Ghost Recon: Wildlands - 10 Things We Learned From The Beta
2. There Are Still Plenty Of Bugs To Iron Out
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A little alarming, I suppose, considering how close the title is to releasing, but it is true that my time spent in Wildlands was a buggy one.
Not to a totally crippling degree, but the game was anything but polished. Dialogue stuttered and flickered in and out of focus, screen-tearing was a common occurrence and, most frustratingly of all, the stealth system was totally inconsistent. Again, I have no doubt that Ubisoft will be able to rectify these issues come release, especially considering the current state of most of their other recent titles. If anything, I'm actively anticipating what Wildlands will look like a year from now.
If it's anything like the current build of Siege, it could be something very special indeed.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
