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Great game, too easy.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great game - to the lone doubter who claimed the camoflage didn't work, he obviously didn't use the mods to improve the 'stealth' attribute as he played the game. Your snipers are plenty stealthy enough until they open fire - and you don't really think the bad guys would just sit there and not fire back ?

It's good, however: Not difficult enough (even on Elite level) once you've figured the interface out, and your teams opening fire (and getting toasted) even when you've told them not to gets a bit annoying. Also, the last episode (Island Thunder)felt really short. Great fun though.

Not great, but not bad either

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like RB6/RS, but out in the woods instead.

Planning is a pain.

Friendly AI isn't all that great. Most the time you will find yourself saving a lot, because the "Ghosts" wait until the last second to fire their weapons in return. Plus, if the friendly AI has a secondary weapon like a grenade, or grenade launcher--they won't use them. Pathfinding is crap, and you will find yourself checking your six to make sure your back-up team members are following. Only 3 men per squad, so there's a lot of micro-managing team placement and movements.

The enemy AI like all previous titles, magically knows where you are after 1 or 2 shots and can drill you from 100 yards out with a pistol--instantly.

CQB is a pain, not to mention predictable. Enemy soldiers walk nut-to-butt in common patrol patterns.

Bad guys can hide behind doors and wooden tables and remain safe from your high caliber weapons.

If it wasn't for the player community's mods and skins, this game would be dead in the water.

The Best of All !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best game i have ever played. It takes you as close as you can go to realistic mission environment.

If you are some one like me, who is tired of games in which u can get health from a stupid machine, this is the game for you. Here one shot and you are dead. (Veteran team mate how ever needs more shot to be killed)

Word of Causion though, this is not a first person shooter game where u can load tons of ammos and start shooting and relive with health packs. here it is mission oriented game, you must play it very slow and if you get shot you are dead.

Thanks UBI for this game, hopeing to get GR 2 which will be in market soon.

Ghost Recon Gold Edition - the best of the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not only do you get THE BEST first person shooter of all time in Ghost Recon, but you also get the only two official expansion packs ever made - Island Thunder (the latest and best in my opinion) and Desert Siege. Now for some specifics and testimonials:

If you enjoy cooperative or squad-based gaming, Ghost Recon is the game for you. I didn't start playing GR until nearly 3 years ago, but it's the only game that has captivated me for this long. I have a group of buddies that would tell me stories about their GR LAN parties where everyone would bring their PCs, get connected to a local network and have at it for hours at a time (this was before high-speed internet was wide-spread and affordable). Sure, it sounded like fun, but can any game be THAT good? I was hooked from the first time I played! I "only" got to play for a couple hours that day, but the game was intense, the weapon selection vast and the action and teamwork non-stop. I purchased a copy for myself that weekend! There are many different types of individual, multiplayer, co-op and team play, but my favorite is cooperative missions. Up to nine players work together as a team, in three different squads completing mission objectives. You can also decide whether or not to have respawns (extra lives) and how many each player or team can have. We like keeping it as "realistic" as possible, and don't play with any extra lives - if a teammate goes down, he's not coming back to life, so you REALLY have to work closely together, use good tactics and know when and where to take cover.

There are lots of maps and terrains to choose from in GR Gold Edition - everything from snow covered mountains to rained drenched jungles to hot, burning desert sands.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. I could go on and on for hours talking about the game, but the best thing to do is experience it for yourself. Happy gaming...and hoo wah!

The Gold Edition is truly gold

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon Gold Edition

This is where the terminology "oldie goldie" can actually apply. Even up to this day the game is still very much alive. There has been two expansion packs made for this game which I would urge all and any to get. These being Desert Siege and Island Thunder and as the name somewhat states they add on island, jungle features to the game and the desert aspect not to mention new weapons and missions.

There are still people active in the Ghost Recon community who still create mods and maps for the game which are great fun and believe it or not has kept the game alive.

Single player mode is great. Getting to lead my squad alpha, bravo and Charlie into battle and issuing order and see them materialize is just fantastic to watch. If you want a true dose of reality with the missions set the difficulty to hard and you will get it. It could take hours to get a mission done and a couple tries but rest assured you shall have fun doing it.

Multiplayer has quite a bit of game modes such as Hamburger Hill, Last Man Standing, Siege which to me are the top three and there are others also. Co-op can also be played with other players online as well. The most popular multiplay game mode is last man standing this is where you shall find the bulk of the players playing online.

In conclusion I would say that this game is awesome. Think about it for a while this game came out five years ago and still lives on. Why? Find out by getting the game and playing it for yourself rest assured that you won't be disappointed. I still play the game today and always look forward to taking out some tangos online after a hard day at work. Have fun on the battlefield.

Can't beat it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the same review I posted in the Ghost Recon area. I paid around $35 just for the original Ghost Recon, and then paid extra for each expansion. Worth every penny!!
Not perfect, and there have been some silly AI problems, however, overall this is the best I have ever played. It is extremely challenging and fun. I have played Ghost Recon, Desert Seige, and Island Thunder, but I still like the original Ghost Recon better than DS or IT.
When you play awhile and see what your men are capable of doing, and not doing, then you can plan a relatively good mission. You just have to know when to switch to another man on the other team at the critical moment, and then back again, and how to position and task your men while you do this.

The Quick Mission option is great and allows you to get a better experience in my opinion. The fun you will have with this game FAR outweigh the few technical issues you may have to deal with.

I play the PC version and like it 10 times better than a game system. I always play with headphones because the sounds are much more realistic, and this also blocks out local noise as well. I paid about $35 (just for the original Ghost Recon) for it 3 or 4 years ago, and if I broke it or lost it, I would pay $100 w/o hesitation to replace it.

For the cost of a few movie rentals, you will get more fun from these games than you can get anywhere else for the same money.

Maybe it's cause I'm a newbie to the genre . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

but I LOVED this game! I had never played a squad-based first-person shooter before, and I saw this for $15. Game of the Year, 2002? How bad could it be?

I then found myself spending the next month slogging through 30 delicious missions of special forces fun. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not perfect. I ran into some pathfinding problems (guys getting stuck in stairwells, or jumping off a 6-inch drop, rather than taking a ramp, and breaking their legs no less), and it is annoying that my guys never used their grenades. But they were certainly quick on the draw, regularly taking out enemy soldiers before I could even spot them, let alone draw a bead.

Maps are nicely varied and large, graphics and sound are solid, and the control scheme is not nearly as difficult to learn as I thought it would be (although it does take some practice, and the tutorial is kinda stinky). But the thing that amazed me most is that just about every mission contains a lot of NOTHING happening. You're moving soldiers into position, looking around for the bad guys, wondering if you should take the high road or not and then BAM! BAM! RAT-A-TAT-TAT! The sudden (usually short) bursts of violence just mde the lack of action unbelievably intense.

Odds are pretty good that if you're a fan of the genre, you've already played this one. If not, cough up the $15 and buy this right now. I'm already dreaming of replaying it as soon as possible.

well executed horible idea

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

what the hell were they thinking? they took the worst part of the rainbow six series and made a whole game out of it. Why? why? why? the long awaited full sequel to rogue spear and they completely blow the level design. i dont mean to say that the levels are not intricitely designed with little strategic advantages waiting to be taken, and that they didnt improve squad managment so that it is now completely flexible for in-combat commands. What I am saying is that the AI needed to be seriously reworked for long-range combat.
you spend most of the game looking for enemies, finding them, aiming at them, and blowing their brains out. the bad guys skip the first three steps and just blow our brains out. this gets a teeny bit annoying, you want a protracted gunfight, where cover means something, and snipers have an advantage over guys with ak-47s or pistols at long range. instead every bad guy is a match for your sniper, they can see your sniper every bit as well as you can see them (even though hes wearing some serious camoflague) and they can aim every bit as well with their naked eyes as you can with a scope. cover fire is absolutely useless; either you hit your enemies or they kill you. you cant keep them pinned down until you're in position, the AI doesnt allow that.
this game is so well designed in every way except the AI. the AI is taken straight from earlier games, and they should have restricted the game to close-range combat if they were too lazy to make a semi-decent long-range AI. i cant enjoy this game because i am always thinking of how good it COULD be. it isnt.

Not too bad at all

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good game. I just got it and have had a lot of fun playing it. It's reasonably priced; I think there are 31 different missions with the 2 expansion packs in the Gold Edition.

I'm only playing on the easiest setting right now "Recruit" and it's all right; I'm assuming that medium and hard are a fair bit more challenging. It's good value for the money and a good way to kill some time for people who like shooting games. The graphics aren't that great, but the game is already dated, so you can't expect much. And like I said, it's reasonably priced; you'd be hard-pressed to get as much game for the same amount of money these days.

I'd recommend it if you like Tom Clancy games....just don't expect it to be Splinter Cell or Rainbow Six.

I like it but Clancy is p***y

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 18
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why does Clancy write great books and then he lets Hollywood ruin them? He gives the book to some liberal in Hollywood and they cast anti-American vermin in his films.

The game is great too.

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