![]() ![]() Wildlands is set in July 2019, returning to Ghost Recon’s usual near-future setting. But is that enough to make the game at once accessible to the average gamer and satisfying for the die-hard military simmer? Ubisoft’s latest Tom Clancy game is polished, looks great and features a diverse open world. Ghost Recon: Wildlands, rather than being the polished ARMA 3 beater that I thought it would be is, instead, a MilSim for the masses. Most gamers will be more familiar with the ARMA 2 zombie survival mod, DayZ, than the ARMA games, themselves. Even Codemasters’ take on their in-house developed extensions of the Operation Flashpoint franchise, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and Red River were still a bit rough around the edges.īohemia ‘s ARMA 3 is possibly the principle of modern military simulation development, but unfortunately, the extreme depth of simulation, the attention to detail and the rigid realism make the game rather inaccessible to a mainstream audience. Rambo-style heroics would be rewarded by a quick death.Īround the same time, rookie Czech outfit, Bohemia Interactive, released Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, giving players a huge open world, an arsenal of Cold War-era weapons and vehicles, as well as some pretty unforgiving gameplay.Īnyone who has played Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and its spiritual successors, the ARMA games, know that whilst the depth of the simulation is impressive, they are, at times lacking a bit of polish. Tactical planning and stealth were essential to succeed. ![]() Taking a page out of Red Storm Entertainment’s Tom Clancy-inspired Rainbow Six games, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon introduced one-shot kills to players like myself who were more used to the run-and-gun mechanics of the likes of Quake, Doom and Unreal. The Ghost’s are back! Returning to the present day after the so-so Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Ghost Recon: Wildlands drops players into a huge and diverse digital representation of Bolivia.īack in 2001 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon was a bit of a game changer. ![]()
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