While perk points are relatively simple to come across, with points awarded from leveling, finding fishing magazines and more, the costs soon ramp up. This can make purchasing weapon upgrades such as scopes or accuracy increasing grips worthwhile, you’ll just have to find one of the many wandering merchants or stores to check out the available items.Īlso able to improve the players chances are the huge range of perks. One instantly noticeable design decision is the effectiveness of headshots, no matter what weapon is being used. So whether you prefer to sneak around, timing takedowns and using silenced weapons or will bring the pain via enough explosives to destroy a small city the choice is up to you.
Choice of how to approach the game is left up to players, for the most part, with only potential bonuses lost if an objective is not completed without triggering alarms. The arsenal available to gamers is extremely satisfying, ranging from a garden spade, with a spray-painted smiley face, to rocket launchers with a silent but deadly hunting bow in the middle. Guns for hire are not always available during missions but for the rest of the time, it is great to have some allies even when not in coop. However, with the ability to call out specific targets or locations to move to this system can be great for causing devastating distractions. Combat orders are limited, a wheel of options would have been nice. This means there is little to worry about in terms of them triggering a firefight prematurely, as you are still scrabbling into a perfect position. By default, guns for hire will do their best to remain in stealth. Players can come across plenty of mercenaries throughout the game and for once the AI are seemingly out to help you. Guns for Hire are a way for players to, by the end of the game, band together with a couple of NPCs and even a dog, lion or bear. It is details like this that truly build the world out and let the player know exactly what type of people live there. Take the Spread Eagle chef in Fall’s End for example, after liberating the town you’ll get to learn all about why the town needs more balls… The “Testy Festy” of course. Talking will also reveal a bit more about the region you’re exploring, in all its weird and wonderfulness. Doing this is key not only to finding secret stashes of gear or money but it can be great to pick up some incredible side missions. These often enable the player to speak to the NPC, unlike after destroying shrines or looting vans. There is a rather continuous churn of global mini missions to save captured hostages, on top of opportunities to liberate outposts. However, just exploring and the main story isn’t all Far Cry 5 offers. The team has put some serious time and effort into crafting even some of the remote locations to make for great standoff locations that wouldn’t be out of place in a Call of Duty map pack. This being said the region has plenty to offer in terms of rolling fields, peaks to drive up, large lakes and rivers to navigate, winding roads and even a huge “I Heart Cheese” bear stood on a burger… Somehow even this doesn’t feel out of place. You’ll have to play the game to find out the peculiar twists and turns of what unfolds.Įxploring the county players will be treated to some fantastic vistas, akin to the stunning sites seen in Tom Clancy’s Wildlands though with less variation.
Other than this, all I’ll say is the main character is unsurprisingly dropped head first into the conflict between the Eden’s Gate members and an armed resistance. As you journey through the county players will discover a bit more about the grip the Seed family has over the area and the brainwashing faith.
The congregation of the Project at Eden’s Gate isn’t exactly pleased when outsiders arrive to take Seed away and so the unique storyline of Far Cry 5 begins.Īs per the rest of the franchise, Far Cry 5’s Hope County is an open world environment which players are free to explore via land, air or water via a range of vehicles. In this county a preacher named Joseph Seed has captivated the minds of many locals, with his radical preaching of an inevitable collapse. Published by Ubisoft, this new iteration sees players taking up the role as a rookie deputy entering the fictional Hope County, Montana, USA. Far Cry 5 is the latest from the iconic first-person shooter action-adventure franchise.