Back to the Future Soldier: Revisiting A Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- #ghostrecon #futuresoldier #retrospective
Ahead of its tenth birthday, I celebrate why Ghost Recon: Future Soldier still holds up amazingly well and stands among the best shooters I've ever played. The games industry could learn a thing or two about making small, short, focused games instead of ballooning everything into a sandbox. Going open world made Ghost Recon worse. Make linear games again!
This is the first video essay I've ever made about video games, and I'm stoked to bring more video game content to my channel in the future. I hope you'll enjoy it, and if you do, please consider subscribing and sharing with your friends!
Played on Xbox One X.
Recorded on Elgato 4K60 S+ in SD/standalone mode.
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This game and Spec-Ops: The Line are like the yin and yang of underappreciated third-person squad shooters from 2012.
Oh man. What a pair of games. SO good
TOTALLY MAN!! Such a shame...
This man gets it!!!
My favorite games of all times in Descending order:
Spec ops: The line
Future Soldier
Spec Ops The Line isn't even available to play anymore but Future Soldier is
This game and MGS V turned me from a FPS fanboy to an appreciator of third person shooters. Before this most TPSs i've played were Gears clones where you stick behind cover, peak out and fill the enemy full of lead, repeat. This game could've been first person, but its not and its better for it. The movement and tactical awareness in this game could not be replicated in first person. You still get the advantages of a military FPS with the huge amount of weapons and customization, and ADS.
I wish more third person shooters like this would come out.
I agree completely. The third person shooter feels like a dying breed. And a well executed one feels amazing to play. MGS V is still on my backlog, but 4 was excellent too. Finally played that one a couple years ago
You never experienced the glory of the Max Payne trilogy?
Play the game Vanquish by Platinum Games, if you want good TPS. But Third person shooter is barely even a genre. All it means is shooting in third person. Call Of Duty has third person mode.
Yeah, it was awesome running into cover and aiming.
And the Gunsmith system was awesome, too.
It’s just the best
It's crazy that this game just comes out and is forgotten, such a masterpiece. We really need more TPS and squad-based in fact.
My desire has always been for a Halo ODST game like this
Amazingly done review, I think you have nailed pretty much every single strength and detail this game has that made what it should be a classic.
To this day Future Soldier is still my top 1 Third Person Shooter.
It had its flaws, but all the things that it gets just RIGHT, is just a work of art. Wished they kept refining the formula, instead of just making whatever the hell was Wildlands and Breakpoint, which completely missed the ball in what Ghosts were supposed to be (Get in, get stuff DONE, leave without a trace).
More than a decade later, I am still hoping someone takes the foundations and basics of this game and expands upon them, few games have legit managed to get so MUCH sensorial feedback, bringing down my head IRL while being suppressed in the game, and only realizing a second later.
Just peak, Ghost Score: 100/100
Amen and thank you so much 🙏🏻 I feel a kindred spirit because of this comment
This game's movement is unmatched for TPS genre, even the sequels couldn't follow suit. Wildlands was clunky, Breakpoint was beautiful, sometimes unpolished and slow.
I doubt we'll get to see anything like its system and animations in GR Project Over next year, since rumor has it the game will return to FPS, even if it's an FPS-TPS game, I doubt the TPS will be as good as this game since there has to be compromises to merge both FPS-TPS systems.
Exactly. It feels so good to control. Hard to believe they couldn’t figure it out in the sequels
brent sacks sounds like the guy you talk to when you look at the intel map on grfs campaign briefing.
LOL
I just recently reinstalled this game to check out the new DLC missions since i never did before, also i have a newer beefy PC so its time to play this game on max settings as way back all i had was my potato PC.
Let us know how it goes!!
because of this i bought the game. thanks.
@@MegaDeeEm YESSSS 👏🏻 🙌🏻 LOVE this
Damn so your just getting started in gaming videos? I really look forward to the videos to come
Thank you! Yeah I’ve only done two so far. I have many, many more on the way. I hope to publish my next one in early October.
Wildlands and Breakpoint are awesome now.
Honestly I’m glad to hear that! And there’s a part of me that sees them on sale for cheap and thinks about scooping them up still
@@brentsacksI’d definitely recommend wildlands I disliked it at launch but it’s definitely improved but left a sour taste in most people’s mouths and they never touched it
now, the servers are gone on xbox. :( its on pc and ps3 though!
I didn’t know that! I’m surprised they kept some up but not all
You said you weren't gonna bash the other games of the franchise😂🤪
I MEAAANNNNN…. 🤣 🙈
Those damn rpgs in pakistan missions are killing me harder then elden ring bosses
Gotta prioritize and execute! Bring a gun with some range on it if you have to. Look for RPGs and listen for friendly call outs, and nail ‘em fast!
Vanquish is the best shooter
Vanquish is phenomenal
@@brentsacks and there will never be another game like it. Warframe is the next closest thing, but when the servers shut down, it will be gone forever, and it's still very different.
18:20
What’s at 18:20 that you noticed?
@@brentsacks I'm watching a lot of stuff on RUclips. It's so I can remember where I got in the video.
too bad the pc port is ass and unplayable
NOOOO I hate to hear it. In a lot of ways, PC is the best all around gaming platform, but it bums me out when I hear about how some games just get lousy PC ports.
Future Soldier got the short end of the stick in my opinion. It came out at a time where "modern military shooters" were considered out dated and boring (which is far from the truth). Once that sentiment was set in the gaming space at the time, ubisoft had no idea what to do with their "realistic milsim" shooters like FS. After that it just became a weird hodgepodge of ideas like the Division. They ALMOST took it back in the right direction with OG Siege, having plausible operators and gadgets but again, they just can't help themselves from following weird gaming trends of the time; and now siege looks like a tactical clownworld game. I remember picking up FS in a bargain bin at a gamestore YEARS after it came out and being very impressed with how intuitive and good the 3rd person controls and shooting were. They really were onto something special here but alas, they keep messing with the formula and alienating players from their games. Great video btw.
You win the award for funniest RUclips handle I’ve seen in a while 😂 thank you for your support 🙏🏻 Yes, you’re dead on about Siege. Absolute clown world of a game-honestly it’s disrespectful to put Tom Clancy’s name on that title. It’s a disgrace.
But your point about military shooters going out of style and leaving devs like Ubisoft confused is spot on. I’ve never thought of it like that but it explains a lot 😵💫
One thing that stood out for me was the muzzle flash of the guns, they looked weird to be honest.
Speaking of funny dialogue, in the Arctic level, one of your squadmates said "At least it's not stairs." Cue the Moscow level, where you have to hike up FIFTEEN flights of stairs, MANUALLY, not in a cutscene.
The technology shown is also not that far off, take the Warhound (who doesn't like unlimited mortars and missiles?) and we now have robot dogs which can potentially provide cover, carry supplies or the wounded and maybe even weapons! The AR glasses? The US Army had experimented with AR goggles too, see the IVAS goggles, and so much more.
And then the challenges in each mission which allows you to unlock more stuff increases the replayability value too.
The stairs scene in Moscow gets me every time.
God damn, the stairs.
The newest US army scope actually has an AR interface built in with all kind of crazy hud elements
They're a fan of MGS, it's too obvious to me lol. The stairs, Sam referencing Snake, the la-li-lu-le-lo in Breakpoint's motherland update.
It’s the little things on this game that makes it perfect 👍
The combat call outs
The cover system
The gun sounds
Animations
I could go on and on.. i was and still addicted to this game!
Thank you for the review 🙏
I’m so glad to hear it! I love this game (as you can tell). Thanks for watching and commenting!
I just wish it had some terrorist hunt like mode that allowed singleplayer gamers to have some more random mission after the main story
I miss the multiplayer so much. My team were absolutely ruthless.
I'd cover half the map on Mill with the KSVK, or a pair of us would run M60s and take turns mag-dumping to keep people pinned.
One of our squadmates was not the best at shooting, but was absolutely brilliant at callouts, spotting and marking enemies.
He'd end a match with no kills at the top of the leaderboard, based on XP earned alone. I loved how much the game rewarded intelligence gathering. You could play a round doing nothing but scouting and give your squad a massive advantage.
I genuinely feel this game has made me better at every team-based game I play.
This is freaking iconic. I didn’t play very much of the multiplayer, although I wish I had gotten more time with it. If I knew the game rewarded callouts and spotting, I had forgotten it. That’s so legit. Your domination reminds me of how my buddies would dominate Attack and Defend on Calypso Casino in Rainbow Six Vegas. We would stack the teams 4 to 12 and win 😂
I had many fond memories from my childhood of this game, it was really the ultimate third person linear shooter, with lots of replay ability because of the ahead-of-it’s-time weapon customization, which is on par with modern Call of Duty, as well as the diverse set pieces. It’s a real shame the servers from the multiplayer were shut down.
💯 What people don't always appreciate about linear games is a well designed linear game can have so much replayability. The variety, the pacing, everything can be managed to create a perfect experience that's just as fun to play 5 times over as an open world game where you blaze your own trail for 50 hours.
Actually the community is working to reverse engineer the game servers. GRO is also being reverse engineered as well
Actually the community is lolking for devs to reverse engineer the game servers. GRO is also being reverse engineered as well
This was a really fantastic analysis of a game I have no experience with. Great job and I look forward to hopefully watching more in the future.
Truly a gentleman and a scholar 🤩🥹
I remember in 2012, I loved the sprinting animation so much that when I go up this uphill road in my town, I start running like in the game
😂😂😂
Although I like the sync shots not having a cool down, I understand why they were balanced in subsequent games. But I still liked being able to go through entire sections just by marking enemies with the drone and letting AI do the dirty work, it became a very strategic minigame where you had to carefully choose the order of which enemies you should eliminate to avoid sounding an alarm.
Absolutely. There are enough constraints in the level design and enemy layouts that it takes careful thought to do it that way. It's not just the cheap way out
Great review! My first GR was/is Breakpoint and I'm looking forward to going back to play this. I would actually recommend Breakpoint, I never bothered with the story, but the conquest mode is super fun! I love the customization of everything, being able to turn off the HUD and be super tactical with a friend is awesome, just ignore the story points and clear bases. You should give it a try.
I’ve been tempted before; I may yet do it. I’ve heard that hardcore mode or whatever is pretty cool. And I fell down a Reddit rabbit hole of screenshots from that game and hoo boy 🥵
Even though they are similar, I'd go through and play Wildlands too. It's a much different feel and arguably a much more polished game than Breakpoint.
I was also part of the closed beta of Wildlands, and I remember the movement/shooting being a bit more clunky. At full release they felt quite a bit better. @brentsacks might be worth your time to pick it up on a sale and try it out.
If u love grfs u will hate breakpoint
Полностью согласен с автором. Игра, хоть и не без недостатков, является не ограненным бриллиантом. I completely agree with the author. The game, although not without flaws, is not a cut diamond.
I did enjoy Wildlands and Breakpoint but they felt like a downgrade compared to Future Soldier's laser focused gameplay.
Definitely. Sometimes I see them go on sale and I consider dipping a toe in, and someday I still might! I just can’t get over the gameplay downgrade 😭
Although I absolutely love the cool photo mode screenshots I see come out of Breakpoint 😍
THIS GAME SLAPPED SO HARD. so glad i got to play multiplayer at launch. loved it
SLAPPED
Ubisoft doesn’t make them like this anymore. Forget the open world BS of wildlands and breakpoint. These hand crafted linear levels rock so hard. Better than the drivel they pour out today.
💯 This guy gets it 😩
Future solider is just one of those games where every gun has a purpose or you can at the very least make a purpose for to (stoner can be designed in gunsmith for accuracy while Mk 48 can be designed for more suppression) hell, multiplayer did engorge that to a certain point, (Mk14 being a DMR and the 417 being treated more like a battle rifle/AR)
Wildlands every gun almost feels the same minus damage when spotted. And fire rate depending on what type of gun.
(And damnit I think it’s bullshit that they shutdown the severs for multiplayer in GR:FS)
To this day, I still don’t fully know how to explain why each gun feels unique, but they do!!
Ubisoft was knocking it out of the park with games like this and Blacklist (lack of Michael Ironside aside). It's such a shame they pivoted so hard into crappy, boring, copy and paste open world games.
Great video by the way, dude. You absolutely nailed every single reason I loved this game so much since 2012. It's honestly incredible how well it holds up both mechanically and visually in-game (the cutscenes are a bit rough, but who cares).
I so agree about Wildlands. All they had to do was recycle this game's movement systems. Why would they go with that game's clunky feeling mechanics instead?
Man, you got me wanting to go replay this for the 50th time.
@@giygas_9577 thank you so much for the kind words, and of course the spot on analysis 👌🏻 I still haven’t played Blacklist, but I’m so excited to. I want to finish working my way through the Splinter Cell series up to it first, but it’s going to take me a while
RUclipsrs usually moan about the brown and grey era of games,for me it's the era that defined video games,nowadays everything is so homogenized,either fully realistic,pixelish or something inbetween,they don't make games like these anymore
Ain’t that the truth!!
Great review, the microphone is way too quiet and the gameplay way too loud though (so I turn up the volume to hear the voice, and then my eardrums get blasted by the gunfire)
Yeah 😅 some of the volume games are on purpose, but most of it is just not great mixing on my part. I have continually tried to improve this! If you subscribe, you should see an improvement as I put out more videos. (See what I did there? 😏)
Im playing on my 360 I got the series x is arriving today so ima continue their really good game we need more games like that
100%
I loved your well thought out analysis on this game. This is one that will always stay in my heart. It would be amazing if the Xbox One Series X enhancements would give it higher FPS and the more detailed textures from the PC version. Also some additional criticisms I've heard from another person covering the game brought up how the enemy hotboxes are way too big and makes it too easy to hit shots. Other than that and other minor flaws, Future Soldier was one damn fine piece of a video game.
Thank you so much for these kind words 🥹 That point about the hit boxes is actually true but I had never really put my finger on it. But I think he’s right. Either way, such a stellar title 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I first played this 3 years ago on ps3, was blown away, downloaded on pc cause they added a little blood, about to go back cause I've been stuck in endless open world games since then
They added more blood? Really?
@@brentsacks when you shoot em and it slow mows a little as they get hit it shows a little red splatter, not that great but the graphics were also a little better on pc, when you put graphics on high
Nothing beats future soldier ghosts and phantoms outfits
Lovely video, thanks fella! Thought this game was so overlooked when it came out, it also had an AMAZING MP as well, let down by the infamous Ubisoft server disconnecting at random points. If this ever gets remastered and a dedicated server - TAKE MY MONEY!
Agreed! Stone cold classic that didn’t achieve classic status. Release the Xbox Enhanced version now!!
I want to like Future Soldier but the unskippable cutscenes are just so aggravating, along with how Ubisoft Connect keeps demanding my password every time I launch the game on my account I'm already logged into.
It's got some good mechanics but the annoyances w/ unskippable cutscenes and password requirement on every launch are just too much. I swear Ubisoft only makes their older, more linear games demand a password on every launch in order to discourage playing them.
If there was a mod to skip cutscenes that would be perfect.
Are you playing on PC/Steam? I don’t think it prompts me for a log in on Xbox. And yeah, being able to skip cutscenes would be nice. Kind of a weird omission. I get it if the cutscene is still masking a load time, but if it’s finished loading…
@@brentsacks PC version but Ubisoft Connect launcher (its complicated, at the time I bought the game, it was cheaper on Ubisoft Connect than Steam)
Got it
The gunplay of Breakpoint is almost similar to Future Solider. The perfect Ghost Recon game that they should make is an open world game which is more condensed with the gunplay of Breakpoint.
I’ve been curious to try Breakpoint since I heard they added a separate game mode that strips a lot of the BS out like gear scores
@@brentsacks Yes, you should try it. The gameplay is a lot bearable than that of Wildlands. I agree with how clunky the gameplay of Wildlands which is why I had more time playing Breakpoint just because of its gunplay.
I had to warn you though, the Objective board of Breakpoint is f*cking atrocious to get through the first 3 or 4 hours of you playing. They made it in the idea of having to approach the missions based on your gear level, which is why when I purely played in a custumized immersive mode I immediately went into the final mission of the game not knowing that. The devs should have given a warning on that.
On the side note though, going in 65 hours currently in the game, I haven't even progressed on the main story of the game. I just did random side quests, infiltrared random bases etc. The game is fun because of how you can customize the immersive mode and just do random missions. I have to say though, both Wildlands and Breakpoint lacks great action pieces just like in Future Soldier.
This is good info!! Thank you. I’m definitely curious about it. I think immersive mode is the thing I heard about that sounded pretty cool
Please also make a video about the good and bad of wildlands and breakpoint
Maybe someday! I do have some interest in at least trying them out sometime. Maybe when I break big and go full time on RUclips 😂
this game is still the best game in the WORLD. everyone woh likes shooters should play this game. as in matter of fact, im playing multiplayer on ps3 right now (xbox and pc servers are dead)
Fun fact, this game was motion captured by 4 IRL US Navy SEALS
True story. To me, you can tell
A long comment, but as someone who plays and enjoys Wildlands, your criticisms are very reasonable. And as someone who’s also played Breakpoint, you dodged a bullet.
There’s one other thing that makes not only Ghost Recon special, but Tom Clancy games in general: The settings. While some get a bit out there, they’re not wildly outlandish. Even Wildlands with how prevalent cartels have become in recent years. They all feel plausible. Ghost Recon 1 ironically had an ultranationalist coup in Russia spiral into expanding to reclaim soviet borders. 2 for the PS2 is tied into Splinter Cell Chaos Theory after a hijacked North Korean missile sinks a US ship. Advanced Warfighter has a rebellion in Mexico opposed to a joint security agreement between America, Mexico and Canada.
In addition, there’s something else many people don’t realize and it bothers me. The Ghosts aren’t like other special forces. It plays into the tech they use. The augmented reality and camouflage? They’re the first to use and test that stuff in the field. It’s kind of a staple if you will. That drone you have? Good chance it’s in because a Ghost used and approved it.
This has led to some issues with the recent releases. Case in point, Future Soldier takes place in 2024, Wildlands is 2019, so the lack of more advanced gear isn’t a big deal and the lack of Advanced Warfighter stuff can be excused if it’s taken as an “undercover” deal. The issue however comes with the Operation Spade missions and Fallen Ghosts. Operation Spade has two missions where we work with Kozak, fresh into the Ghosts, and we see him using optical camo, and he himself states it’s experimental. Owing to the Ghost’s MO. But then in Fallen Ghosts, meant to be a condensed, harder experience taking place in the same year, the hostile mercenaries called Los Extranjeros have soldiers who use the very same camo. So what are we supposed to believe?
Breakpoint, a year after Future Soldier, makes it worse by reusing Bodark, the very same enemy specops from FS twice, and again having active camouflage but you need to acquire it from them rather than having it at the very start. Not to mention how the other Ghosts you see all look like a mishmash of army surplus enthusiasts rather than elite future warriors.
Totally 💯 The timeline stuff sounds very confusing. Why would they show you Bodark in a game that takes place before FS? Sounds sus 😂
@@brentsacks Ah my mistake. I said Breakpoint takes place a year after Future Soldier, in 2025. That's when Bodark is used twice. One of the two within Raven's Rock during the Red Patriot DLC, but becoming as the main and major antagonistic forces of Operation Motherland after the leadership of Raven's Rock is dissolved. This is more an issue of laziness, reusing the same foe.
They are only mentioned in Wildlands, though that's an issue itslef
@@skootmeister3994 ah, gotcha!
Lol your the ONLY person that didn’t like wildland
I am happy for those who like it!! Every once in a while, I see it for five bucks or something and think I should give it another shot
It was a sht version of Gears of War with a TCs lick of paint.
This is certainly a take!
you forgot one more way to shoot... in cover blind fire.
That’s true!
Ghost Recon already went from hardcore milsim to more casual action with the 360 version of GRAW, but this game turned it into full on CoD. This game marked the downfall of another once great PC series and turned it into casual ubislop
@@S3mj0n Disagree!
@brentsacks With what? You can like the game, that's fine, but there is no denying that modern Ghost Recon got nothing to do with the original PC games. Same goes for Rainbow Six
@@S3mj0n Disagree that the game is bad or marks the downfall of the series or that it is "casual ubislop"
@brentsacks that's fine. It's a subjective opinion after all
Now Wildlands on the other hand… 😂 I have more to say on that, but for someone to call it “ubislop” or a re-skinned Far Cry, I’d be like… yeah 🙈
The multiplayer is still great to this day too, even if massively flawed with some wonky mechanics and bugs
I love AR glasses, they are a good excuse to use HUD
It really is. And they actually did it properly so your HUD goes away when they malfunction
This is an extremely well made video. Good job. Wish you would make one on Splinter Cell : Blacklist.
Thank you!! Blacklist is on my backlog. I’m dying to play it, but I’m planning to play through the main games in order, and of course it’s last 😅 But soon!
I was on the closed (invite only) testing of the first Ghost recon online. It was not open world but man for a short time it was fun. Daily and weakly updates, maps drastically changing weekly. The close nit testers were helpful and really good. When it went to full open, it quickly went to hell due to the players coming in. It was great but none of them conpaired to Battlefield: Bad Co.2 ...that game to this date still destroys anything that has been made.
I LOVE Bad Company 1 and 2. Severely underrated games
As much as I love breakpoint, this game just hits so many notes that i WISH breakpoint had
I've been a competitive shooter since the beginning and this is without a doubt the best in the genre
🥹🥹 It’s near and dear to my heart
@@brentsacks it definitely pays homage to Gears of War as the cover system and tight third person is similar. There was a certain hand switch technique you could use that allowed your character to run full speed and then go into strafe mode in order to shock a handful of guys behind cover...
This was a Masterpiece series and Future Soldier was its crown!
@@gamesucks3092 💯 💯 💯
What happened to the gaming industry? I would have much rather had advanced war fighter 3 or future soldier 2 before these non linear open world games. Or how about an updated Ghost Recon Online??? I spent so much time on that game! And I know I’m not alone it was a great free to play first person shooter. I wish it was up online in 2024 I would play!
You and me both, brother
Another video that totally forgot to tell its viewers THAT FUTURE SOLDIER SERVERS ARE BACK! Check the discord links on MY COOP GRFS VIDEOS BOY!!
There's that!
Great Vid bro 🔥
Thank you!!
Steve Blum voicing Scott was lame.
@@slipstream7324 lame?? Why?
@@brentsacks the original voice actor for captian michell was unique. in this game he's just wolverine
still an excellent game and video. i just liked the original Scott
@@slipstream7324 I don’t know if Mitchell appears in any of the games prior to GRAW but he has been the actor since GRAW
I totally agree with your point that this does the basic stuff well. Just started playing this for the first time this week. Ten minutes in and i was amazed at the things this does better than Breakpoint and Wildlands, like using cover, and effective AI teammates. I thought the open world of the latter games was cool, but then you realize how much time is wasted getting around the map, and how broken some of the mission designs are. The newer games have all the bells and whistles and outfits, but aren't great at being a tactical shooter.
Absolutely 👏🏻 I’m glad you took Future Soldier for a whirl. I still think it doesn’t get the credit it deserves!
Your views on the gameplay are exactly why I didn't last long playing Wildlands. Breakpoint improved on it but GR:FS is my favourite by far.
Tell that to the guy who just told me I'm the only one who didn't like Wildlands 🤣
Yes. Yes to all of it. Making Ghost Recon an open world was a massive mistake, it makes for such a paradoxically limited gameplay loop. I will admit, I played the shit out of Wildlands, but it wasn't Ghost Recon, it was military GTA. The gameplay was horrible, animations were bad, the voice acting was abysmal, though the score was good. It was just great for playing with friends. Breakpoint made it worse in almost every respect. Also, quick aside, leaning into making SOF guys wear non-traditional gear just made every Ghost you see in the recent games look like a teenage airsofter and not commandos and it drove me insane.
I'd love to see you dive back even further to the GRAW duology, because they also hold up extremely well, with gameplay being stunningly tight for coming out in 06-07. Those games did something very rare currently, which was a sort of large-linear experience with frankly giant spaces that still had linear flow, something that would have been well suited to something like Wildlands instead of an open world proper. The cover and command systems were great by today's standards but they also aren't bad and still beat the open world games' utterly useless AI. GRAW also delivered the wonderful terrorist hunt coop missions to further expand gameplay to an almost indefinite point
I am dying to revisit GRAW sometime. I got stuck on 1 as a kid and loved 2, but I only beat it once.
Thank you for your kind words!! Please share with your friends 😩😂
You just had to link current Russo-ukranian war in the most cringy way possible since noone in the West knows anything about it...
Show me where on the doll my script touched you
Right on, and God bless you for using the term 'myriad' correctly. Bless you. And yeah, Future Soldier is RAD.
Haha thank you!! It’s still one of my all time favorites!
Classic game, playing through again for the first time in years right now.... I like to play on max difficulty so the camo is even less OP, turns off if you move at all
I actually didn’t know this! Next time I play, I should turn it up to max.
I bought this on steam and it won't even start. Any advice? Will it run if I purchase it drom somewhere else?
I wish I knew. I own it on Xbox. I would see if Steam support could help you. If they can’t they’ll probably refund you at least. Also someone might have encountered the same bug and might have a fix if you Google or RUclips around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Great review,just got and played it after seeing it released 12 years ago.Very fun and cinematic!
👻 🇺🇸
Thank you! Love this game. (Obviously.)
You trippin wildlands was dope and an amazing world
I wanted to like it! Fun fact: it's on Game Pass and I have a trial. I'm going to try Wildlands again!
@@brentsacks nah I respect your opinion though. Just feel like it was a good concept with a well crafted world and gameplay. Hope you enjoy it if you play it again
I’ll post something with my thoughts! 🤙🏻
All ubisoft has been trash since 2010
What was their last good game?
@brentsacks I don't know what their last good game was because I haven't really enjoyed a game of their's in a long time, but I haven't liked their games for several years.
I liked far cry 3 and blood dragon probably the last good Ubisoft games imo
It's such a shame that most of this game felt like a tutorial. It was SOOOOO good but it didn't hit its stride until the end AAAAAND we never got another. 😞
I need another one like I need oxygen. At least the DLC kinda scratched that itch in a small way for me, and it was definitely tougher (though in some kinda BS ways).
@brentsacks Wildlands was good but they really need to make a proper Future Soldier sequel. And bring back Gunsmith!
Wow I don’t know how I found this video, this video will be a guide for research on how to make a good game, thank you for making this video.
I'm glad the Almighty Algorithm pulled through for both of us! Thanks for watching!
I loved this game so much, my friends and I always revisit it. Miss the Russian dubstep spec ops soldiers. Always knew when the dubstep started shit was getting serious.
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Absolutely righteous RUclips comment ☝🏻
I personally think that ghost recon at it's core is tactical stealth action with at least semi open worlds, like with ghost recon 1. Aside from that i enjoyed the video
That's one of the reasons I found the DLC pretty cool. At least one of the missions is a fairly big, semi-open map which was a cool change of pace from the rest of the campaign and a nice callback to the original formula
@@brentsacks nice that you still respond even a year after you have posted the video.
@@potatoman5953 If I didn’t get comments on my videos, I don’t know if I would still be making them! It’s (almost) always great when people weigh in, so I love to respond 😁
wildlands was amazing the only bad thing about it is the movement thats really it
I'm glad you liked it! Maybe one day I'll try it again
I used to play guerilla all day with lil bro
It’s a great horde mode
@@brentsacksIt is, you have to think before you act, you got to cover your teammate's back, the AI is decent, gameplay is unforgiving and that makes for hours upon hours on end to just have the fun of your life, there is no need to grid here is all just, idk perfect
@@Beencheeling couldn’t have said it better myself. I recently reached a similar conclusion about Rainbow Six Vegas, which I replayed for my next video. It’s tough! They really stretch you tactically
One of the main reasons your review is gonna make me check this game out is because you're playing with a controller, which is the only way I prefer to play shooters with.
So many reviews like these, especially franchises like this almost exclusively play on PC. And sometimes the game play doesn't cross over from m/k to controller. But thanks to you, I now know that it does work well with controller.
I think my most controversial gaming opinions are that I don't like PC gaming and I don't like mouse and keyboard for shooters 😂
@@brentsacks Amen, that's why I'm gonna return to you to get more game recommendations in the future.👌
@@danielvandusen5724 man I hope you do! I’ve got a couple other game videos you can check out, and I will keep putting out more, but man my output is slow 😂
This was a top ten shooter of all times for me it was the good i still play the multiplayer to this day
I loved the multiplayer in this, but I barely played it! It came out right as my usual gaming crew got pretty busy with other stuff. But I wished I had played more of this
If you guys have a PS3 account the servers are back up for pretty much all Ubisoft servers
I’m an Xbox guy-wonder if those are up!
@@brentsacks I have a Xbox one and I’ve tried AC3 360 but no luck, but pretty much all AC games work on PS3 as well
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@@OstimKant1325 I love u 2
I played this on ps3😢
Nothing to cry about, unless you’re crying because it’s gone 😢
@@brentsacks wdym it's gone? Is it not available to play anymore?
@@ImLetterA only if YOU can’t. Like I understand the 😢 if you don’t have a PS3 anymore or you lost your disc or something. Otherwise, it’s all good!
Oh... The Raven strike trial is free, and has the three missions...
Could have saved 15 bucks 😅
It’s a free trial that lets you play three entire missions??
@@brentsacks looks like the description decieved me, it says it's the three missions, but I just tried it, and it's only half of the first mission, I thought it was something they added after the servers went down to give the missions freely, I shouldn't have given Ubisoft the benefit of the doubt like that 😅
@@brentsacks great video by the way
@@blackdragon5274 Ahhh okay 😬 thank you!
did he say bleeding edge? isnt it cutting edge? 0:40
They’re both sayings! They mean the same thing
oh. duhhhhh@@brentsacks
Got me with the overdue for another go
It's time.
Loved your video I subscribed!!
Thank you! That’s very kind 🙏🏻
This is a good game. I was a volunteer and went to Red Storm to play test multiplayer. Lots of fun.
That is SO cool. How did you get connected doing that?
@@brentsacks There was a posting for volunteers to come in and play test. At the time I was in school for game development and I thought it would be good to get some experience doing so. I got selected and had to drive up to Red Storm and did a play session. There are usually volunteer sessions listed. I have also done some with Sony as well years ago.
Kind of sounds like the dream tbh haha
@@brentsacks Well game dev was what I wanted to do. After a few more volunteer tours for various companies, life had other plans for me.
@@TheBlindingwhite well, I hope those other plans are treating you well
I can't laugh but you don't know anything about ghost recon at all except after 2010s.
Original ghost recon, is honestly, almost same as clasiss rainbow six games but with wild open level, which can makes suqad members more dangerous. Your teammates(including you) can die because of bullets from out of sight. So planning and suqad-based tactics are very important.
And then they(Redstorm) made sequel as TPS, more fitting into xbox console. I haven't played it, but it is also bit more casual than original one and uses more dramatic animations.
Then Ubi soft paris and Reddtorm made Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter series(which is on x360). It had solid animations and gunplay, and was more focused on proper cover mechanism. There was a map and you can command your teammates to go specific location, but not complex like ghost recon 1 or its PC port. You can order your teammates/Drone/UAV on the fly. You can order them to go here and there. Recruit, Focus on a specific enemy by using d-pad.
It has many bombastic scenes and variety combat scenarioes, and accessibility to drones and UAVs, It became more casual. It was still harsh, you can die easily by 2 or 3 shots and you have to stablize your aim to gain more precision.
Are you following me? Do you understand where I am going? GHOST RECON SERIES ALWAYS FOLLOWED TRENDS, BECOME MORE CASUAL AND CASUAL, except It was always squad-based tactical shooter. Maybe only black sheep is break point.
And in that long view, NO, Future Soldier is not a masterpiece, not close to GRAW1&2 on xbox360 version. It loses its identity and blended into Farcry and Splinter cell conviction.
Sorry I let you down
This game was perfect
You’re right and you should say it
Imagine if you will a future GR game that combines the best elements of Wildlands, the gunplay and customization of Breakpoint, and then a linear campaign like Future Soldier. It would be the best Ghost Recon game ever.
One of the reasons I usually try to play through game series in chronological order, even if the games don’t all have the same storyline, is because I’m usually fascinated watching the game mechanics and ideas evolve and refine over time.
Playing Wildlands was so interesting to me because they took what I considered to be a bunch of steps backward. Like, you had this gameplay nailed in Future Soldier, how is it getting worse?
I guess I bring all that up because they CAN and SHOULD combine the best elements of those three games into one absolute banger. And if they pull it off, people will buy it!!!
Uuhhhhhhhmmm noooooooooo Wildlands is absolutely amazing, the shooting feels just fine as it seemlessly switches between 1st and 3rd person, the world is massive/beautiful, the physics for shooting are very realistic...I could go on and on you are very wrong about Wildlands and need to go back and play with some friends.
Breakpoint I can not defend, Breakpoint is truly awful.
@@scatered1 if you want to hear revised opinions about Wildlands, stay tuned 👀 👂🏻
@@brentsacks absolutely. I did like the video overall and will stay tuned.
@@scatered1 I’m glad! Thank you 🙏🏻
I did a "flawless" beautiful playthrough of that game on my channel.
I always go back to that game, its perfect...just perfect
Nice!! I do too. It’s an under appreciated gem
Holy shit, somebody that have the same though as i have.... a real masterpiece
I've thought about this game once a week for like ten years.