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5. A Shared Universe
Another benefit of the Tom Clancy licence - all of Ubisoft's Clancy titles inhabit the same living, breathing world, and titles often intersect in ways so subtle even Marvel's Cinematic Universe would be jealous. Unlike Call of Duty, there is a very clear continuity with the Clancy titles. They all inhabit the same world created by the author's fiction and don't stray away from its core at any point. Scott Mitchell (the key protagonist from the Ghost Recon series) becomes a general in the WW3 simulator End War, and in the first HAWX game pilots assist Mitchell's unit during the ending of GRAW 2. In the sequel, HAWX 2, Voron (Third-Echelon's Russian counterpart) lends assistance to the player, and in Vegas 2 the player interacts with Logan Keller - the protagonist of the previous entry. In its attempt to construct a linear narrative, Treyarch have created a convoluted timeline that comprises the events of World at War, Black Ops, and Black Ops II into one span, but it's unclear as to where Infinity Ward's and Sledgehammer's titles slot into this timeline - if they even do at all. All the Clancy games contribute to the wider lore of the universe, and that just makes their narrative even more significant.
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.
