{"id":2400,"date":"2017-02-06T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2017-02-06T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:42:25","slug":"beautiful-and-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful and Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2403 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2012-08-06-19.35.49-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2012-08-06-19.35.49-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2012-08-06-19.35.49-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2012-08-06-19.35.49.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Escape the madness into Ghost Recon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I set my alarm for 1:30 am so I could have a dedicated Beta testing session with Tom Clancy&#8217;s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.<\/p>\n<p>The environment is absolutely beautiful transporting to Bolivia. After running around like a <em>n00b<\/em> for half-an-hour I figured out how to join a session with friends.<\/p>\n<p>The game feels like a hybrid of FarCry and The Division so it fails to deliver a jaw-dropping first-time experience.\u00a0 However, the sheer scale of the map points towards an adventure with over 6 months of steady gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>It was kinda interesting meeting fellow Beta testers in Live chats and game sessions, some of whom were paid handsomely to keep you playing the game.\u00a0 Point being that the developers need as much player experience data as possible for the final release next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final verdict:<\/strong>\u00a0 80% chance that I\u2019ll buy a physical copy on release, especially as I\u2019ve just completed FarCry Primal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set my alarm for 1:30 am so I could have a dedicated Beta testing session with Tom Clancy&#8217;s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. The environment is absolutely beautiful transporting to Bolivia. After running around like a n00b for half-an-hour I figured out how to join a session with friends. The game feels like a hybrid of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beautiful and Big&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game_testing","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}