I already wrote an answer, but it ended up being too long. I was talking exclusively about the graphics, hence ”X game looks identical to Far Cry 3.” But since we’re talking about this: I played 3, Blood Dragon, 4 and 5. It’s been a while since I last played at least one of them and I have forgotten about most of the details, but I really think all the ones I mentioned look, feel, and play identical. A plane or mercenaries for hire won’t fix how repetitive the games have gotten. It’s always the same: explosions, adrenaline, fully automatic weapons, you against some form of clearly super evil dictator who runs a whole massive land, full of very bad people, adventures on exotic lands... I wouldn’t call rural US particularly exotic, would you? Somehow a cult has gotten war planes, countless cars mounted with .50 caliber machine guns, mortars, countless trucks and cars, RPGs, thousands of followers, a very dangerous militia in the middle of the US. And, surprisingly, this game has even less guns than their predecessors (at least when I last played 5). They’re all the same from previous games and have been feeling the same since forever: 3 fully automatic rifles, 3 pistols, 3 shotguns, 2 sniper rifles, 1 rpg... nothing new, interesting, cool, rare, unique, bizarre, or cool looking. Just the same guns over and over, over the same story, over the same graphics from 2012. A level creation tool is cool, but not particularly interesting to the average player either. They removed the classical healing animations too. And the list goes on and on, Primal’s basic idea is the total opposite of a natural Far Cry game. Let’s just hope 6 isn’t that effortless too.