This game is awful.

Never before has playing an FPS felt so repetitive and lifeless. There's always real effort from developers to make sure that their games don't feel like pop-up shooting galleries where the targets shoot back at you. Weapons are tools to solve problems and missions are the game's way of presenting them. Maps force you to keep your surroundings in mind to help give you an advantage.

Far Cry 5 is nothing like that.

Weapons are distinct but don't feel that they have any particular purpose when any would do. Enemies are just placed onto a too-large map where they can be picked off without much care or thought or planning. Point your gun and the stuff falls down. No matter how you do it it won't be much trouble at all, and as a result you don't need to think either.. The story is boring and says nothing interesting no matter how many times it insists on interrupting gameplay, and the game stretches out its content to absolute breaking point and beyond. I'm having trouble thinking of any game that fails quite like it

It doesn't have enough spectacle to be compared to Just Cause 3 and it doesn't have the mission variety of something like Call of Duty. The gameplay isn't varied enough to mistake it for something like Titanfall or Doom and it certainly doesn't have the feel of Metro 2033. It isn't even a game that does everything just okay and manages to overwhelm with variety, like Far Cry 3.

I have to compare it to other lackluster shooters and make them all worse just to come close. It's Borderlands without any skills. It's Destiny 2 without any upgrades or attempts to make things feel fresh. It's Bioshock Infinite without the decent story and twenty more hours of agonizing, dull shooting.

Whatever you call it, just don't call it a good game.

This game is awful. Never before has playing an FPS felt so repetitive and lifeless. There's always real effort from developers to make sure that their games don't feel like pop-up shooting galleries where the targets shoot back at you. Weapons are tools to solve problems and missions are the game's way of presenting them. Maps force you to keep your surroundings in mind to help give you an advantage. Far Cry 5 is nothing like that. Weapons are distinct but don't feel that they have any particular purpose when any would do. Enemies are just placed onto a too-large map where they can be picked off without much care or thought or planning. Point your gun and the stuff falls down. No matter how you do it it won't be much trouble at all, and as a result you don't need to think either.. The story is boring and says nothing interesting no matter how many times it insists on interrupting gameplay, and the game stretches out its content to absolute breaking point and beyond. I'm having trouble thinking of any game that fails quite like it It doesn't have enough spectacle to be compared to Just Cause 3 and it doesn't have the mission variety of something like Call of Duty. The gameplay isn't varied enough to mistake it for something like Titanfall or Doom and it certainly doesn't have the feel of Metro 2033. It isn't even a game that does everything just okay and manages to overwhelm with variety, like Far Cry 3. I have to compare it to other lackluster shooters and make them all worse just to come close. It's Borderlands without any skills. It's Destiny 2 without any upgrades or attempts to make things feel fresh. It's Bioshock Infinite without the decent story and twenty more hours of agonizing, dull shooting. Whatever you call it, just don't call it a good game.