My very late 2020 report!

I played this game co-op like I did Farcry 5 and it was fun… with its share of problems.

New Dawn continues the fifth game with a new protagonist. In a lot of ways, this feels like a Farcry 5 DLC. It's shorter, doesn't add to much, and even removes some features (I could no longer have an animal companion on multiplayer D:). among other things.
I think it does add some new features, although I played this a while ago so I forgot. Overall I payed 20 dollars on sale I think it was worth that price. I didn't do a lot of the side missions so if you do, I'm sure you'll get a lot of replay time out of it. The main story was only around 10 hours.

I really liked the graphics and the aesthetic. The bright colors and scenery helped me out of my gloomy state after playing 5. The game is really beautiful and I spent a lot of time just traveling around.

My biggest pet peeve (which 5 also suffered from but it was worse here) is how they incorporate the multiplayer. The second player isn't addressed and doesn't exist, which is fine. But the missions also don't account for them. Every airplane or vehicle mission, I was thrown out of the vehicle or had to run and find my own before we failed. We did a plane mission, and it spawned me next to the one seat plane that my friend was riding. I had to jump on to the bottom near the wheels and balance on until I fell off. Then it respawned me a plane. You basically have to fail some missions to get to participate. On top of that, there is a entire section of skills that my friend was allowed to unlock but I wasn't. There was no reason I can think other then laziness.

The story and characters were just alright. The story was too short so the characters were pretty one dimensional. Even when they tried to add emotion or development to the characters, it was always at the last second with zero impact. So yeah I wouldn't play for the story personally.

Overall, these games aren't usually my cup of tea, but I have a blast co-oping them. Even the bad parts are fun to make fun of. The game is actually pretty fun though even with it's bad moments. Farcry 5 is a better game, but this one is a nice little addition if you want a different ending to the story. I'd cautiously recommend this one. If you know what you're getting into and you still want to play, I say give it a go.