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.
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