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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Deal overview

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier is currently 75% off on Xbox — down to $4.99 from $19.99.

At 75% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier reaches on Xbox — near its typical floor.

That works out to $15.00 off the Xbox list price of $19.99.

This deal is for the XBOX version. Click View Deal to open the official Xbox page — prices and regional availability are confirmed at checkout, not by GamesCreed.

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About this game

Ghost Recon Future Soldier is the point where the Ghost Recon series stopped pretending to be a slow-burn tactical sim and leaned all the way into being a cinematic, gadget-heavy shooter. Ubisoft Paris put you in charge of a four-man Ghost team hunting down high-value targets across a string of hot spots, and the pitch is simple: you’re playing the most technologically overloaded infantry unit in fiction, and the game wants you to feel that in every firefight.

How it plays

The campaign runs you through more than a dozen missions spread across a handful of very different environments, from dense jungle to frozen tundra, and the mission design leans on that variety to keep things from feeling repetitive. The signature trick is the toolkit: optical camouflage that lets you slip past patrols, drones for scouting ahead, and augmented reality overlays that mark enemies and objectives before you commit to an approach. You’re encouraged to scout, tag threats, and pick your entry point rather than just charging in, though the game is just as happy to let you switch into a more aggressive, over-the-shoulder cover shooter when a fight breaks out. Gunsmith mode is the other big pillar, letting you strip down and rebuild your weapons from a large pool of parts so your loadout actually reflects how you like to play, whether that’s suppressed and quiet or built for close-quarters chaos. Note that this is the single-player and offline experience: the multiplayer modes and cooperative missions that shipped with the game are no longer reachable since the servers have been shut down.

Who it’s for

If you like your shooters with a layer of gadget-driven strategy over the top of the shooting, this scratches that itch nicely. Fans of squad-based tactical action, cover shooters with a sci-fi edge, or anyone who enjoyed the Ghost Recon name before it went open-world will feel right at home. It’s less of a fit if you’re hoping for a true stealth sandbox with freeform tactics, since the mission structure is fairly guided, or if online play was the main draw for you, since that side of the game is gone. Go in expecting a well-crafted single-player campaign and nothing more.

Is it worth it?

For what it delivers, a tightly built campaign with a distinct visual identity and a weapon customization system that still holds up, it’s a satisfying way to spend some time if you’re the type of player described above. It’s an older, single-player-only experience at this point, so it’s not the kind of game you’d want to pay full modern price for, but it’s exactly the sort of title worth picking up when it’s discounted. Go in for the campaign, not for anything online, and it delivers solid value for a sale price.

Quick facts

Genre: Shooter. Developer: Ubisoft Paris. Publisher: Ubisoft. Platform: PC (Xbox Games on Demand). Release date: August 21, 2012.

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