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My Journey To Find Sam Fisher In Ghost Recon: Wildlands
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GR Credits You know which game has a huge map? Ghost Recon: Wildlands.Last week my boss Stephen says to me he says “Hey Kirk did you see that they’re adding a Splinter Cell crossover mission to Ghost Recon: Wildlands?” And I’m like yes Stephen I saw that. So then we talked for a little bit about whether or not that was actually Michael Ironside playing famed Splinter Cell protagonist Sam Fisher in the teaser since he’d been re-cast in the last full Splinter Cell game and also because Stephen had mistakenly thought he heard Ironside in Ubisoft’s other recent game Far Cry 5. Turned out that it was indeed Ironside this time and at any rate could I go find Sam Fisher in Wildlands and see what his new mission is all about?
Sure I said. According to Steam I had logged a bit more than 10 hours in Wildlands though most of that had been spread across a series of unfocused co-op sessions. I’d made very little story progress and my character had only a few upgrades. I was nowhere close to ready to take on enemies in the tougher parts of the game and had only unfogged a couple of regions.
Step one: get to La Cruz. I began to travel southeast and immediately hit a few snags. For starters I didn’t have a helicopter or any way of summoning one. I set a waypoint for a nearby enemy outpost which appeared to be housing a helicopter I could boost. I arrayed my guys around the enemy recalling in the process how to play this game. Send up a drone tag the bad guys sync up my team’s sniper shots shoot the dudes win. Oh yeah that’s right. This game is fun in its creepy neocon Clancyish kinda way. I immediately wished I had someone to play with Ghost Recon Credits since this game is a lot better with a friend.
