@Erwin: You forgot the part where you have to disobey orders to go after the bad guy..and how you will suffer no consequences as a result and perhaps even be promoted.

Tom Clancy's Air Combat isn't rumored - it has been officially announced by Ubisoft. I wouldn't use the word "sim" though - I'm guessing it'll be more like Ace Combat. [www.ubisoftgroup.com]

MeanMF

I'm going to go with the air combat brand. What little the the videos showed had manly to do with planes. In a couple of the images you see a fighter jet being refueled and a jet they also make mention of refueling in them. You also see a shot in side of the cock pit with it showing the pilots helmet

madman83

I noticed those earlier today. i was annoyed becuase full page flash overlays are like having someone piss on the website you're trying to see.

t0yrobo

@Erwin: oh shit son, thanks for ruining the story >:(
In all seriousness, I never liked the GRAW series.

goldwings

@FlimFlaminus: Did I read that right? Fighter Sim? If that truly is a typo and you meant flight simulator, lmao @ that. If you did not, then, holy shit a Tom Clancy Fighter Sim.

Candlejack

Spoilers: It's a military shooter involving one or more squads saving us from a nuclear threat to be carried out by terrorists. You will take out the tangos in the day except for a single night stage to change things up. The main character WILL survive against all odds in the final stage against what appears to be the terrorist's last stand, which conveniently keeps their finger on the detonator until the last shot... some how.
I still have to say I do want to play it. It's just too much fun still.

Erwin

I love stuf flike this. It really gets ya thinking.

Pieman2

It could be for the rumored Tom Clancy Fighter Sim. And I Agree with IntelSilver, I don't take UBI games seriously now with their track record of serious bug and crippled functionality out of the box on release. I for one am sick of paying for the privilege to beta test for them.

FlimFlaminus

Cool. Looking forward to a new Ghost Recon, no matter if GRAW3 or a new direction. Well, "new" isn't the right word, but you get what I mean.

I really really liked the singleplayer campaign slash coop campaign of GRAW1 & 2, although I favour the R6:Vegas Versus & Online by a lot. A whole lot.

So yea, count me in for whatever they release. The only franchise from Ubi that I have completely lost interest in is in fact Splinter Cell.

Candlejack

I think R.U.S.E may be a ruse of sorts.

One Way Mule

At this point, I'm not even sure I should be taking Ubisoft games seriously or not. What with all those bugs and whatnot.

IntelSilver

@Candlejack:

Don't get too excited. It'll probably just be an Ace Combat clone with Clancy's name slapped on it.

ExplodingKayNine

Forget all of the Tom Clancy stuff, I need Assassins Creed 2.

Amazon_Chris

@IntelSilver: There was a point in which you took Clancy/Ubi games seriously?

alb1221

Well I've always liked the GRAW series I had GRAW on the 360 & GRAW2 on the PS3, and the online actually worked.

Rockwallaby

I'm gonna go ahead and jump on the ubi-hate bandwagon. I'm really sick of their games releasing in shambles. The last game I bought from them that worked great out of the box was GRAW2/PS3...and I had to wait like a year for them to release it. Screw em, I got GTA IV and MGS4 ahead.

madhotch

I've always been a fan of GRAW, and I've always wanted a modern flight combat simulator. So my interest here is piqued.

ShirtGuyDom

@alb1221:
Yeah. I think it was while i was playing the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.

IntelSilver

Ehm, after playing GRAW2(PC) i dont think that i want any more of it...well maybe if they promise to do some beta testing and patching before the release, then maybe.

neojam

@ErskinPig: Quit yer bitchin. You got the first-person version with more squad commands and mods and all that razzmataz.

Horsefly

Looking forward to GRAW 3 provided they make a proper PC version again and don't give us a gimped arcadey console port.

ErskinPig

I want the friggin guns to have some BALLS since that was seriously lacking in the last 2 GRAW games. :x

Less rail shooting scenes also for the love of god.

Witzbold

Oh I see, you misinterpretted my post. I was saying I want them to CONTINUE to make proper PC versions and not start porting the console versions.

ErskinPig

Exactly!

ErskinPig

GRAW 2 (on pc) was really fun to play with friends, however it was more like GRAW 1.5 and really didn't bring much new to the table. Hopefully GRAW 3 is a bigger step forward.

LX

GRAW 3? Yes plz.

jello44

@IntelSilver: Fair enough, Sands of Time is a fine piece. Can't say much for the sequels though. I was more talking about Clancy games.

alb1221

I was glad that in GRAW 2 the AI was much better than the first one though. Did enjoy using the MULE too. Granted I never bothered using it as cover like how it says you can do that if you want.

Witzbold

It seems to me that the first video is a mid-air refueling or a AWACS or similar aircraft. You get a glimse of a radar plane of some kind once or twice and the radio chatter sounds about right. At some point they 'disengage' from what I speculate is a mid-air refueling craft (a KC-130 or something?). Then the AWACS, tanker, or both are hit by a missle, when one of them panicly yells 'did you spot the bandits?'. Then, I think, his opposite says it was a surface to air missle.

Their recently announced flight sim seems like a good guess. But then why do all the links lead to the Ghost Recon page? I figure if not that then it is a Ghost Recon with a story based on the Ghosts having to go behind enemy lines to recover something important to national security (of course). This would be an interesting story, but it would eliminate alot of the possibilities the cross-com provided they talked our ears off about from GRAW (don't misunderstand, I loved the cross-com, and enjoyed emplementing it). You could still use air cover, but being in a hostile county would take away the majority of ground support. I look forward to finding out.

Muffin_Man

@Erwin: SPOILERS!

Karlott

i bet this is the air combat game . koo

Mobius_1923

UBISOFT is becoming one of my favorite publishers

ZetaCrossfire

A year or so ago, there was supposedly a leaked document showing Ubi's future releases, and one of them listed was something called "Tom Clancy's Firehawk." Certainly sounds like a fighter sim title.

Nedus

I want to like Ubisoft but with all the late and poor PS3 ports... it's just getting harder for me.

Snappywave

A new GRAW I would welcome gladly. But we'll see.

GM08

@Candlejack: Yes you read correctly. There were several rumors running around about a Flight Sim or Helo sim with Tom Clancy's name attached to it. It was published in a few game news sites last year. Now that UBI has litterally bought Tom Clancy's name, they can slap it on anything they want. Tom Clancy's Cooking Mama anyone? UBI know's that the name TC carries alot of weight even though they have mainstreamed and halo-ized the R6 and GR series with it. Using "TC" is going to lend gamer cred to anything it's attached to - example Tom Clancy's End War.... That is at least in the short term and if they don't attach it to stupid games that really have no business being called "tactical" in any shape of form.

FlimFlaminus

IMHO i'm off Ubi games until they get over the "barely an expansion" style one each year games and start making REAL games again.
That and i'm tired of their constant use of the Frag dolls as tools to sell their wares.
isn't that part of the definition of being "Prostitute"?
and i quote
"One who sells one's abilities, talent, or name for an unworthy purpose."

Is it really such an amazing thing to think girls play games? my GF's fave game is GTA3 for crying out loud (along side FF7 and Kingdom hearts 2, and more recently Halo) and she's more enthused about GTA4 than i am!
so much so she's threatened to steal my X360 so she can get it and play!
I've actually asked her if i should take some pics of the back of her head as she played a game and sell them online this BS is so out of control.

"OMG! GIRLS PLAYING GAMES! SEEXY!"
bah
Games are about fun IMHO not sex, and gender holds no bounds in gaming.
Ubi's lost my attention wholely for bad customer service, half arse ports, unoriginal and unfinished games, as well as expansion like games sold at full price.
Even EA adds more things to their sports games each year than i've seen added to Ubi title "sequels" lately. (exaggeration intended)

GrimCW

In an age of games like R6:V and Gears of War, the Ghost Recon games are clunky, overly complicated and well, not fun.

MrAkash

I've only played the GRAW series on 360. The campaigns are awesome, and the multiplayer brings in some enjoyment.

Here's looking for more.

.endejas.

oooh, hopefully there doing a good job on the PS3 version, i like my silver dualshock 3 way than my 360 pads.

npa190

Please be a real sequel UBI! Loved GRAW... then was dissapointed with GRAW2 for its lack of new material and shitty 4 hour campaign. Rainbow Six Vegas... awesome... and then the pile of shit "expansion" pack called Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Vegas 2 is such buggy shyte, and please, why even put the number 2 on it when its not even a cohesive sequel.

No more cheap cash in sequels UBI, give us some full all new material!

Kyle81

Crosses fingers for GRAW 3.

Numero10

@MrAkash:
You're kidding me right?
"The Ghost Recon games are clunky, overly complicated and well, not fun."

"overly complicated" ? Must be a joke...if you think GRAW is overly complicated you surely never played the original ghost recon / rainbow six...why the hell are you playing Clancy's franchise if you cant stand "overly complicated games"...thats the point...

Xmaster

I think Ubsifot needs to spend less time focusing on new sequels and more time focusing on the games that are out right now and have serious issues. (Rainbow Six Vegas 2 I'm looking at you)

swordfish2eva1

How ironic with the smoke image and all seeing as how Clancy's Maryland home recently caught fire. Probably God's way of telling him to stop letting Ubisoft make awful games in his name.

Moe Power

@Moe Power:

please try playing the games before condemning them, THX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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