Ghost Recon: Wildlands

I've never been a fan of Assassin's Creed and never understood why it's so popular to this day. Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Ghost Recon are all better video game franchises. E3 was disappointing this year with no new Splinter Cell 7 announcement. but the dlc in this game makes up for it. I've never had so much fun playing a Ubisoft game since 2010's Splinter Cell Conviction. The Predator, Splinter Cell, and Rainbow Six dlc makes this the best Ubisoft game in years! Personally I think their best series is Splinter Cell, and Chaos Theory to me is their biggest accomplishment! Hearing Ironside's Sam Fisher voice, Predator's roar, etc... this is a game worth owning for years to come! Now Ubisoft, please release a new Splinter Cell game already! Did I forget to mention how great the graphics are in this game as well?

What a packed game this was. Including all the smaller dlcs for the base game, and both expansion dlcs, I put over 200 hours in this massively loaded, "tactical" open world shooter, and found myself having an absolute blast playing this. Despite a few grindy moments relating to finding all the collectibles, leveling up all of my skills to max (including rebel skills), I didn't even mind as I had so much fun going into another situation with a slightly different technique and with different weapons. When I first started playing this game, I played a couple hours with my friend, but like usual, he decided to abandon the game cause he found it boring and overloaded, so I decided to complete the game alone, and truthfully had a much more fun experience. Yes, it was fun playing tactically with another player, but I found the single player aspect much more fun, and rewarding as using your NPC friendlies came at an advantage. Exploring each region and collecting each collectible, completing every main mission, rebel mission, and ultimately every region boss, it just felt more immersive doing it by myself, and found exploration super dope. The driving in the game was hard to get used to at first, as I was playing Forza on the side at the time and the driving was way more wonky, but with time, I was able to get used to its mechanics. The helicopter became my best friend, getting to each location marker much quicker and easier. I started competing the easier regions first, killing each region boss, and slowly getting better equipment to make combat easier. Also, getting skill points was a must, getting perks to make my drone better, having the ability to hold more tactical devices like frags/c4/ect, and rebel missions were important too because it made the heat of battle easier as you could have rebels come in to save the day, or spawn vehicles that you needed to get place to place. So thoroughly doing these objectives, it took me awhile as this game has sooo much to offer. Also, the extra dlcs add more region bosses, which didn't add much to the story, but had cool missions. Toward the end of the base game, you start really struggling, as there's a faction called Unidad which act like cops off of GTA (except they're corrupt and are technically considered enemies) and sneaking into these Unidad bases are next level. Eventually, I started understanding how to approach these situations, killing them secretly and evading the area if they became suspicious, although sometimes it was impossible to evade. The hard missions in this game were special missions, called Spec ops which proved to be the most challenging part of the game, most notably the last mission you do with Sam Fischer. The story itself regarding this entire game was interesting, as you work for the CIA to wipe out this cartel that has overrun Bolivia. As the story progressed, you learn some twist and turns in the story, but I will say, the amount of story within is overlong and might not be very engaging for some, but I found it fun. The end of the game was pretty rewarding, as I got the good ending (I think) and El Sueno got what he deserved. It was a very rewarding ending and had me excited to play the rest of the dlcs.

Marco Road was the best thing this game could of done after this massive overloaded game, even though the amount of content in this dlc was a lot too, but the cheesy dialogue, the stunt objectives, and the difficulty of having to do this entire dlc alone was different and fresh enough to keep you entertained and not feel burnt out. Getting all the achievements was difficult in some areas, but doable and was happy with this dlc.

The 3rd and final dlc, Fallen Ghosts, brings you back to the serious tone the base game had, with enemies and objectives that were much more difficult and rewarding, as now you have to fight the Unidad and they're counterparts, Los Extranjeros. This elite milita made the game not so easy, with tactical decisions being a must to survive. The guys I hated the most were the EMP guys, as they had a pretty long range so trying to find and kill these guys was a true pain. The story was good too, but I think the ending was pretty abrupt and wish it contained more but it was still good.

In all, this game was awesome, and I had a blast playing this! Definitely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys tactical open world games. It's a must play!

The Ubisoft sandbox design finally stared to wear me down last year and this former tactical shooter franchise now got hit with it too. To a degree that I can't even recognize the series anymore! I have no problems with the barley there narrative (the ending is a huge middle finger btw), it's a Tom Clancy game after all, but can anyone name me even one thing that makes this game "special"? The shoehorned in skill tree frankly breaks the do-it-your-way design as you need to grind your way to a good character build and gameplay variety is near nonexistent. Especially if I consider that the main missions play just like the utterly interchangeable side-quests. I wasn't crazy about The Division or Just Cause 3 but these at least had elements that made then unique. What does Wildlands offer? The facts that most of your in game time will be spend driving or flying to your next objective? I can see a certain appeal to the 4 player co-op but who has 3 dedicated friends on standby? Back to the drawing board Ubisoft as this one is a nice looking washout.

Edit: The sequel is even worse and finally flopped with everyone. I think we are done here.

The game takes place in Bolivia, an utterly massive open world map, where you and up to three other players are tasked with systematically dismantling a drug cartel. You have the freedom to do this any way you want. There is no real order, so you can go to the hardest province to easiest if you want.

Customization is by far the best I have seen in any game ever. There are literally millions of combinations you can put in for your character.

The weapons are also notable, in that you can carry up to two 'primary' guns and a sidearm. I personally use an assault rifle and a sniper rifle for a versatile load out but there are more options like SMGs, LMGs, shotguns and even a crossbow. These guns are also highly customizable, with dozens of attatchments and camos.

As I mentioned before, you can play with up to three friends. If you don't feel like buddying up then you can play with the mediocre A.I. accomplices. If you feel like challenging yourself, you can turn off the A.I. partners.

That's all I have to say about this game. It goes down as one of my top 5 games ever. I really do recommend this game.

Huge map great story but ubisoft big mistake was open World with out open World the game is great .In game I mostly travel using helicopters To avoid sicario . Ubisoft makes great cinematic game trailers & story telling