Ghost Recon Wildlands Review | Game Review
Ghost Recon Wildlands Review :- Veterans of Ghost Recon are certainly going to get a hangover with this treat of a game from Ubisoft. Ghost Recon: Wildlands borrows a lot from Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and on many levels appears to be a conglomerate of Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. This game is a testament to the Ubisoft’s love for open-world games, and we certainly aren’t the ones complaining.
That being said, the game is engaging at best and dumb at worst. The storyline is the traditional elite team going to take down a drug cartel. It seems like the story is just a mixture of Sicario, Narcos and Bad Boys 2. Violence is used casually around the game, so much so that hanging corpses are found to be a suitable décor for Villain’s hideout.
But that’s not all, even the gameplay appears to have several issues. The game was promised with a tactical layer to it but Ubisoft seems to have taken the need for it rather lightly. It has all the cool features like marking your enemies using drones or binoculars and taking them out with synchronised shots. But, your enemies are like on drugs or dim-witted at the best. You can take them down with simple strategies and when your enemies can’t even take action after a helicopter crashes in their area, what will you think?
The AI-squad that moves with you can do basic stuff like reviving you and taking down some enemies but the command set you can give them is rather limited. There are also some technical issues in place like you can see an assault rifle stuck in the bonnet of the SUV after it hits a cartel killer. Or you may also find some bizarre glitches like sniper emerging from the chest of the protagonist.
The open-world map of the game is stuffed with side missions but Ubisoft hasn’t made any effort to make them interesting. In case you fuck up any task like hijacking the helicopter or stealing the meds, you will find another similar task in a minute or two. The game has outdated cover and stealth mechanism, in a game where these should have been at the centre.
All these reasons to hate the game, but you may fall in love with it. The world created for this game is the definition of vastness. Incorporating a range of environment and ecosystems, it lets you experience places like mountains, deserts, towns, swamps, military bases, lakeside resorts, cocaine factory and what not. You can use a dirt-bike or an SUV to move around the map, exploring the mountain track, hairpin bends and even get to chase stolen sports car at mind-bending speed.
And if you are still feeling disappointed, the game gives you the option to use powerboats to walk on water or hijack helicopters or planes to fly away. It is fun to move around doing stunts and fucking up your enemies along the way. And the amazing surroundings of Bolivia will make you fall in love with the game.
The gameplay cycle of Ghost Recon Wildlands is also very engaging and addictive. If you want to make progress in the game you have to search for intelligence and move on to foil the cartel’s ludicrous plans. Bolivia has been divided into several regions with their own cartel boss and central theme. At one time you may be running a sex surveillance while taking down casinos in the very next. You may even find yourself in pursuit of gold caches or fighting weird cults.
This all may seem like several episodes in a single game but leap from one vehicle to another and you can change the ongoing mission. The game is not on par with The Divison’s upgrade system but, the Gunsmith interface from Ubisoft will make it fun for you to upgrade each and every weapon piece by piece, according to your own style.
The action is impeccable and addictive. Rampaging in your SUV, taking down enemies makes you feel satisfied. You get to take down enemies from a distance while saving your ass from the hunting helicopters at the same time. Many things may feel simple, easy and silly but the entertainment factor of the game is top notch.
This was all about the single player mode, and this game also features a multiplayer mode. Bring your friends to the four player co-op and bring down havoc on your enemies. If you are as lonely as many people out there, the game also has an automated matchmaking feature to pair you up with players with similar skills and goals in the game.
The game also let you divide your team and go ahead on different missions, making it a completely new experience. The matchmaking of the game is very efficient and doesn’t let you waste time. Even then you might get along with some morons who will keep triggering the alarms in an infiltrate mission again and again.
The game becomes unpredictable in multiplayer scenarios. You may be waiting to die by the hands of Cartel army and get rescued by your teammate who was earlier on some different mission. It is crazy chaotic and that’s what makes the game lovely and addicting.
The game, in no way, is even near the detailings of Metal Gear Solid 5 or the creativity and fun of GTA V. Even the scale and size of the game can bore you and exhaust you when played for too long. Still, the game succeeds in being fun in the solo mode and over the top hilarious in the multiplayer co-op mode. Wildlands is literally the wildest of all Ghost Recon out there deserving a 3.5/5 at the very least.
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