With the Tom Clancy brand, Ubisoft has lately gone hard on the idea of small groups of highly trained soldiers, operating with impunity in civilian-populated lands. But it often fails on both counts, dragged down by faulty mechanics that straddle the two. When it can deliver either of those two ideas, it’s pretty fun. It wants you and three buddies to go on a helicopter-flying rampage across a huge space, or to sneak carefully and quietly into an enemy base while calling out locations of “tangos” to one another with military speak picked up from action movies. Ghost Recon specifically works to tap both. The concept of careful, open-world teamwork endears itself to one breed of player, the insane, open-world nonsense that endear this class of games to another. On the other hand, when played purely for open-world absurdity, Ghost Recon feels derivative and a bit shallow.īut despite Ghost Recon’s identity crisis, both visions for the game have their merits. It lacks the polish necessary for a game based on precision, its open world seems designed to waste your time, and its premise can feel … problematic. Taken at face value, it’s impossible not to see the game’s shortcomings. The trouble is that Ghost Recon isn’t good at being both things at once. The other, a physics-based open-world romp in the style of Mercenaries and Just Cause, is stupid, but also hilarious. One, a precise, team-based tactical shooter honoring the spirit of the Ghost Recon franchise, is interesting but malformed. There are two games at war within Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. A lucrative niche with a loyal set of fans who feel they’ve been continually ignored. There’s plenty of quality battle royale games to choose from. It’s a shame Ubisoft seem so hellbent on cashing in on popular genres that they can’t see that the market is already hugely oversaturated. And for that reason, it seems doomed to fail. But it won’t be the Ghost Recon fans want. It could turn out to be a fun battle royale.
I’m not saying Ghost Recon Frontline will be bad. However, you can sign up nowto play-test the game prior to release. Ubisoft are yet to confirm a release date for Ghost Recon Frontline.
But so far this year, they’ve gotten Tom Clancy’s XDefiant – which looks pretty awful – and now Ghost Recon Frontline, which has only made things worse. Similarly, they wanted to see Sam Fisher back in action in a new Splinter Cell.
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It’s also because Frontline is another attempt by Ubisoft to cash in on a popular genre instead of releasing new entries in their other long-dormant series like Splinter Cell.įans were clamouring for Ghost Recon to go back to its roots and embrace its realistic, tactical heritage. And its fans don’t want it to be.īut that’s not the only reason they’re angry. Credit: Ubisoft.įans are frustrated because Frontline represents another step further away from what Tom Clancy games used to be all about. A squad in action in Ghost Recon Frontline. And the comments echo that negative sentiment loud and clear.
For instance, on Ubisoft’s main channel it has 4.8K likes to 17K dislikes at the time of writing. If you take a look at any upload of the Ghost Recon Frontline announcement video on YouTube, you’ll notice the overwhelming majority of dislikes it has. Instead, Frontline offers fast, first person PVP action. Moving away from the slower paced, third person tactical shooters that were past Ghost Recon games. It promises “an advanced class system and large set of tactical support tools allowing for complete freedom in strategic gameplay, with multiple ways to outsmart enemy teams and win every fight.”įeaturing 100 players per game split into squads of three, Ghost Recon Frontline is Ubisoft’s latest attempt at a battle royale game. It was announced on 5th October 2021 and is being developed by Ubisoft Bucharest. Ghost Recon Frontline is a “free-to-play, tactical-action, massive PVP shooter”. And it’s safe to say that Ghost Recon fans are understandably p*ssed about it. That’s right, yet another battle royale that nobody asked for. This time, it’s Ghost Recon Frontline – a new battle royale game in the Ghost Recon series. Another month, another disappointing entry in Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy franchise has been revealed.
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