one star right away because it is a single player game with the option to play with others, but you cannot get to 100% in this game without Arcade, Multi-Player, and Co-op, which would be fine if those modes were fun, but they are not. Another star removed because of the weak story elements, boring characters, and the gimmicky feel to way the story is broken up. I found myself skipping the cut scenes near the end because I just wanted it to be over. The last star was removed because of how pointless exploring that beautifully created world was. It seems like such a waste to have all of that land and nothing really in it. And because the game was playable and I was able to get to the end without game-breaking bugs, I won't remove any more stars. However, the ending really made me want to go down to one star.

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Shayne Perry

Good, but it's a little repetitive. Well worth it though, especially if you've got a buddy.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

Good game. Nice to see that Ubisoft is trying to shake things up a bit and changing the formula they've been stuck using in their open-world games. This iteration of Far Cry is more focused on player exploration and choice, as opposed to getting railroaded through the map. Instead of climbing radio towers, you explore and find things as they happen around you.
You can talk to people in the game, and they'll tell you about something they heard about that's going on somewhere. You could find a road sign that marks a good fishing, hunting, or base jumping spot on your map. You also solve little "mini dungeons" called "prepper stashes" that are refreshing to play, and varied as well. It's nice to solve a little puzzle and get rewarded with tons of sweet loot!
After a short tutorial, the game is open from the start. You can do whatever you want, wherever you want. All that doing and going does get a little repetitive though. It boils down to the basics of "go to the place and shoot the things, or the guys; and find or protect the stuff, and capture bases". That isn't a bad thing, but it's a great and addictive gameplay loop.
There is also an extensive level editor in the "Far Cry Arcade" mode that lets you create whatever you can think of. That alone offers infinite replayability. There is also a traditional multiplayer mode included in the Arcade mode using player created maps. If that's not your thing, you can also co-op with a buddy and rampage through Montana together!
If you don't mind a slightly repetitive but addicting gameplay loop, with amazing graphics and shenanigans in droves- then pick this game up. You won't regret it.

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801Jones

So far so good!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: GoldVerified Purchase

I pre-ordered this nine months ago, it's finally here and so far is exceeding my expectations! I love the updates from FC4/FCP that improve gameplay, and open world exploration. The buddy system is definitely nice, but sometimes I feel I'm too dependent on it. Gold edition seems like it was worth the extra price. I'll update later as I finish the game, but on the PS4 Pro it's been a very pleasant gaming experience thus far.

Update: it's really annoying how Ubisoft has obviously tried to inventivize you to pay for micro transactions. Example: enemies are harder to loot, they often disappear if you don't loot them quickly, and once you've killed the last enemy in an outpost they all disappear so you can't loot any of them after. This is all an obvious way of keeping your cash low so you're inventivized to pay for micro transactions. Not cool when I just bought a $99 game! Doesn't keep you from enjoying the game without the micro transactions, but loses a star for this deliberate greedy tactic.

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