'Ghost Recon Alpha' is a 2012 short film that acts as a prequel to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future SoldierTM game being released at the end of the month. The movie invites you into the future of war with the US Armed Force's point of spear. Inserted deep behind enemy lines, the Ghosts must strike swiftly to eliminate one of the world's most feared war criminals, and vanish as they came.
This is the second short film I've watched and review tonight, each one is completely different from the other, and I have to say that this is a really good piece of work, it's almost as if they've taken a scene right out of a feature film, it looks that good! You can pick at the special effects a little bit, but it doesn't really matter, you can forgive it because of how good everything going on around it is. It gives you, the audience, a great sense of realism switching from a third person perspective to a first person (from the point of view of the drones). It makes you believe that this is the type of warfare we will be facing in the future, because nothing in it is too outlandish.
It's easily the best promotional video I've seen for a game, a lot of time and effort has gone into this, the best before this was for Halo ODST a few years back when they got Peter Jackson to film a live action sequence. I also noticed that it gives special thanks to the one and only Ridley Scott, looks like he has been busy this year. The film ends where I expect the game will take off, and I can already see that the public wants more of this.
Give it a watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-wAzlqzXH0
It isn't just good as a promotional film, it's good as a film full stop! A solid 9/10.
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