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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Action
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Paris
Release Date: March 7, 2017

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'Ghost Recon: Wildlands' (ALL) Gets Novel, Beta Tests Sets Record With 6.8 Million Players

by Rainier on March 1, 2017 @ 9:15 a.m. PST

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.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a military shooter set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world that you can play entirely solo or in four-player co-op.

Bolivia, a few years from now: this beautiful South American country has become the largest cocaine producer in the world. The influential and vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel has turned the country into a narco-state, leading to lawlessness, fear, injustice, and violence. The cartel is on track to becoming a major underworld power and global threat.

An all-out war is not the answer. A surgical, stealthy, lethal approach is the only way to stop the disease at its source. The Ghosts, an elite US Special Forces team, are sent behind enemy lines to wreak havoc, destabilize, and eventually break the alliance between the cartel and the corrupted government.

Facing an almighty enemy in a massive and hostile environment, the Ghosts will need to make critical moral choices and engage in tough battles to complete their mission – their grittiest and most dangerous operation to date.

More than 6.8 million unique players participated across Ghost Recon Wildlands’ Beta phases including the Open Beta that ended February 27, breaking Ubisoft’s record for biggest beta phase in history. More than 2 billion minutes were played and more than 60 percent of players gathered their squad to play the Open Beta in Co-Op, discovering the dangerous beauty of the wildlands ahead of the game’s launch.

The Closed and Open Betas allowed players to ignite their fight against the Santa Blanca cartel by exploring two of the 21 total provinces in the largest action-adventure open world game ever created by Ubisoft. These two provinces offered very different experiences: Itacua is a flourishing and mountainous area as well as the game’s landing province, while Montuyoc, set in the arid and snowy Altiplano, is much more challenging. With each beta, players were able to provide valuable feedback to the development team to help deliver the best experience at launch.

As a thank-you to fans, all players who participated in the technical test, Closed Beta or Open Beta (and will play the game by March 31 using the same Ubisoft account) will receive access to the Unidad* Conspiracy reward. This reward includes three exclusive missions set in the Media Luna region, one of the Unidad strongholds, and will be available for download post-launch.

Ubisoft will also be releasing a brand new novel, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Dark Waters by Richard Dansky (distributed by Simon & Schuster), which will available in eBook formats and mass market paperback ($9.99) on March 7, 2017.

Before going into the Wildlands, the Ghosts – a squad of U.S. Special Forces operators tasked with the most dangerous missions – first had to come together as a team. In Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Dark Waters, central Ubisoft Clancy writer and author, Richard Dansky, tells us how Nomad and his squad mates Weaver, Holt and Midas first came together to create the elite Ghost unit.

A new story set in Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Universe, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Dark Waters takes readers deep into the Amazonian Jungle. Facing dangerous separatists and uncertain allies, the Ghosts must rescue American citizens held hostage by a group of renegade Venezuelan soldiers, who control the no-man’s land in the middle of the jungle. Fans will get inside the heads of these elite operatives, discover their backstories and see how they decide to either stand together as a team or fail..

Key Features:

  • Bienvenidos a Bolivia
    • From the infamous Death Road to the world's largest salt flat and lush jungles, journey through Ubisoft's largest open world action-adventure game to date. Discover massive regions inspired by Bolivia and South America, and enjoy their stunning vistas and incredible diversity.
    • Explore the hundreds of villages, landmarks, and legends populating this country and immerse yourself in Bolivian culture. Cross paths with inhabitants reacting to their own agendas and to the game's day-night cycle and weather system.
    • Explore the wildlands on or off road, in the air, and at sea with over 60 different vehicles, including armored pickups, supercars, dirt bikes, helicopters, and RIB boats just to name a few.
  • Become a Ghost
    • Lead a team of four Ghosts, the absolute best of the US military. Play either solo or with up to three of your friends online in this gritty adventure as they seamlessly join you at any point in the game.
    • Engage all your missions in whatever order and manner suits you: stealth, distraction, and tactical or frontal assault always remain possible. Use the new iconic drones to recon the toughest terrains and to tag enemy outposts, or transform them into destructive weapons. Make difficult but critical choices: sabotage, interrogation, kidnapping, and assassination are but a few of the options available for you to reach your objectives.
    • Create your very own ghost thanks to multiple customization options and upgrade your character with the experience and loot you gather on the battleground.
  • Take Down the Santa Blanca Cartel
    • The Santa Blanca cartel and its infamous leader, El Sueño, are the most powerful, treacherous, and imposing foes the Ghosts have ever faced.
    • Your mission is to take the cartel down and put an end to their rule of terror by any means necessary: destroy their production facilities, cut off their trafficking routes, dismantle their nfluence network and bring Santa Blanca's sicarios down to their knees.
    • The world will react differently to each of your choices: unexpected opportunities and threats could arise from any situation.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on March 7, 2017.


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