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Explosive Nerve-Wreaking Expansion Pack!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon: Desert Siege, the new explosive action-packed expansion for the hit PC game of the year, Ghost Recon. Desert Siege, in my opinion, is a truly action-packed add-on that has nerve-wreaking game play, breath-taking graphics, and electrifying multi-player that allows you to wreak havoc on enemies. In Desert Siege, the storyline is the same, except the conflict between countries is now in Africa. When things tend to get out of hand, that's when the highly trained green berets, known as "The Ghosts", are sent out to help control extreme situations. When the U.S. sends out The Ghosts to deal with the conflict in Africa, you are forced to learn new strategies in a whole new place, the deserts! In Desert Siege, there are a lot of goodies added in this explosive expansion pack. Desert Siege now, has improved graphics, 9 new weapons, 8 new single-player missions, 5 new multi-player maps, improved enemy and friendly A.I., and of course, more obstacles containing vehicles, rocks, tents, etc. This is exactly what makes Desert Siege an exciting, nerve-wreaking, breath-taking game experience. Trust me, if you want to get a game, then get a game, but if you want to experience full-fledged excitement and danger, get Desert Siege.

NOTE: Requires full version of Ghost Recon to play Ghost Recon: Desert Siege!

A great addition to an already wonderful game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon, probably the most realistic PC FP war game ever released, just got a great add-on for a great price. Desert Siege adds much more to the gameplay then usual mission packs, and for this price you would be foolish not to get it.

I almost exclusively play multiplayer on UBI's gaming network or over my IP. This being said, its a fair statement to say that this mission pack adds an entire new world to the online gaming experience. Not only are there many new single player maps available, but also several multiplayer maps just begging for modern combat. Heck, I would have paid just for the multiplayer maps and the new 'Siege' option while in multiplayer.

Siege allows you to be on the defensive or offensive squad with the goal of capturing a marked location or defending it. This is great fun, especially with max realism and no respawns because you can picture yourself going for the objective on the map as if it were assigned to you in real life...

I dont need to go on. If you liked (or in my case, love Ghost Recon), buy this pack. Support Red Storm and be ready for an amazing fun factor with this expansion!

Great missions but it ends too soon!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Desert Siege is the new modification for Ghost Recon. Desert Siege includes 8 new missions, several new weapons, 5 new multiplayer maps, and 2 new modes of play: Siege and Domination. While the single player missions are intense, it's the multiplayer that's really outstanding. The muliplayer maps tend
to be medium to small with lots of elevation changes and intricate design (See Canyon). In my opinion, the mission maps are better suited for multiplayer as they offer a better chance for medium to long range engagements. Siege mode was a great addition. The goal of Siege is to overtake or defend a specific location on the map. The fighting is fast and fierce since the fortified position is clearly marked on the map, thereby eliminating the need to hunt and scan for enemies. The only reason I give this game 4 stars instead of 5 is due to the brevity of the single player mode. The addicting design of the maps, coupled with interesting mission objectives, and enemy rich environment leave you crying for more when the missions suddenly halt. I was able to finish all 8 missions in just under a few days of intermittent play. I still highly recommend this add-on, not only for the brief but exciting single player experience but also for the great new multiplayer experiences to follow.

Not better, but not bad.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's been a long time since I have played Ghost Recon, the first game, and I was excited to penetrate into these new levels--only 8 missions, about 5 new levels, I believe--but that's all you get for something intriguing. Nothing new here except for the levels. But is that a problem?? No, not at all.

The levels are all situated in the day for the most part on hot desert lands with the sun beating down as always, and there is a level settled in the nighttime. Textures for these levels are pretty good, I must say; nicely planned out, interesting, with nice camouflage-like physical features, such as dense shrubbery, bushes, rivers, etc. Surprisingly though, there is nice topography, with mountains for good sniping and for some difficult moments. On the other hand, in quick mission mode, you are given about 15 or so of new and old levels for enjoyment and value. I must admit that I was motivated to play those levels just for complete enjoyment and entertainment.

Gameplay is usual and peculiar in some ways. When you unlock the 7th or 8th level in campaign mode, the specialist fighters don't have any new, powerful weapons, like in Ghost Recon (orig)--not even that; you don't even have the possibility of seeing some of the state-of-the-art weaponry of these specialists.....Oh, and you don't unlock any specialists in quick mission mode, which, I think, decreased the value of the game. The artificial intelligence is not better, absolutely not. They get stuck sometimes in hallways, and worst of all, your partner, sometimes, doesn't follow you...and if you need back up, you must go back and give him the message for him to follow you.

Sound is worse. Redstorm seems like they got the music and some of the sounds off of Kazaa--or worse quality type audio; it's a little fuzzy. I thought they could have improved a lot on that. Mediocre, but suprisingly, it's not better.

Well, that sums it up. A game that has only new levels. But don't be uninterested, because this game does have some really interesting levels, involving villages at the pits of some small mountains, or a dark atmospheric level, willing to complete the mission in utter black darkness, moon down. The gameplay will captivate your interest, but not entirely. But honestly, you'll like Ghost Recon (the original) after playing this game; it's an improvement over Desert Seige, which may put DS into the dust.

Notes to New Computer Gamers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all, Ghost Recon is one of the best games ever made for any system. I have written 2 reviews on these games, so if you want more detail you can check those out. I just wanted to say a couple things to people BEFORE they buy games of this level.

You HAVE to make SURE you have a PC that can play this game how it was MEANT to be played. When PC Gamer, or any other magazine reviews games they often use very powerful computers to get a true idea of the games capabilities. They use the top of the line processors, graphics accles, and sound systems, not to mention high definition monitors.

Therefore, if you are running something like a P2 250mhz computer with a 8 mb video card, and 64mbs of Ram, its NOT going to look or PLAY how it was made to. I made that mistake once. I had an old computer, bought SWAT 3, and was upset over the graphics, slow downs, choppy play and so on. Then I got my gaming sytem, a 2.0 GHZ P4, 700mb RAM, with a Geforce3 t-500 card, flat screen trinitron etc etc etc....ALL of a sudden SWAT 3 was a TOTALLY different game on the new computer. It's been the case with every game I've bought since, and going by my reviews, I've bought a ton of them.

Graphics cards are sometimes overlooked, and are very important. The quality computer games out there are built for the higher end computers, and if you expect the life like 3-D gaming, anything less than a Geforce 3 will leave you wanting more. The reports on the Geforce4 Ti-4600 are convincing. If you can get it for a good price, don't hesitate.

Bottom line is this...if your going to get into the PC Game Market, make sure you have the system to run them on. It may cost you up to or over 2 grand, but that way your sure to get EVERYTHING you pay for, and expect from PC Gaming. If thats too much, grab a PS2, its discounted and you can still get some great games to keep you entertained.

Good luck and take care.

Shane's rating for Ghost Recon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you love the First Ghost Recon game you will for surely love this game. In the game the Green Berets (Marines), go settle a 60 year old conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It includes multiplayer teams, 8 missions, and play online mode. My dad bought it for himself a couple of years ago and wouldn't let me play it so when he was gone I would always sneak it and play it. It may be rated mature, but it doesn't have much blood or gore, but it has a lot of violence. It is so real it will make you fill like your in Africa along with the Berets. In most war games you get to play with one soldier, well in this one you get a team of Berets (6 soldiers) to do missions. If you like this game you should also check out Ghost Recon Island thunder, and Rogue Spear. This is the best PC game of the century!

Good but could have been better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the original Ghost Recon and fans of the game should pick this game up. There are some thinsg I like and osme things I dislike about this game that keep sme from giving it a better score. I liked the new levels and higher occurance of enemy vehicles. Nothing is as tense as having a vehicle full of gun totting baddies scream around a corner catching you offgaurd. You only get 8 missions which isnt bad considering the orignal was only 15. What I do not like about the games however is the fact that aside from the gun that one new specialists carries you cannot use any of the new guns in single player mode.There are tons of new guns but only available in single player mode. Its a good buy especially if you play alot online but they could hav edone a little more.

A letter from a Ghost in Africa

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dear Family:

I hope you got my letter describing how I loved my tour of duty in Europe that I recently undertook. I know you all may not approve of me re-enlisting for a second tour of duty, but my most recent campaign was nothing short of amazing.

My boys and I were traveling to Germany for some R&R when we got the call from HQ that an uprising in Ethiopia was happening. So of course we heeded the call and zipped over to help stop a crazy warlord from disrupting crucial shipping lanes. I must say that our job in Africa is a lot more varied then Europe. Instead of lush forests, we now operate pretty much in the open in the hot dry desert. But all our tactics and training came in handy on this mission, because our foes are just as tough as they were in Europe.

Our missions in Ethiopia started off with a cool beach landing at night. From there we protected convoy's of crucial supplies, assaulted an oil factory, and in our favorite mission, stopped a convoy of three tanks. Wow, that was amazing, but at the same time, nerve-racking.

Our foes are just as tough as the thugs back in Russia. They use combact tactics efficently and smartly, flanking, suppressing fire, they use it all. We also noticed (while we were running for our lives) that they toss a lot more grenades then the russian thugs did. But they also have an annoying tendancy to be able to fire an automatic weapon from yards away and score a headshot (which should be impossible). Believe me when me and my ghost buddies got really, really, ticked off about this.

My buddies have kept all the old skills from the first campaign. They are still essential in surviving a mission, constantly spotting and killing bad guys that would have killed me quickly. But they still need my direct intervention occasionally to make them do the right thing. Good thing we still have all our death-dealing weaponry to teach these warlords a thing or two...hehe...

I expect the news reports on everything we've done will start coming home soon, but trust me. This was one campaign that I liked fighting in.

Your son,
Ghost #325

CRAP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you like bugs, glitches and spending your time reading tech forums at UBI, buy this game, and the original Ghost Recon. Some people have no problems, but many do. Unfortuantely I am one of them. I have a Pentium III 1.1 GHZ 256 mb ram and windows ME
with a GeForce 2 MX 400 64 mb vid card, and I experience a bunch of bugs, even after patching. Personally, I think this game needed a few more months in development. If you enjoy Operation Flashpoint, RTCW, Medal of Honor, DONT buy this game or the original. The graphics are a notch above Delta Force 2, and for some unknown reason the developers decide not to show your characters hands or weapon in your view. So basically, you have a little reticule to aim around and you have to imagine or guess where you are standing. LAME. Realistic? I dont think so... last time I checked, I could see my own hands in real life...
save your hard earned duckets for a real game...

WARNING this game cannot be won

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

because of a SERIOUS BUG in the second mission. Here goes, I'm in the installation that I am trying to save from demo, killed almost everyone, but one demolitionist with and AK-47 trying to escape, I've tried over 20 times to kill this guy, single shot, tri-shot, full auto machine gun, sniper, heck even a grenade launched at him and hitting him in his HEAD, and he will NOT DIE!!! I have grown weary with chasing him unloading ALL of my clips into him. I have also grown weary with the freeze-ups, the reboots of my comp, the idiocy of platoon mates, the ace markmanship of the bad-guys on recruit level, the horrid marksmanship of my guys on recruit. Save your money this game needs some serious debugging

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