Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Tom Clancy’s long-running series of action espionage shooters has hit its peak with the brilliant Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Set in the near future, the game has players traveling all over the world, fighting a myriad of terrorist organizations with some of the most advanced weaponry the world has to offer.

Featuring some impressive revamped stealth mechanics and incredibly solid gunplay, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings new life to the Ghost Recon series and even gives Call of Duty a run for its money when it comes to the quality of its narrative and multiplayer components.

Ghostly Tactics

Since its inception, the Ghost Recon series has always dealt with the idea of a high-tech stealth squad taking out bad guys without ever being noticed – hence the name “Ghosts.”With Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, players will get to see a covert battlefield set in the near future: a future where stealth technology lets special forces operatives quite literally to disappear in front of their enemies. The new ‘adaptive camouflage’ feature introduced in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is similar to the OctoCamo we first saw in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. As long as you’re crouching or moving slowly, your operatives will blend with their environments, providing players with ample opportunity to stalk their prey.

Upgraded Arsenal

Other than the new camouflage options, players will have access to some of the series’ nifty gadgets we’re used to seeing in the Tom Clancy franchise. Drones, a variety of grenades, and other cool spy-like gadgets appear throughout the game, adding some variety to each firefight.

Along with the gadgets, each weapon can also be heavily customized through the game’s Gunsmith. Everything from triggers, optics, attachments, and even paint camos can be changed, giving the player ultimate freedom when it comes to customizing their favorite guns.

To add to the whole futuristic setting the game’s going for, players can also deploy a quadruped support robot known as the War Hound. This useful companion can fire a barrage of automatic missiles and also serves as a mobile cover, making it an invaluable asset on the battlefield.

Squad and Commands

Sure, the gadgets are impressive and the guns are extremely powerful, but the ultimate weapon in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is your squadmates. PRoperly commanding your allies and working together to bring down outnumbering enemies is an essential component of the game, and something you’ll have to master if you hope to complete some of the game’s later missions.

Players can command their allies to take out specific enemies on the battlefield; also, syncing shots and marking threats make a comeback from previous Ghost Recon games, allowing you to know precisely where every enemy is at all times.

This gives the game a tactical feel that is nowhere to be seen in games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Whereas those games are purely action-oriented, you absolutely won’t get anywhere shooting blindly in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It takes some thinking and patience to get through this game, but the result is incredibly rewarding and makes it one of the best games in an already amazing series.

Pros:

• Responsive controls and great ally AI
• Impressive weapon customization options
• Loads of cool gadgets to experiment with

Cons:

• Dull enemy AI