Far Cry: New Dawn (PC)

Far Cry New Dawn ist quasi eine Erweiterung zu Far Cry 5. Und da die Technik identisch ist, gibt es diesbezüglich wenig Neues zu berichten. Die Grafik ist zuweilen schön, vor allem die Beleuchtung kann mit der bunten Farbgebung eine dichte Atmosphäre erzeugen. Ein grafisches Highlight ist das Spiel aber nicht. So zeigen zum Beispiel die Texturen immer mal wieder Aussetzer.

Hochsolide, farbenfrohe Zweitverwertung der Far-Cry-5-Map. Macht wenig neu, aber trotzdem vieles richtig. Etwa den Sägeblattwerfer!

Overall, it seems like Ubisoft has stunned us with a well made game. Not only does it look visually stunning, but it can do so on just about any of the recent generation cards.

All told, New Dawn is much more balanced than Far Cry 5 was, an element that I think is aided by the smaller, more focussed scale. New Dawn will probably take you about 20 hours to finish including all the side stuff, about half the size of FC5. That's still a fair chunk of game, but it also means the incidental encounters on the road feel more like part of the game than an obstacle to the next icon on the map.

So, it goes a little like this. You either love or hate the Far Cry series right? Some frown upon Ubisoft with all the DRM stuff, others are fine with it. When you put all that annoying stuff to rest, you have to agree, where Far Cry 5 is/was a promising game, the New Dawn follows that path.

An over-familiar follow-up, perhaps, but New Dawn whittles away the rough edges of Far Cry 5 for something extremely enjoyable.