What you won’t like (so far) It should be having more fun You can accomplish things and get tangible benefits, like better weapons and vehicles, without having to throw yourself into the game for hours and hours. And I found myself going out in the world to find the hostile highwaymen enemies just so I could rob their resources to put into improving my garage. Every time you return to your hub, you can look around and see everything that is upgradeable. Sure, New Dawn has story missions and side quests, but the core of the game is building up your facilities.Īnd it does a great job of putting the camp and camp upgrades front and center.
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You can upgrade every single one of these stations by going out into the world and finding materials. You have a camp with a number of crafting tables and workbenches like a medical facility and helipad. A simple, easy gameplay loopįor New Dawn, Ubisoft combines its welcoming environment with a relatively simple and understandable mechanical loop. Instead, you get the sense that you just need to overcome the human threat, and then the world is ready to provide whatever you need. And games need to do a lot of work to counter the hopelessness of a bleak brown-and-gray pile of rubble. I can appreciate a good dour and depressing world, but I’ve seen a million of them at this point. What this accomplishes more than anything else is creating a blue-sky chipper attitude that avoids the dour and depressing. That means the game is brimming with deep greens, and - yes - Ubisoft pops most locales with a splash of pink flowers. So fewer people are stomping around the world, and nature has had a chance to reclaim the surface. But they fell in nearby metropolitan areas and not in the backwoods of Hope County that you explore. And while that idea already feels worn out thanks to Bethesda’s Rage 2 using the same exact messaging, I think Far Cry: New Dawn looks great.įar Cry: New Dawn takes place in a world where the bombs fell. Every ad plays up that it’s the apocalypse but with a lot of pink and fuchsia coloring. Ubisoft’s sales pitch for New Dawn is almost embarrassing.
What you’ll like (so far) An inviting, beautiful world If you haven’t touched a Far Cry game ever, or in a few years, I would jump in here as opposed to anywhere else in the series. It’s smaller, but it also feels scrappy, like, somehow, a tiny team made it and not one of the biggest video game publishers in the history of the world.
It sells these games for $40 instead of $60 … or instead of $20 depending on if you view New Dawn as a downscaled sequel or glorified expansion pack.īut New Dawn has a lot to like. Ubisoft reflects that reduced scale in the price. It is also a smaller, more manageable experience. Like Primal and Blood Dragon before it, the open-world shooter features new characters and missions, but it reuses the map from its most immediate predecessor. And when you do, you should try the Far Cry side stories first.įar Cry: New Dawn is one of those side stories. But if you’re uncertain about Ubisoft’s most checklisty of map games, you should only check in on them occasionally. I’m sure people exist who do buy and play every single one. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers.
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