The reviews have been coming in for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands, with the majority of outlets giving it a good score, citing its large open world and impressive graphics as some of its best features. Overwhelmingly tiresome gameplay and a lack of originality are claimed as being some of its weaker points.
Here are a selection of reviews for you to sink your teeth into, to help you decide if Wildlands is the game for you:
The Guardian: 3/5
A more pressing concern is whether the lack of human spontaneity can sustain the marathon commitment and repetition needed to complete the game’s herculean campaign. 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.
GamesRadar: 4.5/5
The sense of scale in Wildlands never ceases to impress, but that ambition can also cause some headaches. The world map is absolutely massive, and although the exact measurements haven’t been revealed, it’s clear that it puts Grand Theft Auto 5 to shame. That’s a heck of an accomplishment, especially when you get a glimpse of the variety of environments Ubisoft managed to cram into this make-believe Bolivia, There’s salt flats, jungle, desert, tundra, grasslands, and everything in between, with no loading screens or stops.
Playstation Lifestyle: 8/10
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. Gone are the days of futuristic weaponry and high-end artillery. Absent is streamlined and borderline derivative campaign that keeps the player to a singular tightly-scripted path.
Metro: 6/10
The game’s reticence to impose on players – and instead to just let them do whatever they want – ends up spoiling them, and making it more obvious than it needs be that Wildlands is actually quite a shallow, generic game at heart. For everyone but a hardcore Ghost Recon veteran the game ticks all the boxes you’d expect, but it never creates any new ones of its own.
PC Gamer: 67/100
However you play, Wildlands feels better as a stealth shooter. It revels in the build up, as you use your drone and binoculars to mark targets and plan out the most effective path to take them out. Assault rifles feel best in semi-auto firing mode, with a silencer attached. The subtle noise of a perfect, unseen headshot provides the sort of positive feedback that reinforces the feeling of being a spec-ops agent. That feeling doesn’t extend to pitched firefights. In a full-scale battle there’s little sense of weight or power to the weapons. They all feel a bit feeble, even while retaining their lethality.
If you’re still undecided, you can see some of our Wildlands coverage here.
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