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a tactical shooter minus tactical

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

a brief review. graphics are outstanding. the reflection on water looks so real. characters look great. animation is great. a cool option available to switch between 1st or 3rd person. now, on to the not so good part. with only 1 squad, tactical advantage is lost. for hardcore original ghost recon fans, we remember using 2 teams to cover multiple objectives, well, not so anymore. this game has been designed for the new, casual gamer. the enemies are tough & numerous. i'm not taking that away. but the game is linear even with the very large maps. no more waypoints. only 4 orders are available. stealth is completely eliminated. no matter how hard you try, the enemy knows you're there. no more using the map to locate the enemy. very fast paced. similar to rainbow six 3. if that's your style, you'll probably like it. but hardcore ghost recon players like myself, will be a little disappointed with the very limited options in this sequel.

Game of the year!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. I played it about 10 hours today. The online co-op is fun to play with your friends across the country. You can play co-op missions and other styles. The solo and team play is great to. The graphics are the best i have ever seen for a online shooter. Better than Halo 2 in every aspect. I was in a game with 5 players and 4 said it was better than halo. In another game 6 out of 6 said better than Halo 2 and 2 said they should have traded in Halo 2 for credit for this game. The maps are huge and detailed. The grass blows in the wind. The explosions are awesome. I own Halo 2, rainbow, and pandorra. This is the best of the best. GAME OF THE YEAR 2004!!!!!

+great online gameplay
+great graphics
+probably good for socom fans seems similar.
+Gun selection is fun
+Huge detailed maps

-No teams (but why compare this to PC version.)

Best Realistic Military Shooter To Date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a VERY good game. Does it compare to the fun of Halo 2? No, of course not. This is a realistic shooter, not a futuristic shooter. If youre more of a fan of 1-3 hits being a kill (which is pretty realistic) this is definately the game for you. Theyve vastly improved this game and even though (i personally liked the first) most people didnt like the first, those same people are loving GR2. Dont expect it to be game of the year. If you want a swing at one of the 2 candidates for GOTY (that matter anyway) pick up Halo 2 or Half Life 2.

Ghost Recon?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This version of Ghost Recon focuses more on open-war than clandestine missions like previous GR games. Also, the "future soldier" aka "one man army" where you go on missions w/no team is a major theme.

I really didn't like...
In between missions, the game is portrayed as a news story after the events. As if the recounts are being discussed on the history channel with the actual soldiers. So the main character will discuss what he did, in some detail, as if being interviewed and then you're dropped into the mission. Thats how you get to know the basic situation of your mission. Ofcoarse you have a commander hold your hand via comlink during the mission as well.

The old way...
Tactical briefings and topographic maps with objectives before the mission made it seem much more military and exciting. The briefing was in-depth. It made it seem more professional. That is just an exsample of how this game has been changed in some places for the sake of being new, not better. Besides that and some other faults, the game is great. Although I would have prefered them keeping some more aspects of the old game.

Pros
+ huge graphical upgrade
+ 3rd and 1st person views
+ solo missions with future gear are actually alot of fun
+ multiplayer is still great and has some nice upgrades
+ new weapons, maps, gametypes
+ enemies use cover and vehicles more often

Cons
- not much control over team
- only 4 ghosts to a team and no splitting up over long distance
- can only use one character, if he dies=mission over
- media point-of-view replaced tactical briefing
- AI is downright retarded at times

A Sure Hit that Missed its Mark

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 57 / 65
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must start off by saying that I loved the ghost recon games, the rainbow 6 games, and the splinter cell games. Ghost Recon 2 has great graphics, sound, and weapons and that is about it. It is a mating of the original ghost recon and rainbow 6 and instead of a beautiful game, produced more of an ugly stepchild.
They stripped it of its 2 team command system and instead have given you 3 idiots to fight with you. You can't control what your team can do, nor do you have another team to watch a flank. So like in rainbow 6 you have fodder to find the enemy and that is about it. My kingdom for control of the individuals and their fire sectors. I don't mind that they have you playing one individual, but without control of the others, you might as well be on single rambo missions the entire game....in that case at least you'd get the camera gun.
I honestly don't even know the story line....instead of the briefings as in the original, they decided to tell the story as a flashback from some Maury Povitch type show...VERY DISSAPOINTING. Now for the good news...play this with 1 to 3 friends cooperatively on the missions and it becomes very enjoyable...the idiot factor is removed and this is a great game. Pros: Graphics, Sound, Weapon choices, multiplayer. Cons: No command system, very stupid AI, horribly wrong way to tell mission breifings, cannot suprise enemies like orginal stealth not really a factor, etc. Recomendations, buy Halo 2, buy Full spectrum warrior, wait to buy this game when it gets to under $20.00 it is worth that price but no more.

Oxymoron -- An Excellent Disappointment

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Honestly I did not think much of the changes that were mentioned in the previews of this game especially the ones presented by the Official XBOX magazine. So I thought GR2 would be an even better Ghost Recon experience. Well I can say overall that it really is not.

I was hoping to find tactics and strategy combined with first-person shooting not unlike the previous Ghost Recon games. No longer can you control two three man teams and utilize each of their individual perspectives and weaponry. In this game, however, you have to fight from an over-the-shoulder third person person perspective with three other spec ops fighters. The former is fine but the latter I have a great problem with. They tend to be quite untintelligent and find themselves wounded a lot. There should really be some sort of control for each of them. Even better a "Find Cover" should have been created for these not so smart fighters.

To alleviate the problem of them following me around unnecessarily I have to access the "Hold Position" command. I prefer the command system in Ghost Recon 1 much better. Most of all your squad had more "common sense" than in the game here. I didn't have to order them every few seconds to fire here and there, but in this game I certainly have to especially in the pitched battles you have to fight against the human wave attacks of the North Korean army, otherwise you'll have to fight a whole squad of bad guys by yourself.

Since this review is titled "Oxymoron -- An Excellent Disappointment" I did not hate it. I actually enjoyed playing the game despite its obvious flaws which I have mentioned. The gameplay is still intense and really puts on the pressure. Although there are some disheartening solo missions (which honestly should not be there because this game is not based on that)these become very exciting to play especially when you have to go at it alone into a war-torn city to clear out enemy armor and infantry. The laser-guided air-strikes are the best feature of this game -- really! Some real dangers can be averted by using this weapon.

Those are not the only good features of this game. My favorite level was he defense of the US camp at night. This was just amazing. If you're smart and quick this level will be a virtual shooting gallery since you're in the trenches blasting away at the North Korean soldiers attacking from all sides.

Now you may say that the sudden enemy chopper and armor attacks may be frustrating and they are but I tend to overlook that as as a test of true soldierly skill and patience to deal with surprises. You better believe I cursed a lot when sudden armor attacks were made at times and places I didn't expect.

Overall I look at this game paradoxically; it has many great features like intense gameplay and weaponry; at the same time, however, it disappoints because of its departure from that tactical quality that the previous games had.

No more strategy, less intelligence

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 18
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok most will probably like Ghost Recon 2 for it's Live play but other than that, there's not much holding the game together except nice graphics & some nice weapons. The Gameplay is pretty much a copy of Rainbowsix 3 & the presentation is good but enemy & friendly AI is extremely Random & horrible at times. And the game missions are mostly linear. The gameplay is mediocre at best.......without the stratey, Ghost Recon 2 just isn't very fun to play.
Original Ghost Recon fans should avoid this at all costs......it's not really Ghost Recon anymore, sadly.

The Ghost's are back, LOCK 'N LOAD!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to start my reveiw of by saying this: I have not played the first Ghost Recon, and I do not own Ghost Recon 2. So this is an information giving reveiw, and not so much of judging. But I am judging by the facts I've heard and read about it, and from the expirience I received when I played the demo in EBgames.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 is a tactical over-the-shoulder military based shooter. But for those who liked the view in the original, or if you just prefer first-person over third-person then there is an option when you pause to switch to either. This game has some of the best graphics I've seen in games this year, and yes I'd say that they compete with Halo 2's graphics. There are 15 single player missions, in witch you have a squad of four ghost's including yourself. When you complete the single player with the AI on your side, try playing Lone Wolf mode where you're by yourself this time around, with some awesome technology at your hands. I'm talking about the new future warrior system that the military is planning on adopting in another few years or so. It has a camera system atached to your gun, witch allows you to see around corners or obstacles without exposing your body. It also has a grenade laucher atached to your gun, so you have alot of firepower to go with that technology. Then when you finally get finished with both of those, you can play one of the many multiplayer modes in the game either on Xbox live, system link, or split screen mode. I loved the fact that this game has split screen because I do not play Xbox live. But even after you finish with all of the multiplayer options, (which I'm sure will take a long time to get tired of since there's over 8 huge multiplayer maps to play all of the dozen's of modes on) there's an option to play co-op with your freinds in the single player mode! So instead of having AI as your team, you can play with humans covering your back. I thought that the co-op feature was an awesome idea, since I play alot at home with my brother. This game is very realistic, and has awesome physics and audio to go along with the terrific graphics. And also there is a hard mode for those veterns out there. But there may be more, that I can't say though since I do not own the game. From what I here it's suposed to have a good story line also since it's a Tom Clancy game. One of the other awesome features is all of the weapons to choose from. There is over 10 main weapons to choose from, all of the rifles with many different combinations. Then you have a standard sidearm, some grenades, and usually a rocket launcher to take out any tanks or other things that you may encounter during your mission. There are four weapon slots that you can fill, one for grenades, one for the rocket laucher or other big misellanous, one for your sidearm, and your main weapon slot for your rifle. You can also take your fallen enemy's weapon's, and substitute them for your main gun. You can also pick your weapons in multiplayer mode. Again I thought that both of these features were good ideas. Well I've tried to cover as much as I can remember, I hope I did pretty good for not owning the game. I will not compare this games fun to Halo 2's fun, because they are not the same kind of game. Halo 2 is a first-person sci-fi shooter. Ghost Recon 2 is an over-the-shoulder realistic military shooter. So really they arn't even in the same classification, so why do so many people compare them? You can't say one is offically better than the other, but you can state an oppinion. But since so many reviewer's state there oppinions like they are facts, you don't really known the truth do you? Well I'm not dissing Halo 2 because I like Halo 2. In fact I took the time to win it over at a friend's house playing co-op, and I enjoyed it very much. But since that's a different game, and this review is for Ghost Recon 2 I won't get any further of target. Well thanks for your time, and I hope this was as helpful and as accurate as I could make it. [...] God bless!

Not Ghost Recon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon 2 is definitely not along the same lines as Ghost Recon or any of it's expansion packs (PC or X-box). I find it is more like Delta Force for PC or a little like Rainbow Six 3 for X-box. The gameplay is much faster pace than the old Ghost Recon, but it makes for a very exciting game.

First of all, the graphics are pretty spectacular, something you might see in a PC game, although not quite as good. The AI isn't very smart, especially at close ranges, but it isn't unbearable. I do appreciate the city mission where you must go solo and call in air strikes, it's pretty realistic and I was really scared when an APC started driving around the city chasing me down.

If your expecting Ghost Recon, you shouldn't be. If you like fast paced tactical shooters (This involves almost no strategy) like Rainbow Six , this is for you.

All Silencers Off.Full On Shooter.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If youv'e played other Ghost Recon games you know about the "GHOST" aspect of the series.The ability to go in with all silenced weapons,well that's not in this game ,although you do get silenced pistols.I played to the ending and found no silenced Rifle's.But with all that said this game is a fun shooter ,pretty much linear ,but you do have to watch your'e back because there's often two routes to take.The enemies will flank you.The graphics are a BIG improvement over the other games very nicely done.Also I love the NEW GUN with the laser targeter and camera so you can crouch and peek over obstacles with the gun mounted camera and blast away at enemies .Also when I finished the game there is an option to go "SOLO" on all missions with that NEW GUN. Im definately gonna buy this game later when it's like twenty bucks ,and play it on hard mode and go solo with that gun.sorry I forget the name of It think it's called OCW air burst 30mm,anyways its the only one with the camera mount and laser target system.If this gun really existed ,oh man whatch out insurgents.I rented this game and beat it in 5 days on NORMAL setting,about 17 hours total gameplay.It's a very fun game,but not much stealth involved because as soon as the first shot is fired all enemies are onto you.Calling this game Ghost Recon2 is kinda misleading cause your not going in silent ,like a ghost ,but not to take anything away from this game .It's still a good fun tactical shooter,with improved graphics and nice gameplay.I dont know about the online quality of this game but the areas are big with lot's of place's to hide.All in all a solid game.

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