Monday, May 21, 2012

GameLight - Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Official Site: http://ghost-recon.ubi.com/gr-portal/en-us/home/index.aspx
Source: Youtube Channel ubisoft

I'm looking out for Dragon's Dogma which releases tomorrow and it surprised me when I found out that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was releasing tomorrow as well.  Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will take all the high-tech gadgets and tactical equipment from the GRAW series into the Third-Person Shooter genre for a strategic-action adventure experience.  One of the aspects I really enjoyed about GRAW 1 and 2 was how important team-work was and playing cooperative with friends made the game feel very involving.  In Future Soldier, even more equipment as available to use to extend the tactics of a team.  The game will feature 50 weapons with customizable parts for a near endless combination (or so they say).  There are some things I'm worried about the game such as the controls.  It's difficult calibrating the movements and buttons for a third-person shooter and makes it feel alright compared to a first-person shooter.  The other thing is what kind of DRM will be on it?  DRM on PC is understandable yet very troublesome for those who actually buy the game.  Either the game doesn't recognize the code and prevents players from being able to play or the servers are down and the player can't access the game.  There are also limitations such as being allowed to install the game only 3 times (but as long as you don't switch between computers that often, I guess that's fine).  There also have been games in the past where even consoles need constant access to the internet to play a game (this usually upsets those that just want to play the single-player campaign).  This was especially evident when Sony's PSN services was out for about a month and those who bought games such as Capcom's Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 were not able to play the game because of the DRM, even though it was a locally played offline game.  I wish I had a better computer to play games on so I could get this for the PC.  I generally like playing FPS and TPS games on PC as the controls feel better, but I don't mind console controllers if need be.  Ghost Recon: Future Soldier releases tomorrow May 22, 2012 for Playstation 3 & Xbox 360, and June 6th, 2012 on PC.

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