Summary
- A new Ghost Recon game from Ubisoft is reportedly in the works, despite the mixed reception of the last game in the franchise, Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
- Gaming insider Tom Henderson has heard positive things about the upcoming Ghost Recon game, as well as other anticipated releases like Assassin's Creed Red and Far Cry 7.
- However, some projects like Skull and Bones and Beyond Good and Evil 2 have been struggling in development, and Henderson suggests that Ubisoft needs to prioritize and avoid overextending their developers.
According to a well-known gaming insider, a new Ghost Recon game from Ubisoft is currently in the works. The Tom Clancy Ghost Recon series is one of Ubisoft’s long-running franchises, having been going for at least two decades. The franchise is a military tactical shooter that places the player in the role of a classified U.S. Army Special Forces member deployed to combat various enemies. While Ghost Recon is a well-known name from Ubisoft, the games have varied in quality.
The most recent game in the franchise, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, had a very mixed-to-negative reception when it launched in 2019. Critics and fans cited how the ideas implemented were a mishmash of various mechanics seen in other Ubisoft games, which both made the game lack an identity and was underwhelming as a result. Other complaints revolving around the shooter were its microtransaction-heavy model, among other things released before the plug was pulled on Breakpoint's post-launch support in 2022. Despite this, it appears that Ubisoft is working on another game in the franchise currently, according to gaming insider Tom Henderson.
According to Henderson, Ubisoft has multiple projects that are currently in the works, which include highly-anticipated releases such as Assassin's Creed Red, a seventh mainline Far Cry game, and Ghost Recon, which is going under the code name of "Project Over." The name is incredibly vague, but according to Henderson, these three games have been positively received internally, and he's heard "great things" about them too.
Other than those three games, he notes that there are some games that have been struggling through development, such as the open-world pirate game Skull and Bones, where Henderson noted that there were some gamers who weren't looking to play them. Not only that, he believes that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is suffering the same fate, and is stretching Ubisoft incredibly thin. Henderson calls them a series of "big rocks" that the company needs to get rid of to avoid overextending their developers.
One of Ghost Recon Breakpoint's last controversies before its shutdown was the integration of the Ubisoft Quartz NFT service, which was widely derided by many gamers. The initial market for these NFTs was also basically negligible, with players also complaining how no one had noticed they were even used. With a rough reputation and low sales figures for Breakpoint, a new Ghost Recon might be the best course of action to win back gamers. Gamers will need to wait and see until more information regarding this potential new Ghost Recon game is revealed.