Players can still travel anywhere their gaze falls at whatever pace or in whichever order the spirit moves them. Not so Wildlands, whose designers seem to have figured out, finally, that equipoise in a game that offers this much independence entails fashioning enemies that resist exploitation and bite back hard. That’s something they’ve been doing in Ubisoft games since the original Assassin’s Creed shook the industry in 2007. And players can reconnoiter the map for optional sorties or collectibles to flesh out the game’s backstory and unlock new abilities. Playing cooperatively with other online friends is a button tap away, a “seamless multiplayer” feature Ubisoft honed in The Crew. To surveil and mark enemy targets, players can pilot a backpack drone-something they could do in last year’s Watch Dogs 2.
Thus in the cartel-subjugated Bolivian hinterlands of Ghost Recon Wildlands, the company’s biggest free roaming adventure yet (out March 7 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), helping the country’s insurgents lets players summon them later to do battle-a feature in Far Cry 4. Look at any of the company’s games, and you’ll see that the French multinational publisher of franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Far Cry is obsessed with repurposing its ideas, like an artisan trying to forge a novel new musical instrument from the fragments of existing ones. To play a Ubisoft game these days is to participate in a grand experiment.
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