They wore heavily-graffitied and brightly coloured motocross and BMX padding – the most scavengable form of armour in the post-apocalypse - and led by two new villains, sisters Mickey and Lou, who killed their own father to assume control of the nationwide gang. With motorbike-gang-style chapters across the US, they ride from settlement to settlement bleeding them dry of resources. In the absence of law and order, a nationwide gang known as the Highwaymen have taken over. You assume the role of the unnamed head of security aboard this train, but the train is attacked, and the hope of rebuilding civilisation in Hope County thrown into doubt. A train carrying scientists and farmers, security experts – a futuristic Mayflower of sorts – is sent into this chaos from the West coast, in the hope of resettling America. With biker-gang-like chapters across the US, they move from town to town looting whatever they can, with the most precious commodity in the future being biofuel. In the absence of civilisation, a band of marauders known as the Highwaymen have taken control. Familiar locations are still there, but you’ll find them ravaged by time and buried in the dust which more closely resembles pure white sand than anything grim or morbid. Not only has the flora and fauna changed and taken over, the shifting nuclear dust has reshaped the map and buried a lot of the past. This is still Far Cry 5’s setting of Hope County, but the last two decade have dramatically altered the area. But look closely, and you’ll recognise the location. In fact, this is an actual phenomenon seen in nature known as ‘superbloom’, a period of intense fertility in which long-dormant life reappears and thrives. Vibrant pink flowers cascade over the landscape and the bones of abandoned buildings. Nearly two decades later, nature has enthusiastically reclaimed what humankind lost – New Dawn presents the most lush and inviting apocalypse imaginable. The US has endured a long and brutal nuclear winter, where nothing grew and almost everything died. A lot of what you might expect from the apocalypse has already passed.

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