In case you have been questioning, Ubisoft is certainly engaged on a brand new entry in its long-running Ghost Recon collection. The information, which had been heavily rumored for some time now, was confirmed by Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot in what seems like a heated shareholder assembly final week.
First reported by Game File, the affirmation of the the untitled Ghost Recon recreation got here from a query about Ubisoft’s historical past with live-service titles. Touting the corporate’s success with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Guillemot added, “Along with the flagship recreation that I simply talked about, our goal is to additionally make robust progress within the rising market, typically talking, by persevering with to boost our present experiences that we offer–and capitalizing on upcoming launches, reminiscent of The Division and Ghost Recon.”
Afterward, Ubisoft’s CFO Frederick Duguet particularly known as out the upcoming Ghost Recon title as one of many firm’s “first-person-shooter-type video games,” seemingly additionally confirming that the subsequent entry will probably be an FPS. Although a number of titles within the franchise have supplied first-person views, the Ghost Recon video games have largely been introduced as third-person shooters since 2006’s Superior Warfighter, making this a major shift for the collection.
A brand new first-person live-service Ghost Recon recreation is just not a completely unprecedented factor. Ghost Recon Wildlands was an enormous success for Ubisoft again in 2017, one which the corporate constructed upon by rapidly following it up with a worse-received sequel, Breakpoint. Regardless of the distinction of their receptions, each of those titles loved an excessive amount of post-launch assist. Ubisoft, in a controversial transfer, even added NFTs, a type of digital collectible rooted in cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise, to Breakpoint again in 2021.
Regardless of the affirmation of a brand new Ghost Recon recreation, neither Guillemot nor Duguet supplied any timeframe, suggesting that the title remains to be a methods out. Within the meantime, Ubisoft is conserving busy, spinning off lots of its core franchises right into a new division–which is being co-led by Guillemot’s son–as a part of its phrases with Tencent, and eventually greenlighting a Netflix adaptation of its widespread Murderer’s Creed video games.