It isn’t reactive in any way and although power struggles between bosses occur as part of individual plotlines the characters don’t move around to fill power vacuums or fight amongst themselves in a dynamic way. In reality, this web doesn’t add much to the game at all and is more for show – a method of keeping track. And though it is true you can go about destablising this spider’s web by whatever silky strands you want, the next jefe may be in an area of much higher difficulty – tougher guards, more enemies, alarms, tanks, and so on. Zoom out from the map far enough and you’re presented with a web of pictures and names, more of which get revealed with each piece of intel and each successful operation. The gimmick here is that you can take on the underbosses in whatever order you want. Get enough of these lower-level perps and the final mission to take on the big bossman becomes open to you. Anyway, you need to drive around the mountain roads and bumpy farmlands of the South American country, collecting intel that will lead to the killing or capture of buchons and underbosses. They’ve taken over the entire country and turned it into a narco state (I summarised this plot to a Bolivian friend, whose response was an emphatic "what the fuck?"). In Wildlands, you are one of an elite squad of US soldiers who has come to Bolivia to save it from a pseudo-religious drug kingpin called El Sueño and his vast cartel. A publisher who have baked the same cake dozens of times but insists that they are following a new recipe because they've changed the colour of the icing. It is 2017 and insta-fail stealth missions still exist. Cast away from my carefully selected sniping spot on a sandy ridge because of a single stray bullet and dumped on the other side of the mission area, where I would have to repeat the cautious approach, the enemy spotting and the multiple silent kills all over again. I only knew for certain that I actively disliked it when I was stricken down by one of its insta-fail stealth missions. I played some of it during the beta, along with Graham, and I came out of it feeling like a tub of old bath water. Ghost Recon Wildlands is Ubisoft’s latest open-world co-op narco war.
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