While there are a lot of good ideas in there, it soon becomes apparent that Far Cry 6 has way too much going on.Įach district has a central hub you work from, where you develop your resistance, unlock new abilities, upgrade your weapons, and deposit or pick up your vehicles. In its desire to showcase all those shiny new ideas, Far Cry 6 puts its story on the backburner to deluge you with tutorials for countless new modes, upgrades, and abilities. While the story lightly encourages you to start in the west, you can begin your quest wherever you want, but don’t go flying too early–flak cannons will shoot you down until you take them out. To match its massive map, there are over 80 or so land, sea, and air vehicles (including horses, finally! Horses are vehicles). Yara going to be overwhelmedįar Cry 6’s landscape must be more than twice the size of Far Cry 5. You escape to the mainland, and the map is finally unveiled. In a two-hour spell, you transform from a universally loathed have-a-go hero and into freedom fighter Clara Garcia’s prized guerrilla. Damian Marley to start playing again Dani herself says it “feels familiar.” Absolute megalols.įar Cry 6 is all about the red fog of war. It’s lip service to fans, something underlined by an early mission where you burn crops with a flamethrower. Soon, you’re dumped on an underpopulated tropical paradise to start afresh and lead the fight. Naturally, evil figurehead Castillo is improbably yet delightfully placed at the very front and center of these deaths. It’s the grimmest start to a Far Cry yet, and it’s delivered with aplomb.Īs is always the way, you manage to evade capture, though your escape inevitably results in your barely fleshed-out friends being killed. Your journey as the fully-voiced, male-or-female army dropout Dani Rojas begins as you and hundreds of others are chosen by the junta to die on plantations, or in cold blood on the street. However, people are needed to grow it using horrific poison, dying in the process. Luckily, Yara found incredible fortune by creating Viviro, a cancer-treating drug derived from tobacco.

the “Yanquis”), and its subsequent transformation into a one-party dictatorship under the idealistic but brutal tenure of Anton Castillo, played by the scene-stealing Giancarlo Esposito. Following a stunning introduction, you’re immediately thrust into the heart of Esperanza, the capital of brutal urban dystopia Yara–a country clearly based on Cuba, thanks to its failed former ties with the Soviet Union and America (A.K.A.

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