The opening few Ghost Recon Wildlands missions aren't too dissimilar to the beta. Disregarding them, or playing with friends and making your own trails is the best way forward, considering the sheer havoc you can wreak with everything at your disposal.
On paper it sounds like a terrible grind, and it could be, if you follow your AI squadmates’ chatter, which seems to be rooted in taking a stealthy approach. When you’ve put an end to two of the four units, you can take on El Sueno, if you so choose. You can go about it systematically, say carving out the Security arm of Santa Blanca, before moving on to another, or simply have a go at random. When you’re done with all of the bosses that belong to a single division, you can tackle the head of that specific department. Each of them run a specific province in Bolivia. Before you can get to them, you have to deal with bosses. The overall structure of Ghost Recon Wildlands has you tasked with killing the heads of four sections of the Santa Blanca - Security, Production, Influence, and Smuggling. Ghost Recon Wildlands Special Editions Revealed As a part of an elite group of soldiers, its up to you to dismantle it and put an end to its boss, El Sueno. It’s here that you and upto three other friends (or friendly AI), are pitted against the Santa Blanca - a drug cartel that for all practical purposes runs Bolivia. In the case of Ghost Recon Wildlands, Bolivia is your playground for destruction and you’re part of an elite unit of soldiers tasked with cleaning up this now narco-state. This is no surprise since open-world games appear to be most of publisher Ubisoft’s output this generation, ranging from the virus-ridden streets of New York in The Division, to the Alps in winter sports-themed Steep.
After playing through the full version of the game, we’ve come to realise that may not be such a bad thing after all.Īs we noted earlier, all of Ghost Recon Wildlands takes place in an open-world. In our impressions of the Ghost Recon Wildlands beta, we noted that the only commonality between the game and the rest of the franchise its a part of is the name itself.