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And The Next Ghost Recon Is... Future Soldier

Somehow, GRFS doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

This morning Ubisoft went and answered a question I'm sure many of you have been asking, revealing the existence and title of the next installment in the Ghost Recon franchise. It's called Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and the press release says this sequel is in development at Ubi's Paris studio for a release in Q4. You can jump into an Xbox 360-exclusive multiplayer beta this summer by picking up the next Clancy game, Splinter Cell: Conviction. They call that brand synergy, folks.
 
Anyway, here's the requisite teaser-that-shows-no-gameplay-whatsoever.  

 

  
 
I got extremely comfy using the GRAW acronym colloquially while covering the last two Ghost Recon games, so I have to express some disappointment that this one won't be as easy to refer to in conversation. Grr-fuss? I'm not even sure how you'd say that. To fulfill my very specific need of a more easily spoken title, they could have gone with: 
 
  • Ghost Recon Incendiary Ninja
  • Ghost Recon Airborne Zebra Encounter
  • Ghost Recon Against Violent Youth
    
Hmm. There's probably a reason I don't work in marketing. Do you have a better title of your own? Or an interest in playing a new Ghost Recon? Let's hear about it.
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Ghost Recon Instinct Turbo

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So...many.......cosonants!

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Glad they are going back to Ghost Recon and dropping G.R.A.W in the name. Hopefully this game will bring the series back to the good old days of Ghost Recon 2.

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Ghost Recon: Exaggerated Ass Terminology. Wouldn't that have been great?

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@Demonstride said:
" So what I got from the trailer was Norway and sweet cloaking technology. Sounds sweet. "
Hell yes :D
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Ghost Recon's Fight Against Grenade Spam

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I liked the first GRAW but the second one never really interested me. Hopefully they change it up a lot.

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Ghost Recon: Irrigated Zombie Zone, Last Yakamilk.

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Hell yea I wanna play another ghost recon. I guess you can't call it a trend yet, but it seems like game producers are getting better and better at producing sequels that kick ass and improve greatly on the first ones in the series. (Assasins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2) So if this follows that "trend" as I'll call it for now, I am way excited

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Ghost Recon: Origins
 
This truly is, the age of Ghosts.

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Yeah I preordered SC:C like a year ago, so I guess a beta key should be in order.

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and the winner for the most generic name ever goes too....

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i'm not the biggest fan of the stealth gameplay mechanic so i'm a little worried about the cloaking camo.  this is a teaser so i should hold judgment until official preview is out. 
 
it did an ok job for a teaser.  what my other worry was looking at the wiki.  it seems this is not going to be a Red Storms joint whereas GR and GRAW was.  yeah that's what's getting me scared about the whole stealth thing and the direction this developer wants to take it.
 
hey i've been wrong before.  like GRAW.
 i'm a BIG fan of the origianl GR.  i was at E3 when GRAW was demoed.  they hired this buffed out motivated speaker-type guy to do their presentation; i was more ready to buy an exercise equipment than the game afterwards.  
i remember thinking too myself, what were the devs thinking with the direction on GRAW.
 
boy was i 100% wrong about the game.  the GS review came out and i talked to others about it and yeah everybody pretty much agreed that was a very good game.  i finally got the PC version and enjoyed the few levels i had time to play the game.  
 
i do prefer the higher squad count versus the four.  hopefully they'll go back to the 6 or 7 member team again.  i guess time will tell.
 
whoa sorry to made this into a blog post.  original GR is one of my favorite games of all times.  and for all you kiddies i think Horde mode originated from a Ghost Recon mod.  i think it was called overwhelming or something like that.  it was FUN and that's why i knew when Gears did it, that it would be successful.  yep i spent a lot of time on ghostrecon.net downloading mods.  maybe when i've more time i'll find out that name.

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GRFS = Gerfs. Say it like that: Gerfs. I kind of like it

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all i can think about now..... is these goddamn bioshock 2 adds and that big daddy looks like the fucking Bomberman!!!! ITS DRIVING ME INSANE!

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Loved GRAW and GRAW 2. Especially the co-op in it.
and imo they should've gone with GRAW3, unless this is a franchise reboot ( which I doubt, as the future soldier seems to go into the same direction as graw and graw 2 )

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Invisibility Cloaks!

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Ghost Recon: Universal Soldier (TM)

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Ghost Recon Elite Mobile Light INfantry Squad
 
Ghost Recon Operational Platoon Exercises  
 
Ghost Recon American Terrorism Exterminators
 
Ghost Recon Altitude Warfare Xtreme

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Sweet, always nice with some more Ghost Recon.

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Have high hopes for this, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was the first true current generation game to blow me away in HD.

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Looking forward to saying "gurfs" out loud.

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I would totally play GRAVY.
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Future soldiers are a bunch of homeless. Great.
 
Ghost Recon On Wheels. GROW. Make it happen, Ubi.

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I liked GRAW 1 and was okay with GRAW 2, although it really didn't add much.  You can't tell much about this iteration except that someone seems to have stolen the plans for personal cloaking devices from the Predators.  I wonder if we'll get shoulder cannons, too.  Anyway, I'll look forward to more news at E3 '10.
 
And...  Ghost Recon: Live Nude Girls

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lol, i thought he was gonna say; and war? war never changes. hahaah that would be epic!

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How about Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 3? Maybe?

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Ghost Recon Advanced Burning
Ghost Recon Advanced Nightwear At Discounts Anywhere

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Why are there Nazgul in the trailer?

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Eh, I would have much rather preferred another GRAW game. You're right GRFS doesn't have the same ring to it and when you get into this future stuff you get into Sci-Fi territory, which doesn't have the same appeal. I dunno about you, but when I hear future I think of plasma, ray guns, aliens, space ships, and flying cars. I don't see any of that being delivered in this future game.

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@MrKlorox said:
" @illmatic19 said:

" HAHA Modern Warfare, Ghost Recon beat you to it. "

You mean Battlefield beat Ghost Recon to it. Just like they beat IW to Modern Combat -- er "Warfare" "
Oh yes, 2142 I forgot... 
 
HAHA Ghost Recon, Battlefield beat you to it.
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At least future soldier doesn't sound as lame as advanced war fighter.

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I wonder which country will BAN Groofuss this time?
 
I thought the last GRAW2 seemed to be spot on with a war with Mexico. It seems even more likely today than it did when the game came out, thanks to all the drug war violence seen the past year.  Start using drones to blow up drug cartel hideouts. Not sure why this isn't being done already.
 
GROOFUSS: FUTURE SOLDIER.

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@Brad said:
  • Ghost Recon Incendiary Ninja
  • Ghost Recon Airborne Zebra Encounter
  • Ghost Recon Against Violent Youth
Incendiary Ninja?? HELL YEAH I would got that!!
 
Also, Ghost Recon Operative Pension Exercise. No? Ok fine...
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@Babble said:
" "Yet war is constant"  ...  Perhaps one could go as far to say: "War... war never changes." "
I was thinking the same thing.  :D
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Gurfs. :D
 
GURFS GURFS GURFS!

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Say it like: Gerfs

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What about Ghost Recon: Obliterating Organic Violent Yetis?

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Future Solider sounds like a B-grade action movie or a comically bad video game.  I am still pumped for this game, though.

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@CitizenKane said:
" Future Solider sounds like a B-grade action movie or a comically bad video game.  I am still pumped for this game, though. "
Yeah, same deal here.  I really hope though that they will go back to being a little more hardcore than GRAW.  Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2 kind of went soft and turned into a brodeo-fest for me.  I liked some of the earlier ones where you would really have to sneak around, set up shop, wait, snipe and run... then repeat.  The new ones kind of condensed it and made it a lot more approachable, probably for sales, but I knew after the first that I was warn out of :AW already.
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The name sounds stupid, but if the game is good, then hell yeah, I'm buying it.

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war never changes.....yet we already had the EndWar.... get it , get it?!?!? never mind

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GRAWX!

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The correct pronunciation is gir-face.  As in we are bad-ass military dudes making our best grr-face.

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Ghost Recon: Extreme Assault Team
Ghost Recon: Insane Depths
Ghost Recon: Interweb Missions

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NORWAY!