Far Cry 6 is Ubisoft Toronto's 2021 open-world shooter — a guerrilla revolution narrative set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, a thinly veiled Cuba ruled by the iron-fisted President Antón Castillo, played with menacing charisma by Giancarlo Esposito. You play as Dani Rojas, a Yaran soldier-turned-guerrilla who joins the revolutionary movement Libertad in its fight to overthrow Castillo's regime before his son Diego inherits the dictatorship.
The Far Cry formula reaches its most polished iteration here: a dense open world with outpost liberation, wildlife hunts, vehicular combat, and a charismatic villain who appears in scripted story moments but rarely interacts with the open world gameplay. The Resolver weapon system introduces handmade guerrilla weapons built from scavenged parts — a flamethrower backpack, a car-engine-powered machine gun, a rocket-launching fishing rod — that complement the standard military arsenal with creative flair.
Yara is the series' most visually diverse map: lush jungle, beachside city, tobacco plantation, industrial port, and mountain fortress biomes each occupy significant landmass. The DLC missions (featuring playable villain characters from Far Cry 3, 4, and 5) provide novelty outside the main campaign. The co-op multiplayer — the full campaign playable with a friend — is Far Cry 6's most underrated feature.
Handmade guerrilla weapons built from scavenged parts — flamethrower backpacks, CD-launcher rifles, and rocket-fishing-rods complement standard military arms.
The entire Far Cry 6 campaign is playable cooperatively with one friend — one of the most genuinely fun uses of co-op in open-world gaming.
Powerful special ability backpacks: the Triador marks all enemies, the Tostador launches napalm, the Volta EMP-blasts vehicles. One equipped at a time.
The Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star delivers one of gaming's best villain performances as dictator Antón Castillo.