{"id":77960,"date":"2015-07-02T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77960"},"modified":"2015-07-24T05:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T03:10:47","slug":"why-we-cant-wait-for-ghost-recon-wildlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/77960-why-we-cant-wait-for-ghost-recon-wildlands","title":{"rendered":"Why we can&#8217;t wait for Ghost Recon: Wildlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Clancy may have passed away a while back, but his legacy lives on through his spiritually succeeding games.<\/p>\n<p>The new <em>Ghost Recon Wildlands<\/em> appears to be another brilliant homage to the thriller master.<\/p>\n<p>The classic franchise returns with what is shaping up to be one of the best instalments in the series.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77968\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77968\" class=\"wp-image-77968\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Recon: Wildlands\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A dangerous paradise that needs purging.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Taking place in the drug-baron ruled Bolivia in South America, players will assume the roles of \u2018Ghosts\u2019, elite soldiers tasked with unhinging the cocaine empire of the cartels.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent and rarely touched upon topic in games, the unstoppable crime syndicates of South America that supply the world with much of its snorted vices.<\/p>\n<p>One can play solo or team up with friends (up to four players) in a squad to wipe out the plethora of checkpoints in this massive open-world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77966\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77966\" class=\"wp-image-77966\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2.png\" alt=\"Ghost Recon: Wildlands\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2.png 1380w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2-230x130.png 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2-640x360.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Completely thrilling and vibrantly realised.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>These hotspots range from intercepting convoys of trucks trafficking drugs, to taking out or abducting high-value targets, to razing a drug factory, to liberating an oppressed town.<\/p>\n<p>The E3 trailer revealed several ways of approaching a mission. You and your friends can tactically creep your way in at night and, under the cover of darkness, backstab your way to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can snipe key figures and then pick off fleeing enemies, chasing an evacuating truck on an ATV and shooting at it until it bursts into flames and ploughs off the road.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the classic all-guns-blazing vanguard, shredding everything that moves with sleek assault rifles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77964\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77964\" class=\"wp-image-77964\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Recon: Wildlands\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>You&#8217;re going deep into the bush, pack sandwiches.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The environment is truly stunning and one of the best-looking worlds I have ever seen, just from the small trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The muddy deserts, the rocky mountainous regions, the steamy jungles, all look good enough to feel like you are rampaging through real-life South America.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer showed the various ways one can storm around in, from dune buggies in the arid regions to boats in the rivers of the lush jungles.<\/p>\n<p>Aircrafts also seem to be available, as well as death-from-above parachuting stunts as one descends on their targets from thirty-thousand feet. 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