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ItвЂ™s a reminder that these wonderful diversions are in service of the rest of the gameвЂ™s unremarkable whole-some very occasional hits among a whole lot of misses. ItвЂ™s almost disappointing that every stash terminates with a fat stack of cash and a handful of Perk Points.

One other had me scale the inside of a tower while maneuvering around hives of angry bees.

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Another held a series of grappling hook swings over a boiling underground lake. One very quick stash, for example, simply required me to snipe a keypad through a window across a lake.

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But without that rigid architecture defining what they can and canвЂ™t be, Ubisoft was free to go to town with all manner of spatial puzzles. Longtime series fans might recognize some of the stashesвЂ™ gameplay ideas as being borrowed from Far Cry 3 and 4вЂ™s now-removed towers. The one upside to this system is that Perk Points can be acquired from Far Cry 5вЂ™s вЂњPrepper Stashes.вЂќ These micro-dungeons are by far the gameвЂ™s standout addition and shake up gunplay that hasnвЂ™t changed since Far Cry 2 with some much-needed puzzle-platforming. Now, every new ability comes from вЂњPerk PointsвЂќ accrued by completing cookie cutter challenges: killing 20 enemies with SMGs, killing 20 enemies with shotguns, or killing 20 enemies with pistols, and so on. Ubisoft has further streamlined the Far Cry formula by removing crafted upgrades and experience points. Meanwhile, the organizationвЂ™s seemingly psychic вЂњlittle sisterвЂќ has filled her territory with tiny, drug-filled chapels that you need toвЂ¦ shoot until they explode.

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The evil self-help guruвЂ™s land is packed with silos full of drug-infused fertilizer that you need to shoot until they explode, for instance. Despite those differences, you mostly perform the same handful of activities throughout all three regions without much stress or variation save for occasional reskinning. Said space is split into three zones, each ruled by a different lieutenant of the omnipresent doomsday cult, each with their own agenda.

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While Far Cry 5 finally stretches the series structurally (after the rehash of FC4 and the obvious filler that was Primal), it still doesnвЂ™t know how to fill in all the space it covers. Sadly, fatigue with the new formula does eventually set in once you start hitting up those slowly revealed points of interest. This makes the map feel much more manageable, and the change reduced that usual Far Cry feeling that I was just checking objective boxes. Your reward is most often a single new quest on the in-game map rather than the explosion of map icons found in many other Ubisoft games. Say you catch some cultists carting citizens off to be brainwashed, or shake a grizzly off a lonely hiker.

The freeform progression through the map doesnвЂ™t just occur at outposts, either. Once you clear out an outpost, it becomes a hub of non-player characters that can join your bloody quest-or simply chatter about other minor activities. The biggest of these mimic the classic вЂњoutpostsвЂќ that have shown up in the series since Far Cry 2. On your mission to stop a vaguely menacing, vaguely Christian cult thatвЂ™s taken over Hope County (the evocatively named вЂњProject at EdenвЂ™s GateвЂќ), youвЂ™ll run across hotspots of activity just by exploring. In Far Cry 5, all but a few side and primary objectives crop up organically. The result is definitely an example of addition by subtraction. Ubisoft has finally put away that stale gameplay structure, which once belched thunderclouds of mind-numbing objectives onto the map every time you got to the top of a lookout. The game is set in Hope County, Montana, and for the first time in a long time, you wonвЂ™t need to reveal the lovely looking locale by scaling towers. Once I packed up my last shred of hope that the game had anything interesting to say (which happened about 30 minutes in), I was able to uncover some genuinely smart changes to the seriesвЂ™ increasingly stagnant gameplay formula. ThatвЂ™s not to say that Far Cry 5 is all bad. However you expected to feel about the gameвЂ™s portrayal of gun culture, militias, and weaponized evangelism going in, though, youвЂ™ll probably come away let down by the gameвЂ™s lack of follow-through on that promise. After a marketing campaign that leans on evangelical and militia imagery, players could be forgiven for expecting some smart political statements (or at least biting satire) from the game. The publisher may well have set unrealistic expectations for the gameвЂ™s story, which features a villainous cult that clearly draws from the current and complex state of the political far right in the US. Links: Steam | Official website Far Cry 5 is a disappointment largely of UbisoftвЂ™s own making.

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Platform: Windows (reviewed), Xbox One, PS4 Game details Developer: Ubisoft Montreal and Toronto