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  • Summary: Taking place a few years into the future, Ghost Recon Wildlands empowers players to lead a team of Ghosts, a four-player U.S. Elite Special Operations unit, on a covert mission to destroy the Santa Blanca drug cartel, an underworld force and growing global threat within Ubisoft’s imaginingTaking place a few years into the future, Ghost Recon Wildlands empowers players to lead a team of Ghosts, a four-player U.S. Elite Special Operations unit, on a covert mission to destroy the Santa Blanca drug cartel, an underworld force and growing global threat within Ubisoft’s imagining of a beautiful, yet dangerous Bolivia. With hundreds of villages and well-known landmarks, local legends and various factions and regions, players venture into a vast world with which to interact and explore. The Ghosts’ upgradable skills, along with a vast arsenal of weapons, vehicles and drones, help them defeat their almighty enemy. Gamers can play the entire game solo or they join up with as many as three friends in co-op to roam freely in this vast playground. [Ubisoft] Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 64
  2. Negative: 4 out of 64
  1. 90
    It’s quickly becoming my favorite first-person shooter of the year, thanks to its impressive landscape, captivating storyline and fully customizable characters. The short list of negatives pale in comparison its highlights. All and all, Ghost Recon: Wildlands delivers and should easily be a contender for 2017’s best first-person shooter, if not best game. It’s magnificent, unique, and certainly worth your time.
  2. Mar 14, 2017
    83
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands proves that Ubisoft has taken what they have learned from all of their previous titles and used it to work for the future. There are noticeable aspects from Rainbow Six, The Division, Assassin's Creed and Far Cry all at work here without ever making Ghost Recon feel like a copy. What may be lacking in the single player elements of the game are made up for over and over again when playing with friends. If you are on the fence about getting this to join with your buddies, bite that bullet and grab this game up. If you don’t have an online connection or anybody to play with, maybe hold off and catch it when it goes on sale.
  3. Mar 6, 2017
    80
    Despite the generic setting, and an over-abundance of Ubisoft-style menus, levels, and statistics, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a fun, tactical, engaging shooter with plenty of depth and good AI. The freedom and nature of the open-world mission approach, while familiar to Far Cry and Phantom Pain fans, allows for some truly creative tactical experiences and enjoyable gameplay moments. Stable matchmaking and the random nature of human players make the co-op a blast as well.
  4. Mar 20, 2017
    80
    Wildlands is a fun sandbox open-world shooter from Ubisoft Paris with a massive amount of content that is best experienced with other players in its seamless drop-in, drop-out four-player co-operative multiplayer mode.
  5. Mar 16, 2017
    70
    Ghost Recon Wildlands is a fun romp in a huge world that allows you tackle each encounter in as tactical or non-tactical manner as you please. Your fellow players are what bring this game to life, so best not look at this as a single-player experience.
  6. Mar 21, 2017
    60
    It feels like such a painstakingly created world could have hosted a more interesting and considered exploration of its themes. As it is, Wildlands is a vast, pretty and militaristic playground for friends to charge around in. And at that, you cannot deny its potency.
  7. Mar 17, 2017
    25
    Wildlands is a bad fu.king game -- it completely fails at everything it aspires to be. It's a bad co-op game, it's a bad shooter, it's a bad open-world game, and the writing is terrible. At best, the game is boring. At worst, it's frustrating. I suppose the visuals are worthy of some praise, but you can just look at screenshots for free. I cannot recommend Ghost Recon Wildlands to anyone, unless you're directly related to someone on the development team. If that is the case, by all means, support your family! Everyone else: stay away.

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  1. Negative: 56 out of 246
  1. Mar 7, 2017
    10
    Been playing since it went live solo, I do plan to play coop down the road, but I wanted to let people know solo is great. I had read peopleBeen playing since it went live solo, I do plan to play coop down the road, but I wanted to let people know solo is great. I had read people hating on A.I. during beta, but just put a couple early skill points in sync shot and it works great. The stealth and sprawling open world, the banter of your teamates really make for an immersive experience. I feel like this game took the best aspects of far cry, division and watchdogs and threw out the crap. I have no regrets on this purchase, and I doubt fans of shooters, stealth and open world games will either. Expand
  2. Dec 30, 2017
    10
    My favoritest game ever. It's better than Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, GTA, and Just Cause as it combines and improves on EVERYthing thatMy favoritest game ever. It's better than Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, GTA, and Just Cause as it combines and improves on EVERYthing that those games are known for which is perfectly fine with me. After all, the saying does go: imitation is the purest form of flattery.

    Good: 1) EVERYthing is customizable (uniforms, paints/patterns, patches, and EVERY part of the weapons)
    2) 5 character save slots (great for me with 4 teenage sons)
    3) Squad controls are genious AND very timely in firefights

    Bad: 1) No control binding for selecting "crouch" since there is "soft cover" which means the character goes into cover just by approaching something that could technically act as cover.*

    *Even listing this as a "bad" feature of this game is really a technicality as Ubisoft most likely didn't have room in the controller layout to fit the cover option. Finding yourself with too much of a good thing shouldn't be bad.

    Long story short: this game is awesome. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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  3. Jun 23, 2020
    9
    I've been playing this game for the last two years and it is great. Co-Op or Solo this game is a fantastic tactical simulator. Whatever path,I've been playing this game for the last two years and it is great. Co-Op or Solo this game is a fantastic tactical simulator. Whatever path, route, or experience you want to run in this game, your choices are at your own disposal. The game play is versatile dependent on your play style. If you want to sneak, snoop, and snipe or barrel in and unload on your enemies this is your game. The weapon variety, gear, customization still keeps me occupied. Wildlands is everything good about the Ghost Recon franchise. Expand
  4. Dec 24, 2022
    7
    Answer: 75 characters is between 10 words and 19 words with spaces included in the character count. If spaces are not included in theAnswer: 75 characters is between 10 words and 19 words with spaces included in the character count. If spaces are not included in the character count, then 75 characters is between 12 words and 25 words. Expand
  5. Mar 20, 2017
    6
    I can truly understand why professional reviews score it so highly as professional reviewers often don't get to spend a lot of time with aI can truly understand why professional reviews score it so highly as professional reviewers often don't get to spend a lot of time with a game prior to making a judgement. If I were judging the game by my impressions after completing only one or two provinces, I'd likely give it an 8 as well. However, the problems begin to show as the game wears on, even with a dedicated group of friends playing regularly for a few hours a night, as was my case.

    Frankly, once you've fully completed your first province, you've seen everything the game has to offer. By the time you've done enough to defeat your first underboss, you'll probably be tired of the gameplay. Every province might look different but they all play the same. The same mission types, the same rebel ops, the same convoys, the same side missions. There's no real variation, every mission is either stealth to area X and do Y, kill or capture X, or steal item X. Almost all of them use the exact same mechanics as every other side mission, so your main missions might involve hijacking a truck which operates identically to taking down a convoy.

    Each province is littered with crap to collect, more guns than you'll ever likely use with most of them utter garbage. A quick glance of your UI pretty much tells you the best guns in the game and tells you in which provinces they can be found.

    Enemy AI, even on higher difficulty levels, is pathetically stupid. Especially the supposed military force, UNIDAD, who I've literally had stand over where I was hiding in a bush and not see me. The story, if you want to call it that, is pretty much a mashup of the movies "A Clear and Present Danger" and "SICARIO". There are also a plethora of bugs to be found that frequently causes mission problems and mission failures. One example off the top of my head: One particular mission where you have to deliver a truck without being detected. We stopped a good 600 meters away and silently took out all of the enemies at the drop off point, but when we drove the truck into the lot it instantly failed and said we had been detected somehow. We did the same thing on a subsequent attempt - EXACTLY the same, down to firing from the same place - and it completed.

    Bugs and hackneyed story aside, it's the sheer rote gameplay that brings it down. By the time my 2 other friends and I had managed to take down a department head, we were all desperately bored of the game. Tonight, as I type this, one of them is off playing FF15 instead and I'm not at all enthused about logging into Wildlands, especially not if it means playing solo with the friendly AI that's just as dumb as the enemies.

    I can't recommend buying this until it's cheap in the bargain bin. This is a prime example of the problems with massive open world games. The size of the playable area doesn't ensure a quality experience.
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  6. Mar 8, 2017
    5
    Mediocre game so far. Have played about 5 hours. My biggest gripes: The enemies know where you are the second you fire a bullet. Its notMediocre game so far. Have played about 5 hours. My biggest gripes: The enemies know where you are the second you fire a bullet. Its not realistic whatsoever, obviously should be alerted but to be able to pinpoint you right away? come on now

    Also, the driving is miserable. This wouldn't be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that every mission is a 10 minute drive minimum away from the last. So you have to spend a lot of time with the **** driving controls. I would take the division over this any day. Of the last few Ubi games i would put them The Division>Wildlands>WatchDogs2. If your bored this isn't a bad game, but if you have any other somewhat interesting games you will quickly find yourself leaving this one to play them.
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  7. Jul 14, 2018
    0
    Most stupid Multiplayer I have ever played
    Worst Sound you ll never understand where enemies are
    Huge Maps , too many Premade Teams They
    Most stupid Multiplayer I have ever played
    Worst Sound you ll never understand where enemies are
    Huge Maps , too many Premade Teams
    They spot you on mic
    The Campaign is good but doesn't worth the purchase
    I am really disappointed to have bought this one .
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