History VideoGame / TomClancysEliteSquad

''Tom Clancy's Elite Squad'' (or ''Elite Squad'' for short) [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames was]] a Free-to-Play Tactical RPG published and developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} that ran from August 27, 2020 to October 4, 2021.

The game took place in the present time when the international community secretly enacts a multinational counter-terrorism unit mandated to take on rogue [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC company]] UMBRA[[note]]As of December 2020, the group is known as ObtainR due to changes made to avoid associating the game with the BLM movement.[[/note]], which [[VillainWithGoodPublicity paints itself to be an advocate]] for an egalitarian utopia against corrupt politicians, businesspeople and elected officials while conducting terrorist attacks from behind the scenes. The group, known as [[TitleDrop the Elite Squad Initiative]], calls for the recruitment of operators from various law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations. Although they are also mandated (if necessary) to [[BoxedCrook recruit anyone who's been arrested or known to be a criminal or terrorist]] in order to take on UMBRA forces. The group is lead by [[MissionControl Eagle One]].

* PlayEveryDay: The game has a login calendar that gives rewards like Cash, Gold, lootbox keys, and autowin tokens. There are daily missions to take on which involve clearing missions, leveling up at least one character, playing Arena and killing soldiers. Doing so gives you Character tokens, Gold, Cash and XP.

* TitleDrop: Elite Squad is the new of a new anti-terrorist initiative launched to take on UMBRA covertly.

-->'''Scott''': [[spoiler:Except CODA isn't just any Phantom... She's also Max's daughter! For a man who sees and hears everything, she's his blind spot.]]

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''Tom Clancy's Elite Squad'' (or Elite Squad for short) is a Free-to-Play Tactical RPG published and developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, released worldwide on August 27, 2020 after initial soft launches were made for Android smartphones in early 2020 before they were fully launched for Android and Apple smartphones.

The game takes place in the present time when the international community secretly enacts a multinational counter-terrorism unit mandated to take on rogue [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC company]] UMBRA[[note]]As of December 2020, the group is known as ObtainR due to changes made to avoid associating the game with the BLM movement.[[/note]], which [[VillainWithGoodPublicity paints itself to be an advocate]] for an egalitarian utopia against corrupt politicians, businesspeople and elected officials while conducting terrorist attacks from behind the scenes. The group, known as [[TitleDrop the Elite Squad Initiative]], calls for the recruitment of operators from various law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations. Although they are also mandated (if necessary) to [[BoxedCrook recruit anyone who's been arrested or known to be a criminal or terrorist]] in order to take on UMBRA forces. The group is lead by [[MissionControl Eagle One]].

It was reported on August 29, 2020 that the opening cutscene will be changed to remove any images depicting a raised fist, which is known to be one of the symbols of the Black Lives Matter movement, for concerns that it's playing into far right group propaganda. The [[https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-apologizes-for-tom-clancy-game-imagery-that-sug-1844892904 article has more details]].

As of March 30, 2021, the game is updated for Season 2.

On July 21, 2021, Ubisoft announced that the game servers will be closed after October 4, 2021.

The website is [[https://www.elitesquadgame.com/ here]].

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTz-6THsBU8 Official Ubisoft Forward Trailer]].

!!This game has the following tropes:

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* WhamLine: Said by Scott Mithchell at Level 04-E of the [=ObtainR=] campaign.

* TitleDrop: Elite Squad is the new of a new anti-terrorist initiative launched to take on UMBRA covertly.

The game takes place in the present time when the international community secretly enacts a multinational counter-terrorism unit mandated to take on rogue [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC company]] UMBRA, which [[VillainWithGoodPublicity paints itself to be an advocate]] for an egalitarian utopia against corrupt politicians, businesspeople and elected officials while conducting terrorist attacks from behind the scenes. The group, known as [[TitleDrop the Elite Squad Initiative]], calls for the recruitment of operators from various law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations. Although they are also mandated (if necessary) to [[BoxedCrook recruit anyone who's been arrested or known to be a criminal or terrorist]] in order to take on UMBRA forces. The group is lead by [[MissionControl Eagle One]].

* DamagerHealerTank: The classes in this game are done with the Fighters as the tanks, medical Technicians as the healers, and the damage dealing Strikers as the Damagers.

* FighterMageThief: The classes in this game are done with the tanky Fighters as Guardians, medical Technicians as the Mages and the damage dealing Strikers as the Thieves.

Recruitable Operatives (Highest Rarity to lowest):
* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon''
Ghosts: (Ghost Nomad, Holt, Fury, Marcus Brown, John Kozak, Vasily, Fixit, Midas, Scott Mitchell, Weaver, Karen Bowman, Alicia Diaz)\\
Santa Blanca Cartel (El Sueño, El Cardenal, El Muro, El Wey, Nidia Flores)\\
Kataris 26 (Pac Katari, Jimena Martins, Pablo Cuellar, Juanna Pedriel, Ricardo Diaz)\\
Wolves (Walker)
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix''
(Ash, Tachanka, Caveira, Doc, Dokkaebi, Echo, Montagne, Elmaktoub Nomad, Valkyrie, Buck, Gridlock, Twitch, Rook)
* ''VideoGame/TheDivision''
The Division (Faye Lau, Jessica Kandel, Megan Collins, Bronson Thurman, Ryan Marquez)\\
Last Man Battalion (Charles Bliss, Scarecrow, Ning Wang, Winston Banks)
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''
Fourth Echelon (Sam Fisher, Anna Grimsdottir, Victor Coste, Kestrel, Isaac Briggs)\\
John Brown's Army (Jon Ming, Massoud Ibn-Yussif, Enrica Villablanca, Emile Dufraisne)\\
Black Arrow (Tom Reed, Jeremy Prentiss, Shawn Robertson, Alejandro Garcia Gomez, Richard Kingsley)
* ''VideoGame/{{HAWX}}''
(Zeal, Arrow, Sonnet, David Crenshaw, Ringo)
* ''VideoGame/EndWar''
(Sergei Izotov, Alexei Nozotov, Redfang, Gremlin, Ironclaw)
* [[OriginalGeneration Phantoms]]
(Coda, Bard, [=G1U=], Virgil, Deuce)

The game takes place in the present time when the international community secretly enacts a multinational counter-terrorism unit mandated to take on rogue [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC company]] UMBRA, which [[VillainWithGoodPublicity paints itself to be an advocate]] for an egalitarian utopia against corrupt politicians, businesspeople and elected officials while conducting terrorist attacks from behind the scenes. The group, known as [[TitleDrop the Elite Squad Initiative]], calls for the recruitment of operators from various law enforcement, military and intelligence organization. Although they are also mandated (if necessary) to [[BoxedCrook recruit anyone who's been arrested or known to be a criminal or terrorist]] in order to take on UMBRA forces. The group is lead by [[MissionControl Eagle One]].

* PlayEveryDay: The game has daily missions to take on which involve clearing missions, leveling up at least one character, playing Arena and killing soldiers. Doing so gives you Character tokens, Gold, Cash and XP.

* EnemyMine: You can fill your team with characters who in their home games would be glad to kill one another (Bowman and El Sueño for example), but the threat of UMBRA forces them to put their feuds aside for now.

* LogoJoke: Owlient, the Ubisoft subsidiary responsible for the game, shows up as the name of radar equipment (which is clearly written on it) in the prison level.

The website is [https://www.elitesquadgame.com/ here].

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTz-6THsBU8 Official Ubisoft Forward Trailer].

* LogoJoke: Owlient, the Ubisoft subsidiary responsible for the game, shows up as the name of radar equipment (which is cleary written on it) in the

''Tom Clancy's Elite Squad'' is a Free-to-Play Tactical RPG published and developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, released worldwide on August 26, 2020 after initial soft launches were made for Android smartphones before they were fully launched for Android and Apple smartphones.

It combines all of the Tom Clancy video game-based franchises into one collection of heroes and villains teaming up to take on an even worse group called Umbra that plan to plunge the world into utter chaos.

* EnemyMine: You can fill your team with characters who in their home games would be glad to kill one another (Bowman and El Sueño for example), but the threat of Umbra forces them to put their feuds aside for now.

''Tom Clancy's Elite Squad'' is a Free-to-Play Tactical RPG published and developed by Creator/Ubisoft.

It combines all of the Tom Clancy franchises into one collection of heroes and villains teaming up to take on an even worse group called Umbra that plan to plunge the world into utter chaos.

* ''VideoGame/{{HAWX}}

* ''VideoGame/HAWX