Ubisoft has announced that their newest Ghost Recon game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, will be hitting the store shelves in the first quarter of 2012, meaning a January to April release date. It’s probably for the better, seeing as how the holiday season is crammed with high profile titles. Recently, Mass Effect 3 was pushed from Fall 2011 to early 2012 for the same reasons.
The delay of Future Soldier was announced by Ubisoft head Yves Guillemot, who said that the company wants to assure the quality of the title. He added, “as well as to avoid the very crowded Christmas landscape in the shooter genre”. Which makes just as much sense. Ghost Recon Future Soldier was originally scheduled for release this Summer, then it was pushed to this Fall, and now we’ll be seeing it in early 2012.
The Ghost Recon series has always stuck to the PC and the powerful consoles, but now Ubisoft has announced that the next game in the series will be on all platforms — a Wii version is in development at a different studio, as well as PSP and DS versions as well, in addition to the main Xbox 360 and PS3 juggernauts. However, there was no mention of a PC part.
Those anxiously awaiting a new Ghost Recon game will be happy to hear that Ubisoft has today announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. They have supplied us with the above logo and have said that the game is to feature both singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay.
Additionally, those who purchase Splinter Cell: Conviction for the Xbox 360, which comes out on April 13th, will get access to GR:FS‘ beta. Unfortunately, that’s all the information we currently have but we’ll be sure to keep you updated as Ubisoft tells us more.
Continuing to milk its most popular franchises, Ubisoft has confirmed that a fourth entry in the Ghost Recon series will soon be released. No details on Ghost Recon 4 was given, though it was noted that the title was due out sometime this year, but got delayed to the end of March 2010 at the latest.
Additionally, gamers can look forward to playing the role of a bum in Splinter Cell: Convicton this Christmas, along with Red Steel 2, which supports Wii MotionPlus.
It was recently announced that this week’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week is the GRAW 2 Co-op Collection 2 discounted a full 20% to 320 Microsoft Points.
GRAW 2 Co-op Collection 2 brings back some of the greatest maps in Ghost Recon history and let’s you cooperate and compete in exciting new locales. An all new co-op campaign with 5 missions takes you back to some of the greatest locations from the Ghost Recon franchise. Inspired from the original Ghost Recon and remade to the stunning benchmark from GRAW 2. 9 new adversarial maps – 7 inspired from the greatest in the franchise and 2 brand new maps. 8 new Achievements with a total of 125 points. Exciting new challenges that encourage different tactics. The ghosts are back again. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.
Sounds cool and all but does anyone still play GRAW 2? I mean I’d have been much more ecstatic had something like the recently released Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3 been discounted 20%. Oh well, guess I’ll have to cross my fingers and wait for next week.
Not able to surprise anyone anymore, Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin’s Creed 2, Splinter Cell Conviction and a new Ghost Recon game, among others, will be released across its next fiscal year, which starts April 1, 2009 and ends March 31, 2010.
The company also delayed the first-person survival game I Am Alive, noting that it “will require further development time and will now bolster the line-up for 2009-10.” It was originally scheduled for release this March.
Ubisoft pointed out that the upcoming time period will see the company deliver seven titles in existing franchises, launch 3 new brands, release four license-based tie-ins and provide additional entries in its line of casual titles.
Unconfirmed sources revealed to CVG that Ubisoft is planning to unveil the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six titles this year. It is also possible that these titles will be hitting shelves before Christmas this year. However, it is unknown whether these entries in the series will be continuations of existing games, or if they will be a new additions to the franchise altogether.
The two-year gap in which the last Ghost Recon was released may indicate that a new series for the franchise is going in the direction of a restart. Ubisoft has declined to respond to the rumor.
