Ghost Recon Wildlands: 5 Years Later, Still Underrated - A Review

warning the following presentation contains cold hard truths that might change the way you think viewer discretion won't do you any good now [Music] [Music] you'd be surprised how much people pay attention when they find a man hanged with his own intestines Jesus Christ what are you Albert Fish the serial killer I bet he [ __ ] pissed himself you ladies are sicker than I am you know that it's been five years since Ghost Recon wildlands was released and this is still one of the greatest games I have ever played this game right here forget it you know what I mean just forget it in the times since wildlands was released we've gotten a sequel [Music] and a sequel to The Division the younger more talented cousin of Ghost Recon and a lot has been added to this game since I last played it I remember this being not just a peak in the series but also with open world co-op in general and if memory serves me right this game has yet to be topped and having an airtight Co-op experience in a single open world map I recently decided I'm going to dust off this game and see if it holds up so I turned to my girlfriend and I said Anya Taylor Joy grab me my Ghost Recon wildlands disc and you better whip up something to eat while you're at it because I've got some work that I need to finish and then she said why are you playing a game that's five years old and I said [ __ ] you play chess don't give me that after spending a long time away from this game I have to say my God does it hold up I feel like the graphics got better they must have improved the performance somehow because the game is old and it still makes my jaw drop I am also way better at the game than I was before I mean have you ever landed a helicopter like that I don't think so that's the coolest helicopter landing you've ever seen in your life but Ghost Recon is a very special series since the beginning these games have consistently received mixed to decent reviews but all of them have sold really well it's like people don't want to admit that they like these games but they really do and wildlands is extremely different from its predecessors yet there isn't a single Tom Clancy game that's brought me such consistent reliable entertainment that I get from this game I'm sorry I just need to finish blowing this up I just have to huh I guess there were civilians in there whoops is this like the time out area did they just put me in time out for doing that wow now it's no secret that Ghost Recon wildlands was considered offensive and downright dumb on top of that some people just found the gameplay to be repetitive and uninspired I'm not even gonna waste time on the ladder I think if you don't find this game fun you could be certifiably insane as for being offensive and dumb I don't think the game would be as good as it is if it weren't so offensive and dumb the fact that the game takes place in Bolivia is both the best and the worst thing about this game on one hand I love being in Bolivia if this is anywhere near accurate this is the most beautiful country I've ever seen the terrain the mountains every type of tree you could imagine the skies the weather it's like I'm on vacation but when you're hunting sicarios in a village with Children and Families just going about their day this part of the vacation really sucks but for all the things this game got wrong both in gaming and in life I think it got a lot right you gotta know how to enjoy this game which means you gotta know how to navigate the problems for example don't get too creative while climbing mountains you might get stuck this is a scrappy game it has bugs like this hey [ __ ] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean you know the game isn't that offensive it just calls you an [ __ ] three thousand times in a row another bug that's been making headlines lately is the Ribera Server Connection Error lots of people are getting this bug but not me and I'm having a lot of trouble finding the sympathy here just look at some of these responses too bad y'all had that Exodus of developers back in December ironic that the next month y'all started having problems with most of your servers yeah because that's how this works think I am done buying Ubisoft games for a while yeah bull [ __ ] what are you just gonna ignore all these major AAA games now that's hilarious what kind of person uses the words y'all and exodus in the same sentence first there was The Exodus and then y'all started having problems such a joke I literally just bought this game to play with a friend and it's nothing but errors you be get your stuff together you look ridiculous you literally just bought the game like as soon as it was added to Game Pass I I think you look ridiculous wildlands could have a second life on Game Pass but y'all don't seem to be trying to fix the server issues don't seem to be trying it looks like Ubisoft is responding to every single one of your stupid tweets everyone every single one they're even responding to a guy named Fluffy pants I mean what more do you need now I know what some of you are thinking oh he probably did a second review to finally talk about all the DLC that was missed in the first video no and yes Fallen ghosts was [ __ ] sick you get new skills like the attack drone explosive bolts and faster reload speed the missions forced you to be really tactical and I actually favored the lack of helicopter spawning this felt like a solid attempt at making a slightly more difficult version of the main game but that Narco Road what a mountain of [ __ ] all of the mission objectives are just horrendous I mean you probably thought nobody could make a dumber game than Ghost Recon wildlands well here that is I put the nail in the Narco Road coffin after doing the mission where you have to steal the plane avoid the missiles land it safely but then this crackhead makes you take the plane out again because he wants to show off to his friends at a pool party and if you crash during this part you go back to before you stole the plane attention Ubisoft guys you're not Grand Theft Auto stop trying to do funny wacky story lines stick to the Tactical [ __ ] please you really don't need DLC for this game the game is huge enough and the whole reason why I resurrected wildlands was because I still had so much to do after beating it they've since added new missions and story beats that tie into Ghost Recon breakpoint and I still needed to get the platinum trophy all right so this right here is the final radio mission that I have let's go let's clean it up see this is actually one of my favorite side missions ever because it's just helicopters coming at you and if you got the Desert Tech like I do you get them in one bullet look at that incredible you see this is why this game holds up look how fun this is oh God damn it all right so this is one of my last remaining skill points and it seems to be just sitting right here in a rebel camp unguarded wow this could not be easy I spoke too soon yeah this isn't going very well uh I need to take some aggression out nothing like Tom Clancy Wildlife AI there's just nothing they can do about it now this right here is the last thing I have to do in the game that will reward me the Platinum so this is where it all ends in a mine how unfitting okay I'm feeling pretty claustrophobic right now pretty pretty tense hey I I will shoot you in the dick I will shoot your dick off I will shoot your dick off I will shoot your I have problems after clearing my own game and then Fallen ghosts a couple of my actual friends decided to start their campaigns over from the beginning and I said damn now that's insane and I'm coming with you I did not start my game over though [ __ ] that but I accompanied them on their Journey with my Buff Ass character and I was quickly reminded that as great as single player mode is wildlands really is one of the greatest multiplayer experiences one could ever have now in single player you can just rely on syncshot and play it more like a puzzle game trying to figure out what order to take people out in so that you don't get detected which is endless amounts of fun but nothing compared to the teamwork and variety of strategies that play out during Co-op I'm still discovering new ways to play this game with friends having someone be an eye in the sky while the other person sneaks in and out having two people sniping targets while another person sneaks in having one person beat the whole mission while the other person is taking a [ __ ] the game is Limitless in the ways that you can divide the work and play with different strategies for example I think I recently found my new calling in life ramming other cars off the road I don't mean to toot my own horn but I got really good at this I'm like if Rambo joined Ramstein but there is nothing like doing a rebel radio mission in Co-op calling out where enemies are coming from helping each other out really having each other's back oh my God yep happened again I guess I found another thing I'm really good at ruining the radio missions helicopters are probably the biggest source of entertainment in this game I mean look at this we all just dropped out of this helicopter to do this network station side mission we beat it pretty quickly I get to the roof oh you see that now did we just beat that so fast that the helicopter didn't even hit the ground yet pretty unbelievable but hey now that's physics but the act of spawning a helicopter is still not perfect it's slightly improved now I mean slightly the game is trying to make helicopters spawn closer to you but sometimes they put these things in places that make so little sense to me like what is this look I'm not trying to be picky here but this is in enemy territory could you at least make it safe to board the Fang and not right under a sniper's nose that could not be a worse spot it really could not all right next mission locate Ramon Feliz let's go get that [ __ ] this must be the place ah nice little Shack you got here oh Ramon oh uh looking at the crime scene here I think it's pretty straightforward what went down he went on the internet discovered 4chan ended up sacrificing himself to uh Steve Bannon let's call it in well we better get back to base or Bowman's gonna have our asses on a platter yeah and then she'll really give us a spanking be quiet Midas we all know you like it when she spanks you Bowman lets me call her mommy now if you've played the sequel to this game another pretty good reason to revisit wildlands is the new story beats that tie into breakpoint you actually team up with Walker to rescue Bowman but then there's drama see Walker is pissed at Bowman after she was forced to Aid an enemy spy and he blames her for the death of his men he threatens her with anal violence but then you step in and you're like hey man she's not worth it and he's like all right you my bro so I know hurt her and then he goes and eats a waffle maybe that was the other game but I also noticed something really weird during this scene at one point during their conversation something flashed on the screen for like a frame and it's right when she says the word [ __ ] so I thought oh is this some kind of Fight Club moment here what the [ __ ] is happening so I slowed down the clip and for one frame it looks like my cigar is exploding and lighting up the room attention Ubisoft you need to add this as a permanent item the cigar torch would be a sick ass item I'd pay ten dollars for it I'll take an nft of it overall it's insane how well this game holds up after more than five years of existing not every open world game has this much lasting value because a lot of them do fall into the Trap of becoming repetitive but I don't know how you can play this game and call it predictable so much ridiculous [ __ ] happens while playing it but more importantly the gameplay Loop is so perfect I don't see myself ever getting tired of it I think breakpoint's biggest flaw was that the game got too big not just the size of the map but just the amount that was going on in the game nobody asked for any of that [ __ ] at least not to my knowledge wildlands is deep enough to hold your attention for Long play sessions but simple enough to have fast-paced moment-to-moment action that is seriously unmatched this is a series that I will never give up on because it's not giving up Ghost Recon Frontline the recently announced massive free-to-play PVP shooter was so poorly received upon announcement and its beta test that Ubisoft has already canceled the game and I say thank God maybe go ahead and cancel division Heartland and X defiant while you're at it then we can really get things back on track but I'm going to hold out hope for the other Ghost Recon game that's in development the recently announced but currently unnamed project over is supposed to become the new Mainline entry in the series and my last bit of advice to Ubisoft is this guys hone it in don't try to make this bigger than breakpoint please no the game does not have to be so massive that it gets to the point where it breaks but as we continue sailing down the Ghost Recon River I will continue to say thank you for wildlands please fix that Roberta server bug [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Maj0r Lee

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Length: 17min 58sec (1078 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2022