Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Overview

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person tactical shooter developed and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows. It was released in May and June 2012 and takes a futuristic approach to the Ghost Recon series, with campaign missions set in Bolivia, Zambia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Norway. Ubisoft announced the game on January 22, 2009.

It is a cover-based shooter with an over-the-shoulder view. Some cover can be destroyed, and machine gun fire suppresses you by narrowing and shaking your view. A new feature is adaptive camouflage, which makes the Ghosts partly invisible while moving slowly, and you can mark up to four targets for your squad to take down at once with Sync Shot. The Gunsmith lets you customize weapons part by part and test them on a firing range, and on Xbox 360 you can use Kinect with hand gestures and voice to customize weapons. You also have a drone you can launch and control remotely, and one mission has a walking robot called the War Hound.

The story begins in 2024 when a Ghost Recon squad is killed by a dirty bomb in Nicaragua. A new team, Hunter, follows the weapons trail through Bolivia, Zambia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia, then fights a rogue Russian group called Raven's Rock that takes over much of Russia after a nuclear missile hits London.

Three downloadable packs were released: Arctic Strike, Raven Strike and Khyber Strike. They add maps, six weapons, three campaign missions and the multiplayer modes Takeover and Stockade.

The game runs on a heavily modified version of the Yeti engine and was delayed several times, and the Windows version was briefly cancelled and then confirmed again in January 2012. A closed multiplayer beta ran on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from April 19, 2012. It received generally positive reviews, with Metacritic scores of 79 on both consoles. IGN scored it 8.5 for its more thoughtful cover shooting and GameSpot gave it 7.5.

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Game details

Genres

Third-person shooter, Tactical shooter

Developer

Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Paris and Ubisoft Bucharest

Publisher

Ubisoft

Series

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Engine

Yeti (heavily modified)

Composers

Tom Salta, Hybrid

Designers

Roman Campos-Oriola

Writers

Richard Dansky

Producers

Jean-Baptiste Duval

Directors

Jean-Marc Geffroy, Eric Couzian

Modes

Single player

Yes

Online multiplayer

Yes

Release dates

Achievements

Achievements59 (1,205G)

Total

59

Gamerscore

1205

• Tour of Duty: Nigeria Win 3 MP of any game type on each: Pipeline, Market, Sand Storm, and Overpass maps 25G Needs online 10.35% of players
• Tour of Duty: Arctic Win 3 MP matches of any game type on each: Underground, Mill, and Alpha maps 25G Needs online 9% of players
• Tour of Duty: North Sea Win 3 MP matches of any game type on each: Harbor, Cargo, and Rig maps 25G Needs online 8.18% of players
• Call, Answered Complete all Tours of Duty 35G Needs online 7.22% of players
• High Speed, Low Drag Reach Level 50 on any character 50G Needs online 5.13% of players
• Armorer Spend 25 Attachment Credits with each role 35G Needs online 6.29% of players
• Coordinated Assault Use the Coordination System to reach an objective 5G Needs online 19.38% of players
• High-Value Target Kill a member of the dev team, or kill someone who has 5G Needs online 57.23% of players
• Mod Rookie Add an attachment to any gun 5G 38.41% of players
• Kitted Out Customize 1 weapon with an external attachment at every attachment point 25G Needs online 17.45% of players
• Recon Specialist Complete 5 Intel Assists in Quick Matches 25G Needs online 24.48% of players
• True Ghost Get 10 consecutive kills in one Quick Match without dying 10G Needs online 13.18% of players
• Counter-Intelligence Interrupt an enemy's attempt to data hack a teammate 5 times, by killing or stunning the enemy 10G Needs online 3.85% of players
• Field Tested Play 5 MP matches of each game type 5G Needs online 5.26% of players
• Tuned Up Customize all the internal parts of one weapon 25G 25.94% of players
• Mod Pro Spend 50 Attachment Credits to add attachments to various guns 40G Needs online 14.43% of players
• Actionable Intel Complete 10 Coordinated Kills 10G Needs online 3.54% of players
• Backup Complete 5 Savior Kills in Quick Matches 5G Needs online 29.49% of players
• Cross-trained Reach Level 10 on one Rifleman, one Scout, and one Engineer character 10G Needs online 12.48% of players
• Conflict Domination Be part of a squad match where your team wins by a margin of 500 points or more 10G Needs online 3.05% of players
• Siege Domination Be part of a squad match where your team captures the objective in under 2 minutes 10G Needs online 2.74% of players
• Decoy Domination In squad matches your team completes the key objective first, five times. 10G Needs online 2.26% of players
• Saboteur Domination Be part of a squad match where your team takes the bomb into the enemy base in under 2 minutes 10G Needs online 2.59% of players
• Total Domination Complete all of the Domination achievements 40G Needs online 2.21% of players
• Anything You Can Do... Complete a Daily Friend Challenge through all return fire volleys 20G Needs online 1.89% of players
• ...I Can Do Better Complete 20 Daily Friend Challenges 5G Needs online 1.88% of players
• Loose Thread Secure Gabriel Paez 20G 92.57% of players
• What Goes Up... Shoot down the cargo plane 20G 83.51% of players
• Precious Cargo Secure the VIP and transfer him to the exfiltration team 20G 75.8% of players
• Source Control Secure the VIP and transfer them to the exfiltration team 20G 67.33% of players
• EOD Destroy the Russian weapons transfer station 20G 63.05% of players
• ...Must Come Down. Destroy the plane with the weapons system on board while it is in flight 20G 58.31% of players
• Blood Brother Rescue the Georgian Spec Ops 20G 53.85% of players
• Fuel for the Fire Secure the drilling ships and complete the mission 20G 49.44% of players
• Breathing Room Destroy the second piece of enemy artillery 20G 47.2% of players
• Special Election Rescue Russian President Volodin from the prison camp 20G 43.98% of players
• Relieved of Command Kill the general commanding the Moscow defenses 20G 41.02% of players
• No Loose Ends Eliminate the leader of the Raven's Rock faction 20G 39.06% of players
• Just Another Day at the Office Complete the campaign for the first time 30G 38.49% of players
• Advanced Warfighter Complete the campaign in Veteran 40G 28.95% of players
• Future Soldier Complete the campaign in Elite 50G 11.28% of players
• Battle Buddies Complete the campaign in Co-op 30G 7.57% of players
• Tactician Complete 50% of the Tactical challenges 10G 12.13% of players
• Master Tactician Complete 100% of the Tactical challenges 25G 2.71% of players
• Qualified Achieve a Ghost skill rating of above 90% on one mission 25G 52.74% of players
• Good Enough for Government Work Achieve a Ghost skill rating above 80% for all missions 10G 2.98% of players
• Just a Box While in Guerrilla mode, complete an infiltration sequence without being detected 10G 35.27% of players
• Good Effect on Target In Guerrilla mode, kill more than 5 enemies with an airstrike 10G 13.12% of players
• Quality Beats Quantity Defeat all 50 enemy waves on Guerrilla mode (any difficulty, any map) 30G 5.71% of players
• Doing Work Kill 1000 enemies while in Guerrilla mode 10G 3.75% of players
• Tour of Duty: Moscow Win 3 MP matches of any game type on each: Skyline, Riot, and Evicted maps 25G Needs online 2.86% of players
• Stockade Domination Be part of a squad match where your team eliminates the enemy in under 2 minutes. 10G Needs online 1.59% of players
• Clean Slate Take down all four HVTs 20G 3.06% of players
• Tables Turned Fight your way out of a Bodark ambush 20G 3.17% of players
• Package Delivery Secure General Kozlov 20G 3.61% of players
• Dirty Work Complete all 3 maps in Raven Strike on Elite 50G 2.1% of players
• Maximum Effort Defeat all tactical challenges in Raven Strike 25G 1.44% of players
• Tour of Duty: Peshawar Win 3 MP of any game type on each: Switchback, Palace, and Transit maps 25G Needs online 1.73% of players
• Takeover Domination Be part of a squad match where your team wins by more than 100 points. 10G Needs online 1.48% of players

DLC

Three downloadable packs were released: Arctic Strike, Raven Strike and Khyber Strike. They add multiplayer maps, weapons, campaign missions and two new multiplayer modes, Takeover and Stockade. Each has its own achievements.

Items

Name	Adds
Arctic Strike	Multiplayer maps Skyline, Riot and Evicted, the Stockade mode, and two achievements worth 35 gamerscore.
Raven Strike	Three campaign maps playable on Elite, with tactical challenges, and five achievements worth 135 gamerscore.
Khyber Strike	Multiplayer maps Switchback, Palace and Transit, the Takeover mode, and two achievements worth 35 gamerscore.

Playable today

Online

Online servers runningNo

Ubisoft shut down the multiplayer servers on October 1, 2022. The date was first announced as September 1, 2022 and then delayed a month.

Services

Service	Status	Shutdown date
Online multiplayer	ended	2022-10-01

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	Xbox 360	79	100
GameRankings	Xbox 360	78.89	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	8.5	10
GameSpot	7.5	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Jean-Marc Geffroy
Director	Eric Couzian
Producer	Jean-Baptiste Duval
Designer	Roman Campos-Oriola
Art director	Xavier Marguis
Writer	Richard Dansky
Composer	Tom Salta
Composer	Hybrid

Notes for collectors

• Online play needed a one-time code, so used copies did not get full access to multiplayer.
• With the multiplayer servers closed since October 1, 2022, the online achievements can no longer be earned.
• On Xbox 360 you can use Kinect to customize weapons with hand gestures and voice commands.
• The Ghost Recon Trilogy compilation was released in North America on October 1, 2013.
• A closed multiplayer beta ran on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from April 19, 2012.
• Ghost Recon: Alpha, a short live-action prequel film, follows a Ghost team trying to secure a nuclear warhead.
• A three-part miniseries called Believe in Ghosts, hosted by Richard Machowicz, compared elements of the game to real special forces operations.

Credits

Region

US

Time to beat

about 10.5 hours