Ubisoft shows off new gameplay details and footage with the emphasis on the new changes in appearance resulting in a lack of clutter on the screen or HUD in comparison with recent games in the Ghost Recon series and the previous demo shown at E3 this year.
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Gone were the screen-filling, often distracting augmented reality icons that both helped set the upcoming third-person shooter apart from others of its ilk and make it a bit of an eyesore.
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Ubisoft also made several changes to the game since E3 with the targeting halo giving out certain information to the player being removed or redone as a different aspect of the gameplay. The development team did state that most of the obvious changes were done for aesthetic reasons and not a complete reworking of the interface of the game.
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Roman Campos Oriola, lead game designer, confirmed that following E3 the team decided to tone down the augmented visuals of the game. They did it partly because they felt the abundance of information was cutting down on how players went through the game and partly because they seemed to recognize that the game was a bit cluttered.
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Gameplay-wise, all the choices and decision-making shown at E3 and earlier announcements are still in the game but with less initial on-screen markers for both enemy targets and objectives except for those done specifically by the player.
All the text and the targeting halo shown in the image were removed based on the gameplay impressions from Kotaku.
http://kotaku.com/5832529/ghost-reco...-polished-play
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