Top 5 upcoming games in May [4/5]

The fourth game that makes us shiver of excitement!

  4. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

We'll be playing Future Soldier in near future! The fourth Ubisoft's stand-alone Ghost Recon game is coming out on May 22nd (PS3/Xbox360; 12 June for PC). The last few games received positive critics on all platforms (if we exclude GR2 and Playstation debacle), and the gameplay footage of this one looks damn positive! This time again we lead a Ghost team of 4 super futuristic high-tech geared soldiers (with awesome codenames - Kozak, Pepper, 30k, Ghost Lead), that are tasked with tracking down a dirty bomb source that has wiped out another Ghost team. In the campaign, our super soldiers will visit some more and less interesting places such as Norway, Pakistan, Nigeria and Russia (who would've guessed).

As all other GR games, this one is also a third person tactical shooter, but player can switch to a FPS camera for better aiming. Cover is of course available (and destructible), but your soldiers can be suppressed which will make shooting harder for them. Another new and interesting stuff is optical camouflage. When crouching and moving slowly, you can activate this "partial-invisibility" mode in which you and your teammates are very hard to detect. But as soon as you get off the low profile, your camouflage will deactivate and you'll become easy to notice. Marking targets will also be hugely important, as you won't micromanage your squad, but instead mark your primary enemies. You can focus fire on one enemy, but you can use synchronized shot to automatically take down up to four enemies at the same time. (Every squad member shoots one!)

Controlling drones is also an innovation, and so far some are already confirmed and seen in the gameplay footage. Drone Crawler, a small, remote-controlled flying drone that can be used for observing, and the War Hound, a heavy walking robot which can be used as portable cover.

The game just oozes creative thinking. There are so many ways of passing the mission, of using your technology, taking down enemies, etc. The graphics are nice, and as we often see in Ghost Recon games, the action takes place in the natural environment. Visually, the game looks awesome.

So, at the E3 2011. Ubisoft made GR: Future Soldier look a lot more like Call Of Duty, and we didn't want another CoD clone. But instead, they brought us something different, and it looks like it will be worth the wait!