14 DAY TRIAL // Quite a few games that were under development at Ubisoft have turned out as endless working projects and have yet to come out of the basement. The company’s biggest title that has seen delays after delays is of course Splinter Cell: Conviction, but that doesn't mean it's the only one. After Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 proved to be a very successful game, Ubisoft announced this January that a new installment was in the making. Initially, it announced that the game would be released by the end of March 2010, but it didn't take long before the title got a serious rescheduling.
This time the new date for the game has been pushed until the end of the next fiscal year. March 2011 is the new deadline the game had to accommodate, but it looks like it will make it to the finish line with enough spare time to go back and do the race all over again. Just yesterday, a new name appeared in the Australian Classification Board's online database, that of Ubisoft's franchise. "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator" is the name the new product received and it was listed as a multiple-platform title.
The upcoming sequel in the Ghost Recon series received an MA 15+ rating from the Australian board, known for its incredibly strict rating system. MA 15+ is the highest rating a game can receive in Australia before being banned in the country. Fallout 3 and F.E.A.R. 2 are just some of the titles that didn't make the cut and could not be sold in Australia. Software products can't receive the maximum R18+ rating from the board, as this is only reserved for films. Apparently, the problem lies in the legal understanding of just what exactly a video game is, and because of their ambiguous nature in Kangaroo Land, a lot more games haven't seen the Australian beaches.
Further details regarding Ghost Recon Predator could not be found in the board's listing, not even the exact platforms on which it will be supported. Ubisoft had no comments regarding the new title and were content with saying that their new first-person shooter wouldn't be part of the Advanced Warfighter series.