By KRISTOPHER STOUGH
Future technology that seems not too far away is a nice touch to Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier produced by Ubisoft. The game adds a sci-fi experience since some of the tech in the game is not used in the military today.
The beta released April 19 for those who pre-ordered Ghost Recon and bought new copies of Splinter Cell Conviction. A beta in the gaming world allows players to test a game before it is released and give input to the gaming company about changes needed before a games official release.
Ghost Recon is a third person shoter that allows for first person when zooming in on the iron sights or scopes for added accuracy. Currently the beta only has two game modes “Conflict” and “Saboteur”.
“Conflict” is an objective game monde that the Ghosts and the Russians either defend or try to capture the objectives.
‘Saboteur” is a game mode that offers a central bomb in the middle of the map. the concept is to pick up the bomb and deliver it to the enemy base.
The player can choose from three classes in the game: the rifleman in the assault class, the engineer in the tech class, and recon in the smiper class. As you play with these characters you level up and unlock new equipment and weapons.
Rifleman is the front man in an assault and can take more damage from bullets than the other classes. As well as choosing from two types of guns, an assault rifle for mid-range encounters and a heavy machine for suppressing the enemy, he carries grenades and a camera that can be set up for security. (Every class has this camera feature)
Engineer, is a well balanced support class with a lot of tech. the engineer carries sensors that he can throw to detect enemies that get outlined in red. He also has another way to detect enemies on the ground with a unmanned air vehicle.(That is unlocked with leveling up) His weapons include sub-machine guns and shotguns that helps with close encounters.
Recon, class offers stealth and great long range sniper rifles. The stealth cloak ability makes the player invisible to the enemy. After leveling up the recon class, the player can move while cloaked. The recon class can also equip sub-machine guns and flash bangs for close encounters.
The maps in the game are one close in counter urban area called Pipleline, which favors the relfman and engineer. Another map is a gorest area called Mills, Which favors the rifleman and recon classes.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier offers a new form of assambling the players weapons through the “gun smith”. This customization offers tons of upgrades, which break the gun into pieces, and allows the player to see the new upgrade assmebled to the gun, which is very cool.
The only problem is that the beta often fails to find its servers, but it is only a beta and they will have it running well when the game officially releases may 22.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Beta 4 out of 5 stars, has some flaws but worth playing
ESRB: Online Not rated
Players 1(16 players online)
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