Live Action Trailer for GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER

Similar to the marketing campaign when Microsoft brought in Neil Blomkamp to direct a trilogy of live action short films set in the Halo universe back in 2007, so too Ubisoft has done the same for its trailer to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, an upcoming first-person shooter game.  The negative stigma surrounding video game-based-films has consistently been very poor but this is certainly not the case here.   

Directed by Ben Mor of Little Minx, a company of Ridley Scott and Associates, the trailer was created in collaboration with visual effects creators Asylum, who are known for their high-caliber work on Terminator Salvation.  The live-action video game trailer marks the highly anticipated return of the elite Ghosts with a visceral and immersive experience that showcases the explosive action of future warfare.

Illustrating the realism that the Ghost Recon brand is known for, the "Future War" trailer features the Ghosts on the hunt for a wanted war criminal in Moscow.  Using weapons and advanced technology based on real-world military prototypes in research and development today, and which fans will soon be able to experience directly in the game, the Ghosts strike down an entire army before vanishing from sight.

Ubisoft has also tapped Hervé de Crécy and François Alaux, the directorial duo behind the Oscar winning animated short Logorama, to direct a short film based on the Ghost Recon brand.  Its expected to arrive around the same time the game hit retail stores this year.  You'll find the trailer embedded below.