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!
10 Reviews
Best Ubisoft game since Splinter Cell Conviction
ryanshortfilms31 July 2018
I've never been a fan of Assassin's Creed and never understood why it's so popular to this day. Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Ghost Recon are all better video game franchises. E3 was disappointing this year with no new Splinter Cell 7 announcement. but the dlc in this game makes up for it. I've never had so much fun playing a Ubisoft game since 2010's Splinter Cell Conviction. The Predator, Splinter Cell, and Rainbow Six dlc makes this the best Ubisoft game in years! Personally I think their best series is Splinter Cell, and Chaos Theory to me is their biggest accomplishment! Hearing Ironside's Sam Fisher voice, Predator's roar, etc... this is a game worth owning for years to come! Now Ubisoft, please release a new Splinter Cell game already! Did I forget to mention how great the graphics are in this game as well?
Near Flawless Game
giovanni-906388 August 2018
The game takes place in Bolivia, an utterly massive open world map, where you and up to three other players are tasked with systematically dismantling a drug cartel. You have the freedom to do this any way you want. There is no real order, so you can go to the hardest province to easiest if you want.
Customization is by far the best I have seen in any game ever. There are literally millions of combinations you can put in for your character.
The weapons are also notable, in that you can carry up to two 'primary' guns and a sidearm. I personally use an assault rifle and a sniper rifle for a versatile load out but there are more options like SMGs, LMGs, shotguns and even a crossbow. These guns are also highly customizable, with dozens of attatchments and camos.
As I mentioned before, you can play with up to three friends. If you don't feel like buddying up then you can play with the mediocre A.I. accomplices. If you feel like challenging yourself, you can turn off the A.I. partners.
That's all I have to say about this game. It goes down as one of my top 5 games ever. I really do recommend this game.
Customization is by far the best I have seen in any game ever. There are literally millions of combinations you can put in for your character.
The weapons are also notable, in that you can carry up to two 'primary' guns and a sidearm. I personally use an assault rifle and a sniper rifle for a versatile load out but there are more options like SMGs, LMGs, shotguns and even a crossbow. These guns are also highly customizable, with dozens of attatchments and camos.
As I mentioned before, you can play with up to three friends. If you don't feel like buddying up then you can play with the mediocre A.I. accomplices. If you feel like challenging yourself, you can turn off the A.I. partners.
That's all I have to say about this game. It goes down as one of my top 5 games ever. I really do recommend this game.
Everything I want
Pyreshi13 April 2023
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.
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.
Great game I loved killing drug dealers
tristanostara4 October 2019
Great story
kuttilokesh31727 June 2020
Huge map great story but ubisoft big mistake was open World with out open World the game is great .In game I mostly travel using helicopters
To avoid sicario . Ubisoft makes great cinematic game trailers & story telling
The Ubi-Grind-Formula strikes again!
residentgrigo13 April 2017
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.
Edit: The sequel is even worse and finally flopped with everyone. I think we are done here.
Could have been good
aryassen6 June 2022
It is obvious that a TON of work went into this game. Graphics is great, there is some etmosphere (wouldn't call it immersive though), and my favourite is the radio in the car :)
The problem is that it is the radio in the car which I recall my favourite feature of the game after a good number of hours. Login and gameplay is seriously flawed: after 5 YEARS, I am still welcome with login issues on all occassions (which I don't need anyhow, as I don't give squat about the multiplayer (i just want the campaign), but I need to be connected to the servers regardless. Fine, whatever. Ubisoft store is up, running, I can browse my games, Wildland is wondering in the universe somehwere, lookign for something, for minutes, stuck at the login screen - WTF??)). Settings are also reset when the game seems fit, and it is so much fun to scan through again what presets may or may not have been altered accoring to its infite wisdom...
Gameplay. I seriously don't understand how this game passed the testing phase. How did anyone thought it is a good idea not allowing saving in the first place? But let's that for the moment: respawning you on the other side of the bloody map is clearly an undesirable desing element, isn't it? With 2 other safe houses closer the spot where you died. Not a figure of speach, literally on the other side of the map (though at least I disovered a new area without wondering there). Oh, and in most cases, the world is re-generated, so you can't pick up where you left, you may or may not be in the same area even, and may or may not be in the same part of the day (entirely possible it will take you back into the night, or throw into he day, seemingly as decided by a white blind mouse)
Gunfights. Apparently a submachine gun is as accurate as a sniper rifle, over long distances. Team is sometimes as stupid as ****, blocking my movement (once into a corner I couldn't move from, so I had to wait till I was killed), stepping into in my line of fire, or in front of a bad guy, watching him to slowly walking up to him, shooting him and me first, then maybe shoot back (not always, it depends). Great. Skill points can spent in a sequence. Why?! You clean up an outpost, and it respawns soon. You can't destroy it, you can't sabotage it, and you can't turn it, so every freaking time, you clean them, over and over again. (the first couple of times it is fun even, but then it is more like a chore). Maybe after some pre-defined element is achieved, and the algorythm decided you earned enough....."something" (I couldn't find out what, if it even exists), then it changes, but after spending 3 long evenings with this, after another stupid respawn, I just deleted the game, so I never found out.
Driving....oh my god, driving. I know this is not a drive simulator, but that doesn't necessarily mean all vehicles must behave like sh*t. Bike, car, chopter, doesn't matter, each is the unbelievably bad, and weirdly enough, somehow the same way. Again, how did this past testing??? I just can't imagine that lots and lots of players said to the idiotic vehicle control " yeey, perfect, this is what I want in an action shooter, superb!..." (example: a vehicle can either accelerate, or decelerate, but it can't hold a certain speed. Or when slowing down too much, it goes to reverse, and swings around the view whether you want it or not, whether you crawl back at 1 mph or 50)
LIke i've said. An absolute sh*tload of work went into this game, and my hats off to many of the devs, some aspects of the game are truly remarkable. But, at least for me, the negatives are not compensated by the positives, so I have uninstalled the game after about 10 hours or so. The internet is full of ravaging reviews, so I must be a minority, but in my opinion, this game is seriously flawed, and thus is a botched effort. Pity, because it could have been really good.
The problem is that it is the radio in the car which I recall my favourite feature of the game after a good number of hours. Login and gameplay is seriously flawed: after 5 YEARS, I am still welcome with login issues on all occassions (which I don't need anyhow, as I don't give squat about the multiplayer (i just want the campaign), but I need to be connected to the servers regardless. Fine, whatever. Ubisoft store is up, running, I can browse my games, Wildland is wondering in the universe somehwere, lookign for something, for minutes, stuck at the login screen - WTF??)). Settings are also reset when the game seems fit, and it is so much fun to scan through again what presets may or may not have been altered accoring to its infite wisdom...
Gameplay. I seriously don't understand how this game passed the testing phase. How did anyone thought it is a good idea not allowing saving in the first place? But let's that for the moment: respawning you on the other side of the bloody map is clearly an undesirable desing element, isn't it? With 2 other safe houses closer the spot where you died. Not a figure of speach, literally on the other side of the map (though at least I disovered a new area without wondering there). Oh, and in most cases, the world is re-generated, so you can't pick up where you left, you may or may not be in the same area even, and may or may not be in the same part of the day (entirely possible it will take you back into the night, or throw into he day, seemingly as decided by a white blind mouse)
Gunfights. Apparently a submachine gun is as accurate as a sniper rifle, over long distances. Team is sometimes as stupid as ****, blocking my movement (once into a corner I couldn't move from, so I had to wait till I was killed), stepping into in my line of fire, or in front of a bad guy, watching him to slowly walking up to him, shooting him and me first, then maybe shoot back (not always, it depends). Great. Skill points can spent in a sequence. Why?! You clean up an outpost, and it respawns soon. You can't destroy it, you can't sabotage it, and you can't turn it, so every freaking time, you clean them, over and over again. (the first couple of times it is fun even, but then it is more like a chore). Maybe after some pre-defined element is achieved, and the algorythm decided you earned enough....."something" (I couldn't find out what, if it even exists), then it changes, but after spending 3 long evenings with this, after another stupid respawn, I just deleted the game, so I never found out.
Driving....oh my god, driving. I know this is not a drive simulator, but that doesn't necessarily mean all vehicles must behave like sh*t. Bike, car, chopter, doesn't matter, each is the unbelievably bad, and weirdly enough, somehow the same way. Again, how did this past testing??? I just can't imagine that lots and lots of players said to the idiotic vehicle control " yeey, perfect, this is what I want in an action shooter, superb!..." (example: a vehicle can either accelerate, or decelerate, but it can't hold a certain speed. Or when slowing down too much, it goes to reverse, and swings around the view whether you want it or not, whether you crawl back at 1 mph or 50)
LIke i've said. An absolute sh*tload of work went into this game, and my hats off to many of the devs, some aspects of the game are truly remarkable. But, at least for me, the negatives are not compensated by the positives, so I have uninstalled the game after about 10 hours or so. The internet is full of ravaging reviews, so I must be a minority, but in my opinion, this game is seriously flawed, and thus is a botched effort. Pity, because it could have been really good.
Silent spade
mailgamingu27 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The game is great except when someone destroys the game with this operation. After killing every hostile inside the enemy base and destroying all generators, sam sites, drone jammers where nothing is left to do but escape while the enemy has no idea your even there..guess what you still have invisible sam's that will shoot you down. It's such an idiotic designed operation that you just fail it over and over again. When your escaping it sends you one way then does a 180 and sends you back the opposite direction. It's a constant show of garbage design. Your flying away and we need this heli in one piece so you begin to just try to get away safely as somehow you have forces all over you even though you never alerted the enemy. Now the game says get back into mission area as your heading to safety and by the time you turn around it's game over the timer expired. Fools should not be designing operations to just make people mad. Eventually you refuse to play the game anymore due to how trash the game has become. I'm not restarting a garbage mission that takes forever a hundred times just to continue playing the game. The game was fun and really liked it until then.
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