Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint

The odd glitch aside, it’s hard not to be impressed with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint. With a gorgeous, massive world that begs you to explore, enjoyable gunplay, an extensive amount of loot and weapon upgrades on offer, and a surprisingly enjoyable narrative, it’s the type of game you can get lost in for days. Throw in the fact that its difficulty options allows Breakpoint to be tailored t...

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is an awesome time to be had...The amount of content in this game is quite insane, but it’s great for those who like to have more to do than just the linear story.

A fun if wildly unpolished title that deviates from the series established identity. Some solid stealth mechanics and great feeling gunplay offset the often broken feeling the rest of the game suffers from.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is the next Ubisoft game to come to Steam and unlike the past few, it runs quite well on the Steam Deck so far!

Ghost Recon Breakpoint seems to be trying to please everyone. Its slow-burn of a single-player story coexists with an open-world bombastic romp with friends, which leads into a play-everyday grind for PvP-rewards, faction and raid gear with seasonal content, and a realistically gritty wargame of survival. But almost every ingredient clashes with another, making them all feel a little more padded, ...

Breakpoint is an unsuccessful, shapeless blend of ideas from all Ubisoft games. In the endless flood of virtual garbage to collect and buy, there was not even a trace of the cult Ghost Recon series.

I usually give Ubisoft credit for being one of the bigger developers who will frequently put out new IPs. Typically their first attempt always falls short of their grandiose promises, but they typically follow it up with a good sequel. We saw this happen with Assassins Creed 2, Watchdogs 2, and The Division 2, just to name a few off the top of my head. Wildlands was the first Ghost Recon to go ope...

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a confused mishmash of disparate ideas that struggle to coalesce in an enjoyable way.

Ubisoft has long enjoyed a reputation for amalgamating all its favourite game systems and shoving them into everything it puts out. For years, every Ubi open world had giant towers to climb, thousands of icons to clear and endless tat to collect. Laborious, but ultimately inoffensive.

As a longtime fan of the series and as someone that honestly tried to give this a shot, I’m sorry to say that Breakpoint is a failure. I suppose the game can only get better from here, but it is not currently in a shape to even be considered finished.

Here's another open-world live service looter shooter game from Ubisoft. Were you really expecting it to be revolutionary?

Overall, Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a good game but struggles to establish itself or stand out in a genre that is already small. It tacks on too much from Division's loot system, random game design choices, and RPG elements, muddying what Breakpoint is exactly meant to be. It can seem like a Looter Shooter at times but fails to capture what makes Looter Shooters great. It can seem like a heavily-st...