Far Cry® 5

Item: Far Cry® 5
Rating: 78
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-11-07

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Summary

Highly enjoyable, robust open-world co-op mode.
Fun and highly replayable overall experience.
Beautiful, detailed open world, distinct Montana setting.
Repetitive and shallow core gameplay loop.
Weak narrative, characters, intrusive story progression.
Significant technical instability, bugs, and poor AI.

Emotions

Satisfaction69%Frustration41%Disappointment37%Enjoyment22%Excitement21%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 52%
Unhelpful reviews: 45%
Protest reviews: 3%

78%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
22%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 5362
Negative points: 3479
Gameplay points: 1378
Perf. points: 159
Rec. points: 790
Misc points: 379

Point	Description	Importance
Highly enjoyable co-op mode Description The seamless and full co-op campaign is a major highlight, allowing players to experience the entire story and open world with a friend. This feature significantly amplifies the fun, chaos, and replayability, making it a standout aspect for many. Importance 80%	The seamless and full co-op campaign is a major highlight, allowing players to experience the entire story and open world with a friend. This feature significantly amplifies the fun, chaos, and replayability, making it a standout aspect for many.	80%
Highly fun and replayable Description Players consistently praise the game for its immersive, fluid, and enjoyable gameplay experience, offering dozens of hours of fun both solo and with friends. Its high quality and engaging content make it difficult to get bored, encouraging repeated playthroughs. Importance 77%	Players consistently praise the game for its immersive, fluid, and enjoyable gameplay experience, offering dozens of hours of fun both solo and with friends. Its high quality and engaging content make it difficult to get bored, encouraging repeated playthroughs.	77%
Beautiful, detailed open world Description The game is lauded for its gorgeous, photorealistic graphics and meticulously detailed open world, particularly the depiction of rural Montana. Players appreciate the vibrant landscapes, excellent lighting, and overall atmosphere, which contribute to a highly immersive experience that holds up well over time. Importance 46%	The game is lauded for its gorgeous, photorealistic graphics and meticulously detailed open world, particularly the depiction of rural Montana. Players appreciate the vibrant landscapes, excellent lighting, and overall atmosphere, which contribute to a highly immersive experience that holds up well over time.	46%
Best in Far Cry series Description Many players consider this game the pinnacle of the Far Cry franchise, often citing improvements over Far Cry 3 and 4, and being superior to Far Cry 6. It refines classic Far Cry elements while introducing innovations, making it a definitive modern entry. Importance 44%	Many players consider this game the pinnacle of the Far Cry franchise, often citing improvements over Far Cry 3 and 4, and being superior to Far Cry 6. It refines classic Far Cry elements while introducing innovations, making it a definitive modern entry.	44%
Gripping narrative and strong characters Description The story is consistently described as captivating, well-written, and emotionally impactful, featuring interesting plot twists and a non-linear progression. Characters, both allies and antagonists, are praised for their depth and memorable presence. Importance 22%	The story is consistently described as captivating, well-written, and emotionally impactful, featuring interesting plot twists and a non-linear progression. Characters, both allies and antagonists, are praised for their depth and memorable presence.	22%
Expansive player freedom Description The game offers immense freedom in exploration, mission approach, and progression, allowing players to tackle objectives in any order and choose their playstyle (stealth or chaos). This sandbox design, coupled with dynamic events, ensures a non-linear and constantly engaging experience. Importance 20%	The game offers immense freedom in exploration, mission approach, and progression, allowing players to tackle objectives in any order and choose their playstyle (stealth or chaos). This sandbox design, coupled with dynamic events, ensures a non-linear and constantly engaging experience.	20%
Diverse weapons and tight gunplay Description Combat is described as dynamic, fluid, and highly satisfying, with realistic enemy reactions and a robust gunplay system. The game offers a wide array of customizable weapons, each feeling unique and effective, allowing for varied tactical approaches. Importance 18%	Combat is described as dynamic, fluid, and highly satisfying, with realistic enemy reactions and a robust gunplay system. The game offers a wide array of customizable weapons, each feeling unique and effective, allowing for varied tactical approaches.	18%
Helpful companion system Description The "Guns for Hire" and "Fangs for Hire" companion system is praised for its strategic utility and added personality, making solo play feel less isolated and more dynamic. Companions offer unique skills and often provide entertaining interactions. Importance 17%	The "Guns for Hire" and "Fangs for Hire" companion system is praised for its strategic utility and added personality, making solo play feel less isolated and more dynamic. Companions offer unique skills and often provide entertaining interactions.	17%
Rich side quests and activities Description Players appreciate the vast amount of side content, including diverse missions, hunting, fishing, and treasure hunts, which contribute to world-building and replayability. These activities are often unique, well-written, and integrate seamlessly with the main narrative. Importance 12%	Players appreciate the vast amount of side content, including diverse missions, hunting, fishing, and treasure hunts, which contribute to world-building and replayability. These activities are often unique, well-written, and integrate seamlessly with the main narrative.	12%
Excellent soundtrack and audio Description The game's soundtrack, featuring a blend of country, gospel, and rock, is widely celebrated as a masterpiece that perfectly enhances the game's atmosphere and emotional impact. Overall sound design is also praised for its high quality and immersive qualities. Importance 11%	The game's soundtrack, featuring a blend of country, gospel, and rock, is widely celebrated as a masterpiece that perfectly enhances the game's atmosphere and emotional impact. Overall sound design is also praised for its high quality and immersive qualities.	11%
Engaging progression system Description The non-linear progression system, where diverse activities advance the plot and a perk system offers constant character development, is well-received. Players feel a sense of continuous growth and appreciate the flexibility in unlocking skills and abilities. Importance 8%	The non-linear progression system, where diverse activities advance the plot and a perk system offers constant character development, is well-received. Players feel a sense of continuous growth and appreciate the flexibility in unlocking skills and abilities.	8%
Diverse and fun vehicles Description The game's wide array of vehicles, especially the addition of helicopters and airplanes, adds a fresh layer of excitement, freedom, and tactical depth to both exploration and combat. Vehicular combat and movement are often highlighted as enjoyable aspects. Importance 7%	The game's wide array of vehicles, especially the addition of helicopters and airplanes, adds a fresh layer of excitement, freedom, and tactical depth to both exploration and combat. Vehicular combat and movement are often highlighted as enjoyable aspects.	7%
Varied and engaging DLCs Description The downloadable content (DLCs), particularly "Hours of Darkness" (Vietnam) and "Mars," are praised for offering fresh settings, unique mechanics, and interesting storylines that differentiate them from the main game and exceed expectations. Importance 7%	The downloadable content (DLCs), particularly "Hours of Darkness" (Vietnam) and "Mars," are praised for offering fresh settings, unique mechanics, and interesting storylines that differentiate them from the main game and exceed expectations.	7%

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