Regarded as one of the largest open-world game, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands approaches its release as the developers promised that it is not an open world game for the sake of making another open world game. A rich narrative was also promised after making bold moves in basing the game story from real life experiences from real people.
Ubisoft Senior Producer Nouredine Abbaud, told Examiner in an interview: "What is for sure is the game is massive and the quantity of work we've put into it is massive... This should change the way you look at how you play that sort of game, and that's what we're happy about." She pointed out that such is a big change for the game and a big change for Ubisoft as well, since is not known for open-world gaming. Abbaud added that the game brings a real change for the gaming industry with respect to military shooters.
Abbaud also assured fans that they have not created Ghost Recon Wildlands for the sake of creating another open-world game. According to Creative Director Eric Couzian, they have spend three years upon making the game in which they took elements of the previous game into a larger map and observed what would happen. Accordingly, the game was playtested with four player co-op to see how each element interacted. They even prototyped trees just to examine what types of tactical details would it provide, Realty Today reports.
Ubisoft stated that they want a very rich narrative for the upcoming Ghost Recon Wildlands which opted them to seek help of real-life experts in a war-of-drugs manner. Basically, the game is primarily influenced with the war of drugs issues as the developers consulted Spec Ops personnel affiliated with organizations such as AFSOC, DELTA, DEA, MARSOC, and DEVGRU. The plot introduces details from Nazi captain, Capt. Klaus Barbie, a bit of cocoa leaf history and a bunch of dictators. Segment Next reports that Ubisoft hinted the complicated drug world which provides an open ending, leaving players with a variety of options.
Ubisoft's largest ever open world military shooter, Ghost Recon Wildlands, might be delayed, but the developers are positive that the game is about to bring a big change to the military shooter industry.
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