Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Ghost Recon Wildlands is set in the present and does a bit of a detour from the previous Tom Clancy's games, which had more a future setting feel as used in Advanced Warfighter and Future Soldier.

Welcome to the Ghosts of Delta Company, an elite special operations unit, part of the United States Army under the Joint Special Operations. This is your typical third-person or optional first-person tactical shooter game, the kind we have all come to love. I must say that the open world environment boasts one of the bigger maps I have seen in a while, it's just massive with lot to do.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to play this on console as well as on PC, seeing as I have hung up my PC master race gaming cape and cowl a very long time ago. I was over at my good friend DV's place where he let me have a go at the game on PC. Firstly it is much faster, just because you can move a mouse much quicker than you can ever do with an analog controller, the second part with was pretty awesome was the 4K graphics at a constant 60 frames, something the consoles still struggle with. Lastly, and this has nothing to do with the game itself, was the tech, my buddy had recently acquired himself one of those ultra wide monitors, which is a beauty to behold and play on, definitely am getting one.

Our story this time takes place in in Bolivia, a landlocked country located in western-central South America, set in the not too distant future of 2019.

The country has become increasingly unstable due to a minor Mexican drug cartel, known as the Santa Blanca Cartel, gaining more power and influence within the country to the point where Bolivia has become an almost narco-state and the world's largest producer of cocaine. Just a side note, Narco-capitalism is not in any the same as Anarcho-capitalism, these two are completely different things. The rising power of these drug cartels start becoming an ever growing concern for the United States Government, and things reach a fever pitch when the Santa Blanca Cartel decides to blow up the U.S. embassy in La Paz.

That is when the United States draws a metaphorical line in the cocaine and says enough, and they initiate Operation Kingslayer, a joint operation between the Central Intelligence Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency, and Joint Special Operations Command. Because if anyone other than these agencies are trading drugs on the black market they are going to have serious problems, sorry I digress, back to our story. The United States Army then dispatches a Ghost Recon fire team to destroy this cartel and reveal the deep connection between Santa Blanca and local government officials who are in their pockets.

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The infamous Ghost team consists of Ghost Leader "Nomad", Tactical Gunner "Midas", Engineer "Holt", and Sniper "Weaver".

Each of the Ghosts team members have to individually make their own way into Bolivia, as to not raise any suspicions from the government or the cartels, who are closing watching all border entry points. The team all meet at the designated rendezvous point where they are joined by their CIA contact, Karen Bowman. She was a good friend of the DEA agent Ricardo "Ricky" Sandoval, who was kidnapped then tortured and finally killed by the cartel, which happened just after the embassy bombing. The team then has to journey to the province of Itacua they are meet with Pac Katari, the leader of the only resistance left in Bolivia against Santa Blanca cartel.

Pac gives the team the break down of what is going on with the cartels, where some of their bases are, drug supply routes and he also sets them up with much needed gear. He also basically gives them their first mission, which is to recover Amaru, an older man whose ideologies inspired Pac to fight back and start the resistance, who is now captured by the Santa Blanca cartel. After this first mission, the Ghosts are for the most part free to take on the cartel in any way and order they see fit, and this is where the fun begins. As the Ghosts start to dismantle the Santa Blanca one piece at a time, they are eventually given the option to go after El Sueño, things get pretty interesting from here on in.

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"Sir, you know as well as I do what's going to happen to him if I leave him out here. There's not going to be a trial. There's not going to be a jury. There gonna take him outside the courthouse and put two in his head." - Lt. A.K. Waters

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Right off the bat, I really loved this game, the environment and surrounding are a visual feast for the eyes.

Each and every part of the in-game version of the South American country of Bolivia looks amazing, with different areas which includes from jungles, mountains, deserts, salt flats, lakes, swamps, quarries, and caves. Each of these areas giving you a completely different game style experience when encountering enemies. The game has an impressive skill tree and the the weapons customization is much better than what you had before in previous games. The only down side was that you max out your skills when you hit around level 30, and I would have loved some more. The only major issue I personally had with the game was when it came to the missions, the first five or so provinces everything felt truly exciting, then after that it became more repetitive the further you go.

The game features co-op play, which means you can take on missions with some of your friends, or you can choose to play with strangers. Who a lot of the time, end up up being some angry kids who will call you rather colourful names when you let the team down or die too soon. Co-op is also drop-in, drop-out, and it works seamlessly, so there are no long waiting times, no loading, no restrictions to which missions you can or can not do. Wildlands is is pretty big game and you will definitely get your monies worth from it, and the co-op play is what kept me coming back for more.

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tactical first person or third person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris, who fall under the Ubisoft family.

Unlike some of the other Ubisoft subsidiaries, these guys in Pairs are mainly responsible for this game as well as helping with Assassins Creed, and they also worked on Just Dance and Rayman. It was released worldwide on March 2017, and is available on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This title is the tenth installment in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon franchise and is the first game in the Ghost Recon series to feature an open world environment, and if is just massive. The game is still kind of new and I have unfortunately not seen any good deals on it yet, but I'm sure you could pick this up as a pre-played game from you local game store.

I give Ghost Recon Wildlands a rating of 8.5/10

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In case you missed it, here is the previous game review

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