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.

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.

From the brief hands-off demonstration we're given, it seems that Future Soldier is punchier and faster paced than past Ghost Recons, its tactics now played out in milliseconds rather than minutes and its combat pushed firmly into the player's face. Showing a Ghost sprinting from cover to cover behind a road of parked cars, pausing only briefly to bring a helicopter down with a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, it's proof that while Future Soldier is still a cover-based action game that blends first- and third-person play, it's a world away from the measured tactical tempo of Advanced Warfighter.

That something new is, in short, the link-up system, a novel and innovative take on the co-operative trend that's fast becoming ubiquitous in games. "Tons of people have been trying to figure out how you get people to play together when you've got a bunch of rowdy 14 and 15-year-olds running around, screaming and singing while you're trying to form a team and do something constructive," says the game's writer Gabrielle Shrager.

Future Soldier's solution is simple: a single button that when held tethers the player to other squad members. Up to four players can now work as one single unit, with total 360-degree vision and untold stopping power in a mechanic that exists across single-player, co-op and multiplayer. "I think it's one of the first games that will allow true collaborative play without forcing people to speak," believes Shrager. "There's no system that can do that without having to yell to your friends."