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TechRadar Verdict

Far Cry New Dawn's more lighthearted approach to world-building and more streamlined approach to mission design creates ane of the serial' virtually attainable entries yet. While smaller in scope, the addition of the new Expeditions and a more in-depth crafting arrangement makes this more than a simple spin-off.

Pros

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  A more than fun and colourful setting

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  Lots of crafting options

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  Expedition missions are great

Cons

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  Far Cry on a smaller calibration

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  Withal same erstwhile Far Cry formula

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  Twins are forgettable foils

Review Information

Platform: PlayStation iv

Time played: xi hours

It's simply been a year since Far Cry five offered some subtle even so much needed changes to its ain open-world shooter formula, but now we take another entry in the series fix to leap into action – and a approved sequel, at that.

Following on from the events of Far Cry v, when (spoiler) the nuclear catastrophe predicted by charismatic-slash-manipulative cult leader Joseph Seed has come to pass, y'all'll once once more notice yourself fighting alongside a struggling resistance against a new nefarious faction.

So far, and so Far Cry. Merely Ubisoft Montreal has no intention of serving up some other drab wasteland to explore. While this may be the post-apocalypse – 17 years after an issue chosen 'The Plummet', we're told – Far Cry New Dawn is all virtually nature reclaiming the land now that humanity has been largely wiped out / forced to hibernate surreptitious for nearly 2 decades. That and lots and lots of pink.

Hope County was already a captivating locale to inhabit with its postcard-like fields of wheat, rocky mountains and rolling hills, but with everything now draped in a cherry blossom-esque smattering of pink flowers, information technology has an most-dreamlike quality. This 'superbloom' gives its lichen-covered structures and reclaimed settlements a colour palette that's a earth away from the endless browns of every other Fallout-mode setting.

Pretty in pink

While information technology reuses many of the assets from Far Cry five, New Dawn is just as spectacular to look at. More so, if you love all that neon pink.

Rather than offering up a full sequel, New Dawn is more akin to 2013's Far Weep 3: Blood Dragon or 2016's Far Cry Primal. It'south a smaller project on a restricted upkeep, hence the cosmetic overhaul of Hope County rather than a brand new location. While sure areas of the map from Far Weep 5 are no longer attainable, the events of The Plummet have created new regions to explore for scrap and resources.

Ubisoft Montreal has clearly listened to fan feedback from FC5, ensuring that New Dawn takes full of advantage of its smaller scope. The wanted organization from the previous game – which saw you being hunted by increasing tougher troops the farther you progressed in a given area – has been dropped, but in its place enemies know have levels denoting their difficulty.

It's a simple adjustment, only it makes deciding how best to navigate a gunfight a more than rewarding affair. The wild animals of Promise Canton – which has found itself warped by nuclear fallout – also pose their own dangers when exploring the wild.

A silent crossbow that launches circular saws? This is just 1 of many makeshift weapons you can build from scratch, if you have enough resources. (Paradigm credit: Ubisoft)

While Hope County has been re-purposed for New Dawn's alternating time to come, Ubisoft Montreal has fabricated upwardly for the truncated map with its Expeditions: a series of missions that take yous away to myriad locations around the United States. While these locales aren't peculiarly huge in scale – ranging from beached warships to abandoned entertainment parks – the intense battles yous'll encounter in each make for some of New Dawn's strongest moments.

Almost require yous to enter a location, secure a package and fight off waves of enemies while a helicopter slowly makes its fashion to selection yous upwards. With the return of the Guns For Hire and Fangs For Hire system (Far Cry'south AI-controlled companions who assist you in battle), these mini escapes are brilliant fun and is just the kind of complicated silliness the serial tin can do so well when it'southward non trying to be overly arty or unnecessarily grim.

Rank and file

Outposts are back, only the relieve mechanism ways you lot can perpetually go along reclaiming them with tougher enemies and greater advantage. (Image credit: Ubisoft)

Much like everything else in New Dawn, combat has been tweaked rather than overhauled, and those small changes end up changing the experience of gunfights – specially those ready in Outposts and other foe-filled locales – for the better. Having enemies with higher ranks of difficulty forces you to adapt to each scenario, focusing fire on tougher enemies earlier clearing out the forage.

You tin can withal use stealth to conciliate alarms and clear areas silently, but there'southward a real improved sense of tactical play when things go loud.

While crafting has always formed a big part of the series, it sees one of its most fun applications here in New Dawn. This existence the post-apocalypse and all, survivors make do by reconstructing weapons and vehicles from spare parts. Y'all'll find yourself building makeshift guns and cars, should you level upwards your workbench and find plenty resources scattered most the map.

The big currency is Ethanol: a fuel worth its weight in aureate, which enables yous to upgrade the various parts of Prosperity (your new safe haven, and the former site of John Seed's ranch).

The Expeditions aren't anything revolutionary, merely they offering a welcome change of scenery from the recovering wasteland of Promise County.

At present, rather than forcing you to collect cash yous'll inevitably blow on new weapons, every trip to a new location, Outpost or Treasure Chase (a simplified version of Far Weep 5'south Prepper Stashes) gives yous the opportunity to make useful upgrades. These can be amping up your Cartographer (then you lot can find more than resources on the map), improving your Infirmary (so you tin increase your base health) or purchasing new makeshift weapons and vehicles. You can even merchandise animal skins for more and more resources.

The need for resources besides plays into Outposts, creating a pleasing balance of risk and reward.  You tin either set on and claim an Outpost and bank a limited amount of Ethanol, or scavenge it outright for even more. Withal, doing so will leave it open to being reclaimed by the Highwaymen and thus, fifty-fifty more than Ethanol if you tin can retake information technology again.

Stand and deliver

Classic evil twins situation.

The punk-styled raiders known every bit the Highwaymen are your new bad guys of the hour – a grouping of roving marauders who presumably watched a little likewise much Mad Max and decided motocross gear is a good enough substitute for leather and studs. Decked out in pinkish and bluish, these wannabe bad asses are led by predictably psychopathic twins, Mickey and Lou.

While this duo sadly prove to be some of the weakest antagonists in the series – despite some solid performances – you will somewhen run into Joseph Seed himself.

Greg Bryk's operation in Far Cry 5 was ane of its biggest highlights, and here he helps add some much needed dash and depth to the story as you notice the fate of Seed'southward drug-fuelled cult and your ain player-character from the previous game. Allow's but say some things are all-time left undiscovered...

You tin can customise your silent avatar, although y'all'll merely ever really catch sight of her/him during co-op or just after taking an Outpost.

Ultimately, New Dawn isn't some chiliad reimagining of the Far Weep franchise, but it is a streamlined approach to that familiar formula that takes away the systems that added unnecessary complications and lets you have the freedom to explore, leap into gunfights and run turkeys over while speeding through a forest in a souped-upwards buggy.

You can still spend Perk Points on new skills and befriend animals to fight on your side, simply with its perpetual Outpost cycle, weapon crafting rarities and other welcome changes, New Dawn manages to breath some good sometime fashioned fun dorsum into an age-one-time Ubisoft property.

Verdict

A lick of paint has refreshed the Far Cry franchise.

Far Cry New Dawn is just the tonic the series needed to break away from the increasingly grim tone it roughshod into with Far Cry 5.

With its bright colours, tweaked and engaging combat and rewarding crafting arrangement, y'all're getting a fun and over-the-acme sequel-come-spinoff that takes all the best $.25 from the previous game and taps dorsum into the ultraviolent silliness that made Far Cry 3 such a jiff of fresh air for the franchise. There's life in Hope County yet.

(Image Credits: Ubisoft)

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