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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Platform(s): Nintendo DS, PC, PSP, PlayStation 3, Wii, WiiU, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Date: June 26, 2012 (US), June 29, 2012 (EU)

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'Ghost Recon: Future Soldier' (ALL) Gets PC Date, System Requirements

by Rainier on April 3, 2012 @ 11:10 a.m. PDT

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier features cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes, while going beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience, with an unparalleled level of quality that excites long-time fans and newcomers alike.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will equip players with the world's hottest future combat systems, inspired by existing prototypes, and unleash them on the battlefield of tomorrow.

As a member of the elite Ghost Recon, you are among the few who possess the power, the adaptability, and the cognitive fortitude of the future soldier. Specialized in every area of combat, equipped for survival, and trained in absolute discretion, you are entrusted with the missions no other soldier can handle. Armed to the teeth with an arsenal of real-world high-tech weaponry only in prototype today, you are an F-16 on legs, trained to lock on to your objective even in the world's most complex, high-risk warzones.

PC version features:

  • PC high standard visuals (DX11 renderer, new high-quality assets, new post process effects, multi-monitor solutions support, TriDef stereoscopic support).
  • DirectX11 enhanced: tessellation (for soft 3D models), compute shaders-based realistic lighting (for global illumination), volumetric fog.
  • Online widget: Party, Friends and Ghost Feed functionality can be accessed at any moment from any screen
  • Extended party functionality: simplified and more flexible invitation system
  • Party text chat
  • Uplay Friends system
  • Fully customizable controls for the localized keyboards

A temporary broadband connection will be required for one-time product registration at first launch using the player Uplay account. From that point on, no permanent connection is required, except for online modes.

  • Minimum hardware requirements:
    • Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP (with Service Pack 3)/Windows Vist (with Service Pack 2)/ Windows 7 (with Service pack 1), both 32 bit & 64 bit versions
    • PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium D 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ 2.2Ghz
    • RAM: 1GB Windows XP / 2GB Windows Vista or Windows 7
    • VIDEO CARD: 256 MB DirectX–compliant, Shader 4.0–enabled video card**
    • DIRECT X: DirectX 9.0c
    • DVD-ROM DRIVE: DVD-ROM speed 4x, dual-layer drive
    • SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c – compliant sound card
    • HDD space : 25 GB
  • Recommended Configuration:
    • CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q9450/ AMD Phenom II X4 940 or higher
    • RAM: 2 GB Windows XP / 3 GB Windows Vista & 7
    • Graphics Card: 1024 MB DirectX–compliant, Shader 4.0–enabled video card based on nVidia GeForce GTX 460 or AMD/ATi HD 5850 or better

Key Features:

  • Experience the Future of War
    • The Ghosts pack the latest and best high-tech military equipment, inspired by actual prototypes.
    • Blend into any environment with mind-bending optical camouflage.
    • An exoskeleton enhances the Ghosts' physical abilities, allowing them to run, leap, slide and kick farther & faster than any soldier on the field today.
    • Unparalleled physicality and lethal expertise in melee close combat are now at your disposal. Control all-new heavily armed unmanned ground and air combat drones.
    • Unleash large-radius firepower with a personal mortar capable of firing multiple guided rockets simultaneously.
  • Natural Cooperation
    • Instantly coordinate combat against 360° threats: link-up with your Ghost teammates in a formidable formation at the push of a button.
    • Move-and-shoot-as-one with your friends or AI teammates with no training and no complex orders system.
    • Benefit from your teammates' high-tech abilities and combine them to unleash the power of an army at the pull of your trigger.
  • Epic Solo and Co-op Campaign!
    • Join the Ghosts as Kozak, a fresh recruit whose elite unit is the United State's best and only means of retaliation when a nationalist coup unseats Russia's legitimate president
    • Experience multiple aspects of the war from the unique perspectives of a high-level bodyguard, an engineer, a civilian and more.
    • Play the single- or split-screen cooperative campaign across multiple theatres as the shadow of global conflict creeps across Northern Europe and beyond.
  • Fast-Paced, Addictive Multiplayer Mode
    • Link-up for heated 8 vs. 8 adversarial matches and combine the four balanced class abilities, plus drones and individual gear.
    • Seamless ranking progression in Single, Co-op and Adversarial modes: unlock multiple rewards for your Ghost or your Clan.

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