Ghost Recon has also all but abandoned its core premise. Terrorist Hunt has been demoted from a key feature to a minor distraction, and there's no single-player to speak of. Rainbow Six Siege may provide a unique, tactics-based twist on multiplayer shooters, but it's a far cry from what the series once was. However, following 2010, each subsequent Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon lost tactical elements, presumably in a bid to find mainstream appeal. PvP elements were slowly introduced, but the main focus was still on compelling single-player storylines and co-op experiences, ensuring the series distinguished itself from the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield. The Tom Clancy Games Have Lost The Franchise's Identityįrom 1998 to 2008, all of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy games fit squarely into that tactical, semi-grounded bracket. Rainbow Six was followed shortly after by Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, the former spotlighting traditional military special forces and the latter covert espionage. The game had a more tactical focus than many of the other first and third-person shooters of the time and embodied the ethos of Clancy's novels, focusing on high stakes, post-Cold War fiction and putting players in control of elite counter-terrorist operatives. With the release of the original Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six in 1998, Ubisoft was able to carve out a niche in the saturated shooter market.
Related: Ghost Recon Frontline Preview - Large-Scale PvP Inbound Ghost Recon Frontline sees the series take yet another step away from its former core audience as Ubisoft finally chases the battle royale craze dominated by Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Apex Legends. Ghost Recon, meanwhile, has leaned further into the open-world and looter-shooter genres - no doubt spurred on by the success of Tom Clancy's The Division, which also lacked many of the hallmarks of the Tom Clancy franchise's formative entries. While its emphasis used to be on realistic, cooperative gameplay, Rainbow Six now primarily exists as a PvP multiplayer shooter, and its next entry, Rainbow Six Extraction, is set around Team Rainbow's operators fighting symbiote-like aliens.
Over the last decade, the Tom Clancy series has steadily divested from the tactical focus that made franchise pillars like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon hits to begin with, pivoting them to different genres and accommodating shifting trends in the industry.
Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's video games are in danger of losing their franchise identity, with the announcement of the Ghost Recon Frontline battle royale taking the series further away from its roots.
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