Far Cry 5 Reviews

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IGN
Top Critic
8.9 / 10.0
Mar 28, 2018

Far Cry 5 is another wide-open playground with all the necessary ingredients for causing a real ruckus: loads of enemies and allies, temperamental wildlife, and plenty of explosions.

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80 / 100
Mar 26, 2018

A big, beautiful, chaotic canvas of freeform destruction, Far Cry 5 continues the series' best traditions.

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No Recommendation / Blank
Mar 26, 2018

Make Montana emergent again

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8 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2018
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Mar 26, 2018

A polished and refined instalment that values your time more than the previous games and keeps the focus on entertaining you throughout.

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Mar 26, 2018

The best Far Cry yet and one of the best open world shooters of any kind, with an impressive variety of missions and non-linear structure.

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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2018

Virtually everything about Far Cry 5 is thoroughly okay. For a series that has provided so many thrills and surprises, that's a major disappointment

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Edmond Tran
Top Critic
9 / 10
Apr 3, 2018

With smart changes to exploration, discovery, and progression, Far Cry 5 makes engaging and experimenting with its gorgeous open world more exciting than ever.

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Polygon
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2018

What's left if you have the stomach to ignore the story? A very enjoyable game with an immense number of things to do, a beautifully recreated portion of the United States, and a collection of missions with wildly varying tones and structure. It's a finely tuned open-world game stapled onto a story that's insultingly bad.

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Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5's story is a real let-down, but the action still makes for a solid co-op experience.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5 is a flashier iteration of the past games whose newfound relationship to reality is really just another sideshow.

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Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5 is a game that struggles in trying to serve two purposes. On one hand, there's a dark, horrific tale of a cult taking over a small town. On the other, it's a playground of destruction, letting players fly and drive around, blowing up things with a bear and a dog. Both sides are good, but they don't really meet in the middle. If you can survive the tonal whiplash, you'll find a great game here and Far Cry Arcade only makes it better.

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Mar 26, 2018

If you liked the other Far Cry games, you'll like this one, because it's more of the same. Some of the series conventions have been taken away (like having to climb towers, thank God), or improved, but it's still very much a Far Cry game.

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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5 is a solid first-person shooter set in a vibrant, breathtaking location. It plays well, looks great, and is packed with enough content to keep players invested in Hope County for a good, long while. Though Joseph Seed and Eden's Gate work better in theory than in practice, the Montana-based doomsday cult marks a departure for the franchise that pays off.

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9 / 10
Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5 is another improvement to a series that hit its stride quite a long time ago. It gets a recommendation not because of any of its individual features, but because they all combine together into a game that becomes paradoxically funny and horrifying, occasionally at the same time.

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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2018

Far Cry 5 is an amazing action game that keeps the essence of the saga. However, its weak plot and map division are elements that make this game inferior to its previous installments.

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93 / 100
Mar 26, 2018

Simply put, Far Cry 5 is the best Far Cry game to date. It has the best story, the best progression and introduces a lot of changes (for the good) while maintaining that explosive old formula that works so freaking well. God Bless Hope County

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Erik Kain
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Mar 27, 2018

Far Cry 5 is certainly more of the same thing, but with enough changes that it feels fresh.

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Shacknews
Top Critic
7 / 10
Apr 2, 2018

A few things missed the mark that shouldn't have, but I generally got what I expected from Far Cry 5; a fun, open-world game worth the price tag and not to be taken too seriously.

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Kirk McKeand
Top Critic
Unscored
Mar 26, 2018

Ever since Far Cry 3, Ubisoft's open-world series has been about the bad guys.

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