“Ghost Recon Breakpoint will come with PvP experience at launch”
Ubisoft just announced a new Ghost Recon game – Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint and will be available October 4 on the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.
Here is everything you should know –
- Breakpoint is an entirely new adventure, developed by Ubisoft Paris in collaboration with Ubisoft Bucharest, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Odessa, Kiev, Belgrade and Milan studios.
- Players reprise their roles as the Elite US Special Operations Unit known as Ghosts, who we find fighting for their survival behind enemy lines after crash-landing on a mysterious island.
- This island is called Auroa, located in the Pacific Ocean. Auroa was originally home to Skell Technology, renowned for life-changing drone innovation, but its facilities have been seized.
- Auroa is presented as a beautiful open world, which features diverse locations that range from snow-capped mountains to sandy beaches, jungles, deserts, fjords and a volcano.
- The Ghosts’ nemesis in the scenario is an ex-US Army comrade, Lt. Colonel Cole D. Walker, in charge of a renegade team, The Wolves, who received the same training as our heroes.
- Walker is portrayed by American actor Jon Bernthal who has starred in TV Shows such as The Walking Dead and The Punisher, and movies that include The Accountant and Sicario.
- The writing team on Breakpoint includes Special Forces Medical Sergeant Emil Daubon, who served more than 13 years in the US Army Green Berets, bringing authenticity to scenarios.
- Breakpoint is playable solo or in up to four-player co-op, with thousands of customisation options to personalise your Ghost that carries across the Campaign and Player-versus-Player.
- PVP is available from launch, as are four different character classes that players can switch between at any time from the Ghosts’ bivouac. More classes will be introduced after launch.
- Terrain plays a vital role, allowing for prone camouflage cloaked in mud for stealthy strikes. Terrain is also treacherous, with steep slopes leading to injuries that should be attended to. Enemy bodies can be concealed, and fallen comrades carried to the safety of your bivouac.
- State-of-the-art military technology is available to Ghosts, such as the reconnaissance drone that allows Sync-Shots to target Wolf patrols. A rocket launcher can be carried to eliminate heavily armoured and formidably-equipped AI-controlled enemy vehicles.
- Enemy AI in Breakpoint is challenging owing to tactical behaviour that coordinates to take you down. The Wolves are in possession of reprogrammed drones to make matters worse.
- Expansion packs will be released every four months, comprising new story arcs and classes. Endgame content also includes Raids – for the first time ever in the Ghost Recon franchise.
Ubisoft also released a 13-minute gameplay walkthrough. We see the open world and some survival elements.
