Ghost Recon: Wildlands

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Critic Reviews for Ghost Recon: Wildlands

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High Score - 90/100

Low Score - 25/100

Brian Albert (IGN)

7.9/10

“This huge, wide-open shooter constantly shows its flaws in its mission variety and vehicle physics, but its strong, sandbox-style gameplay and seamless co-op kept me coming back for more madness. If you must repeat experiences over and over, you could far worse than helicopter chases, assassination missions, or drug busts gone wildly wrong.”

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Phil Savage (PC Gamer)

67/100

“Not worth it as a solo adventure. In co-op, Wildlands is an enjoyable stealth romp that too often gets in its own way.”

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais (Polygon)

6/10

“Wildlands wants to be both an ultraviolent cartoon and a grounded, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. It can’t do both, and it’s much better at being silly and absurd. The mechanical experience of it is as freewheeling a sandbox as I’ve ever seen, but the frame, the tone and the script weigh it down like an anchor.”

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
3DNews	Алексей Лихачев	7 / 10	03-11-2017	Clearest example of open world’s needlessness in a game. We probably would’ve rate it higher if it was a linear TPS or if the map was two times smaller. But for now you need to spend too much time in your vehicle to get to something interesting or fun.	Read review
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Not Recommended	03-06-2017	Video Review	Read review
AR12Gaming	ItsJack	6.5 / 10	06-04-2017	The collective Ubisoft studios have done a fantastic job in certain aspects of the game, but fallen well short in others. Ghost Recon Wildlands could have been much more than what it is. With some more thought going into the mission and voice scripts, this really could have been the Game of the Year in my opinion. It combines all the aspects of fan-favourite game: an open world, lots of customisation options, and the freedom to complete your task in whatever order you would like to.	Read review
Arcade Sushi	Jason Fanelli	8 / 10	03-21-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands is exactly what Ubisoft’s storied shooter franchise needed to be reinvigorated.	Read review
Areajugones	Víctor Rodríguez	8.5 / 10	03-07-2017	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.	Read review
Ars Technica	Sam White	Not Recommended	03-14-2017	If you’ve got some friends to play with, give Wildlands a bash, but better open-world games are out there.	Read review
Atomix	Emilio Reyes	83 / 10	03-07-2017	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.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	Mike Guarino	4 / 5 stars	03-06-2017	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.	Read review
AusGamers	Kosta Andreadis	7.5 / 10	03-21-2017	In the end, Ghost Recon Wildlands suffers because it plays things a little too safe and fails to make proper use of the gorgeous fictional world of Bolivia in a way that offers more than solid stealth shooting, fun co-op, and small bursts of player-created fun.	Read review
Cerealkillerz	Gabriel Bogdan	7.8 / 10	03-06-2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands is wasting a promising setting and a great weapons arsenal for a repetitive and faulty Co-Op Open World Sandbox. The countless Missions don’t use the full potential you could get out of the great equipment and tools the Game has to offer.	Read review
CGMagazine	Brendan Quinn	8 / 10	03-06-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a fun, tactical, engaging shooter with plenty of depth and good AI.	Read review
Cheat Code Central	Patrick Tretina	4.5 / 5 stars	03-07-2017	In the end, Ghost Recon: Wildlands should certainly be on your list of games to check out in 2017. It’s quickly becoming my favorite first-person shooter of the year, thanks to its impressive landscape, captivating storyline and fully customizable characters.	Read review
COGconnected	Tyler Treese	60 / 10	03-08-2017	There’s a huge number of upgrades, intel, and side-missions that litter the map, which means that the next goal is only a few hundred meters away.	Read review
Critical Hit	Darryn Bonthuys	8 / 10	03-14-2017	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.	Read review
Cubed3	Ofisil	6 / 10	03-12-2017	The freedom imbued in the gargantuan and beautiful world of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ Bolivia sure makes this a worthwhile purchase, but only if you plan to enjoy it with a couple of friends, and only if willing to put up with the standard issues of most sandbox titles, like repetition, repetition, and, most importantly, repetition.	Read review
Destructoid	Mike Cosimano	2.5 / 10	03-17-2017	Wildlands is a bad fing 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.	Read review
Digiato	Pedram Bahadori	77 / 10	03-27-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands is another intriguing yet incomplete experience from Ubisoft. It’s fun played with friends but if you’re traveling alone to vast open world of Bolivia, we recommend to finish off the El Sueno as soon as possible before Wildlands gets frustrating over time.	Read review
Digital Chumps	Steven McGehee	8.7 / 10	01-18-2017	In sum, Ghost Recon Wildlands takes the series to the (vast) open world and largely succeeds. Like its predecessors, it’s best played with friends in co-op, and while it sacrifices some realism, it adds a lot of new opportunities for fun and mayhem against the bad guys.	Read review
Digital Spy	Laurence Mozafari	3.5 / 5 stars	02-08-2017	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.	Read review
Digital Trends	Phil Hornshaw	2.5 / 5 stars	03-10-2017	A team of friends is essential to enjoying ‘Ghost Recon: Wildlands,’ which struggles at times, but gets open-world absurdity right.	Read review
Digitally Downloaded	Matt Sainsbury	2 / 10	03-20-2017	Between missions there’s not much to do, other than drive around a spectacularly boring Bolivia looking for more icons to kick missions off. Bolivia’s actually a beautiful country, and this game probably set tourism back for the country by a couple of decades.	Read review
EGM	Nick Plessas	7 / 10	03-14-2017	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.	Read review
Eurogamer	Edwin Evans-Thirlwell	Not Recommended	03-10-2017	Beautiful yet callous, Wildlands is a serviceable open worlder with strong co-op that doesn’t quite put the Ghosts back on the map.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Giovanni Calgaro	8.3 / 10	03-08-2017	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.	Read review
Expansive	Ray Willmott	7.5 / 10	03-17-2017	While Wildlands never really gets out of third gear. it is the funnest, thrillingest, most epic third gear we’ve played online in a very long time.	Read review
Fextralife	rubhen925	7 / 10	03-13-2017	With no competitive multiplayer in the game, Ghost Recon Wildlands focuses on giving a massive open world for you and your buddies to explore. With a disjointed narrative experience, great visual and audio design, solid shooting and stealth mechanics, Ghost Recon Wildlands offers a perfectly functional and fun co-op experience that is fun to play in short bursts. Ultimately though, the game becomes boring and repetitive due to it massive world, which is devoid of fun activities to engage the player with. It does not feel like a Ghost Recon game and could have been a new franchise on its own. Just like The Division last year, this is a game that had a lot of promise, and although it has its fun moments, feels like a missed opportunity.	Read review
Game Informer	Matt Bertz	8.3 / 10	03-13-2017	A game best experienced with friends, Wildlands is a surprisingly long adventure that gives players a lot of tools for tactical experimentation. Solo play is viable as well, but with by-the-books companion A.I., your strategic options are more limited	Read review
Game Rant	Denny Connolly	4 / 5 stars	03-09-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands offers an incredibly expansive open-world shooter with plenty of customizations, but shines brightest when players have three friends along for the ride.	Read review
Game Revolution	James Kozanitis	4 / 5 stars	03-06-2017	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.	Read review
Game Volt	Ahmed Hassan	7.8 / 10	03-14-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands giving you open world and guns also vehicles and super charterer customization, it’s a game with so many possibilities and fun factor whether you’re playing it solo or in CO-OP Mode with friends, what the game lacking is the professional shooting mechanics which are more arcade than being hardcore also the repetitive mission design hurts the game in addition to bad Ai.	Read review
Gameblog	Carole Quintaine	7 / 10	03-07-2017	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.	Read review
GameCrate	Nate Hohl	8 / 10	03-09-2017	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.	Read review
Gamefa	Saeed Aghababaie	8.5 / 10	03-15-2017	I Never Thought that Ghost Recon: Wildlands would be that Much Fun. There is a Massive world to Explore and you won’t get Tired of it anytime soon. Gameplay is so amazing and if you want to see full potential of Ghost Recon: Wildlands, play it co-op with your friends. But if you experience it on single player, the game is do much fun too, because i played both ways for many hours and both are so amazing. The map is so huge and Cartel’s members are more than 20 people that every one has a big part on map under their control. You must Eliminate them one by one to finally reach the main and interior cycle. With good and constant support of Ubisoft and important updates with new contents, now Ghost Recon: Wildlands is so much better than its launch time. Unfortunately, the Driving System isn’t Good Especially with Bikes but Still, Ghost Recon: Wildlands has a huge amount of good aspects that we could absolutely forget about its small problems. Ghost Recon: Wildlands is an amazing open world game and one of the best co-op shooters in this generation. It worth your time and money very well.	Read review
GameGrin	Marcello Perricone	6.5 / 10	03-14-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a bugged and flawed game, but it is capable of bringing huge amounts of fun.	Read review
GameMAG	CAH4E3	7 / 10	03-17-2017	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.	Read review
Gameplanet	Andi Garnett	7 / 10	03-17-2017	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.	Read review
GamePro	Dimitry Halley	80 / 10	03-08-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands offers an ingenious open world but unifom mission design. Who plays the game creatively in Koop, has the most fun.	Read review
GameSkinny	Sergey_3847	9 / 10	03-06-2017	Ubisoft managed to create a fantastic third-person shooter with excellent story, massive open world, and a plethora of vehicles and weapons.	Read review
GameSpew	Matt Eakins	8 / 10	03-14-2017	As a shooter, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is tactical, refined, and precise. As a world it is open, sprawling, and filled with things to do/find. And as a co-op experience, it’s arguably one of the best yet.	Read review
GameSpot	Miguel Concepcion	7 / 10	03-10-2017	Ghost Recon is a large scale cooperative shooter rich in content but with questionable lasting appeal.	Read review
GamesRadar+	Mike Wehner	4.5 / 5 stars	03-06-2017	A stunning open world, brutal combat, and deep customization combine to bring Ghost Recon roaring back from the dead.	Read review
Gaming Nexus	Rob Larkin	7 / 10	03-29-2017	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.	Read review
GamingBolt	Rashid Sayed	7 / 10	03-06-2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands had amazing potential but its unbalanced gameplay mechanics and unnecessarily huge open world stop it from topping its fantastic predecessors.	Read review
GamingTrend	Ron Burke	80 / 10	03-07-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is equal parts new approach to a storied franchise and familiar and well-trod open world systems. While it doesn’t break a great deal of new ground for the genre, when played with friends this cooperative open-world game can be an amazing amount of fun. Those moments are tempered by technical mishaps and inconsistencies that can be patched, but as a result, this launch ride is going to have some technical potholes that put a damper on an otherwise excellent experience.	Read review
GearNuke	Muhammad Ali Bari	8.5 / 10	03-09-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a fun tactical shooter offering unlimited potential with a group of friends.	Read review
Generación Xbox	Jose Manuel Salvador	8 / 10	03-05-2017	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.	Read review
Giant Bomb	Jeff Gerstmann	3 / 5 stars	03-20-2017	If you’re the sort of person who just wants to mindlessly shoot through co-op games with a chatty group of friends, Wildlands is fine for that. Anyone else should probably look elsewhere.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris White	9 / 10	03-06-2017	There’s so much fun to be had here, and the co-op is probably the best I’ve seen in a long time. The country of Bolivia is massive and fun to explore, with plenty to do and visuals that never fail to impress.	Read review
Guardian	Dan Silver	3 / 5 stars	03-13-2017	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.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Chris Shive	4.5 / 10	03-06-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is an open world thrill ride.	Read review
IBTimes UK	Jake Tucker	3 / 5 stars	03-11-2017	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.	Read review
IGN	Brian Albert	7.9 / 10	03-09-2017	This huge, wide-open shooter constantly shows its flaws in its mission variety and vehicle physics, but its strong, sandbox-style gameplay and seamless co-op kept me coming back for more madness. If you must repeat experiences over and over, you could far worse than helicopter chases, assassination missions, or drug busts gone wildly wrong.	Read review
IGN Italy	Nicolas Sangalli	7.7 / 10	03-14-2017	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.	Read review
IGN Middle East	Moustafa Gad	7.5 / 10	03-11-2017	I enjoyed finished a vast majority of the missions in Wildlands and exploring the varied open world and learning more about the complex crime syndicate founded by El Sueno and operated by the men and women he’s cherry picked to carry out his nefarious plans. I also enjoyed the cooperative gameplay and unlocking the tools and abilities that became indispensable in the second half of the game. However so much focus went into these elements that other areas of the game suffered most notably the repetitive missions, the limited ally AI, and being able to use the same strategy to defeat every boss in more than 30 hours of game time.	Read review
IGN Spain	Juan García	8.1 / 10	03-06-2017	One nice try by Ubisoft but lacks enought variety on its gameplay to retain players for long enought… Plus its narrative isn’t as deep as we would have liked.	Read review
Impulsegamer	Nathan Misa	4 / 5 stars	03-19-2017	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.	Read review
JVL	Malcolm89	7.5 / 10	03-10-2017	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.	Read review
Kotaku	Heather Alexandra	Not Recommended	03-13-2017	Wildlands’ gameplay is too chaotic to call back to Tom Clancy classics like Rainbow Six or the series’ earlier titles. Its politics are too vapid to compete with the Splinter Cell series’ pulpy yet prescient narratives. Wildlands wants to be everything. It succeeds at being nothing.	Read review
Leadergamer	Kaan Gezer	7 / 10	03-07-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a fun game, only if you have friends. On the other hand, the game doesn’t look like a high budget, AAA game.	Read review
LevelUp	Rodrigo Villanueva	8 / 10	03-11-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands gives you all the tools needed to have a lot of fun with friends, despite some design flaws, minor bugs, an inconsistent narrative and a somewhat repetitive structure. As a solo experience, it is solid but too big to keep you interested, and with random people it can be too chaotic to enjoy. It all comes down to how are you going to play and who are you going to play it with.	Read review
M3	Viktor Eriksson	4 / 5 stars	03-18-2016	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.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	6 / 10	03-09-2017	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.	Read review
New Game Network	Tim Reid	76 / 10	03-20-2017	Despite its very inconsistent tone, lack of polish and finicky vehicles, the solid core gameplay and gorgeous open world make Ghost Recon Wildlands a highly enjoyable co-op multiplayer tactical experience.	Read review
NZGamer	Tony Hsiang	7.7 / 10	03-21-2017	Vast, but very little peppered throughout. Wildlands is one that plays better with others.	Read review
OnlySP	Dylan Warman	4 / 5 stars	04-05-2017	A game that received quite a bit of hype before its release, Ghost Recon: Wildlands may be the jewel Ubisoft needs to reignite the passion fans of the company feel towards its products. After some grumbling caused by the deteriorating quality of the Assassin’s Creed games, Ubisoft needs a little more buzz surrounding it, and if the company keeps producing games as decent and immersive as Wildlands, a chance exists for them to regain their home run status. With high quality graphics and audio, a passable story, and smooth gameplay, it may be safe to assume Ubisoft is going back to producing quality over quantity.	Read review
Oyungezer Online	Yasin İlgün	7.4 / 10	03-06-2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands is an entertaining game that you can have fun time playing with your friends. There are a lot of small bugs in the game but they don’t effect the gameplay that much. Everyone who likes tactical shooters should play it with their friends.	Read review
Pardis Game	Sina Rabiee	6.5 / 10	03-13-2017	If we scrap the “Ghost Recon” out of the title, it makes Wildlands a bit more tolerable or at least doesn’t ruin the name of the brand. Wildlands is a humongous game and this has spread the game thin, making its playability only f a couple of hours. If the game’s scale in levels and design was a bit smaller and the narrative more comprehensible, the game on our hand would at least be enjoyable rather than the mess it is now. But with the giant amount of great games out there, spending 60 Dollars on GRW isn’t so logical.	Read review
Paste Magazine	Reid McCarter	4 / 10	03-08-2017	This is a game that doesn’t seem to care at all about the very real horrors of modern Central and South American history—that presents a dire international problem as something that can be solved through the clean precision of four American badasses pulling off sync shots. Whether out of neglect, a lack of understanding or a deep callousness, it turns the suffering of the people who right now live under vicious cartels into a playground for a forgettable sandbox shooter. Its audience needs either a willful ignorance of—or a disturbing outlook on—the world around them to be able to play Wildlands without a deep sense of unease.	Read review
PC Gamer	Phil Savage	67 / 10	03-09-2017	Not worth it as a solo adventure. In co-op, Wildlands is an enjoyable stealth romp that too often gets in its own way.	Read review
PCMag	Gabriel Zamora	3 / 5 stars	03-09-2017	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.	Read review
PCWorld	Hayden Dingman	2.5 / 5 stars	03-11-2017	Ghost Recon: Wildlands is not a fantastic game. Some part of me is fascinated by Wildlands in the same way I was once fascinated by Crysis. Look at what we can do. Look at these amazing virtual worlds people create from thin air.	Read review
Player2.net.au	Matt Hewson	Recommended	03-08-2017	The combat and open world are sensational, with a huge amount of depth and tactical options at the player’s disposal. When joined by a group of friends that entertainment only grows. However, there is a host of little things holding the game back from being a must buy title.	Read review
PlayStation LifeStyle	Blake Grundman	8 / 10	03-06-2017	From the moment that your boots first hit the soil in Ghost Recon Wildlands, one thing becomes immensely apparent: This ain’t your father’s Ghost Recon game.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Neil Bolt	7 / 10	03-08-2017	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.	Read review
Polygon	Noah Caldwell-Gervais	6 / 10	03-15-2017	Wildlands wants to be both an ultraviolent cartoon and a grounded, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. It can’t do both, and it’s much better at being silly and absurd. The mechanical experience of it is as freewheeling a sandbox as I’ve ever seen, but the frame, the tone and the script weigh it down like an anchor.	Read review
PowerUp!	Leo Stevenson	8 / 10	03-06-2017	There’s a lot to see and do in Wildlands and even after 30+ hours I’m still enjoying trekking through the rain-forest and discovering new ways to play	Read review
Press Start	Ewan Roxburgh	7 / 10	03-07-2017	There’s nothing necessarily wrong with the tried and tested Ubisoft formula. However, it begins to feel more tired when the narrative potential falls short, the engagement and immersion I would have otherwise felt hindered by not taking the subject matter seriously enough. However, the slick gameplay, blending of stealth mechanics with a Far Cry like world, seamless co-operative play and well-fleshed-out solo experience prove Ubisoft’s teams aren’t resting on their laurels and are actively trying to build upon the formula.	Read review
Pure Playstation	Kyle Durant	5.5 / 10	03-12-2017	The main problem is Ghost Recon Wildlands plays like a tight, linear shooter in a giant open world. There is some gameplay to enjoy, but things will get very repetitive really fast in order to fit the open world mold. There’s no usual Ubisoft online connection problems and the gameplay can be fun, but only if you’re with other people. Even then you’ll find yourself getting bored with your mission, objectives, and repetitive gameplay mechanics after an hour. Don’t get me wrong, the shooting itself is solid. Just everything around it isn’t.	Read review
Push Square	Alex Stinton	6 / 10	03-14-2017	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.	Read review
Rectify Gaming	Mike Boccher	7.5 / 10	03-06-2017	The beauty of Ghost Recon: Wildlands is that it is 2 games in one. Co-op is more stealth based while solo play focuses on more of an action based shooter due to the lack of orders you can provide your AI teammates. The only downfall is that neither of these two setups fully take advantage of their premise	Read review
Reno Gazette-Journal	Jason Hidalgo	8 / 10	03-13-2017	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.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Brendan Caldwell	Not Recommended	03-10-2017	All this and more reveals Wildlands to be a shooter that has been released messy and unfinished, a practice that Ubi is doing with increased proficiency with each passing game, seemingly using their beta tests as demos and marketing opportunities instead of using them to actually test and repair their game to an acceptable level.	Read review
Saudi Gamer	مصطفى جاد	6 / 10	03-11-2017	Ubisoft showcases its long experience in Ghost Recon Wildland, starting with the biggest world in Ubisoft’s history, the weapons/tools upgrades, the great visuals and the story that motivates you to finish the game’s campagin. But on the other hand missions are repetitive and lacking, the enemy AI is questionable and vehicle controls are inaccuarate.	Read review
SelectButton	Kevin Mitchell	8 / 10	03-06-2017	Ubisoft’s gamble on transitioning the tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Wildlands to an open world sandbox has been a nonstop enjoyable thrill ride.	Read review
Shacknews	Steve Watts	6 / 10	03-16-2017	Though I found the repetition too much, those cathartic moments of perfect planning in multiplayer are enough to warrant giving it a try, as long as you have a squad of friends to back you up.	Read review
Sirus Gaming	Lexuzze Tablante	6 / 10	03-16-2017	I did have some fun and enjoyable moments. Although, Ghost Recon Wildlands had potential but it didn’t manage to keep up with the standards of open-world games similar to Watch_Dogs 2 and Grand Theft Auto V. It has too many setbacks that prevents the game from reaching its true potential.	Read review
Slant Magazine	Aaron Riccio	2.5 / 10	03-09-2017	The overwhelming size of Wildlands‘s open world is often used to disguise the game’s lack of real freedom within it.	Read review
SomHráč.sk	Michal Grác	75 / 10	03-22-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is an interesting title, but definitely not for everyone. If you want to play co-op with friends, it’s certainly a good choice, but if you want to play alone, you better look elsewhere.	Read review
Stevivor	Steve Wright	7.5 / 10	03-07-2017	When things come together, there is enjoyment to be had in Ghost Recon: Wildlands. … You shouldn’t buy Wildlands right now.	Read review
Telegraph	Tom Hoggins	3 / 5 stars	03-21-2017	Despite its apparent veneer of wet-work homogeneity, Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tricky and, at times, troubling video game to pin down.	Read review
The Digital Fix	Leigh Forgie	7 / 10	03-14-2017	As ambitious as it is, Ghost Recon: Wildlands fails to break free from the Ubisoft blueprint. However, that doesn’t stop it from being an addictive, sprawling shooter, particularly when playing online	Read review
The Game Fanatics	Kyle Fisher	7 / 10	03-16-2017	It should be noted that there is an upgrade system in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but it’s so incremental that you will rarely notice the difference. By the end of the game you will have unlocked the majority of the upgrades, so no real builds are necessary. In a game so focused on co-op, it would have been nice to need builds for different characters, or abilities that would drastically change the way you took each mission. But that’s not what we get here.	Read review
The Games Machine	Mario Baccigalupi	8.2 / 10	03-09-2017	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	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Jim Hargreaves	7 / 10	03-13-2017	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.	Read review
TheXboxHub	James Birks	4.5 / 5 stars	03-20-2017	Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands does two things brilliantly; it provides a massive game full of content, vast environments and things to do, and it also is a hell of a lot of fun as a co-op game. The tactical nature never becomes too rigid, ensuring you stay in control of how best to tackle a mission.	Read review
TrueAchievements	Dave Horobin	3.5 / 5 stars	03-29-2017	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.	Read review
Twinfinite	Collin MacGregor	3.5 / 10	03-06-2017	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.	Read review
Use a Potion	Daryl Leach	8.8 / 10	03-13-2017	When playing Ghost Recon Wildlands in single player you’ll find it offers an enjoyable action-packed experience that never does anything bad, but can feel a little repetitive at times. It never stops being enjoyable though, whilst the atmospheric surroundings that Bolivia offers will simply astound you at times. However, there are certainly better single player games out right now that I’d recommend over Ghost Recon Wildlands.	Read review
USgamer	Jaz Rignall	4 / 5 stars	03-07-2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands is all over the place in terms of its quality. Some missions are frustrating, the game is not without its technical and design flaws, and its sandbox action can sometimes be repetitive, ludicrous and over-the-top. On the positive side, the game’s open world is magnificent to behold, packs a vast amount of missions to keep you busy, and is simply highly entertaining to play	Read review
VideoGamer	Colm Ahern	6 / 10	03-13-2017	This massive open-world is unfortunately full of dull objectives to complete that rarely vary from one to the next. There are some pretty sights in here, and it’s more fun in co-op than solo, but that doesn’t make Wildlands anymore than serviceable.	Read review
Wccftech	Chris Wray	6.5 / 10	03-19-2017	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.	Read review
We Got This Covered	Ken Barnes	3 / 5 stars	03-07-2017	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.	Read review
WellPlayed	Zach Jackson	6 / 10	03-29-2017	Ghost Recon Wildlands utilises the tried and tested Ubisoft open-world formula, however the lacklustre story, bland characters and repetitive mission design means it never hits the heights it could have reached	Read review
Windows Central	Jez Corden	3.5 / 5 stars	03-06-2017	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.	Read review

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Bolivia, a few years from now: this beautiful South American country has become the largest cocaine producer in the world. The influential and vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel has turned the country into a narco-state, leading to lawlessness, fear, injustice, and violence. The cartel is on track to becoming a major underworld power and global threat.

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