Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands One fo the most popular game in 2017

roseblack (49)in #game • 7 years ago

On the one hand, it's one of the most artistically detailed open-world games I've ever played, translating the scale and beauty of the entirety of Bolivia into a digital facsimile. On the other, the ways you interact with that world feel incredibly trite and tired

You play one member of a team of four special forces soldiers tasked with bringing down the Santa Blanca drug cartel, a Mexican drug-running operation that has taken over the whole country to create a religiously motivated narco-state. At the top is El Sueno — the mastermind. He has four heads of operation, who each have an underboss. Under them are the regional bosses, the Buchons. The Buchons set the thematic tone for a province and must have their entire criminal infrastructure dismantled piece by piece

Thematically, however, it's all murder and condescension. You are four against a nation. Never for a moment does your squad consider that to be an unreasonable task. Not once in the many (many) hours of the campaign is there a single moment of humility. Because Santa Blanca are also foreigners, for the most part, there is no attempt to engage with actual Bolivian culture, no point of interaction that isn't driven by mechanical violence.

In a game with an entirely fictional backdrop, that wouldn't be so much of a problem. But Wildlands takes the time to render its version of Bolivia with so much environmental fidelity, including geographical features and architectural motifs. Since Wildlands clearly put thought and care into making its map feel like Bolivia, the absolute carelessness of tone frustrated and confused me.

All of this content can be played in any order whatsoever. You can drive straight from your starting region to the most difficult and remote province of the game without even finishing the tutorials. There is a dizzying variety of weapons and vehicles, all based on real-life counterparts and easily identifiable. With so many toys and tools and such a huge world to utilize them in, the possibilities for completing any given mission are open-ended to the point of absurdity.

One of most interesting part of Ghost Recon that it's music.
do you know who is those musical team. Take a look.