Ghost Recon: Wildlands - 6 Reasons The Story Completely Fails

6. Motivation For The Ghosts Is Totally Lacking

Santa Blanca, a Mexican drug cartel lead by the visionary El Sueno, is the fourth biggest narco-terrorist organization in the world. It is so powerful that it basically runs the whole country of Bolivia.

However, this is not enough to make the United States - the great peacekeeper - react. The reason why the CIA decides to shut down the organization is not borne from some hypocritical desire to take control over the cartel's profits, or pretending that it wants to bring stabilization to the country. Both might hold some merit, while the latter would provide the game's creators with an opportunity to actually say something.

Instead, the team of Nomad, Midas, Holt and Weaver are sent to Bolivia because one CIA agent is killed. One. This is presumably pointed out by Pac Katari, leader of the rebels, but the way it is presented, the motivation for the act, is just an example of laziness, if not naivety of the writers.

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