Ghost Recon: Wildlands can provide countless hours of thrilling sandbox shooter gameplay, but co-op is needed to make the most of it. Its massive, numerous and diverse locales are often gorgeous to behold, and navigating them tactfully with a good co-op team is a blast.

Set a few years from now, Ghost Recon Wildlands lets you lead a four-player team of Ghosts on a covert mission to eliminate the Santa Blanca drug cartel.

Co-op games have sort of become a lost art. Developers often conflate the idea of co-operation simply by adding an extra person to what was already happening. Ghost Recon Wildlands takes a much different approach, crafting a game that requires two or more great minds working perfectly in synch to...

Huge world map; Lots to do in the sandbox; Unique and rewarding upgrade system; Meaningful; tactical co-op; Solid teammate A.I

Sub-par framerate; Tags

There's an advert on the television at the moment for the army, featuring five or six soldiers walking through intense snowy weather conditions, when one of them starts singing (I've had) The Time

Huge and wonderful open world; Co-op is so much fun; Visually and technically impressive

Generic story; Combat can be sluggish

Whilst playing Ubisoft Paris' Ghost Recon Wildlands , I found it impossible not to consider its context. I'm not referring to the recent controversy between the Bolivian and French governments regarding its setting, but rather the spate of open-world games we've seen released over the last few years...

Ghost Recon: Wildland Breaks New Ground

This huge, wide-open shooter constantly shows its flaws in its mission variety and vehicle physics, but its strong, sandbox-style gameplay and seamless co-op kept me coming back for more madness.

As gamers get pickier about what games they'll drop their hard earned money on, game companies have to come up with big selling points for their games. For Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands , the selling point is that the tactical third-person shooter takes place in a gigantic world spanning the...

Gunplay is generally fun; Looks good minus texture pops; Better with friends

Highly repetitive mission design; Boring world to explore; Filled with glitches and technical issues

A solid open world shooter with a tactical flavor that adds a bit of variety to otherwise repetitive objectives, Ghost Recon Wildlands is at its best when you join a squad of real people, and lay waste to the Santa Blanca cartel together. Just don't go into it expecting engaging characters or plot.

Initially, it seems as if there will be little handholding in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands . Players create their own character, an elite U.S. soldier codenamed Nomad, and after a brief introduction from C.I.A.