Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Reviews
A solid open world shooter with a tactical flavor that adds a bit of variety to otherwise repetitive objectives, Ghost Recon Wildlands is at its best when you join a squad of real people, and lay waste to the Santa Blanca cartel together. Just don't the go into it expecting engaging characters or plot.
With shooters and open-world titles getting a bit long in the tooth, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands manages to provide a fresh take on both genres by combining them into one cohesive package. The game can feel repetitive after long sessions and it might not satiate those who prefer the twitch mechanics of versus online shooters. For folks yearning for a cooperative campaign with friends in a large open-world playground, however, Wildlands serves up a fun experience.
Ghost Recon Wildlands offers a gorgeous open-world, filled with many missions you can play in coop' mode with 3 friends... but it lacks a bit of personnality and is too much repetitive to be a new reference.
Review in French | Read full review
Ghost Recon: Wildlands is exactly what Ubisoft's storied shooter franchise needed to be reinvigorated.
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.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands offers an ingenious open world but unifom mission design. Who plays the game creatively in Koop, has the most fun.
Review in German | Read full review
On the surface, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a standard sandbox shooter to the max. But scratch deeper, and you'll find an engaging tactical experience that gets by with a little help from your friends.
Bugs and clunky controls can often stop an experience in its tracks. Fortunately, the beautiful world and strategic stealth of Ghost Recon Wildlands manages to overcome its hiccups usually and still deliver an adventure that is both fresh and familiar.
A team of friends is essential to enjoying 'Ghost Recon: Wildlands,' which struggles at times, but gets open-world absurdity right.
Ghost Recon Wildlands delivers on the promise of a special operations sandbox, but its version of Bolivia is toothless, with its vivid colours and bright ideas coming together to create just a bland grey. The stealth gameplay is satisfying, and co-op gives the game more tactical depth than might first seem apparent, but technical issues and mediocre AI teammates and enemies lead to a performance that's more "meh" than "yeah!", and it's unlikely you'll hear anyone talking about Wildlands a month from now.
Ghost Recon Wildlands does little to improve upon the familiar open-world, collect-a-thon formula, but its stealth-based action and cooperative multiplayer mode keep things fun.
It's actually a little hard to believe that Ubisoft plans to expand Ghost Recon Wildlands further via post-launch content updates which will add in things like new story content and even a PvP mode since the base game is already quite massive. Shooter fans who want a game they can sink many hours into while honing their tactical shooting skills (either alone or with some friends) should be immensely satisfied with the experience Ghost Recon Wildlands provides them.
If you're looking for a really big, extravagant sandbox game that's great fun solo and hilarious in co-op, don't be shy. Wildlands isn't Ghost Recon as we know it, but it's the wildest party in town.
The overwhelming size of Wildlands‘s open world is often used to disguise the game’s lack of real freedom within it.
Ghost Recon Wildlands certainly offers a challenging and satisfying multiplayer experience: the new game made by Ubisoft gives the player the chance to choose his personal approach to the missions. Wildlands is also set in an enormous and varied open world, in which we can play alone or with our friends.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Dropping Ghost Recon's tactical action into an open-world is certainly an intriguing prospect, but the final product isn't nearly as interesting as it should be.
The new game on Ghost Recon series give us a huge open world full of natural landscapes and missions to complete, unfortunately a lot of its content falls on the same repetitive formula than similar open world games. Beside that, Ghost Recon returns with a deep weapon personalization system, interesting tactic gameplay and tons of fun specially when you play it on coop.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Despite these issues, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is still a rather fun game to play thanks to the sheer openness to each engagement offered. While the experience is almost always better when playing with friends, the poor friendly A.
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.