The Ghost Recon franchise celebrates its Twenty fifth anniversary with a devoted showcase on August 6, but it surely seems to be like one large shock for this occasion has been leaked early. The PlayStation Retailer has seemingly let slip particulars on an enormous improve for 2017’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
Noticed on the Ghost Recon subreddit, the PlayStation Retailer detailed a free current-gen improve that features bumping the sport’s graphics as much as 4K and 60fps, 3D audio help, sooner load instances through the console SSD, and additional haptic suggestions options through the DualSense controller. A brand new “Final Rites” story pack may even reportedly go reside with the replace, and there’ll even be quality-of-life updates. Seemingly, the PC and Xbox Sequence X|S variations may even obtain the identical graphical upgrades, gameplay enhancements, and additional content material, as the sport was initially launched for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Rumblings of a Ghost Recon: Wildlands current-gen improve just lately surfaced in July, and on the time, Ubisoft stated that it deliberate to share what’s subsequent for the franchise in the course of the Ghost Recon Twenty fifth-anniversary celebrations. The IP is now within the arms of Artistic Home 2, one in every of a number of new teams at Ubisoft following its restructuring earlier this yr. Artistic Home 2 is concentrated on Ubisoft’s aggressive and cooperative shooter IP, like The Division, Splinter Cell, and Ghost Recon.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands was an enormous hit for Ubisoft when it launched, however the identical cannot be stated for its sequel, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. The final Ghost Recon by no means really took off, as critics and gamers had been lukewarm on it, and the controversial resolution so as to add NFTs to it did not assist to attract in new gamers. The sport nonetheless acquired a formidable quantity of post-launch content material, however by 2022, the plug was pulled on Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.
Ubisoft additionally quietly talked about in July that it is engaged on a brand new Ghost Recon sport. Ubisoft CFO Frederick Duguet described it as a “first-person-shooter-type” sport, an enormous departure from the principally third-person perspective used since 2006’s Superior Warfighter.
