That would be a correct assessment on your part! The first and two addons was a fairly realistic and good, though challenging game. Then the two Advanced Warfares came after . They were a little less good, but for me, they were close enough to the feeel of the first game to feel like pure Ghost Recon.
GR: Future Soldier for me was much more arcadey. Now Wildlands is a mess with checkpoints which are so far apart that death means replaying huge parts of the game. Additionally, it has been simplified into even more arcade like elements.
So yeah, it’s been a downward trend.
I agree. You shouldn't take GR:W too seriously, or not seriously at all. It cán be immersive if you want to feel like the badass infiltrator squad but that is where it ends, really. I never bothered much with all the unlocks and story BS, its cringe worthy, same old Hollywood hero crap we've seen a million times. But the small voice overs while infiltrating are good. Some story missions had some pretty cool settings, too, like the submarine sabotage missions. And a lot of base infiltration/extractions/escorts. Escorts are always shit, not just in GR W, but GR:W does manage to make you jump of a cliff IRL. The other stuff IMO was pretty decent, gameplay wise. Car chases work OK. Air combat is half decent. Surface to air as well. Gunplay is OK.
You also have to casually ignore the teammates that can just shoot straight through anything for called shots. They might say 'need a good position' but half a second later they can blast straight through concrete walls.
I've always played this game as the Ubisoft Weather and Climate simulator, the sightseeing is awesome, the weather conditions are extremely well done, travelling the world is nice. And then just casually pick some place to shoot or infiltrate along the way. That, IMO, is the best approach for this game. If you take it seriously, it quickly becomes a joke.
But damn son.. 75%. You deserve a medal
Isn't Ghost Recon supposed to be like a semi realistic tactical shooter? Never played any of the games, but from the outside it feels like every instalment is closer to like CoD than the previous one.
CoD, I can't agree on that one, or my idea of what CoD is supposed to be is completely off. But this is not a go-wild, shoot anything you like kinda game. If you play it that way, it becomes GTA with 5 wanted stars very quickly, and you know how that ends. Is it simplified, sure. But the flow of gameplay is radically different from CoD.
