… and I’m unsure how I feel about it.

On the one hand, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is a brilliant game, one of the best on 3DS, and it’s great to hear that more people will have a chance to play it. Julian Gollop (creator of X-Com) and his team at Ubisoft Sofia deserve to get more recognition for this excellent turn-based strategy title.

Also, touch-based controls for directing your units around the battlefield should work great on the iPhone and iPad, just as good if not maybe better than the D-pad.

But on the other hand, I’m worried that the group that could’ve spent these last several months on a Shadow Wars sequel labored over this project instead. Though it’s possible Ubisoft gave the port to another small studio or to a few members of the Sofia team.

My other concern is that the presentation on the iPad version kinda looks like butt so far. I get that the game has a lot of unit/terrain data to communicate, but it’s odd to see the dual-screen setup on a single screen. And what will this look like on the iPhone’s small screen?

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[Image via Santtu Hauskala; I know this image doesn’t actually look much like her, but it’s Ghost Recon’s god-tier assassin Banshee! I’ve never seen Banshee fanart!]

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