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Game Review: 'Far Cry 5' features an exciting first in the franchise's history
Your mission in this highly-anticipated, first-person shooter game is to save a town from the grasps of an ominous doomsday cult. It's terrific fun, but it's not without its flaws, writes Sylvia McKeown
Far Cry 5 may make you re-evaluate what you choose to do for fun in your free time as you stare into the eyes of a psychopath while he whispers: ''God won't let you take me." You may find yourself re-evaluating your morality, too.
Once again Ubisoft have crafted a beautiful world filled with deplorable things, this time in a small town in the American South, a place called Hope County, Montana. You play the first customisable character in the Far Cry franchise history - you can, if you so choose, be a mixed-race female deputy who finds yourself in the middle of a religious doomsday cult's holy war.
The only thing that stands between "Father" John Seed, the self-proclaimed prophet of Eden Gate, and his slaughter of what remains of the county's population is you, a lot of guns and a shovel with a face painted on it. You can hire help in the form of friends, guns and "fangs" (in other words Boomer the dog and Cheeseburger the bear). You can also port your real-life friends into the mix to play the game.
So what's the point of the game? Mostly to slaughter countless "Peggies" - the nickname of the cultists, and to occasionally go fishing. It's terrific fun for the most part but as with Far Cry's previous iterations, the relentless and almost mindless massacre can leave a bittersweet taste in your mouth.
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