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I have to be honest, GR: Wildlands is actually really pretty.
I'm probably not buying it, but the beta was fun. Lol

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As a latinamerican I can totally see how wildlands can be seen as "racist", but its "racism" is not only towards Bolivia and latinos in general, it's also condescending towards the northamerican market.

The dev team went to bolivia, they knew how bolivians look like, talk and behave, but instead they filled up the game with some kind of mexican stereotypes, probably because that was easier to do and because that is what they think the northamerican gamers think all latinos look like and sound like.

Also, the main characters, they don't behave like true professional soldiers, they have this frat boys / dude bro vibe and their lines can be a also seen a bit "racist". They are also clearly stereotyping the ghosts.

The game is fun, but the story, characters, and cultural aspect of the world are absolutely shit (at least in what I could see in the beta). And the story could have been something else, as there's plenty of material to make it from in real life news, there's plenty of political intrigue, drama, betrayal, and breaking bad real stories to make at least a handful of games. Instead what we got was a bunch of stereotypical goons and a boss that looks like a luchador.

The choice of Bolivia as the scenario for the game was not a wise one, they didn't understand who they were messing with. The coca business is handled by people close to the current government, which made it possible to produce it legally, but they sell to the blackmarket. The narcos buy the coca and they don't mess with Bolivia. The Bolivian government probably took offense not on the suggestion that Bolivia is portrait as a narco state, but by the fact that it's ran by low life mexican cartel.

The argument that it was done because of its landscapes and culture is a poor one, if that was the reason they should have done it in Argentina, where the north has the same landscapes, similar culture, and has plenty of bolivian narcos, mexican narcos, and narcos of all the origins you can imagine, there is even the foundation of an actual narcostate growing up inside it.

If they had done a better job at writing, the game would have been richer and deeper, and could have work to spread awareness at the reality of narcotraffic today. The guy who wrote this game, as entitled as he thinks he is in the subject, doesn't even know what "paco" is.

Well, I just realized how much I've written... sorry for the rant.

Would choose Colombia over Bolivia.

While I can get the issues Bolivia may have with the game portraying them in a bad light, it's also a work of fiction meant to entertain, rather than meant to be accurate. Most gamers will likely not even think about the country itself or the over all story while playing it. Part of that is because, from everything I've seen, the game looks VERY generic and lackluster, both in gameplay and story, and the "beautiful landscapes" claim doesn't hold up as well when night in the game makes everything hideous because your only ability to see more than a few inches relies on turning the world green through night vision goggles.....

Definitely would be good to see Wolverine in Deadpool :D

Ghost Recon says Bolivia is full of drug dealers, just like according to Sleeping Dogs, Hong Kong is full of gangsters and Halo says space is full of racist aliens. 

@Gamer3427 true but the moon and the solar system don't have a tourism board whose job it is to get people to visit.