Tom Clancy's Elite Squad (or Elite Squad for short) was a Free-to-Play Tactical RPG developed by Owlient and published by 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 PMC company UMBRAnote , which 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 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 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 Eagle One.
All character tropes are to be made here.
Spoilers will be off for the home games. You have been warned.
This game had the following tropes:
- A.K.A.-47: A mixture of using gun models/names after actual guns and others being given fictional names.
- America Saves the Day: Subverted. UMBRA is threatening even America's national security seriously with the rest of the world that it backs the creation of the ESI.
- Artistic License – Geography: The Singapore stage is set on a street in what looks like Hong Kong.
- Bittersweet Ending: While ES was able to take out UMBRA facilties and most of its leaders including Coda, who turned at the last minute, its HQ was breached by UMBRA moles. However, one last leader was still unaccounted for.
- Crisis Crossover: ES' roster is taken from various Tom Clancy video games, including those who show up from the novels.
- Damager, Healer, Tank: 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.
- Deal with the Devil: ESI has been allowed to recruit various bad guys to work with them, guaranteeing pardons or immunity from their actions during anti-UMBRA ops. Most of them do agree, but can't help but be paranoid if said pardon/immunity gets removed.
- Enemy Mine: 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. Not only that, teams can be made up of people who killed each other in their own canons like Sam Fisher or Anna Grimsdottir killing Tom Reed in Conviction.
- Gas Mask Mooks: The purple-clad UMBRA mercs sometimes wear respirators.
- Logo Joke: Owlient, the Ubisoft subsidiary responsible for the game, shows up as the name of radar equipment (which is clearly written on it) in the Nightshade prison level.
- Multinational Team: ESI recruits its personnel from around the world.
- Play Every Day: The game had a login calendar that gives rewards like Cash, Gold, lootbox keys, and autowin tokens. There were daily missions to take on which involve clearing missions, leveling up at least one character, playing Arena and killing soldiers. Doing so gave you Character tokens, Gold, Cash and XP.
- Title Drop: Elite Squad is the new of a new anti-terrorist initiative launched to take on UMBRA covertly.
- Urban Warfare: Some of the stages in the game take place in urbanized locations.
- Wham Line: Said by Scott Mitchell at Level 04-E of the ObtainR campaign.Scott: 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.
