Ubisoft teased that some "big" news was coming this week, and that news has finally hit. Announced via Xbox Live, a brand new Ghost Recon has been confirmed, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Boasting of "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes," Future Soldier will allegedly expand the series and provide a "fresh" gaming experience. A multiplayer beta has already been promised for this Summer, so if you need your Ghost Recon fix, you'll need to buy Splinter Cell: Conviction, as that's where the invites are being hidden.
Ubisoft trademarked the name way back in December, so an announcement like this was expected. Yes, we all know you were hoping instead for news on Beyond Good & Evil 2, but this'll just have to do, okay?
LONDON – February 9, 2010 – Today Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ is in development at Ubisoft’s Paris studio and is scheduled to be released worldwide Holiday 2010.
Created by the award-winning team behind Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2, the game will feature cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will go beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience, with an unparalleled level of quality that will excite long-time fans and newcomers alike.
Ubisoft is offering gamers a chance to be the first to play Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s Multiplayer Beta this summer 2010. This exclusive beta invitation will be available for a limited time to customers who purchase Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, which releases on 16 April 2010.
For ongoing updates about Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, please visit: www.GhostRecon.com
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6:40 AM on 02.09.2010
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Nor am I interested in future soldiers, high tech weapons and equipment hell I don't even like Raven in MAG, call me old fashioned but give me an AK47 anyday, something about the raw, gutteral power of a big ugly round launching from a wood and metal structure that floats my boat.
Carbon fiber and titanium just don't have the same appeal.
Persuade me ubi, persuade me!
I mean even "Advanced Warfighter" and "Future Soldier" are basically the same thing.
IMO it is better than RB6 but I had trouble getting into that game
Firstly- Ubisoft takes knives to the hearts of franchises they purchased when they move development inhouse. So far they've gutted most of the Tom Clancy games, made a mockery of the original Far Cry , and made the single most visually hard-to-play game I've ever seen (James Cameron's Avatar). Given this history and the information they've provided so far it does not look promising.
Secondly - Future Soldier. This says to me everything bad about Scifi shooters, and they're going to try and take one of the last bastions of commercially viable tactical shooter franchises there. This does not end well for fans of either SciFi Futures or Ghost Recon.
Thirdly - Define Long-term fans, Ubisoft. There is no way that fans from the first Ghost Recon (not GR:AW) are going to be pleased just on the bare premise of the announcement alone.
Fourth - Ubisoft haven't respected a Tom Clancy Game since the first Advanced Warfighter by any definition of that word.
Thanks Ubisoft, but I'll try my luck elsewhere. Somewhere with Blackjack and hookers.
..... You can't be serious. Vegas and Ghost Recon games are NOT the same thing. You're passing judgment on this game already based on 0 information and some other series of games that is not related to this one.
I'm not sure you could possibly get anymore closed minded then that.
And now there's this guy. What the fuck are you talking about, you don't know anything about this game. haha, I have to laugh so I don't cry.
Gamers are some of the most judgmental weirdos one could probably ever meet. They know everything far before actual information enters their brain. It's amazing.
Why this line scares me so much? I thought the core of the Ghost Reacon games were the tactical aproach mixed with some Tom Clancy goodness, I hope they don't want to change any of that.
Also, 'Future Soldier'? c'mon! you can do it better.
I've been burned by Ubisoft press talk in the past, I'm incredibly wary now whenever they announce something. Especially considering it's one of one a few series I've been following for about as long as I've had a PC that are still going.
And no, I'm not being judgemental, I'm jsut laying out why I think the game tentatively is going to suck , based on only what we know and Ubisoft's track record.
Also: FUCK YES! I was sold on Splinter Cell: Conviction by reading the book, so the fact that it comes with the next GR beta invite is win-win!
Douche.
To be fair you you can see where he's going. No matter the quality of the title Conviction really is looking to be the Warrior Within of the Splinter Cell franchise. It may be good but still. To us Splinter Cell faithful Conviction it's looking like a bit of a slap in the face. :/
/rant
Which of course would be cool. In a game that's not Ghost Recon.
give me more RB6
Anyone else note that Ghost Recon had a perfect cover system sans button-pressing wayyy before Gears of War?
They already went Advanced twice, now we're in the Future? Given the theoretical and concept technology of GRAW, I can only imagine this one having laser weapons and space furniture.
They're running out of phrases to describe the future.
/troll/
/psychic.
Maybe in this one Canada attacks us. I tire of shooting Mexicans lol.
Though split-screen co-op was a blast.