Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands - Ubisoft Connect EUROPE Digital Key
Ghost Recon: Wildlands for PC plays over the South American country of Bolivia,
battling the Santa Blanca Cartel and destroying drug stashes as you interrogate,
fight and storm your way ever closer to the defeat of the drug trade.
ABOUT THE GAME
Ghost Recon: Wildlands boasts one of the largest games’ maps ever seen, giving
players a huge world to explore.
On the beta version, there was only one province for players to test out, the
final version has a massive twenty provinces, each of which could be a
standalone game featuring challenges that include learning and using new skills,
different modes of travel, raiding fortified cartel bases, and conducting
interrogations, amongst other things.
Each province contains at least one Santa Blanca Cartel boss to give you even
more of a challenge. You can explore the entire map right from the beginning,
and UbiSoft’s version of Bolivia is fantastically rendered, offering a glimpse
inside caves and under jungle canopies as well as taking you to deserts, salt
flats, mountains, swamps and lakes and quarries.
PLAY FOR TERRAIN
These differing terrains are more than simple stage dressing, just as in real
life, you will have to alter your way of playing in order to navigate the
changing textures and challenges presented by each geographical aspect.
In the desert there is little cover to hide in, so you will have to flee from
your enemies, preferably in an escape vehicle of some kind, while in the
mountains you can hide and ambush your unsuspecting foes.
Wildlands – for which the game is named – is perhaps the most fun, giving you
plenty of options to use your own initiative, with the awkward terrain changing
from a handicap to an advantage depending on how cunningly you think!
The game premise remains fairly static for all twenty provinces. Being able to
use innovative thinking to move the game along different paths means that it is
never dull or ‘samey’.
PLAY IT YOUR WAY
The player is also allowed quite a lot of leeway in their actions which results
in almost infinite combinations of play: each decision changes outcomes,
sometimes slightly, sometimes quite significantly.
For example, deciding to drive out with a high-profile prisoner, rather than
have them flown out by helicopter seems to be a tame decision – right until the
car rolls away down the hill, taking your target with it and leaving you in
apparently futile pursuit.
WEAPONS AND MORE
Weapons and upgrades are scattered throughout the game and you can customise
your weapon to suit your own tastes which is satisfying, as is the ‘boss weapon’
that is unlocked upon the successful defeat of a cartel boss. These beautiful
weapons cannot be modified, but they do not need it – they are perfect as they
are!
MORE WAYS TO PLAY
Solo
You can play solo, in which case the game gives you three AI (artificial
intelligence) companions who are good at obeying instructions – you could, for
example, use them to lay down a certain firing pattern to shoot up an enemy
troop.
Co-op
The other way to play is co-op, which is when you team up with other players to
work together. This is both more dangerous and more fun because people are
unpredictable! Play with your friends or make new friends from strangers.
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