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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 156.5 hrs on record (141.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 25 Mar, 2017 @ 7:28pm

Pros:

+ Graphics are beautiful looking
+ Sounds are amazing from walking to firing off different weapons
+ Guns and using the Gunsmith
+ Open world and you can do any mission is any order you want to
+ A good story, but based more on investigations and missions rather than just pure dialogue (e.g. RP games).
+ Background information about Bolivia and that a lot of it is based on actual facts
+ Customizations


Neutral:

*/- Stealth
*/- Camouflage


Cons:

- AI at times makes you question their intelligence
- Driving a car can feel like you’re constantly playing a drifting simulator
- Crashes that happen once in a while when playing co-op


The story really isn’t a story, but about missions with slight background knowledge about who you need to take out. You hardly know anything about who you are, who your operatives that you work with are, or who your boss is and know very little about even the organization you work for. They made the story more or less to investigation and/or criminal solving shows (Law and Order, Criminal Minds, etc.) in sense where you finish a case and move onto the next case. In the end, you know more about the enemy than you do about yourself and/or your own operatives. They did an excellent job at executing the story in this regard, but don’t expect a big time story from games that relate more around Roleplaying titles.

The game looks amazing. All my settings are on max and never seen any AA issues; as well never seen any stuttering or FPS drops. The grass and bushes will move or get flatten when moving over them or when in prone position so you can flatten the grass, move back slightly, and snipe people from afar. The different biomes and the weather effects with a day and night cycle makes the game feel realistic and does an accurate job (more or less based on the given Kilometers within the game) of showing off Bolivia’s landscape.

The sounds whether walking on snow, dirt, mud, or diving into the water is very noticeable. It adds to that realism compared to other games where a lot of the footing is the same regardless what biome you’re in. The voice actors do a good job at commenting about missions, syncing shots, cinematics that occur, and just bluntly describing how they’d love to ‘stick it to them’. At times they’ll throw in a joke or give some insight about where they came from and/or who they (not a lot, but at least it’s something). Vehicles in general sound different from one another; whether it’s a four door coup, to a lambo, to a pick-up truck, they all have their distinctive sounds. Both helicopters sound different from one another and the bush plane sounds like a bush plane.

From firing off a MP5 to a M4A1 to a G28 all sound genuine to their counterparts. Adding a compressor only makes it feel more genuine when doing stealth combat. You have an ample amount of customization for your weapons: scopes, barrels, grips, muzzles, triggers, stocks, and few other options. Each option as dozen or more items that help with accuracy, handling, rate of fire, damage, etc.; you customize your weapon based on your playstyle or how you want the weapon to feel in terms of gun n’ gun, aiming, or hip fire. Depending on how customize your weapons they’ll lean toward one direction or have a recoil higher than other weapons and they feel all very accurate based on how you fit your weapon. Also, you have multiple options to paint your weapons.

This game has kept its word about doing any province in any order you want to. I felt like this was a great aspect of the game and a feature that wasn’t a lie or falsely advertised. I went from one area to another based on certain weapons and gadgets for said weapons early on and finished other zones for pure enjoyment. You have multiple ways of transportation: cars, trucks, diesel trucks; planes, helicopters, boats, motorcycles, and parachutes. You do have to get used to flying, but once you have that in place flying becomes easier that other modern warfare titles. Some of the vehicles are horrendous when driving regardless of how fast or slow one would takes around a curve or eases on the brakes. Some of the vehicles feel like they were imported from an actual drifting game and with a lot of roads being on hills and/or trying to pursuit someone can become an absolute headache at times.

Customization in general of your character is appealing compared to other titles that fit within this genre. You can wear sunglasses, hat, different vest types, you can wear civilian clothing and/or military clothing; you can mismatch items and numerous color variations regardless how you pick your items. When it comes to using camouflage to hide yourself from enemies, this concept goes entirely out of the window. You could be engulfed in a full ghillie suit and the enemy will still see you a few hundred meters away. This is applied if you’re in full black camouflage and in pitch darkness where they don’t have any Night Vision on and still can see you through the brush when using a compressor. I would like to see some rework on how camouflage works as this is a major factor at times when using stealth against the enemy.

Most of the times stealth works to a degree; one can sneak up behind an enemy and eliminate them in melee or sniping them well over five hundred meters away. Factors that can hurt your stealth is noise (gunfire, running, explosions, etc.), another guard seeing the corpse of a fallen member, or being noticed because camouflage didn’t do its job. There are traits to help prevent from being detected, which at times makes it too easy (e.g. If you’re about to be spotted and you’re hundred and twenty meters away, just prone and they’ll stop noticing you). There are devices to help distract guards to your location so you can pick them off without someone else spotting their body. I would’ve liked to see an option about picking up the corpse and moving it instead of waiting a few seconds and having it magically disappear. Also, regardless of what weapon you use, you can one shot anyone as long as you’re in stealth mode. I understand this helps in co-op to do sync shots, but I feel like that this method is way too easy. If you’re not in co-op mode, sync shots with your AI counterparts are an amazing feature and it helps clear out majority of the operations you take.

The AI at times can be the best help or the worst help. They will NOT engage unless you command them to do so or if you are under heavy amounts of fire where you will automatically command your operatives to attack. They will remain in stealth mode for majority of the time and the more you upgrade your sync shots the more use you can get out from your operatives. When they do open fire, they just seem at times not knowing how to eliminate an enemy when it really matters. There really isn’t a middle ground with your AI operatives. I’ve seen them meters away from an enemy and just eating all their bullets instead of turning around and shooting them instead. The AI does need work, but you can finish the game on a higher difficulty – just expect a headache at times dealing with them.

I did experience some crashes when playing in co-op mode and when I finished the game (both endings). In co-op mode, if one person joins the game, then it’s you two vs Bolivia instead of two people and two AI, or three players and one AI. The AI will still talk even though they aren’t in your squad and it’s to keep the immersion within the game. I never experienced any lag or disconnects when playing with my friends, but the crashes would happen randomly. Co-op needs work, but when it does work it is an amazing experience with friends.

I recommend buying this title to play with your friends. Unfortunately, I can't add any more information - I exceeded the amount.
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22 Comments
Cocochris0 30 Jul, 2022 @ 1:02pm 
:AviciiThumbsUp::PolygonHeart:
ƦƴѵŁ 28 Jun, 2017 @ 2:33pm 
You're welcome!
whattimmy 28 Jun, 2017 @ 6:02am 
Thank you for the information dude. Think i`m gonna buy it now :D
Asapp 25 Apr, 2017 @ 5:15pm 
I heard the AI in this game, is the best in existance...
Madmartigan 22 Apr, 2017 @ 5:48am 
You get to use a compressor?
TOPKEK_HAWK 18 Apr, 2017 @ 6:58pm 
any of yall want to play?
TOPKEK_HAWK 18 Apr, 2017 @ 6:58pm 
hey
ƦƴѵŁ 18 Apr, 2017 @ 6:57pm 
@onetapGud Yes, but at the moment it's co-op only. There are plans about implementing a 4v4 competitive scene, but as far as anyone knows it's a few months after release.
TOPKEK_HAWK 16 Apr, 2017 @ 9:50am 
@onetapgud yes
✪ Fchoula | Pvpro.com 13 Apr, 2017 @ 1:01pm 
Is it multiplayer?