"El Presidente" Anton Castillo (left) and his son talk about power in Far Cry 6. Actor Giancarlo Esposito plays Castillo.
"El Presidente" Anton Castillo (left) and his son talk about power in Far Cry 6. Actor Giancarlo Esposito plays Castillo.
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Far Cry 6 narrative interview — Raising a dictator’s son

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Far Cry 6 has another memorable villain in the form of “El Presidente” Antón Castillo, played by actor Giancarlo Esposito. And it has an interesting story about how this villain, the dictator of the Cuba-like island nation of Yara, trains his young son to be ready to be a better dictator.

The game is coming out October 7 on the PC, consoles, and Stadia. I played couple of parts of the game in a preview session with publisher Ubisoft, and I got a feel for some of the storytelling across the huge open world.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.