Under the guise of another Ubisoft-style open world experience there is a game with an unexpected emotional weight. There is a great labor in narrative design: the overly used worldbuilding strategy of scattering found notes works wonders here, making me pity NPCs that died offscreen hundreds of in-game years ago in a global apocalypse where the lessons learnt would be useful in our current time.

All this supports a genuinely engaging gameplay that invites the player to go offroad and battle roaming machines just for the sake of fun. The strong visuals and amazing creature designs (which make you want to Google for Lego sets) cannot compensate for crushingly bland side quests and characters that spoil the experience once you move away from the main story. I mean, this one NPC asked me to go hunt 4 boars and I'm not kidding. The DLC also doesn't bring anything crazy to the balance.