Initially, it was an uneasy fit, with a plethora of lesser bugs diminishing the experience. Revisit 2001’s inaugural entry and you’ll discover a requirement for reconnaissance and a synergy across riflemen, support, demolitions, and sniper units.Ģ017’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands situated the series’ heating action in the type of sandboxes that Ubisoft had cultivated across its Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series. Alongside the Operation Flashpoint series, Ghost Recon paved the way for open-world autonomy and class-based teams.
Drawing inspiration from Tom Clancy’s oeuvre of tense action-thrillers and revealing non-fiction works, the franchise’s unabashed technological fetishism would be mimicked when Call of Duty and Battlefield wished to move beyond their World War II contexts. Across its eighteen-year history, Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon series has been a key innovator in the military shooter genre.
