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Preview: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

by Blogger ‎05-14-2012 01:41 PM - edited ‎05-14-2012 06:29 PM

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The latest Tom Clancy game from Ubisoft is nearly upon us. After a long wait, we’re only a week away from the release of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit down with the game, and its developers, in Toronto recently to preview what they have in store for fans. 



Ghost-Recon-Future-Soldier-box-art.jpgThe game was developed not far from a military installation so a lot of attention was paid to realism and faithfulness. A lot of the tech you see in the game may seem like something from the distant future yet it is all based in reality and projections from current technologies already in development. The developers insist the game isn’t as futuristic and speculative as you might think when playing it and it represents a face of warfare technology that is just around the corner.


When playing the game, you can go through the campaign alone, with your allies being handled by the game’s artificial intelligence. It works just fine that way, but I was warned that I should really play the game with a squad of friends - that its a dramatically different experience when you have to work with other humans who may not be in as perfect sync as the computerized players.

The game will feature support for both PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect controls too which were a little interesting. Ubisoft has vowed that all Tom Clancy games going forward will support Kinect and its nice to see them experimenting with what's possible here. It is not quite as fluid as controlling the game through a traditional gamepad but there is potential for a little novel fun here, even if just when you’re playing with the gunsmith feature and the shooting gallery.

 

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Photo courtesy of Craig Galbraith

 

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Overall the game looked like a lot of fun. I was mostly excited for the multiplayer aspect, which I had already seen through the game’s beta test, but after seeing more of the campaign I am a lot more excited to take that aspect for a spin after next week. I’ve already got my eye out for who, on my friends list, will make a worthy squad-mate to join me in the fight.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and the Future Shop Limited Edition will be available next week on May 22nd for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game systems.

 

 

SKU: 10197936

As a member of the elite Ghost Recon, you are among the few who possess the power, the adaptability, and the cognitive fortitude of the future soldier. Specialized in every area of combat, equipped for survival, and trained in absolute discretion, you are entrusted with the missions no other soldier can handle.


 

SKU: 10197938

As a member of the elite Ghost Recon, you are among the few who possess the power, the adaptability, and the cognitive fortitude of the future soldier. Specialized in every area of combat, equipped for survival, and trained in absolute discretion, you are entrusted with the missions no other soldier can handle.


 

SKU: 10147421

Set in Moscow, Russia, Ghost Recon Future Soldier puts you in the game against an Ultranationalist army who have violently seized power. This latest release in the Tom Clancy Ghost Recon franchise lets you go solo or take it to the multiplayer level to help civilians defeat the enemy.


 

SKU: 10147422

Set in Moscow, Russia, Ghost Recon Future Soldier puts you in the game against an Ultranationalist army who have violently seized power. This latest release in the Tom Clancy Ghost Recon franchise lets you go solo or take it to the multiplayer level to help civilians defeat the enemy.


 

SKU: 10194266

Detailed walkthrough of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier game.








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