Honestly, there is no idea of a local response in this game. Yes, you can go loud and assault that small outpost in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere- But, the entire population of Bolivia will turn up thirty seconds after the first gun wielding Johnny Nobody, who is endlessly walking around a set of oil drums stops and smells your B.O from two hundred feet away. As is watching them suddenly run like Usain Bolt to exactly where you are. However, once the alarms go off, a man wearing nothing but a dirty vest and jeans needs exactly a whole clip to the face before he will go down. It also has a strange system where, if you are undiscovered, it only takes one shot to kill pretty much anyone. However, one of the biggest issues with the stealth approach is that after being spotted, you have one, maybe two seconds before all the alarms go off, and that’s even if your target hasn’t had time to do anything other than see you and get shot in the chest. Stealth feels like the only real option that doesn’t start to show off a lot of the games issues, especially early on. Ghost Recon: Wildlands seems to be predicated on the idea that players are only interested in the combat, and that in itself, would be fine if the combat wasn’t so janky. Like a proper soldier, but that isn’t true. There is this fabrication that you can go anywhere, approach any scenario anyway you want. There is an illusion of choice in Ghost Recon: Wildlands. It is just the same five or six things copied and then splattered all over the map like activity diarrhoea. There’s really very little variation in the main story missions, sub story missions, side missions, and collecting grind. Missions quickly become the same go kill that guy, go speak to that guy and then kill him, go hack that guy’s computer so you can find out where he is so you can kill him. If I am helping the rebels by tagging all of these things, why then, does it improve my accuracy? In what world does a surplus of communications equipment mean that I can run for longer? And if it’s for the rebels, why do I get to spend them? It makes no sense. Yeah, there is a tenuous link between helping to supply the rebels so that they can fight the Santa Blanca cartel, but any closer scrutiny of that idea and it breaks down. No, there is a real disconnect between the typical Ubisoft list of busywork, the game mechanics, and the story. It starts off with your handler telling you about someone called Ricky Sandoval, who was working undercover for the American government and got murdered by someone in the Bolivian Cartel, but does that justify why I have spent what feels like eighty years of my life tagging drums of oil, or hijacking trucks for… stuff? There’s probably a good story buried here somewhere, but after fifteen hours, three sub bosses and a bunch of activities in, I don’t care about it and that’s a problem. There is a Unidad helicopter flying overhead and I am laying amongst the badly rendered and patchy shrubbery, watching my idiot, computer controlled colleagues take turns standing up and crouching like they are on drugs and can’t help but to dance to some imaginary song that is playing in their heads. I hear, “stay low” crackle over my headset. Oh what fun we would have.Ĭut to March 2017. I played the song from the trailer over and over, fantasising about all of the things my team and I would do. Then it shows the same scenario, showing us all of the ways that you can play, until finally it cuts over and over, between beautifully rendered forests, and mountains, and salt flats. They take everyone out and it gets messy, but they do the job. I am watching four perfectly rendered soldiers take down a cartel boss in a dirty, ramshackle town in a shady part of Bolivia.
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