Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands

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  1. Shpongle
    Apr 8, 2017
    4
    I've played unpatched early access games that don't crash this often. None of the CTDs are consistent. Sometimes its during an explosion, other times I'm just lying in the grass doing nothing. Other times I'm 25 minutes in to stealthily dispatching an entire base just to lose it all to Ubisofts inability to roll out a working game despite having a full AAA studio's budget and resources.I've played unpatched early access games that don't crash this often. None of the CTDs are consistent. Sometimes its during an explosion, other times I'm just lying in the grass doing nothing. Other times I'm 25 minutes in to stealthily dispatching an entire base just to lose it all to Ubisofts inability to roll out a working game despite having a full AAA studio's budget and resources. With a 5820k @ 4.5GHz and 1080ti I still get stuttering and FPS dips down to the low 30s. I got this game for free through a promotional deal and I still don't feel like I got my money's worth.… Expand
  2. carnivorCactae
    Sep 22, 2018
    4
    Breathtaking enviroments, sometimes a gripping and entertaining coop-experience that shines when you clear a camp while providing cover-fire from a distance and let your buddies get close!

    But: The single-player gets boring very fast, because there are not enough ways to approach objectives and the AI - while doing a decent job - just can't do that many experiments you would try!    Breathtaking enviroments, sometimes a gripping and entertaining coop-experience that shines when you clear a camp while providing cover-fire from a distance and let your buddies get close!

    But:
    The single-player gets boring very fast,
    because there are not enough ways to approach objectives
    and the AI - while doing a decent job - just can't do that many experiments you would try!

    The Coop-experience on the other hand CAN turn this game into a "tactic"-sort-of mix of Just Cause and Far Cry!

    But weapons shoot like garden-hoses with a ridiculous bullet-drop and a laughable travel-speed of your bullets.

    Problem is:
    All the "missions" are getting repetitive very fast!
    There is not much variety and once you completed multiple Raids, liberated some camps and hijacked another convoy,
    you've done it all!

    Its a wasted opportunity,
    because the landscapes look very, very good,
    but are filled with all the same missions and tasks!    … Expand
  3. SRKNZ
    Nov 28, 2018
    4
    Ghost Recon Wild-lands could have been a good game but sadly its only a mediocre one. There are a number of aspects to this game that let it down. The most obvious is the Uplay interface that can best be described as a marketing tool. Unlike Steam that mostly gets out of your way Uplay is simply a nuisance that constantly trying to sell you things even when the game is loading.

    The    Ghost Recon Wild-lands could have been a good game but sadly its only a mediocre one. There are a number of aspects to this game that let it down. The most obvious is the Uplay interface that can best be described as a marketing tool. Unlike Steam that mostly gets out of your way Uplay is simply a nuisance that constantly trying to sell you things even when the game is loading.

    The second biggest failing is the confused mix of arcade style game play and strategic military shooter. It should be one thing but really its both and its a discordant mix. Things constantly pop up on your screen, rubbish about movies, tutorials, insistent requests to join on line play and other nonsense that like Uplay simply get in the way and can best be described as "screen graffiti". This arcade interface is simply a nuisance and its not helped by a needlessly complex mapping system that in trying to help you simply confuses. Less would have been far more.

    With its open world game environment you would have thought good vehicle physics would be a must. Well you would be wrong again. Ground vehicles handle like buses with choppers being the only decent form of transport.

    Game plays a mess too. Because of the annoying arcade interface you often find it difficult to work out simply things, mission parameters and the like. The net result if failed missions where have to go in with no real idea of what it is you are to do let alone how you are expected to achieve anything.

    Gun physics are mediocre too. Things like zooming sniper sights are limited and poorly executed. Guns feel awkward and under powered. Enemies seem to know where you are for no obvious reason turning you into a bullet magnet in short order.

    I played this game half halfheartedly and could not really get into it. It's deficits are so conspicuous and extensive that like Far Cry 5 its more frustrating than it could ever be said to be enjoyable.

    A unenthusiastic 4/10 from me.    … Expand
  4. supe
    Aug 26, 2017
    4
    GRW is supposed to be a blend of Ghost Recon's tactical squad-based combat with an open world. While the gameworld is immense and nice to look at, it is a chore to interact with. The gameplay is fun for the first few hours, but this is Ghost Recon in name only, as a lack of tactical options makes the gameplay repetitive.

    Pros + Open world is immense and very pretty + Bullet physics    GRW is supposed to be a blend of Ghost Recon's tactical squad-based combat with an open world. While the gameworld is immense and nice to look at, it is a chore to interact with. The gameplay is fun for the first few hours, but this is Ghost Recon in name only, as a lack of tactical options makes the gameplay repetitive.

    Pros
    + Open world is immense and very pretty
    + Bullet physics are excellent, with realistic velocity and no bullet sponge enemies
    + Three squadmates that you can Sync Shot with

    Cons
    - Open world doesn't change with your actions other than more rebel patrols. Bases respawn with enemies and SAM sites respawn to screw with air travel that is not fun to begin with.
    - Both enemy factions, the Cartel and the Unidad military, shoot you on sight because disguises are apparently beyond the skill of your spec ops team.
    - Being engaged on sight is a problem because Unidad spawns UNLIMITED enemies GTA-style, which forces you to retreat. These f*ckers can cause mission failure as they randomly patrol mission areas.
    - Those extra rebel patrols? They are designed to "help" you by engaging the Cartel or Unidad when they're searching for you. They helpfully draw enemies into your area when you're trying to hide, and helpfully shoot those lieutenants you need to keep alive to interrogate.
    - Vehicles have wet noodle physics inspired by Police Quest in the 80's. Try landing a plane with no gauges on a landing strip shorter than your driveway.
    - Your squadmates cannot be ordered to give suppressing fire, or be positioned individually, or have their loadouts modified, or do anything other than Sync Shot
    - Higher level missions can instafail due to inexplicable time limits, or being spotted by an enemy, or other designs that are lazy rather than challenging

    On the rare occasion GRW tries to be inventive, it ends up failing miserably. Example: you need to protect a target from the Cartel on his way to the airport. Said target drives away from you quickly, so if you stop to engage the Cartel the mission fails. Since you can't clear out the first Cartel cluster that shows up and ALL enemies of the same faction have the same status in the gameworld, you end up aggro'ing the whole city. As you drive through enemy fire, rebels helpfully stop in the middle of the road to slow you down. The first Unidad patrol that spots the action gets drawn in, which begins their unlimited spawning circus. Now that there are more enemies than bullets in your inventory, the guy you need to protect gets out of his damaged car to cower in a corner.

    GRW was a solid 7 the first dozen or so hours. But the gameplay gets progressively worse due to repetition in tactics and mission design that is lazy at best, and piss poor at worst. As a sum of it's parts, I would score GRW firmly in the red.    … Expand
  5. diegocg
    Aug 14, 2018
    4
    After 80 hours of gameplay... (I have the Uplay version)

    Could be good if the constantly bugs (the reason for the rating) are not so annoying... it is one of the most bugged game I ever played. And the new DLC (Year 2) came with many new bugs. Really, only buy with a good discount. Some pros: Graphs are beautiful, with varied landscapes. Really big open world. Coop is very nice.    After 80 hours of gameplay... (I have the Uplay version)

    Could be good if the constantly bugs (the reason for the rating) are not so annoying... it is one of the most bugged game I ever played. And the new DLC (Year 2) came with many new bugs.
    Really, only buy with a good discount.

    Some pros:
    Graphs are beautiful, with varied landscapes.
    Really big open world.
    Coop is very nice.
    Sniper shooting is cool.
    Nice weapons.
    Good voice acting
    The drone is cool.
    Sync shoot.

    Bad:
    IA of the enemies sometimes are extreme dumb (they can crash their cars and kill their friends and you are blamed for this if you are in the area)
    Enemies sometimes spawn from nothing, near to you.
    Unidad can be annoying, appearing in the middle of a mission (occur too much)
    Missions are repetitive after some time.
    The missions appear to be "side quests" only.

    Some (few) of the bugs:
    The sniper weapon constantly loses their supressor and you need to go to the menu to equip then (in some weapons, it is impossible to equip after you lost it).
    In coop, players can see things different from the other (for example, one player see a running helicopter, other no).
    Sometimes the game closes.
    In the 2 last updates (Uplay version) I had to reinstall the entire game, because the update failed after the download (17GB + 14GB).
    In coop, one play accomplished the mission and the other not, even doing the mission together.    … Expand
  6. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 16, 2017
    4
    Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
    The most garbage excuse for a AAA game I’ve ever seen.
    Allow me to get my angry joe on for a moment, because ubisoft, yuh done **** it up Not just ghost recon wildlands, but video games in general if you think that in any way this is an acceptable $60 release This is the laziest piece of garbage put onto market for $60 in recent memory This game is    Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
    The most garbage excuse for a AAA game I’ve ever seen.
    Allow me to get my angry joe on for a moment, because ubisoft, yuh done **** it up
    Not just ghost recon wildlands, but video games in general if you think that in any way this is an acceptable $60 release
    This is the laziest piece of garbage put onto market for $60 in recent memory
    This game is just a bunch of side quests on a dead, but beautiful map
    this generic drug lord story is so throw away that the game doesn’t even make you bother taking out all of the underbosses and making your way up to the final show down
    after killing just 2 targets the game told me I can go kill the final boss right now or continue cleaning up the map
    meaning you can literally beat this game in less than 4 hours
    it took me a little long because I decided to play online and do the other missions around the map…
    missions that in the end don’t really matter.. Cause again, the final boss is right there... drive up to his gates and activate a cut scene, ding... gold trophy...
    This is a scary scary indication of what ubisoft plants to do with its lack of narrative focus…
    this is let’s play streamer garbage…
    the story is forced in this map to trick you into believing this is an actual full-fledged AAA release, buts it’s not
    it’s a giant map with weightless vehicles to drive around, 1 garbage radio station because that’s how much ubsioft believed in this title… and a bunch of side missions and collectibles to upgrade your character to do with 3 of your friends for 20 hours.
    Missions that are literally the worst kind…
    time trials... auto fails if you’re detected... do not kill the target…
    thanks but no thanks…
    You can be calculating if you want, taking out binoculars or flying your drone in there, syncing up shots… The gunplay feels nice
    but again... with a lack of any true narrative…you don’t feel like you’re working towards anything… you feel like you’re wasting your time... and quite frankly you are…
    The games boring, the missions are trash, if you don’t plan on playing with your friends.. Stay away from this garbage…
    Ubisoft put no real effort or heart into this at all.
    I give Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Wildlands
    a 4.5/10    … Expand
  7. DwaneDibbley
    Mar 11, 2017
    4
    This is not Ghost Recon, its FarCry 6.
    If u like Ghost Recon, this game is terrible 3/10.
    If u like FarCry, its solid 7/10.
    ..........................
  8. Captain_Chaos
    Apr 17, 2017
    4
    I can't say much for or against Wildlands. It's another generic military cover shooter with shiny graphics and boring characters. It has some nice customization of your appearance and weapons, and in particular a lot of gun camos. I hear a lot about performance problems, though I haven't encountered such, it DID crash on exit, for what thats worth. I also hear alot about ♥♥♥♥♥♥ drivingI can't say much for or against Wildlands. It's another generic military cover shooter with shiny graphics and boring characters. It has some nice customization of your appearance and weapons, and in particular a lot of gun camos. I hear a lot about performance problems, though I haven't encountered such, it DID crash on exit, for what thats worth. I also hear alot about ♥♥♥♥♥♥ driving controls and I will say the ground vehicles were a bit squirrley, and It seemed like I couldn't fly a helicopter up and forward at the same time- but at least they don't want to fall out of the sky like Battlefield choppers. The spy drone mechanic was nice, but im wondering why the "sync shot" ability only works on one guy. You have a team of up to three AI guys backing you up, can't they shoot three enemies? There might be a way of doing this though, I didn't read up on the upgrade trees.

    It seems like the kind of game you could have left as a 6-10 hour pipe shooter without adding the illusion of additional game time via a freeroam mode. Based on what I've seen so far, it's at least passably playable, but I've played many other games that do what it does better. It's at least co-op focused, which already puts it a step above Rainbow Six: Siege.    … Expand
  9. iamevilhomer
    Mar 12, 2017
    4
    Call this a weak review if you will but I still make a good point.

    Assassins creed franchise? Mostly sucks... Rainbow six franchise? Mostly sucks... Far cry franchise? Mostly sucks... Splinter cell franchise? Mostly sucks... Watch dogs franchise Seriously sucks hairy balls lol... New ubisoft franchises like for honor and the division? Mostly suck... Pretty sad when south    Call this a weak review if you will but I still make a good point.

    Assassins creed franchise? Mostly sucks...

    Rainbow six franchise? Mostly sucks...

    Far cry franchise? Mostly sucks...

    Splinter cell franchise? Mostly sucks...

    Watch dogs franchise Seriously sucks hairy balls lol...

    New ubisoft franchises like for honor and the division? Mostly suck... Pretty sad when south park games are your best bet with ubisoft because they are at least kind of funny...

    See a trend here fellas? Whenever they do a half way decent job it's "meh" at best. You don't see them pulling a chrono trigger or ocarina of time now do you?

    Wild lands is the same ubisoft trash... Remember what crowbcat has proven kids... Ubisoft downgrades. They make their stuff look great at E3 and then deliver trash for the most part or something worse than what was shown. Do any ubisoft games have a 9 or higher on metacritic? I don't think so and even if they do I know it's a low 9. Like I said. This company never wows anyone who has a brain and taste in the gaming world.

    Anyways this game blows because it's the division with terrible vehicles, terrible controls, terrible physics, it's online only, it's boring, it's very unrealistic, the servers suck, the open world style is lack luster, Missions are very repetitive, The AI is very stupid etc etc...

    The only good thing I can tell is that it has some kool character and weapon customization but hey... This is a video game guys. Not barbies dress up...

    I give this trash a 4 out of 10 and that's being generous. Most would give it about a 6 or 7 but most don't have good taste so a 4 is right for the kind of gamer who has good taste and doesn't pull the opinion card like a moron. Opinions aside guys... Facts are facts. A game like Ocarina of time is in fact a great game. A game like big rigs is in fact a totally crappy game. And a game like wild lands is somewhere in between. Ocarina of time factually made with care and great detail. Big rigs was factually not... Wildlands is meh...

    It's worth a rental to play for maybe a couple days if you're that bored and one of those morons who likes to support micro transaction games... Other than that. Please... Just pass up this sorry excuse for a video game just like pretty much every game ubisoft rushes out the door. Go play breath of the wild. Go play Horizon. Don't waste your time with trash from ubisoft...    … Expand
  10. Tito23
    Jul 26, 2017
    4
    I have put about 14 hours into this game and I just cannot continue. Horribly optimized for the PC. Repetitive game play and missions. The only good thing about this game is the graphics and the environment. This is just overly bland and I really wish I did not pay full price of this game. You got me this time Ubisoft....you got me this time. I usually like to go to a pretty descriptiveI have put about 14 hours into this game and I just cannot continue. Horribly optimized for the PC. Repetitive game play and missions. The only good thing about this game is the graphics and the environment. This is just overly bland and I really wish I did not pay full price of this game. You got me this time Ubisoft....you got me this time. I usually like to go to a pretty descriptive review of the why's the score I have given a game but this is not worth the effort. Maybe worth it if you can find it under 15 dollars.… Expand
  11. Wodzu_Andzej
    Jul 15, 2023
    4
    The map is boring, every weapon shoots pretty much the same or handles horribly. Stealth is also handicapped, enemies can see you from a mile away, and most locators aren't designed for that. All missions are almost the same. And driving vehicles is like an asset from the unriel engine library. In conclusion, the game has everything
    but it's all done for the **** off. I only finished it    The map is boring, every weapon shoots pretty much the same or handles horribly. Stealth is also handicapped, enemies can see you from a mile away, and most locators aren't designed for that. All missions are almost the same. And driving vehicles is like an asset from the unriel engine library. In conclusion, the game has everything
    but it's all done for the **** off. I only finished it by playing with friends, but the Ubisoft online system didn't help at all.    … Expand
  12. Lukrejshyn
    Jun 30, 2021
    4
    The game is very repetetive. And I'm not talking about 3-4 same sidemission which you do purely to progress and unlock new perks but overall every mission. The campaign mission apart from last from every region is basically go there do this or go there and holdout the waves of enemies, go there don't get spotted and do this, go there, take this person then escape from area etc. and it'sThe game is very repetetive. And I'm not talking about 3-4 same sidemission which you do purely to progress and unlock new perks but overall every mission. The campaign mission apart from last from every region is basically go there do this or go there and holdout the waves of enemies, go there don't get spotted and do this, go there, take this person then escape from area etc. and it's those same things over and over again. It's very clear that devs wanting to change the format of Ghost Recon from linear to open world had no idea how to go about this and in the end it didn't come out very well. However the game has some strong pros. Stealthing in this game feels really satsifying and you can really feel like an elite special task soldier. Commanding and coordinating your squad allows for many tactics and help to get you immersed into the game. The open world looks fantastic. Story is pretty basic and personally to me feels pretty cliche apart from 4-man squad taking basically an army of soldiers which if you think about it is a bit over the top. Nonetheless it's an interesting concept which could work if you were to assume that this squad has only utilized stealth to get to their targets. The most satisfying thing about this game to me personally and it's best part was progressively getting new gear as you explore the map. And in such progression system you might think that the game is unfair since you can easily get the best weapon right at the start but thanks to guns being balanced the game doesn't have such weakness and each gun excels at something else which makes for a very interesting sandbox. The customization is on high level with many attachments to collect and all of them changing something in the weapon they're assigned to. Gunplay feels good with each gun doing something different than the others. Shooting and sounds of guns feel realistic and satisfying. However the flaws of the game overshadow it's strong sides. The game had potential but it was ruined by a development choice of quantity over quality.… Expand
  13. TitaniumDragon
    Oct 15, 2017
    3
    Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a game which shows the weaknesses of open-world games. It is a game where there is an enormous amount of stuff to do, and yet, almost all of the stuff is the same, and it is a game without a strong sense of progression.

    Your goal in Ghost Recon: Wildlands is to bring down a drug cartel which has taken over Bolivia. You do this by taking down a    Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a game which shows the weaknesses of open-world games. It is a game where there is an enormous amount of stuff to do, and yet, almost all of the stuff is the same, and it is a game without a strong sense of progression.

    Your goal in Ghost Recon: Wildlands is to bring down a drug cartel which has taken over Bolivia. You do this by taking down a bunch of cartel bosses, who lead to their bosses, who lead to their bosses, who lead to the head of the cartel. The world map – about 400 square kilometers of land – is broken up into 20 or so regions, each of which is ruled over by a cartel leader. Within each area, you collect intel which leads to missions, which then get completed in order to unlock a confrontation with that area’s leader, where you kill them, capture them, or cajole them into turning on their cartel masters. Beat two of these bosses from a single portion of the gang (Security, Influence, Production, or Smuggling), and you unlock the ability to take on that section’s “underboss”. Beat all of these bosses, and you get to take on the boss of that section of the gang.

    The thing is, you can take these on in any order you want. As the game starts, you are dumped into Bolivia with a marker on your map to lead you to your first mission objective; after that point, you are introduced to the idea of how to get more missions, and you are let loose on the world.

    Because you can attack the bosses in any order, they don’t really tie together very closely; each area has its own little self-contained story, which only really intersect in that you unlock additional story segments, in the form of little videos, after beating each area. However, these have to be pretty vague about which bosses you’ve beaten, as there’s no particular order to them, so it really just shows a growing sense of desperation by the cartel.

    Unfortunately, this is really the only flavor there is in the game. This is a “realistic” game, and like many “realistic” games, it falls into the trap of making the enemies have very little sense of variety. All the enemies can be taken down with just a few bullets – or often, a single bullet from a more powerful gun, like a sniper rifle – which really robs the combat of any sense of diversity. There are vehicles, but in the end, there is very limited variety in vehicles – there are the vehicles that are just cars with dudes in them, there are vehicles that have turrets on top of them, there are helicopters with dudes in them, and there are helicopters with turrets on them. In addition to “dude with gun” and “dude with sniper rifle”, that is the “variety” of enemies in the game, and you will experience all of them quite early.

    This leads to very, very limited variety in the sort of challenge you face. Worse, all missions basically are “kill the dude/all the dudes”, “sneak into an area without being detected (while killing dudes along the way)”, “stop the dude and then interrogate them/put a tag on a vehicle you stopped”, or “kill some dudes and steal a vehicle that you drive off to some other location in”. There are hundreds of these missions in the game, so they repeat not just frequently, but incessantly. Worse, even the set dressing on these missions repeats heavily; there’s a set of missions which involve blowing open a radio station tower and then going in to shoot some people and hack a system within a time limit, and you do this mission something like nine times over the course of the game. Not even basically the same mission; exactly the same mission, just in different locations. The same goes for stealing planes/helicopters and flying supplies to hidden rebel bases, with the only real breaks there being a few missions where you must carefully avoid anti-aircraft systems (or, more likely, blow them up pre-emptively).

    Having a big world is pointless if it is just the same things over and over again, copy-pasted into 20 different areas, and that’s precisely what Ghost Recon: Wildlands is. All the production values in the world can’t disguise the samey, repetitive gameplay, and you will get bored with the game long before you get anywhere near the end.    … Expand
  14. Tinz
    Mar 15, 2017
    3
    Could have been epic, but no SLI support, crashes, buggy controller support, lame ballistics, gimped equipment which you have to upgrade where better equipment would have been more sensible, constant onslaughts by Unidad forces wherever you poke your nose irrespective of your stealth, odd behaving AI which breaks immersion, etc. etc. I was so disappointed that I got a full refund. NeverCould have been epic, but no SLI support, crashes, buggy controller support, lame ballistics, gimped equipment which you have to upgrade where better equipment would have been more sensible, constant onslaughts by Unidad forces wherever you poke your nose irrespective of your stealth, odd behaving AI which breaks immersion, etc. etc. I was so disappointed that I got a full refund. Never trusting this developer again, as sick and tired of all the mishaps.… Expand
  15. brod40
    Mar 11, 2017
    3
    This game is emblematic of Ubisoft's main problem: quantity over quality. There are bells and whistles and you can paint your gun and there map is covered in icon vomit, all of which distracts from the fact that the game is just no fun to actually play.

    The game is huge, the world is detailed and varied, and screwing around with friends is pretty fun. The problem is that the    This game is emblematic of Ubisoft's main problem: quantity over quality. There are bells and whistles and you can paint your gun and there map is covered in icon vomit, all of which distracts from the fact that the game is just no fun to actually play.

    The game is huge, the world is detailed and varied, and screwing around with friends is pretty fun. The problem is that the minute-to-minute gameplay is horrifically unsatisfying. If we're going to make a game whose main draws are exploration, stealth, and shooting, wouldn't you try to make those elements fun? If you answered yes, you'll never work at Ubisoft.

    Gunplay is barely serviceable. Aiming feels sluggish and the audio lacks weight and punch. My biggest gripe is that Wildlands has latched onto one of the most baffling trends in modern shooter design, something I like to call the "Nerf" effect. Rather than firing supersonic metal projectiles like guns in the real world, guns in Wildlands shoot slow moving, glowing nerf darts. Ostensibly this aesthetic is supposed to look like tracer fire, but it completely undermines the gritty, realistic feel the game is going for. When using assault weapons and sidearms at close range, the effect isn't too bad, but it completely ruins the immersion and fun of sniping. I LOVE the inclusion of bullet drop, but it's taken to risible extremes in this game. It feels less like shooting highpowered rifles and more like lobbing novelty mini footballs.

    I won't spend too much time on the vehicles, except to say they're horrible. Cars and track are decent, but the control scheme for the helicopter is - without hyperbole - one of the worst things I've ever experienced in a game.

    The story is blah - the big bad is pretty cool but the plot + dialogue are generic tough-guy inanity.

    This, look so many of other of Ubi's recent games, feels like a piece of software created by a focus group rather than a team of passionate gamers and developers. It's big and shiny and as boring as the day is long.    … Expand
  16. TheDRZJ
    Mar 7, 2017
    3
    Generic open-world shooter with a lot of repetitive activities, "excuse for gameplay" story type, nice graphics and awful amount of bugs and glitches.
    Co-op making everything better - but this feels like 3rd person Far Cry WITHOUT any main story missions. Capture, escort, defend, interrogate or forced stealth. Capture, escort, defend. Repeat 5 times for each region and they're 26 regions    Generic open-world shooter with a lot of repetitive activities, "excuse for gameplay" story type, nice graphics and awful amount of bugs and glitches.
    Co-op making everything better - but this feels like 3rd person Far Cry WITHOUT any main story missions. Capture, escort, defend, interrogate or forced stealth. Capture, escort, defend. Repeat 5 times for each region and they're 26 regions in the game.
    Yes, i agree - coop can do everything better. But let's be clean - in this case, you and your friends are the main sources of fun - nothing of it coming from the game itself. Try it solo to feel it - it's dead empty sandbox.    … Expand
  17. elcap0
    May 8, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I stopped playing to write this. I made this account to write this. The game is nothing like past ghost recon games, it is not fun, it is the standard Ubisoft open world fare that seems to come out with the irritating regularity of a period.

    the game is annoyingly inaccurate, and I am not talking "my M4A1 is a 5MOA gun in the game when the platform is traditionally 1MOA." My AI controlled squadmate CONSISTENTLY fres his sniper rifle full auto when in a vehicle. Enemies can fire perfectly accurate streams of death using machine pistols at 50+ yards, and villagers seem to ignore the special ops troops shouting in English while killing gun wielding maniacs.

    I stopped playing when the following exchange happened between my character and a squadmate.

    "Ok I found the location for a cocaine factory, it is in an abandoned meat processing plant"

    "Alright boss let's go bust some heads"

    "We can't, the door to the building is protected by a passcode, which is in the computer of one of their lieutenants"

    freaking what??? the crack special military team made up of the best of the best soldiers is stopped by a freaking code lock??

    I was out at that point, my immersion was gone. The old Ghost team would have blown up the factory, killed everyone, and been back stateside before anyone missed them.

    Ranting aside I do have one final question. Why open world? This game could have been a level based Third person shooter and nothing of narrative value would have been lost.

    In the end the game is bland, boring, and can be replaced by it's previous counterparts.

    if you like tactical combat go play MGS5. if you like sniping gameplay, go play Sniper Elite. if you have a hankering for third person shooters, Spec Ops: The Line has not gone anywhere.

    in short: Bland Boring and Dull, I got it on sale for $14 and I think I paid too much for it    … Expand
  18. Archdragon90
    Sep 20, 2021
    3
    I want this to be a good game, I love the concept of an open world co-op shooter. I enjoyed it when it came out but grew to hate it the more I played. The AI team mates are just complete **** garbage. All 3 will be with you and have enemies just come up behind me a kill me with out the **** AI doing **** I get down and they only revive me when I am half dead. Just so **** trash. TheI want this to be a good game, I love the concept of an open world co-op shooter. I enjoyed it when it came out but grew to hate it the more I played. The AI team mates are just complete **** garbage. All 3 will be with you and have enemies just come up behind me a kill me with out the **** AI doing **** I get down and they only revive me when I am half dead. Just so **** trash. The Helicopter spawn is a **** joke. It will and always spawn on the other side of gates, on a mountain, on cars or next to poles and just automatically get destroyed. It's a 50/50 on spawning it. I do not recommend this game unless you play with friends. Playing with AI will just keep pissing you off.… Expand
  19. StarkAgentos
    Mar 16, 2022
    3
    Поиграл 1 час. Очередная гриндилка от юбисофт в открытом мире. Расстояния от задания до задания огромные. Сюжет никакой, стрельба никакая, геймплей однообразный в духе подай принеси (и это основные задания). Графон никакой, оптимизация на пк, как обычно, никакая.Поиграл 1 час. Очередная гриндилка от юбисофт в открытом мире. Расстояния от задания до задания огромные. Сюжет никакой, стрельба никакая, геймплей однообразный в духе подай принеси (и это основные задания). Графон никакой, оптимизация на пк, как обычно, никакая.
  20. Rax666
    Mar 7, 2017
    2
    The game can be fun with friends it can really be but ultimatly its is a really bad game i dont understand the high review because this game is really bad. Gunplay is bad, ai allies and enemy bad, vehicles controls are insanely terrible, mission are incredibly repetitive its gets old after 3 missions and the open world is empty its way to big for no reason at all. Giving this game 8 and 10The game can be fun with friends it can really be but ultimatly its is a really bad game i dont understand the high review because this game is really bad. Gunplay is bad, ai allies and enemy bad, vehicles controls are insanely terrible, mission are incredibly repetitive its gets old after 3 missions and the open world is empty its way to big for no reason at all. Giving this game 8 and 10 when MGS5 exist is pretty retarded but you have to expect white knight defending it because it got next to no good feedback in the beta ive never seen anything like it people where legit pissed and i understand this isnt ghost recon its a GTA online watch dogs far cry machup and a bad one. Im giving it a 4 because it can really be fun with friends. People saying it is good have nothing good to say except its a good game they cant point out whats good because its not good its fun with friends but far from good. And comparing this garbage to MGS5 is pretty retarded… Expand
  21. Milkman128
    Oct 3, 2018
    2
    Are you use to Tom Clancy games from the past that felt like semi decent simulators. Welp abandon that feeling because this is reskined farcry. everything feels toony and loose and BASIIIIC. got bored in the first 20 minutes.
  22. Sirus
    Mar 20, 2017
    2
    It could of been a great installment, but it's completely hindered by awful team AI. While you try to protect the objective, your three teammates are completely useless while you get swarmed.
  23. Critic_Valas
    Mar 15, 2017
    2
    This could be a really good game to play in co-op if it wasn't plagued with game breaking bugs and constant texture issues. I'm using the recommended driver as well. Do not buy in the current condition
  24. showt
    Dec 9, 2019
    2
    Скучнейшая игра, неоправданно прожорливая для своей графики. Унылейший сюжет, который вообще никак не может заинтересовать. посредственный геймплей, кривое управление транспортом. В общем плюсов даже выделить не могу.Скучнейшая игра, неоправданно прожорливая для своей графики. Унылейший сюжет, который вообще никак не может заинтересовать. посредственный геймплей, кривое управление транспортом. В общем плюсов даже выделить не могу.
  25. Rubino
    Apr 1, 2019
    1
    Played ghost mode (permadeath mode) for 16 hours being extremely careful and having almost reached level 30 (level cap). Got out of a helicopter, fell through the map and died. Everything I did up until that point was a waste of my time. Save yourself from a mediocre, poorly optimized and bugged game. The devs gave up on it so why shouldn't you?
  26. Bortx
    Jul 29, 2017
    1
    This game, especially from Ubisoft, surprises me how generic and bland it looks and plays. They must have put their D team on this. Game looks dated. Ugly characters. Stiff animations. Controls poorly. Has a boring story with long winded cut scenes. NPCs on your team are useless. Brings nothing new to the open world scene except that its more poorly executed than the rest. Gave up after anThis game, especially from Ubisoft, surprises me how generic and bland it looks and plays. They must have put their D team on this. Game looks dated. Ugly characters. Stiff animations. Controls poorly. Has a boring story with long winded cut scenes. NPCs on your team are useless. Brings nothing new to the open world scene except that its more poorly executed than the rest. Gave up after an hour of play. Just can't take it any more.… Expand
  27. Jonnif1
    Jan 28, 2018
    1
    The Campaign game is cool and fun
    the multiplayer is so stupid , I wonder how is possible they did something so bad
    In the beginning it was cool with thermal , basically every match lasts 8 minutes and they never end also the enemies need to be revived they don't die at all which is very stupid in my opinion because in this way the match never ends . Then finding an enemy if you play    The Campaign game is cool and fun
    the multiplayer is so stupid , I wonder how is possible they did something so bad
    In the beginning it was cool with thermal , basically every match lasts 8 minutes and they never end
    also the enemies need to be revived they don't die at all which is very stupid in my opinion
    because in this way the match never ends .
    Then finding an enemy if you play solo is almost impossible , in the past you had the thermal now if you don't have premade team is almost impossible spotting enemies on the trees
    One of the worst games I have ever bought , so sad I can resell it because is for pc .    … Expand
  28. xlastovi
    Apr 24, 2018
    1
    It's always TUT... TUT... GAME OVER. Mission failed before you even start it. You have a fraction of second to hide which is impossible. Then instantly appears an infinite army of soldiers. If they at least removed UNIDAD and left only cartel enemies, it would be playable.
  29. LizardKweef
    Sep 9, 2018
    1
    Worst Ghost Recon I have ever played. Repetitive, useless to even try to beat missions stealthy, physics are the worst I've ever seen. Useless bugs that still haven't been fixed... I want the old GR back.
  30. zs06
    May 15, 2023
    1
    I really liked the game, everything is great in it, after such a decent time it still looks fresh, I would especially like to highlight the local artificial intelligence and enemy bots. I hope that the unity squad will shoot down the houses of the game developers, I wish you happiness and all the best! :)
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 31
  3. Negative: 2 out of 31
  1. PC PowerPlay
    May 11, 2017
    60
    Utilises the amazing PC technology of today to be, eh, okay. [Issue#261, p.68]
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  2. CD-Action
    Apr 26, 2017
    75
    Great visuals and a huge map are perfect foundations for a good open world game, but Wildlands falls short of expectations (because of unpleasant driving and flight models among other things) and it’s up to Ubisoft to remedy that. [05/2017, p.46]
  3. PLAY! Zine
    Apr 26, 2017
    65
    Fun shooting and open world are great, but there aren’t many Ghost Recon elements and game simply feels dull at times.
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