Lost on Mars’ lone bright spot is Hurk’s commentary. You either scale a tower using your gravity belt (basically a jetpack), protect a robot while it repairs the power button, or defeat a Queen arachnid, a powerful and durable insect mother, to power on the station. There aren’t any defined missions instead, you simply look at your map, mark the next facility, and get on your way.Įach of these objectives has a familiar loop.

Interspersed throughout are facilities and towers to power on. The spacious yet empty map is mostly filled with stretches of red and brown wasteland. Lost on Mars’ setup has potential, but once you’ve played ten minutes of it, you’ve experienced everything it has to offer. Don’t worry - that isn’t really a spoiler. And even the overarching story, where you’re guided by a supposedly benevolent AI, takes cues from the original BioShock. Hurk’s consciousness is transferred into a tiny robot called Brobot, reminiscent of Ghost in Destiny. If the severed head companion sounds familiar - hello, God of War - it’s not the only riff on another game here. While the expansion’s setting is cool, the DLC is ultimately among the most generic and boring depictions of the Red Planet around. An animated cutscene shows Nick transported up to Mars, where he meets Hurk’s head and an AI named ANNE, who claims that Earth will be destroyed if they don’t help turn back on Mars’ servers. Naturally, he calls his buddy Nick to come put him back together.

His body parts have been scattered across the planet, which happens to be infested with vicious alien insects. In Lost on Mars, two supporting characters from Far Cry 5, Nick Rye and Hurk Drubman Jr., find themselves in an improbable, high stakes situation - the stuff that wacky Far Cry DLC is made for. Lost on Mars is a bland and barren experience that practically begs you not to see it through to the end.

Lost on Mars, on the (red) surface, appears to add to this whimsical tradition. The Far Cry series has a history of zany expansions, from Far Cry 4’s Valley of the Yetis to the standalone Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars is a case study in everything that’s wrong with paid expansion packs, especially those that come with season passes.

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