Advertisement

Game review: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – intimidating at first, even frustratingly difficult, but worth a look

Despite some flaws and repetitive missions, cooperative play is magic in Ubisoft’s latest offering with plenty of tricks up its sleeve

Reading Time:3 minutes
Why you can trust SCMP
A scene from Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Advertisement

Ubisoft

3 stars

Regardless of what kind of games people usually play, many gamers are inexplicably drawn to Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy shooters.

The driving idea behind the projects has been to embed the cooperative multiplayer experience within the company’s hallmark open-world games. The first attempt was Tom Clancy’s The Division, a satisfying but linear game that leaned heavily on elements of role-playing games.

Advertisement

Ubisoft’s latest project, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands adopts the more traditional approach of a tactical third-person shooter and marries it to a massive reproduction of Bolivia. It’s more open-ended than its predecessor, but also shares some of that game’s problems.

loading
Advertisement