Its a Ghost Recon game in name only. Its more like Grand Theft Bolivia.Teal wrote:Would love to hear thoughts on the beta when those who are playing it can provide some!
Lots of jacking of vehicles or helicopters and for lengthy traveling to get to missions and side missions. Cars handle a little worse than GTA.
The combat is somewhat realistic; one shot kills and you do go down fast if you take damage. I was playing on the second of four difficulty levels.
So far I've seen 3 types of side missions. Get intel/interrogate enemy at enemy camp. Steal enemy plane. And hijack convoy. The hijack convoy mission involved ramming a truck until it was disabled. I was able to do that with a helicopter. It was fun, but really is this Ghost Recon?
Graphics are average I'd say for open world on the console. Far Cry 4 looked better. Some enemy camps looked the same, like you've been there before. One building was pure cut and paste from another I'd visited. Only weird visual glitch I noticed was raindrops hitting the ground on puddles causing what looked like mini-white fireworks bursts.
There is an upgrade system (RPG lite) where you trade points acquired from missions and capped supplies for skills and perks, like increased revive speed, extra grenades. damage protection, health regen, improved drone, etc. I liked the drone.
Maybe they could overlay some sort hard core mode into multiplayer? That would be the only hope to find a Ghost Recon game here.
I'm still getting it since I like playing open world coop games and there aren't too many like this one where the entire campaign can be played solo or 2-4 players.
One thing we haven't adjusted to with the XBO is the amount of downloading involved. We're killing our data limits, so I'll definitely get the full game, but really need to put the kibosh on downloads for a couple weeks...
