E3 2015: Ghost Recon Wildlands will be Ubisoft's largest ever open-world game

French publisher seeking to redefine the sandbox action adventure with its co-op shooter set in a vast intricate landscape with no cinematic narrative

Ubisoft may well have just announced the end of the open-world action adventure as we know it. Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the latest title in the French publisher's strategy shooter series, is the first to take place in a freely explorable landscape. But instead of adopting the usual approach of providing a main through-line of story missions, backed up with side quests (as in games like Far Cry and Grand Theft Auto), Wildlands, has no fixed narrative at all.

Instead, players - taking part alone or with three friends - will be able to travel the world's nine different environments, taking on missions in any order they want. There are no cinematic sequences to drive the plot. A range of land, sea and air vehicles including helicopters, trucks, motorbikes and speedboats are available for navigation and the landscape - based around Bolivia - is scattered with towns and villages to discover.