Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, a new Tom Clancy online shooter game coming October 4 that pits you against a company that makes killer drones.
2017’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands sent players to Bolivia, where they were tasked with dismantling and destroying a drug cartel on its own turf. The next game in Ubisoft’s tactical shooter series is taking a decidedly different approach with its setting and story, leaning more heavily into the fantastical side of the Clancy-verse.
Ghost Recon: Breakpoint forgoes a real-world locale for the fictional island of Aurora, a mysterious archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Unrestricted by the geographic rules of a place that actually exists, the gorgeous location features everything from snow-capped peaks and sandy beaches to lush jungles and even an active volcano. Aurora is also home to Skell Technology, a Silicon Valley-like corporation focused on building autonomous drones to do good deeds, like heal the sick and end hunger. It’s coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 4.
The Ghost Recon series may not have as high a profile as Rainbow Six: Siege, which the publisher said had over 35 million players in June. But Ghost Recon: Wildlands remains a key part of its online lineup, as it gives players a different set of environmental and tactical challenges than in Rainbow Six.
Of course, in the wrong hands, Skell’s ambitious tech could also be weaponized for the absolute worst reasons. Enter Cole D. Walker, a new character recently introduced in Wildlands’ Operation Oracle DLC. Played by actor Jon Bernthal, the fellow Ghost fights by your side in the new story-driven expansion. In Breakpoint, however, he’s the antagonist, an evil-doer who’s recruited other rogue Ghosts to join his misguided, drone-reprogramming cause.
While tracking the crazed leader of a robot army on a volcanic island might sound like the stuff of science fiction, Breakpoint’s tempering its disbelief-suspending story and setting with the series’ most realistic gameplay to date.
