Yesterday, Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Frontline, its take on the battle royale genre which attempts to go up against goliaths such as Call of Duty: Warzone and Fortnite. However, the initial reaction to the YouTube trailer seems to suggest this was not the Tom Clancy game fans were looking for.
Currently, the trailer is outweighed by 11,000 dislikes, compared to a measly 2,500 likes. It only takes a short browse through the comments to see fans of the series aren't enthralled by this new entry - something that was intended to celebrate 20 years of Tom Clancy games.
"Fans: whatever it is, it’s can’t be worse than Breakpoint!
Ubisoft: ..hold my beer""Wow, just when I thought you guys couldn’t kill the Ghost Recon franchise even more. We wanted a Wildlands 2 but instead here’s a battle royale. Well, the Ghost Recon franchise was fun while it lasted, this’ll probably be the nail in the coffin. RIP to what the franchise use to be."
"The series 20th anniversary, you couldn't have disappointed us any more than that even if you tried so hard."
"This is actually getting hilarious how much and how often they’re giving gamers what they don’t want."
"Ubisoft, is there a microtransaction I can pay for that will make you guys finally release an authentic, single player, military-espionage Tom Clancy game?"
These are just a small portion of the negative comments the game is receiving. The general consensus seems to be a fair amount of annoyance that the series is continuing to deviate from its stealth-based roots. One comment even noted how for a game that holds the Ghost Recon franchise in its name, there's not a single silenced weapon in sight.
Of course, once the full release comes around it has a strong chance of attracting an audience, especially considering the success of the battle royale genre at present. With that being said, it seems the loyal Tom Clancy fanbase is feeling alienated with this new take on the series and we're not sure how Ubisoft can win back their trust.
How do you feel about Ghost Recon Frontline? Let us know in the comments below.
[source youtube.com]
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This shouldn't come as a surprise though. Didn't Ubisoft state a while back that they were going to focus on making more F2P titles? This is apparently the path they're going to take from here on out with some of their franchises, which is definitely unfortunate.
I don't see where this fits in. If you want a more serious BR game you play Warzone. If you want a more anarchic almost cartoon-like experience you play Fortnite. If you want to BR on your phone PUBG is a solid bet and if you want quick play games Butter Royale is a hoot.
Its like they just copied Warzone.
Sadly, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games aren't what they used to be. The new games look a lot better for sure, but to me they feel like a caricature of the earlier iterations.
Yet another Battle Royale to toss on the growing pile that I will never play. The market's saturated with perfectly adequate alternatives, most of which are free - this is a fool's endeavour.
This is pretty sad. Ubisoft just jumps from fad to fad now, usually with a generic uninspired version of it. They used to make some of the best games. Fenyx and Rabids proves they still can. But taking series like Ghost Recon and turning them into a cardboard flavor of the month me-too clone game is just depressing. Wildlands was decent. But why take a series with a history of story driven campaigns and turn it into.....this? Why not come up with a new IP for your me-too fad chasing game so it doesn't soil existing IP if it fails?
Not only does Ubisoft chase fads, but they're always a few years behind them. They're now all in on GaaS just as EA is not only moving past it, but actively rejecting it!
I'm more interested in the other modes they said there would be...prefer some traditional team death match....being naive and nostalgic hoping it will bring memories of Advanced Warfighter
They can use the funds from this to develop a single player game with squad based multiplayer. It's not like they can't do more than one thing
They kill the franchise to make room for a new splintercell lol just kidding.
They def should bring sam fisher back.
It’s just PR, bad PR. But you’ll get much more attention if you make huge changes to an existing franchise instead of a new game with a generic title.
It’s like changing the race or sexual orientation of an already established character in comics.
But yeah, it sucks. Just imagine what we could end up with with the next assassin creed.
Looks generic and designed by committee...the Ubisoft flavour.
Free to play battle royale games are clearly huge money makers so of course everyone will want a slice of the pie
For me these battle royale games are starting to wear out their stay.
So many good times playing GRAW 1 & 2 terrorist hunt with mates.
@Link41x Agreed. Just watch hunger games. Itch scratched.
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