Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness
Hours of Darkness, the first of three planned DLC expansions for Far Cry 5, will be out on June 5. The expansion will move the game from Hope County to the sweltering jungles of the Vietnam War, where local…
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness is an adventure developed by Red Storm Entertainment, released 5 June 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness is
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness is an adventure game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dunia Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hours of Darkness, the first of three planned DLC expansions for Far Cry 5, will be out on June 5. The expansion will move the game from Hope County to the sweltering jungles of the Vietnam War, where local boy Wendell "Red" Redler will embark upon a mission to rescued his captured comrades. The expansion will add new weapons to the game, including the M16 rifle, the SVD sniper rifle, and the M60 machine gun, all of which will also be usable in the main campaign. You'll also have the ability to call in "bombing airstrikes," which will presumably deliver more bang-for-the-buck than Hurk's mom's helicopter, and a new Survival Instinct feature that grants up to four temporary perks for…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness launched on 5 June 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
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