Which is to presume that anyone feels inclined to carry on playing it for a prolonged period. It does get repetitive after a while, but Ubisoft has big post-launch expansion plans. It pitches two teams of four Ghosts against each other, with clever equipment balancing and several nods to battle royale gameplay. As ever in a Ghost Recon game, you can drop into or out of co-operative play if you assemble up to four squad-mates, you’ll find it easier and much more enjoyable.īreakpoint’s Ghost War online mode is also not bad. Ghost Recon’s gadgets are present and correct, including its signature drone for marking enemies, although the ability to auto-eliminate up to three marked enemies has been devolved to specialist sync-shot drones. There is also a massive amount to do, with a welter of side quests, and the story missions are pleasantly varied and often require tactical about-turns. There is a handy network of bivouacs around the map to fast-travel to and in which Nomad can apply temporary buffs, craft, change class and, crucially, spawn a helicopter. The feeling that you must overcome the game’s basic mechanics to complete missions is a shame, because Breakpoint isn’t all bad. And while the giant map’s terrain is impressive, Nomad’s traversal of it is farcically clunky at the bottom of every cliff you encounter, for instance, you may wish the game included a grappling hook. Plus, whenever you die, Breakpoint respawns you in seemingly random positions, so often you must hike for miles before having a chance to resume what you had been attempting to do. (Breakpoint only drops into first-person view when you aim.) It automatically tries to snap you to any cover in the vicinity but is hopelessly erratic, often giving enemies the chance to spot you and raise the alarm. Chief among those is the cover system, a vital element of any third-person shooter.

Studded with flashbacks and double-dealing, the story unfolds like a well-executed spec-ops mission.īut basic aspects of the game obstruct whatever fun there is to be had. Hooking up with a bunch of ex-Skell employees and indigenous Auroans, Nomad sets about disrupting Sentinel’s drone defence systems sufficiently to get a boat off the archipelago and return with a military force. Nomad discovers that Auroa is in the grip of a dictatorship enacted by a private military company called Sentinel. A US cargo ship anchored off the island has been bombed, so the Ghosts are tasked with finding out what happened. You play Nomad, a Ghost from the US military helicoptered in, with a squad of colleagues, to an archipelago called Auroa, owned by tech entrepreneur Jace Skell. Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s storyline eventually perks up, though, and the way in which it cleverly splits is pleasingly nonlinear.

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