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Skyrim with guns

Overall it is a pretty good game. The plot itself isn't anything special. In fact it's refreshingly simple and in line with the typical mad max story line. Max is waylaid by bandits, Max doesn't want to help the downtrodden, Max decides to help them anyways and gets burned, Max then goes on a revenge tour. Nothing too complicated, however, it does answer the question of what happened to that other son of immortan joe that's seen in Furisoa but not Fury Road.

Gameplay wise it is clear that the game is padding for time, it is the same game copied and stapled together four times, we didn't need four different warlords, one or two would have done the trick, and the vast open world quickly runs out of luster after it dawns on you that there is no reason for you to explore it beyond doing the main quests. However, this game thrives in combat, specifically with cars. That is the main mechanic of the game, and to its credit it does it very well.

If the game was just a short 10 hour affair I think that would warrant a 8 or 9 out of 10, but due to the fact the game keeps dragging on brings this down to a 6 or a 7. Still a good game, just could've used some pacing work and or more exciting side quests.

This is no longer Assassins Creed, it is now "Assassin's Franchise." It's like Ubisoft made a totally new action-adventure game set in Ptolemaic Egypt and then slapped the assassins creed name and logo onto it. There is next to no stealth, and the few bits of stealth can be bypassed very easily with the games very simple combat. The map is simply too big for its own good, as most of the game revolves around riding a horse from point A to point B. There is next to no parkour, and the entire game is based off leveled enemies which defeats the whole point of an open world, there is no defendable reason why the enemies in Siwa should be so weak compared to those in Memphis besides soft-locking the player out of regions they shouldn't "be in yet". if that's the case, just abandon the open world concept.

I am aware that this is the reboot of the franchise, but it's honestly foul that Ubisoft have decided to remove the assassination from assassins creed. Also, it should be considered a sin what they did to the plot. Instead of the plot being started with the actual Assassins and the actual Templars stumbling across alien artifacts during the 3rd crusade (AC1), the new Origins (hahaha get it) is that the Templars are actually followers of Ceaser's as-of-yet-unmentioned ahistorical advisor named Flavius (remember when AC would say real life historical figures where Assassins or Templars, like how Ford Churchill and Hitler where all Templars while Stalin was an Assassin? yeah can't have that anymore, now the only people allowed into either order are ahistorical), who where in Ptolemy's inner circle and triggered a civil war so Rome could intervene on behalf of Cleopatra so Flavius could get both halves of an alien artifact and so Caesar can become king and he can rule through him or something. Meanwhile the Assassins are supporters of Cleopatra who then opposed her for siding with Rome and just kinda got roped into Flavius' elaborate plot and alien shennaigans. I guess the religious connotations of the original plot wasn't acceptable anymore.

None of that is to mention the horrible performance this game has. My game should be running buttery smooth, it gets 100fps on ultra high, but every 5 minutes or so it grinds to a screaching, multi-second, pause. Turns out this stuttering is a well known bug, but none of the online guides I've followed have given the same solution, and none of them worked for me.

Remember when Ubisoft removed the Crossbow from AC1 due to historical accuracy? Yeah those days are long gone, you can now ride a Unicorn into battle, as long as you pay $4.99. All around tragic, and I pray for the day Ubisoft goes bankrupt.

Maybe the best game of the year

I've yet to discover electricity when starting neolithic

Greg touched me... very deeply

If androids where real I would be racist to them

yeah sure it's shorter than the first game and the plot makes a whole lot less sense, but gameplay and graphically it is a brushed up version of the first game

By far, without an iota of doubt, the worst farcry game ever made. A nightmare of a game that poses the question "what if Ubisoft made Fallout." The two irredeemable sins that this game committed are:

1) The villains: Farcry antagonists from 2, 3, 4 and 5 are all charismatic figures, that are arguably in the right with the player character in the wrong. But the antagonists here, who are so terrible I can't even remember their names, are the least intimidating, least charismatic, and by far the worst villains in any Ubisoft game and that is saying a lot. These are supposed to be the ruthless leaders of a nationwide bandit group, but every time I see them I can't help but first laugh at them, and then ask why nobody has killed them and taken over the group. They aren't threatening, they aren't charismatic, and I think that I could personally beat them in a fist fight in real like. By far the worst villains in the franchise, and are outright goofy.

2) gameplay: leveled enemies in farcry is an egregious sin. you should be able to kill anyone with a single shot to the head, but no. Some executive at Ubisoft thought that the best way to make the game harder would be to turn the enemies into bullet sponges. Now a level three enemy can just eat a dozen rounds to the head and barely flinch because they're wearing a BMX helmet. Instead of making the game harder, they instead relied on the worst part of Farcry 5's game-play, repetition. When you liberate an outpost you don't really liberate the outpost, you have to liberate it three different times with scaled enemies, and even then you can just reset the outpost to take it over and over and over again. There are no stakes, there is no change in control over the map, there is no real reason to play.

This isn't a Farcry game, it is a parody of a Farcry game.

Actual abandonware. It doesn't run on Windows 10 while Fallout 1 and 2 both do