New Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon novel hints at next game?
Penned under the David Michaels handle, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon was released a little earlier this month to little-to-no fanfare. Being one of the disappointingly few gamers who actually read (comic books, gaming mags, and course-required materials don’t count, guys), I picked up the novel. Additionally, being a fan of the Clancy universe of books, games, and other assorted media, it’s no surprise that I quickly found myself tearing through the pages to find out what happened next. The thing that shocked me most, though, is that while the opening several chapters take place in a very classic GR-friendly 2002, the novel moves at a fairly brisk pace through time to arrive in Tom Clancy’s EndWar’s timeline.
Now, we have been told that some of the universes, more specifically HAWX (…and the Most Unfortunate Title Award goes to…) and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter by way of the HAWX trailer at last year’s E3, would be coming together. A mention or two of EndWar being a huge centerpiece in the canon of the franchises were made as well. Tom Clancy’s EndWar itself has Scott Mitchell (also the star of the new GR novel) as the Joint Strike Force Commanding Officer and several Rainbow Six veterans as European Federation commanders. The novel is the first concrete, seemingly canonical story that ties it all together, though.
So it seems to me that Ghost Recon, HAWX, and the EndWar series itself are all pretty safe bedfellows and the backdrop for Clancy’s WWIII is fairly exciting. The problem is with my favorite franchise, Rainbow Six. Having read the initial novel, Team Rainbow simply could not exist in that setting. Those who have read the novel will know what I’m talking about. The rest of you do what you’ve probably already done and load up Wikipedia.
Moving right along then, what are your predictions? Will Rainbow Six stick to a more contemporary story? Will the franchise mechanics just be married to Ghost Recon, with that franchise carrying the torch? They have always been fairly similar, up until the more recent GRAW series.
No matter what happens, it seems like the Clancy titles are all heading for the world-wide conflagration that is World War III. I’m all for having a mega-game where in one mission I’m a Splinter Cell (Sam is NOT going to still be running ops in 2020), the next I’m dropping a bomb from my fighter jet on a target designated by that Splinter Cell, the next I’m Ghost Leader calling in an airstrike on an enemy armored column from that HAWX pilot, and so on. Sounds phenomenal. Probably will not happen that way, but I can dream, can’t I?
23. February 2009 at 9:49 am :
the novel is amazing. the imagery is captivating and makes me feel like im there with the troops. but the games, complete trash.dont buy them, you will b wasting money u can use to buy another clancy novel.lol
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