Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint Limited Edition (PS4)

ok so this is my 3rd review. I’m a massive Tom Clancy fan and absolutely loved Wildlands and completed it and I don’t finish many games. It’s my 3rd review because 1. I bought on release and it was full of bugs so I sent it back and very annoyed. 2. I tried it again now it was £18.99 to see if it had updated its bugs, which it had and 3. I’m now over 60 hours in so I think I can leave a truly realistic review. It is truly a great game, graphics absolutely brilliant, lots and lots of campaigns and plenty to do. In wild lands you get your route on your Tag map. Not with this you don’t, you will need to find your own way shipmate which initially I found annoying, but now I quite enjoy it. Mixing with the surroundings, collecting unbelievable amount of herbs and flowers to make concoctions you’ve never even dreamed off. You will need an helicopter that is for sure, because the map is big and I mean BIG. What is introduced are these things called Bivouacs and you can’t miss them with smoke arising from them. Here you rest and build up stamina but what’s useful, on resting you can go shopping. If your a solo player like me, I am 50 after all and non of my older friends are playing this you have to keep restocking your equipment. If you are a solo player you will definitely need a killer drone. In Wildlands as you know you have a team where you can highlight your enemy and they will pick them off. On breakpoint it’s just you, unless of course you invite your friends to help you. You will have already realised that this is an online game so you have to connect to the Ubisoft servers. To date I’ve never had an issue but you will have read that some have. Yes there are micro transactions and I know it has received a lot of negative feedback. For me, it’s simple, just don’t buy anything and crack on with the game. Anyway going back to the drones. You can purchase a drone that will kill your enemies after highlighting them. You have 6 shots hence why you will need to stop at a Bivouac to buy more. You will need them because omg, some of the campaigns are ridiculously difficult. Some I’ve just left because I just can’t do them and because I can’t invite a team to help, your up poop creak without a paddle. What is incredibly annoying though, I’ve been so very close on a few occasions but if you die, you start right back at the beginning. This is incredibly annoying and rather mean of the developers. Personally I think you should be able to save. Because if this I am never going to complete the game. The range of weapons is vast but as you know, you choose your best two. Mine is the TAC50 sniper rifle which has the best telescopic range and the Flycatcher. You will only get this gun when you complete that mission but it’s quality. The sound it makes is just superb.The interface is busy and I mean busy. You collect your skill points to develop your characters abilities but I’m sure I’m only using half of what’s on offer. It truly is a minefield.I wanted to give it 4 stars, purely because some levels are just too damn tough especially when you have to start all over again if you get killed, but on hindsight, when you add everything together, it does deserve its 5 stars. I will never complete it, it’s absolutely huge, you will be able to add campaigns forever I think.For this price. A bargain.

Love all the moaners putting this game down (think it’s a bit demanding for them) yeh you need Internet connection but don’t you with 99% of games now?? I loved wildlands for starters and this is a little the same but who cares it’s ghost recon and you get loads of guns and cool stuff! You can go all guns blazing of go tactical I prefer tactical, I’ve been playing a good few hours or more and there is absolutely loads to do loads to find!I definitely wouldn’t say this games a waste of money I’d say it’s worth every dam penny.Odd glitches but it’ll soon get sorted with the updates! Don’t listen to the moaners who struggle playing tactical minded games just go for it you won’t be disappointed I promise.

After getting this game on release day as a preorder, I wasn't happy to discover that I had no AI team. And although you could technically play solo, it makes like much harder, but after playing 70 odd hours solo, I can't imagine how easy it would be with 4 players. Because I'm destroying entire enemy bases on my own.It is much more challenging, and it's a complete change of gameplay, but it's pretty good if you don't look at it thinking it will be like Wildlands, because it's not.This is a loot and shoot game where you'll find yourself constantly grabbing better weapons and kit.I'm level 220 now, and it doesn't actually seem to make much of a difference if I'm honest.My body armour is level 220, and yet it doesn't stop bullets any better than level 30 for example.So although it's a very different game to Wildlands, I like it.I'm not sure if playing coop would be too easy, or whether there would be more resistance?But I've found that setting up a sniper nest, and plucking off as many people as possible is the right way. Not that there is a "right" way.But I'm sure that if I had 3 other players as good as me playing this, it would be way too easy.The downside of playing solo, is when you're dropped, there's nobody to come to revive you.I've done some missions where it's taken me 25 plus minutes to carefully pick through Wolf camps, then I'll come around a corner and get hit from the front and back, and you're starting that mission from the beginning again.After trying the same mission 5 times, and doing everything right, but getting shot by a boss, it's as frustrating as hell having to start from the beginning again! You can only imagine how demoralising that is.But with a team of 4, you could clear most bases using just your sync shot drones. Especially if you've increased the amount in skills.I've now got 7 shots on my sync drone, so in case you're bad at maths, that's a total of 28 shots that you and your team don't even have to take, you just have to reckon the area well.So if you do introduce AI, maybe just introduce 1 who can revive you, because 4 would be too easy.If you're playing solo, you're basically playing Ghost mode anyway as there's no way of you being revived.Also glad I paid £55 for a game that technically wasn't ready, and 2 months later it's £27!

Good gameplay, good graphics for the time, all round underrated game. Try it.

Isk

When you look back on the original wildlands, it was easy to immerse yourself with the environment and communicate with your team mates. Breakpoint doesn't deliver on this nearly as much. You need to unlock everything through credits instead of going out in the world and finding them. The game doesn't nearly feel as rewarding as it should be. The story is poor and doesn't feel like it should even be a game. It becomes boring after the first couple of missions. Mearly good for trophies hunters and not much more.