Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Reviews
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
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.
Ultimately it's not a bad game, I kept playing and I enjoyed myself. I just question whether it really should have been made. The open world is beautiful but it doesn't set the stage for a Tom Clancy adventure, and this Tom Clancy game is too repetitive to carry an open world on it's own. The gunplay itself when you do engage is solid, and there is plenty of weapons and customization options of that armament to tailor to your own style. Its weakest moments come in between missions, as traversing the landscape by anything other than a helicopter becomes a burden. However if you have a helo, taking in the Bolivian sunset and you swoop down skimming the surface of a river is reminiscent of a modern day Apocalypse Now. That is a tremendous little moment of satisfaction, but it doesn't carry a whole game.
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
Ghost Recon Wildlands brings us to an immense open world set in Bolivia, where we can explore and make the operative proud of out Ghost Squad. Its cooperative for 4 players make it a very attractive game yet its technical section and its bugs make it not a totally satisfactory experience.
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.
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
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.
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
The overwhelming size of Wildlands‘s open world is often used to disguise the game’s lack of real freedom within it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 is exactly what Ubisoft's storied shooter franchise needed to be reinvigorated.