Recent reviews by Twistar

This review is based on the hardest difficulty of the game because that is all I experienced.
High Replayability & Tier Mode
Multiple difficulty levels and Tier Mode, plenty of challenge and incentive to keep playing and the freedom the player is given keeps things fresh and adds a sense of variety

Stealth Mechanics
IMO the game does a good job of distinguishing when you are spotted vs hidden the stealth feels pretty polished and makes staying stealthy feel rewarding.

Weapon Variety:
Tons of guns and attachments to unlock buy or find allowing for deep customization.

Character Customization
I didn't mess with it too much, the game allows for a good level of character customization keeping your ghost personalized to your liking and keeping the game immersive.

Vehicles
Helicopters are super easy to fly which I like. Arcadey controls make it more fun than frustrating.
Realistic vehicle damage which adds to the immersion. Crashes visibly affect your car and can even total it making it fun to chase and crash into enemies.

Story and Mission Structure
The story is well written requiring you to take down different branches of the cartel before facing the leader. You need to dismantle the cartel security, production lines, social influence, and trafficking ring adding depth to the campaign.
The nonlinear mission structure allows to you take on any objective in any order making the game less restrictive and more replayable.

Gunplay and Bullet Physics
Shooting feels great and bullet physics are realistic forcing you to compensate for drop when at a distance. You can also shoot through a variety of objects walls and vehicles with certain calibers which is a nice feature.

Content
Tons of content a huge map packed with missions, side missions, skill points to collect and weapons to find.
Rebel missions and character progression keep the gameplay engaging upgrading rebel abilities is super useful and maintains its strength throughout the entire game.
Ghost mode adds a hardcore permadeath experience, making every decision feel high stakes.
Its also not a live service game. So you can enjoy this game offline for years to come even when there is no more support for the game itself.

World and Atmosphere
The world feels alive with civilians walking about, cartel soldiers patrolling and fighting Unidad, Rebel soldiers on the move, and aircrafts flying above. The audio is great and immersive with authentic Bolivian accents that adds to the setting and the gunfire and environmental sounds are S tier making shootouts feel intense.

Drone
Great Mechanic and is well implemented with a range of upgrades and a very nice spotting feature it makes it one of the best field gadgets you could ever need. It can explode so you can take down enemies from afar even high priority targets that are hard to reach. It can EMP nearby devices and even shutdown vehicles and convoys. A noisemaker to distract enemies or make them move position. Or it can even revive teammates and other players which make is super OP when using multiplayer. All around the drone is one of the coolest innovative things added to the game.


Unfair Enemy AI
The Ai is the biggest downside of the game and the age shows through it.
Enemies spot you way to quickly even from insane distances.
I had enemies in a truck (Facing forward) spot me on a mountain (behind them) while driving away from like 300m-400m
Enemies have perfect accuracy. Meaning a solider with a MAC-10 can beam you instantly from any distance even though its a CQC weapon.
The AI will randomly know your location when hunted, even if you don't make a noise or are spotted instead of searching naturally they will walk straight to you and spot you forcing you to move before they do.

Buggy Team AI
Ai team will shoot convoy trucks until the blow up destroying valuable supplies you can prevent this by ordering them not to fire but its frustrating.
They will also walk straight into enemy view while in stealth breaking immersion (Even though enemies wont react or spot them)
Sometimes they ignore enemies in fights aswell. leaving you to get shot when expecting support.

Dirt Bikes
Total death trap finicky bike physics make them unreliable and dangerous. A small rock can send you to your doom.

Mission Restart
If I get spotted and wanted to restart, I would blow myself up with C4 instead of just having a quick "restart mission" option.

Sniping Limitations
This might be a big one for some of you, In my case bullets would disappear after around 900m which is far but still disappointing. I would have like Arma-style long distance sniping.

Non Dynamic Cartel Strength
Even after taking down key cartel leaders and severely weakening the cartel there is no noticeable decrease in enemy presence across the map so it doesn't truly feel like you are dwindling them down.

Graphics
While the graphics aren't disgusting the visuals show their age. Compared to modern games with ray tracing and next gen lighting Wildlands looks a little outdated though the art style can be seen as appealing for non graphic fanatics.

Bugs
Ive encountered a few soft locks where I had to kill myself or reload because I was stuck in a canyon or a hill or some objects quite annoying.
Also a bug with the cover system every time you try to peak out of cover the camera switches to the wrong shoulder making it harder to peak properly this has gotten me killed a few times happens mostly indoors while 3rd person aiming.

GRW is an incredibly fun and tactical open world shooter with high replay-ability, strong stealth mechanics and a good multiplayer. The gunplay stealth drone and mission freedom make it fun to play. The world feels great but the AI and occasional bugs hold it back from perfection like any other game. If you like Tactical shooters you should pick it up. If you are anyone else you should still get it when it goes on sale for less than $6.

Game just freezes after 2 minutes and crashes my entire computer.

This game is boring.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Its still broken after 4 years and my friend bought it for me and I still feel bad for him wasting his money. $25 for this?!?!? Yikes.

This game is equivalent to smoking cigarettes. You like it when you first start cuz it makes you feel nice, then after a few years you realize you have a horrible addiction. Only get if you are a sadist and like pain.

This game needs better servers its a shame that they let the entire game die over something stupid like disconnecting every 32seconds

*THE GAME HAD POTENTIAL*
After being begged by my friends to get Raft because "It would be so much fun" I bought it. Hopped on the game and just was kinda disappointed by the lack of content that this game has. THE ENTIRE GAME is based upon being stuck in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN..............Idk why the devs just didn't let the creativity flow and add tons of marine life and cool stuff underwater. (By cool stuff underwater I don't mean the occasional sunken ship with just a crate in it.) They should have at least some different types of fish in the game or something every time you go underwater all you see is the same shark that never stops following your raft. The game gets old fast and you will soon find yourself bored floating with the current probably looking at your other monitor. EVEN WHEN I went to the story islands it was incredibly boring and underwhelming I didn't even want to explore. The story kinda sucks its written out on papers and notes for players to find on the unique islands. Like who wants to read an entire story? I bought a game not a book. Either way I feel like it could have been better and the game has been out for 3 years and I experienced the same gameplay I watched on youtube 3 years ago, So I'm not sure updates are gonna save this one.

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eh needs autorun key.

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