Let’s get one thing straight right away: Far Cry New Dawn is barely a post-apocalyptic game. You might be forgiven to think so given that the game directly picks up after the ending of Far Cry 5, where Hope County (and indeed the whole world, as the developers at Ubisoft have since revealed that 88% of the planet’s population has been wiped out in the aftermath) got ravaged by nuclear bombs.

Far Cry New Dawn is set only seventeen years after that critical event, which means that the environment should absolutely still reflect this in some way. Yet, it doesn’t at all. There are no mutated plants, no mutated animals, no pockets of radiation still left anywhere in sight with the notable exception of the map’s very boundaries. Indeed, funnily enough, the so-called radiation zone featuring the familiar infertile soil and dead trees stands only a few meters away from the normal terrain, which is quite the jarring sight. As soon as you approach it, you’re warned by the game to turn back.