It’s a small thing, but it gave me a lot of joy during my playthrough. Also, the animation on the animal companions, especially little Chorizo with his squeaky wheelchair, is excellent. I know that’s going to become a tiresome compliment to games on next-gen consoles, as they are supposed to look beautiful, but I felt it was worth mentioning as sometimes I just had to sit and watch the Yaran sunset.
Anthony Gonzalez was equally good as his son Diego, who has his own character arc separate from his father.Īlso, playing this game on an Xbox Series X - it’s absolutely stunning. The game’s script sometimes lets him down, but he’s at least doing his best. It’s different but still good.Ĭredit where it’s due: Giancarlo Esposito does not give this villain performance anything less than he gives his other roles, playing the narcissistic, sinister Castillo with appropriate gravity and menace. Unlike previous Far Cry villains, who all seemed to take an immediate, creepy interest in the player character, Anton Castillo doesn’t even deign to look at Dani during this cutscene, ordering death upon them and their childhood friend Lita with a flick of his hand. Far Cry 6 delivers on this scene, which was spoiled in the trailers. The moment when the villain makes their first appearance is always a major Far Cry staple, and it shows you how big of a threat they’re going to be. MetaBeat will bring together metaverse thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 3-4 in San Francisco, CA. They play a fairly straitlaced foil to some of the crazier NPCs, but they are not without their moments of levity, my favorite being their interactions with their menagerie of animal companions. They’re initially dragged into the revolution against their will, only to later become attached to their friends and wanting to personally put an end to Castillo’s rule. The player character, Dani Rojas, is a sharp swing from Far Cry 5’s Rook, being fully voiced and having an actual name and personality - and not a bad one, either. Now a number of dissident groups within the country are poised to strike back. However, under the auspices of Castillo and his platform of “True Yaran” patriotism, the country has devolved into a dictatorship where anyone the regime deems unworthy is forced to be a slave to the state. Yara’s main claim to worldwide fame is a drug called Viviro, a cancer treatment cultivated from Yaran tobacco.
What remains to be seen is whether this trend will change games for the better, or worse.The game takes place in Yara, an island nation ruled by El Presidente Anton Castillo. As more critics begin to consider gaming a potential medium for meaningful artistic expression, an increasing number of artists may find that the best available work lies in great video game acting, and in turn, more video game developers will find the success of their narratives hinging on the strength of those performances. What is certain is that a shift is taking place, and it is likely that video games will be providing more and more acting opportunities with an increasing level of prestige and notoriety than ever before for whoever is able to seize the opportunity. Ultimately, however, it remains to be seen whether or not Far Cry 6 will help to bring video game performances into the mainstream or if it is bringing mainstream and recognizable talent into video game acting at the expense of performers who have dedicated themselves to the industry without gaining mainstream notoriety. Some fans already anticipate that a talent like Esposito's could help make Far Cry 6's antagonist their best villain yet. Roger Clark, who provided the voice and motion capture for Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2 won the 2018 Game Award for Best Performance, and the voice actors from Red Dead 2 have gained enough of a following themselves to be able to run their own charity streams playing the game. It isn’t only the stars who are seeing the consequences of this shift. What the Far Cry 6 trailer demonstrated most clearly, however, is a shifting attitude towards video game performances as both motion capture technology becomes more advanced, and the video game industry has more and more examples of prestige and award-winning performances to draw in talent from more traditional acting pools. Of course, as a trailer, it does not actually show the impact that such great performances have on the experience of playing the game itself, though many can expect Esposito to bring a similarly strong performance to the main game and the intense father-son relationship depicted in the Far Cry 6 trailer.
The Far Cry 6 trailer is a masterwork of cinematography, animation, and acting.