Ghost Recon is taking a step back when it comes to technology with Wildlands, instead electing to focus on a more grounded experience involving equipment and technology that you'd have a better chance of seeing in a documentary than in a Neil Blomkamp flick. It's not hard to see why Ubisoft have retreated from the Future setting. After all, every Ghost Recon title since 2006's Advanced Warfighter has used it, and with behemoths like Call of Duty now jumping on the bandwagon and oversaturating the setting it makes perfect sense to go back to something original rather than be party to its slow demise. Future Soldier even made a point of stating what happens when a soldier becomes to reliant on his tech, so dialling everything back a notch for its successor makes just as much narrative sense as it does gameplay wise. Taking the series back to its roots is a genius move to make when the market is so underpopulated by intelligent military shooters. Just be sure to remember your NATO alphabet by the time it drops.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
