
I imagine that some people will appreciate the idea of a shared-universe sequel story. It’s all by-the-numbers Far Cry, and that means it’s easy to ignore. The story has you working with various groups to take out the marauding Highwaymen gang that a pair of black women known as The Twins run. It takes place many years later, but you are in the same town and dealing with the same character or their offspring. The biggest problem with New Dawn is that it isn’t frivolous enough. 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.


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. Far Cry: New Dawn takes place in a world where the bombs fell.
