Far Cry 5 - Hours of Darkness Reviews
Hours of Darkness is a great looking DLC. It includes all the tropes of Vietnam. Agent Orange, POWs, dire onslaught on FOB, dire defence of FOB. It mainly focuses on traverse though, not on action packed gameplay as it should.
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Hours of Darkness is a good start for the DLC trilogy of Far Cry 5. It’s a part unexplored in previous games but is quite short and doesn’t have much in terms of story.
As the first DLC from the Far Cry 5 season pass, Hours of Darkness, is somewhat underwhelming; but that is not a reflection on the quality or quantity of the content it provides.
Ubisoft Shanghai’s efforts are enjoyable enough, but one just hopes that the bar of quality is raised even higher for Dead Living Zombies and Lost on Mars.
If anything, Hours of Darkness has made me wanting next month’s Lost on Mars and August’s Dead Living Zombies to be better and more fulfilling. Far Cry 5 is an incredible game that the Hours of Darkness DLC fails to live up to, story-wise. It does however exemplify how good the stealth can be if you play things right. This Vietnam story carries some weight, but none of it emotional to make it stand up to the main game in any meaningful way.
Vietnam could make a great setting for a Far Cry game but it has to be handled with more care than this. I appreciate that at $12 this is not supposed to be a full Far Cry experience, however I still expect more than a glorified two-hour fan-mod. The next two pieces of DLC will have to offer big improvements to make Far Cry 5‘s season pass worth the money.
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness offers the usual Far Cry Action but that's it. No surprises or crazy elements you would expect and a bland environment and generic missions make this DLC hard to recommend.
Review in German | Read full review
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness is a fine expansion to the core game, it adds a large new area yet seems to completely forget the narrative aspect of the series.