Ghost Recon: Wildlands

There should be more games based on killing drug cartels

Customisation of the weaponry you can carry is great, shame you can't swap out your pistol for a grenade launcher or something but nobody is perfect. Map is also really big.

It's truly a masterpiece of a game.

I have thus far played through it several times including tier mode and still can't get enough.

It is a living and breathing world of Bolivia where you will find the beauty of the world and the really dark and twisted characters of the Santa Blanca cartel that you hunt down and while you are dismantling the cartel

The tier one mode is one of the most fun aspects of the game that is unlocked after reaching level 30 and will while you level up(down) from tier 50 to tier 1 and the difficulty will increase as you reach tier 1 and will quite punishing but really fun and tactical.

Seriously one of the most fun multiplayer experiences I've had in the latter half of the 2010s. Ubisoft isn't a company with a catalog of games I typically gravitate towards but when my buddy told me this game felt like Metal Gear Solid V gameplay-wise minus the future tech, AND had co-op, I was in day one. I have pumped well over two-hundred hours into this game, 100%'d it and snagged the platinum trophy and I STILL come back sometimes. There are thousands of combinations for your character's build/setup to accommodate your preferred playstyle. The story here is honestly not that good, but I don't really care... The gameplay here is PHENOMENALLY engaging! And that's enough for me!

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.