Tom Clancys Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon is a deadly game of intrigue and military combat, where you control a top-secret military strike force! Interact with dozens of different characters, including specialists that add distinctive weapons to your team Intense multiplayer action for up to 36 people through an Internet or LAN connection
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Excellent tactical military FPS
Mirrors Rainbow Six 3 in many ways…good graphics. Love the way the enemy uses his rifle to hobble away when you shoot him in the leg. Many of the same tactics are still used today in Advanced Warfighter…
4 Stars Next level shooter
Far from your typical squad based shooter; Ghost Recon has a few things that distinguish it from the rest. You have two squads at your command, Alpha and Bravo; each has a squad leader and two additional squad mates. Each squad operates as a unit and cannot be separated into individuals. However, you can tell a squad to go over to a certain place, like making Alpha team hide at the top of a cliff and pick off any incoming enemy soldiers heading toward your position as you make your way to take out an enemy hideout.
GR has four different classes for each member of your squads (e.g. demolition and your basic infantry). The game does not stop there it allows you to pick each members weapon and secondary weapon (which there are a lot of). Ghost Recon has some RPGish elements to it. The more any member of the GR team is used, the better his skills will get. If you get a squad mate hurt in battle he will have to take some time out of action if you want him to heal or you can keep him in the fray, risking the loss of a soldier. If you lose a man on the field he is gone for the rest of the mission.
The battles in this game are fast, furious and truly intense. You will get breaks in the action to catch your breath. The AI in this game will have you second guessing almost every thing you do, they will suppress you with fire and have other members try to flank you. They will use this maneuver often but on occasion they will employ other ways to fill you full of lead. You must use strategy; you cannot go into an enemy base with guns blazing and expect to be successful.
Although there are now new and improved titles in the Ghost Recon series, this is all in all a great game which is now playable on the Xbox 360 as well.
5 Stars One of Xbox’s best Shooters ever!!!
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon is an incredibly fun first person shooter. If you like military squad based games, this is definately for you. The graphics (when it came out) were pretty top-notch and had some extremely fun multiplayer gametypes. I actually didn’t start playing this game until Island Thunder was already out (which I played like crazy!) and it still held up as a great game. The sounds in the game really made it seem realistic, like you were actually there on the battlefield. I mean, looking back at it today, the game doesn’t hold up in terms of graphics and presentation, but the gameplay is still one the best shooters there has been. Everything worked in it, it wasn’t that hard to pick up and play, and the fact that it actually played like a tactical shooter made it stand out from the rest.
Okay, let’s now talk about it’s Xbox Live play. In simple terms, “it was fantastic.” There were plenty of maps available, all with different environments. You could choose what class you wanted to play as, Rifleman, Snipers, Support, and Demolition, and then pick your gun kit, which there were also plenty to choose from. You could play the multiplayer portion of this game for hours on end and not get bored, something that’s hard to come by these days (except GRAW, hehe).
Presentation:
One big gripe about the presentation of this game was that the menus were kinda difficult to navigate through (kinda like GR2). This drove me nuts a bit, but this was fixed by the time Island Thunder came out.
Graphics:
In it’s day, Ghost Recon for the Xbox had some pretty sweet graphics, unlike other games on the market back then. It seemed pretty realistic and along with the sound made a great gaming experience.
Sound:
The sound in this game was pretty fantastic when it was released. Everything seemed very realistic and gave the gamer a great gaming experience. Explosions, bullets firing…exerything was great!
Gameplay:
This was probably my favorite aspect of this game. It played like a great military squad based shooter and was very tactical, unlike the run and gun games we find on the market today. The gameplay is truly what gave this game it’s kick.
Lasting Appeal:
With it’s great multiplayer aspects and Live capabilities, this game had great lasting appeal. People played it up to and through GRIT, and some even played till GR2 came out. Talk about lasting appeal…this game definatley had some!!!
3 Stars Ghost Recon
I’m a big fan of Ghost Recon 2 and Summit Strike. These really didn’t tickle my fancy with the gameplay of it and everything else. I guess you have to start and work your way up, uinstead of working your way backwards throught the Ghost Recon series as I did.
3 Stars Get it cheap
I bought this game when it first came out for the Xbox due to the fact it was one of the early FPSs available for LIVE play back then. Fisrt off the menu system is TERRIBLE! It is cluncky and confusing and the button presses don’t always take during game setup. Secondly it is not well done on LIVE at all. The most the average connection will be able to handle is about 3 players online which due to the large maps is pretty dissapointing. Little annoyances like not being able to step over a 2″ piece of rock jetting out from a cliff edge can get tiresome. Now the good news as I see it. If you give this game the time it needs to hook you then you will enjoy it. Once you get comfotable with the controls and put the little problems behind you this game is quite fun in single player. Shooting a guy from across the river with the 50cal sniper rifle is worth the HUGE amount of work required to unlock it. I actually completed this game on the hardest setting in order to unlock everything and really got into it. The graphics are good enough but this game was a year or two old when it was ported to the Xbox so today (late 2005) it shows it’s age graphically. As cheap as this game is today it is definately worth it in my opinion but if you have no patience then you might want to pass it up. The best games are generally the hardest, they are the games one goes back to play 1-3 years later. (Moto GP2, Ghost Recon, PGR2).
