Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Disappears into 2011

It’s not really that surprising, but news has been broken that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has been pushed back into 2011.

The game’s existence was rumoured last year or so, and only officially announced within the last few months.

It was originally scheduled for a release for sometime near the end of this year, but according to G4tv, the game’s been purposely held back to avoid the competitive market at the time of the year [Call of Duty, Medal of Honor]. It’ll see a release in Q1 2011.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot:

"Due to a very competitive environment, we decided to move the game out of the Christmas quarter, and into the March quarter. It will also provide additional time to our development teams to realize their vision."

I for one don’t really like to see games that are announced, released in the same year, so I think it’s not a bad idea if it’s pushed back a few months. It ensures more of a quality product, I would think. Also not every game is bunched into the same quarter, so you get games coming out in all parts of the year, so we don’t suffer from “drought”.

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Source: Ubisoft Delays Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Now Coming In Early 2011 [G4]

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Disappears into 2011

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Details, Concept Art

Some of this info that’s been released recently from Ubisoft has been known of for some time, including the release date, which is “Fall 2010”, and that it will be released for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The PC version is to arrive later on, and there are also Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP versions planned.

As for other details, it seems as though in addition to the optical camo and shoulder mounted mortar, there will also be air and ground drones, I suppose similar to the UAVs in Bad Company 2. There will be devices like these and others based on real prototypes in use by the military, like exoskeletons [think Stalker – those dudes with the suits].

The game is said to take place 15 years in the future, the 2020’s, and the singleplayer campaign is said to span a generous sounding 14 missions – about the standard set in previous Ghost Recon titles. You can play the campaign on your own, or in co-op mode.

And there’s some new artwork that’s popped up on the net. There were a few screenshots and so on that I’d seen before, so I just posted the artwork here.

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Sources:

“Ghost Recon Future Soldier Details Emerge: 'You Are an F-16 on Legs” [Shacknews]

Gamingbolt.com [concept art]

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Details, Concept Art

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Screenshots, Details

A bunch of screenshots for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier hit the net recently. Thanks go to The Lost Gamer for originally having them up. You can check them out at the bottom of the post.

As you can see in some of the pictures, and in the trailers for the game released recently, the game will feature cloaking or optical camouflage. In Official Playstation Magazine, this was explained further by Studio producer Adrian Lacey:

“People always say, ‘It doesn’t exist’. It’s existed for about five years; we were looking at it for previous Recons.

Imagine a suit covered in cameras. It films what’s around you and projects it back on your suit. You don’t disappear. You’re not invisible. It disturbs your perception, breaks up your silhouette.”

Also, soldier exoskeletons and shoulder-mounted rocket launchers are some other gadgets that will be in the game.

The game will be out later on this year for PS3, 360, DS, PSP and Wii, with a PC version probably coming afterwards, at some other time.

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Sources: The Lost Gamer - VG247

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Screenshots, Details

Ghost Recon Short Film Going to be Made

Ubisoft made a series of short live action films based on Assassin’s Creed II last year before the game’s release on consoles, of which I managed to catch one or two. Now they want to do the same with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. And the film is going to be directed by Academy Award [Oscar] winners, Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy. The film that won the Oscar was a short film by the name of Logorama.

Ubisoft will reportedly spend somewhere around $10 million to make this 20 minute short film, a prequel to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which is being written by Tim Sexton, who had something to do with a little film called Children of Men, which has been regarded by some as one of the best science fiction films of the last ten years.

So, the effort put into this and the resulting quality should be pretty good.

There’s been no word on when the movie will come out, but the game will be out by the end of the year sometime, so 2010 would be my guess…

P.S. I need some new Ghost Recon images to use in my posts, I know. There should be some new screens in OPM sometime soon. Do us a favour and upload some… anybody?

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Sources: Heat Vision – Big Download

Ghost Recon Short Film Going to be Made

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier First Details

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is featured in Official PlayStation Magazine’s latest issue, nearly out now, and some details of the game have been given.

Just like the other titles, the game take place in the near future, supposedly ten to fifteen years after the events of Ghost Recon Advanced Fighter 2, and sees the ghosts going against more ultranationalists.

In the game, we all ready know that you’ll be able to use optical camouflage, or cloak, like in Crysis, and exo-skeleton legs which allow the player to jump and roll, which you couldn’t do in previous titles, much to my frustration.

Just like other Ghost Recon titles though, there’s close quarters urban combat.

There’s four player co-op, and interestingly when they talk about tools that players can use depending on their class type, you get optical camo for the Recon class, shoulder mounted missiles for the Commando, and heart sensors.

Now, when you think of heart sensors, you’re probably going to think, Ah, another one copying Modern Warfare 2. But remember that heart sensors were featured in the first Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six games over ten tears ago – except they weren’t mounted onto the side of assault rifles, and operated a little differently. Still…

Another thing which is a first for the series is there won’t be any squad commands, which didn’t work in GRAW anyway, as far as I remember. So it’s probably not hard to see why.

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Sources: TVG

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier First Details

Xbox World to Have the First Details on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Magazines have probably been clambering for the chance to get the exclusive first look at some of the year’s most anticipated games, like Crysis 2, Medal of Honor, and Fallout: New Vegas. Now Xbox World is the privileged one to get the first real details on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier next month when the March issue comes out, on the 16th.

There’s a lot happening on March 16. The release of Assassin’s Creed II, God of War III, Metro 2033… coincidence? The Ides of March, although technically that would be the 15th. Hmmm…

A teaser in the February issue claims that the mag will be taking the “first look at Recon’s long-awaited return to Xbox 360″.

All we’ve had so far apart from the announcements is the teaser trailer which some say was quite unimpressive.

Besides all that, the game should be out later this year on multiple consoles. In addition to the major consoles, also handhelds versions are planned. And they’re even going to throw in PC version at some point. How nice.

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Source: TVGB (That Video Game Blog)

Xbox World to Have the First Details on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to Have Optical Camouflage

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You remember the teaser trailer for GRFS released recently? Well, there was one part which looked pretty cool, and that was a squad of ghosts materializing out of nowhere.

This is what Ubisoft calls Optical Camo, and despite it seeming as though it’s a blatant copy of what was seen in Predator over twenty years ago, or more recently in Crysis, Ubi claims that this among other things is based on real technology that is currently being researched and developed.

Kimi Matsuzaki, otherwise known as UbiKimi on twitter (probably), had this to say:

“Despite popular belief, we didn’t design this after a certain bespectacled wand-wielding boy’s accoutrement. We are, and remain, loyal to the Ghost Recon brand value of authenticity.

In general Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is based on the very real Future Soldier Initiative 2030, which is a U.S. Army R&D program run by the US Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center. Optical camo, like other technologies in Future Solider, is a near-future reality, and this is why we chose to include it in GRFS.

We plan to discuss our references and inspirations in the coming months, so that you can see that we’ve done our homework in order to bring you a plausible future war scenario. In terms of optical camo, there are actually numerous research and military programs on it.”

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier should be out this year for the Xbox 360 and PS3, with a PC version coming later on, and handheld console versions planned as well.

By the way: how cool would it be to get a hold of that Optical Camo tech in real life one day?

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Source: VG247

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to Have Optical Camouflage

TrailerBlazer - Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Teaser

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

I had a look at this on The Verge the other night. It’s the teaser trailer for the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. which will be out later this year.

The trailer starts off with these words: “Technology evolves. Threats evolve. Yet war…is constant. The solider of tomorrow must rise to meet these new threats.The future depends on it.”

This intro has instantly been compared to Fallout’s key phrase “War. War never changes.”

From there the trailer shows a bit of fancy graphical stuff, similar to what you’d see in Modern Warfare 2’s briefings, with a few glimpes of stuff and fluff, including some Predator-esque camouflage which sticks in my mind. Oh wait, Crysis all ready did that.

But no real gameplay was seen in this short teaser which clocks in at just about 1 minute long. But it’s early days yet.

TrailerBlazer - Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Teaser

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier WIP Box Art

Here we have Ubisoft’s work-in-progress box art for the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

Details about it include Russian or Eastern Orthodox architecture (St. Basil's Cathedral is a popular example) in the background, and in the foreground you can obviously see one of the “ghosts”. He looks a bit similar to the ghosts from Advanced Warfighter 1& 2 with the eye-piece and such.

Seeing as this is “Future Soldier”, I guess it will have the play mechanics of previous titles, but not only set in the future, but you’ll be able to use futuristic weapons, possibly prototypes of weapons not in mainstream use by armed forces, which is what the first Ghost Recon did, as far as I remember. Don’t quote me on that one – it’s just wishful thinking.

As for the game’s possible Eastern setting: I don’t want anybody out there saying, “Oh it’s just copying Modern Warfare or Modern Warfare 2. I’ll have you know that Ghost Recon came along long before Modern Warfare did, and part of that game took place in similar places. Try 2001, before it was cool.

Anyhow, like I was saying, this is WIP box art, or Work-in-Progress, and is likely to change over time.

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Source: Cinemablend

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier WIP Box Art

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be Released 2010

It was one of the worst kept secrets of the past few months, but Ubisoft officially announced recently that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be out this year. It’s currently in development at Ubi’s Paris studios, the same team who worked on Advanced Warfighter 1& 2, and has a release date set for “Holiday 2010”, which some interpret as November or December.

The game is said to feature high tech gear and weaponry, an will go beyond anything previously seen in the franchise.

There will be an exclusive multiplayer beta for the Xbox 360 later on in the year, open to those who preorder Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction for the Xbox 360. That game is going to be released on the 13th of April. It was recently, literally set in stone, when some individuals received a stone in the mail with the date supposedly carved into it. That’s all I know, because I didn’t get one. I’d probably just use it as a door stop anyway.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be making its way to PC, Xbox 360, PS3, but won’t stop there: the game is also going to make an appearance on the PSP as well as the DS, and the Wii. It’s said that the title for the Wii will be different from the others. Just like with the Modern Warfare series and others, the Wii will get a unique title developed with the platform in mind. The slightly bad news is that the PC version may be released later than the console ones, particularly the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. They seem to be getting the preferential treatment. Don’t know where that leaves the handheld versions.

Most of the other Ghost Recon games have been released on the PC, except for Ghost Recon 2. It was going to be ported to the PC, but was cancelled in favour of Advanced Warfighter . This was the last title in the series I played and I disliked it because of its woeful AI.

In related news, there should be a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier trailer coming soon, probably today.

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Sources: Big Download - TVGB

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be Released 2010

Rumblings: Ghost Recon Future Soldier Announcement Coming?

This all sounds like typical speculation, but it was spotted on Twitter that someone who is possibly working on the new Ghost Recon title, Future Soldier, says that a big announcement is coming next week.

"TGIF all! Looking forward to a Big announcement coming up next week! :)"

And people on the internet are convinced that this announcement will concern Ghost Recon in some capacity. I mean, it’s been in development for some time, and we’ve heard less about it than we did about Splinter Cell: Conviction at one point.

Some others have an idea it could be another Rainbow Six title. Remember Ghost Recon: Predator? What happened to that title, or has that become Future Soldier? Maybe there are two Ghost Recon games on the way…

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Sources: Twitter - Big Download

Rumblings: Ghost Recon Future Soldier Announcement Coming?

Ghost Recon 4 Named "Predator" and Ubisoft Trademarks "Assassin"

Earlier this year it was revealed that there would be a Ghost Recon 4 sometime in the future. Now this game has cropped up again, because it's been rated by the OFLC, and the name is Ghost Recon Predator.

I'm hoping somewhat that this isn't like the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games- at least the first one. That was quite forgettable in my mind. Now, I liked the original Ghost Recon a lot. There's a lot of joking around about the supposed unoriginality of the title and writers and commenters on the story are joking that it may feature the Predator.



I don't know about that though, because Mr. Predator is preoccupied with other projects like the several Aliens/Predator/AvP projects in development. It would be cool to go back to the jungle and swamp atmosphere of the original instead of the more urban environments of Advanced Warfighter, anyway.

In a bit of related news, Ubisoft has trademarked the name "Assassin", which would likely (not confirmed) have something to do with the Assassin's Creed franchise, seeing as there's a whole lot of "Assassin" there.

Ghost Recon 4 Named "Predator" and Ubisoft Trademarks "Assassin"