Picked up Ghost Recon Wildlands for cheap recently and started playing with some friends. Some of the politics might be cool, but mostly they aren't and it's pretty fucking racist. Apparently they were going to set the game in Mexico but in 2016 Mexico became a political thing so they switched it... to Bolivia.
They were going to have allied Zapatistas or something, which I think betray you later in the game. So when they ditched the Mexico setting, they switched them for indigenous Bolivian rebels. But again, apparently they turn out to become bad guys. And it still basically makes them like a rebel movement and not like, an established part of Bolivian society.
Worse, there's all this radio talk where the accents are like North Mexican or LA accents or something. Pretty fucking wild.
What I do like about the game is that it's GTA, except the point is to shoot things. In GTA it doesnt really make sense to go guns blazing all over the place, but in this game it's like a civil war with narcos or whatever.
I'm not far enough in to really assess the story but it seems pretty fucked. Bolivia in 2016 apparently got pretty fucking pissed about it
Yeah the politics in Wildlands are wild. I kinda liked Noah Caldwell-Gervais' take on it. "Narratively it's the worst possible mashup of both worlds - a game that takes the legacies of some of the united states most cynical, unjustifiable conflicts and bafflingly concludes: "Yeah, the U.S. military breaks laws and commits war crimes all the time. Cuz of how fuckin badass they are amirite?" There's more to it than that quote - it's one of those hour long videos about video game nonsense.
Picked up Ghost Recon Wildlands for cheap recently and started playing with some friends. Some of the politics might be cool, but mostly they aren't and it's pretty fucking racist. Apparently they were going to set the game in Mexico but in 2016 Mexico became a political thing so they switched it... to Bolivia.
They were going to have allied Zapatistas or something, which I think betray you later in the game. So when they ditched the Mexico setting, they switched them for indigenous Bolivian rebels. But again, apparently they turn out to become bad guys. And it still basically makes them like a rebel movement and not like, an established part of Bolivian society.
Worse, there's all this radio talk where the accents are like North Mexican or LA accents or something. Pretty fucking wild.
What I do like about the game is that it's GTA, except the point is to shoot things. In GTA it doesnt really make sense to go guns blazing all over the place, but in this game it's like a civil war with narcos or whatever.
I'm not far enough in to really assess the story but it seems pretty fucked. Bolivia in 2016 apparently got pretty fucking pissed about it
Yeah the politics in Wildlands are wild. I kinda liked Noah Caldwell-Gervais' take on it. "Narratively it's the worst possible mashup of both worlds - a game that takes the legacies of some of the united states most cynical, unjustifiable conflicts and bafflingly concludes: "Yeah, the U.S. military breaks laws and commits war crimes all the time. Cuz of how fuckin badass they are amirite?" There's more to it than that quote - it's one of those hour long videos about video game nonsense.
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