Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Reviews
Ghost Recon Wildlands is an open world shooter that brings together a beautifully crafted huge map and a campaing that gives the player total freedom. The depth of the adventure is a bit flawd by the repetitiveness of the mission and a broken driving system.
Review in Italian | Read full review
For small groups of gamers that play together often, Ghost Recon Wildlands seems like a no-brainer and some of the most fun I’ve had in a video game this year. For any lone wolves out there, however, it offers a less appealing all-round package. Ubisoft has pieced together yet another sprawling sandpit to explore yet nothing stands out as truly inventive or remarkable and moving between provinces felt like I was checking items off a shopping list instead of spearheading the American the drug war. At a time where open world games are starting to push boundaries and transform the genre, Ghost Recon is almost at danger of being left behind.
A team of friends is essential to enjoying 'Ghost Recon: Wildlands,' which struggles at times, but gets open-world absurdity right.
As an open world co-op shooter there's a lot to enjoy here, at least until you realise how shallow and repetitive the underlying action is.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands is not a perfect game, but it is outstanding when it comes to its gameplay experience and every player of action and stealth games should not miss.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Even at the most basic level, there's simply so much to do in Wildlands because they've so carefully populated their open world with enough to do that you won't feel like you're simply walking over massive areas to get to the sporadic points of action.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands can provide countless hours of thrilling sandbox shooter gameplay, but co-op is needed to make the most of it. Its massive, numerous and diverse locales are often gorgeous to behold, and navigating them tactfully with a good co-op team is a blast. Just don't expect to have as much fun in single player, as your team limits your mission methods due to shaky AI and a lack of deep squad commands.
Though far from perfect, Ghost Recon Wildlands is one of the most effective franchise reboots in recent memory. It manages to build upon the key squad-based mechanics that set the series apart, while not feeling the need to pander to the established fan base. The result is a fantastically realized open world that legitimately feels like it could be a real geographic location.
Overall, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a solid sandbox adventure for groups of up to four friends. In solo play, Ghost Recon: Wildlands loses a bit of its mojo, but the game's unprecedented scale and piles of content should prove euphoric for fans of open world games.
With a group of friends, Ghost Recon Wildlands will offer countless hours of fun within the vast and beautifully created version of Bolivia. If you're going it alone, however, the repetitive gameplay and the lack of any character development and story depth offers a far less attractive package. Wildlands is a solid open-world game that is let down an overly long and repetitive story, along with too many small bugs and niggles for it to be great.
Despite its apparent veneer of wet-work homogeneity, Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tricky and, at times, troubling video game to pin down.
With friends in tow, Wildlands could well prove to be The Wall of its genre; but much like a Roger Waters solo album, it loses some of the sparkle on its own.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands manages to offer some fun (and sometimes great) moments, thanks to the various opportunities given to the player, and the magnificence of the Bolivian landscapes. Needless to say, the game is at its best when played in coop with other three friends. There are some small - but not irrelevant - flaws that somehow ruin the overall experience. It could've been bigger, and better.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Ubisofts Wildlands is one of the most anticipated action games this year – and one of the biggest disappointment we had in a long time. The story is shallow, and the co-op aspect never lives up to its fully potential – mainly due to repetitive missions and an empty and boring world.
Review in Swedish | Read full review
Ghost Recon Wildlands is just another in the long line of Ubisoft's vapid open world games packed full of content (collectibles and quests) with no real meaning. The setting is absolutely stunning and a joy to view, but there's nothing in the world to actually incentivise you to travel around. It's a sturdy, but average shooter with no variety. At the end of it all, it's mostly boring interspersed with moments of fun.
If you can find a team of friends to enlist into your squad, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is, well, wild. However, the sheer amount of travelling, planning and stealth required for numerous missions doesn't lend itself to online co-op with random drop-in muggles.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands suffers from the repeatative missions and lack of polishing. There are no truly new ideas, dull AI, naive story, and not everyone will appreciate even those ideas, which were successfully borrowed from other games. You will spend a lot of time travelling on the huge map, shooting dummys. But with all this new Ghost Recon does not skimp on the atmospheric moments and fun gameplay at a high level of difficulty, giving a lot of positive experiences with the co-op mode with four friends.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Quickly tiring and with no real challenge in its single player mode, Wildlands reaches its real interest in cooperative sessions with good teamplayers. Even if its numerous shortcomings will have us curse a lot and often want to quit, after a few hours we get the urge to turn the console back on to come back in Bolivia. Roaming the roads of this country with friends will occupy our time for many long hours and now we just have to hope that a few patchs can bring the whole experience to a more enjoyable level, while expecting the DLCs to bring interesting content.
Review in French | Read full review
While Ubisoft has proven adept at successfully applying its open world formula to a lot of games over the years, Ghost Recon: Wildlands feels like the first one lacking any real identity. While it gives a good first impression with its impactful gun battles, visually distinct open world, and wide selection of weapons, it's ultimately the war of intentions at its heart – between the freedom and unpredictability of an open world on the one hand, and the preciseness of a strategic cover-based shooter on the other – that makes for a title that'll leave both sides of the battle disappointed.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a rather fun co-op game. It's made for co-op and should be played in co-op. While I'm against the solo play, I will say that solo players will have some rough times trying to get the AI to cooperate with you. But with a squad of four players, tagging enemies, syncing shots, and doing crazy stunts like jumping out of a helicopter onto and enemy base just to see what will happen is what really makes this game special.