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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier delayed to May

Ubisoft's squad-based shooter now expected May 22 in North America, May 24 in UK; extra development time to be used to "refine the experience"; PC launch at a later date.

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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's long road to release was just extended. Today, Ubisoft announced that the squad-based shooter will not make its previously scheduled March 2012 debut. Instead, Future Soldier is now slated to arrive on May 22 in North America, followed by a May 24 release in the United Kingdom.

Future Soldier has been pushed even further into the future.
Future Soldier has been pushed even further into the future.

At launch, Future Soldier will be available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A PC iteration of the shooter will arrive at a later date. However, gamers won't need to wait until May to play the title, as an Xbox 360 and PS3 multiplayer beta will go live in April.

Explaining the delay, Ubisoft said, "These extra few months will allow Ubisoft's creative teams more time to refine the experience and deliver a game that fully achieves the level of excellence that defines the Ghost Recon franchise."

Today's Future Soldier delay is far from the first such release date alteration for the game. The title was first teased in January 2009 for an early-2010 release but was later delayed to a fourth-quarter 2010 launch. Since then, it has been pushed to the first quarter of 2011 and then again to March 2012.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier gets its name from the Future Soldier programs being conducted by the US and its NATO allies. The initiative, currently part of the US Army's Brigade Combat Team Modernization Program, focuses on outfitting infantrymen with networked communications and high-tech equipment. The third-person shooter will have a cooperative mode, and its gameplay will focus on both stealth and heavy action.

For more on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, check out GameSpot's latest preview.

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I hope it doesn't get delayed again, but I am so excited for this that I can wait a few more months.

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Maybe they call it Future Soldier because it's coming out in the future! Will we ever have it in our hands?! The graphics and gameplay video all look great. I WANT THIS GAME!!

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I remember seeing this at E3 2 years ago and was excited like nobodies business. Now after so many delays and what looks like a lot of game changing this, I could really care less and hope for rainbowsix to be amazing.

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the delays are worrying the game could be sh...t!

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oh WTF ive been waiting a year for this game hopefully its worth the wait

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i remeber seeing a trailer for this 2 years ago and being so excited. 2 years later... i might give the game a try, but the delays fill me with uncertainty. What i find so strange is that the 2011 E3 demo looked almost finished. What is taking so long?

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really looking forward to this. I loved graw 1&2, hope this is great as well.

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well is it worth wondering why... when Ubisoft name is involved ? I guess not. Just a bunch of men dressed in stupid suit with stupid accent.

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The delay is wise if for no other reason than to let the craze over console MW3 (and to a much lesser extent BF3) die down a bit. However, I hope Ubisoft knows what it's doing. The shooter market competition on the console is pretty stiff, and the top contenders have a different style from Ghost Recon games, an indication of what console gamers want and not of any untapped market. I don't really care whether GR: FS succeeds or not since I stay away from all console shooters that are not motion-sensing-gun-compatible, and I have no confidence in the gameplay of console-to-PC shooter ports (I still believe MW and others like it are PC-to-console-to-PC ports). However, if GR: FS blows it, Rainbow Six: Patriots may be affected. I am looking forward to Ubisoft's vision for that series after so many years.

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graw 1 and 2 was the first modern shooters, liked them both, abit mucky storyline but thats common today. Shame Ubisoft treats great titels like crap :/ uh dident see the kinnect tag..fAiL

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This is literally like the fifth time this game has been delayed. It's now worse than the delays for Splinter Cell Convictions.

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wtf

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By the time this game comes out, it's future technology will be ancient history.

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UBIsoft is unreliable. They have good game products, but they are extremely unreliable. I could understand one delay. But, why even announce a game that won't release until 3 years later? That doesn't make any d**n since. A company should consider these continual delays that span the course of years to be unacceptable. They really need to look at reorganizing their management staff.

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yet another bs delay...if they hadnt spent so much time for the kinect crap the game woulda been out already.....and the beta is delayed again as well.ubisoft is goin down the drain nothing but delays and mediocre sequels coming out

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release date 5 days from my birthday. present? :)

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Sweet jesus. Another time. It wouldn't be so bad if they delayed it to May 22nd the first delay. But all this changing dates is annoying.

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Yay! Future Soldier is back for PC!

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Don't see why there are so many negative comments, i think it looks like a good game.

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I'm glad they are refining it. I don't want to get my teeth into it and find it's half baked.

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Silly Americans. Always making up new "enemies" for their military to fight and be "heroic". Just a bunch of pawns fighting to secure some fat-cat war contractor's latest hot tub.

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@paxv1 HA haha ha ha hhaa haarrrrggghh cough cough :)

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Alright I'm kind of happy for the delay because that leaves me with more wiggle room to get Mass Effect 3 and Max Payne 3 and even for me to get Dragon's Dogma and then after that I can wait about 5 or so weeks for this one if it does come out in May.

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better then releaseing the same game every year >.> .......cod

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I am growing tired of hearing that PC versions are releasing at a later date to refine/improve upon them. I don't buy that ruse entirely. PC games are shipping in a horrible non-playable state as of late. I think they are just hoping to sell as many console units as they can before making it available on PC to avoid piracy on the PC. Makes me mad.

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They didn't want to compete with Mass Effect 3 either. That was a dumb move to slate it for the same day. Glad to see they changed it finally.

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i cant wait for it to come out its gonna be awseome i think th cotrols for kinect ont be comfrotable gonna play the old fashion way with a cotrollr

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@TopGunnas - they said in this article, "owever, gamers won't need to wait until May to play the title, as an Xbox 360 and PS3 multiplayer beta will go live in April."

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Well at least they won't postpone it till September like how Epic did Gears 3...and STILL to this day they're still tweaking it. LMAO.. Yeah. right. "Title Updates" more or less..T.otally U.seless "Downgrades."

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Anyone else got the feeling this is going to be mediocre despite the, what, year and a half delays? I've almost completely lost interest in it at this point.

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this is bs ive been waiting for this game for like 2 years and yet another delay what the hell are they doing with it. it was delayed till march and i was expecting it then now im gunna have to wait another 4 months screw this. and still no word on when the beta is comming out ?

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i preordered this game a few years ago >_>

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Just Cancel it already

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They can take all the time they need. As long as it's right when it releases.

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Delaying Ghost Recon is understandable and besides Mass Effect 3 comes out in March anyways so I do not want to see it competing with it. Smart move Ubisoft.

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First you guys come out and say the PC version is dead and Ghost recon online was pushed forward as an alternative. Now you're saying that it's not? So was the whole PC version being scrapped deal a way to get some hype for the beta?

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I'm betting on this having something to do with Kinect. Look at Star Wars being delayed as well...

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i think it is better that delay the game so they can take more time to work on than with the end product being a marvel than a rushed game that just ends up being a big disapointment

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............ typical.

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Ubisoft you can go F*** yourself..... Release all versions at a stipulated date and no postpones will be tolerated.... There's been too much of drama of yours lately....

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Thumbs up If you dont care....

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Just like Conviction. Delay, delay and at the end a crappy game.

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If the games not a huge bust, it will be worth the wait

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Even if I enjoy Ghost Recon games from time to time and even if tactical squad based shooters are the only shooters I enjoy (really how much pew pew can the 9 year old tsunami force the industry into?), I have yet to find a better gameplay than the one in Swat3.

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Dont NAME YOUR GAMES with words like FUTURE or FOREVER.. it's bad luck and a sure way to jinx it LOL We all know what happened to DUKE NUKEM "only took us 15 years and it ended up a steaming pile of fly infested t*rd" FOREVER!! SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I'm glad they're pushing this back. I'm a big fan of the Ghost Recon series and I'm sure the final finished product will be worth the wait Besides there's already a fair number of good games out this year, so it's good not everything is out at the same time :)

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What is this delay number 2 already?

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This game wont come out before September guaranteed.

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[url=<< LINK REMOVED >>]Ubisoft 2 months ago[/url] Alot of trash talking the Pc platform then months later backing off and now saying it will release on PC? This is as much lolness as Capcom berating Pc gamers about street fighter 4, then 8 months later releasing a street fighter game on the platform...

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Well, seems no one dare to go hand-to-hand with ME3.

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