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Really promising, but a few problems.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is fun. let me say that right up front. It's entertaining, the missions and terrain are varied. I REALLY like this game.

But there are some problems. The much-touted improved enemy AI isn't so smart. They display some tactical sense and react to your moves, but they still manage to stand there while you kill them off piecemeal. Your own team ain't much smarter. Apparently, selection for the "Ghosts" is long on weapons handling and PT but short on survival sense.

You must rely on a command map to move your teams around. It's very clumsy to constantly switch back and forth to this map - downright fatal in the middle of a fight. An abbreviated planning sequence at the start of a mission might help - establish a few reference waypoints for your units, so you can tell Bravo Team "Go to Waypoint 4" during the mission. I think that would be a good compromise between the no-planning which Ghost Recon features, and the highly scripted and detailed route planning required in Rainbow 6.

I've heard a few other folks complain that you can't execute battle drills in this game as you can in real life. They're right, but they're also wrong. I was an army ranger Instructor and infantry squad leader, and trust me, when the $#!* is flying, nobody is following some abstract concept sketched out on paper. It's all about basic fire and movement, and Ghost Recon does that very well - with the exceptions I've noted. Overall, I highly recommend GR, but I hope Red Storm incorporates some of these changes into expansions and mission packs. I'll be looking forward to them.

For Real...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Ghost Recon a while back and have just now returned to read the reviews. I must agree that this is the best tactical shooter ever created, and I sincerely disagree with some of the complaints that others have posted.
The pros of this game can be found in other reviews, and the game has tons of them.
THe con that I keep seeing is that the lack of planning gets your men killed in battle. One particular review said that it's impossible to command the men during a firefight without your men getting pummelled while you use the point and click interface. Please ignore this review! It is very easy to tell the men to get to a checkpoint, then tell them to hold their position, select the next point or point to go to. It just requires a single button to send them off to the new checkpoints during a fight. It's just a matter of in-game planning rather than pre-game planning like Rainbow 6. It's very easy to do.

This game is awesome and has excellent replayability. \Hope this clears up any doubt you may have about buying this game. It is game of the year in my opinion.

Needs Work...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game has potential, but falls short. i'm not impressed. After playing Operation Flashpoint, Medal of Honor, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Ghost Recon is a dud. Here are my reasons:

1.the graphics are poor-a few notches above Delta Force 2. They are somewhat pixelated, even with a fast card (i've got a GeForce 2 MX 400 64 mb) and with the graphic settings cranked up, it still looks mediocre. The soldiers on your squad look pretty good, but every thing else is sort of blah. And when aiming your reticule, it doesn't move smoothly like Operation Flashpoint or any other good working game... it wants to land on the nearest pixel

2. The bugs. good Lord the bugs. On my system, Windows ME, Pentium III 1.1 ghz, 256 MB ram, and GeForce 2, I experience a bunch of bugs even after applying the official patches. the worst one being a bad flickering around the aiming reticule making it almost impossible to aim or fire. some people have no problems, but just visit UBI's forum and see about 100 pages of tech problems.

3.The hands? No hands or weapons are viewable! What! Thats not realistic, it's laziness on Red Storms part. So it's like you are playing a souped up target shooting game, from the old days of Nintedo, Duck Hunt anyone?

Definitely impressed and so realistic....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As noted is some of the previous reviews, I have experienced no problems with GR in single player. My specs: P4 1.4G, Intel 850GB motherboard, 128 RDRam, GeForce2 MX 400, SB Live Value. I have noticed a distinct popping noise during single player gameplay when shuffling or strafing, but not all the time. This is not necessarily a problem w/ the game as well.

Overall, I'm am thoroughly impressed with the game. As a past devoted fan to the Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear series, GR definitely adds another "notch on the belt". Graphics are clean and very realistic. Movement and weapon effects are more believeable. The realism effect is definitely there. In some cases, it maybe too much for some.

AI is definitely an improvement. Case in point: I approach two "bad guys" within 50 meters, placed a shot on one and down he went. The other "bad guy" went down as well; like he was shot. This confused me for a second thinking I had nailed both of them with one shot. I held my position for a few seconds and sure enough, the second guy did stand up, facing my direction and shooting. Fortunately, I was prepared and took him down as well. This situation took me completely by surprise and surely would have been my demise had I not held back a few seconds. The kicker to add to this: this occurred in the first map. Imagine what lies ahead.......?

I have not attempted online multiplayer but have tried IP and LAN with no problems. Same relative idea as with RS, but with a facelift.

Deserves 4 and a half stars!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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When I started the first mission, I had my doubts. I was getting nailed left and right, and found the command system (which you have to pop up in the middle of each mission to re-orient your men) distracting and inefficient. I finally was able to "win" the first mission and move on to the next. This was when I started to hit my stride.

First of all, after each successful mission, the mission participants are able to add "combat points" to certain skills (weapon, stealth, endurance, and leadership). This means your men (if they survive) get better each time. This actually forms and attachment to them that makes you want to keep them alive. This has the added affect of making each mission more tense; if you're crawling around a landscape worried about losing your men, you will be especially careful about moving.

The second thing I noticed after mission one was that the first mission was the worst. The landscape was boring and the mission uninspiring. If you do not enjoy the game after the first mission, try the second before giving up.

A couple of other things I noticed:

This game is incredibly realistic. Like Rainbow 6 (its predecessor), you and your team can be taken down in a single bullet or strafe. Unlike Rainbow 6, most of the time the enemy is smart. They hit the ground the moment you start firing, run for cover, and suppress you and your team's movement. For instance, if you fire on a squad that includes a member with a M60 like machine gun, that enemy will fire randomly in your direction to get you to lay low or run for cover. And with the wonderful sounds of this game, when someone opens up on you with 500 rounds per minute, it makes you jump out of your seat.

The only issues I had with this game (and what kept it from getting 5 stars) were minor. First, sometimes the AI is faulty. While the enemy is smart, some times they walk right past you (even when you are not hidden) and let you shoot them in the back. Other times your team members are not smart enough to take cover or only use a silenced weapon when in an enemy POW camp. The other issue is that if I run the game for more than an hour, I usually have to shut down and restart to regain enough memory and swap space to run the game smoothly - especially if it is a mission with a lot of tanks or other troops.

Overall, however, this is the best military shooter out there. It is far more realistic than Medal of Honor or Flash Point (although those are fun too). Can't wait for the expansion, although I wish they had Afghanistan on the expansion!

I really wanted to like it.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

No really, I wanted to like this game. Honestly everything about it looked cool. But after playing through much of the single and multiplayer, I resigned and would not recommend it. This game was over hyped. Despite the pretty graphics-pray you have a good video card and cpu-it still feels like Rainbow Six.
Complete with stupid AI, mindless path finding, identical collision detection and cheap physics.

While the enemy AI is clever, no doubt, your team has an amazing bottomless stupidity. There might be an enemy near me and my team will shoot through me to get him. I once ordered another team to cross the road. They were cut to pieces before they got to the other side. I went to see what was going on only to find a single enemy standing in plain view on the road. Even in the very first mission it reached a point when I could not order my other team to advance fifteen feet to the left but what they would be killed with out much of a fight. Your team will not run from grenades. Literaly I have seen my teams it taken out with a single grenade before I can move them. They see it, they yell "grenade!" and they stand there and get blown up.
These are not single odd events, they happened to me regularly.
That's another thing, you have to rely on the map to move your team. They will not take cover, move, advance, fall back or try to out flank their attackers. This is supposed to be realistic?

I thought that imporiving the skills of your charactors was good. Until I realised that I had to reload everytime they got shot, for the above reasons I had to reload a lot. If I lose a troop I can not replace him and it takes a while to bring a green trooper up to speed. The more I imporved their skills, the more time I spent reloading.

The weapon selection is odd. Why can you only carry two items? Most of what you can take it pointless. Extra ammo? Even on Veteran you have ten mags that I can never spend all of. Pistol? Why? I have a big rifle with plently of ammo... Binoculars? Why? The scope of the rifle is about the same and the OICW is better. Few of these things really amount to anything more than an extra option.

What happened to the story? Yeah there is one, but with few real charactors and none of the stylish voice actiing in Rainbow Six. This feels more like CNN coverage. The breifings serve only to link mission A with mission B. I don't expect JRR Tolkien story telling in a military shooter but come on, a little depth in plot would be nice.

It is generaly well made, but it could not make me care. I am going back to Rainbow Six, I advise you do too.

Could be a 5 star game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If it just worked dang it!

Ghost Recon is a tense FPS type game with high marks for combat tactics and realisim. The key to playing and winning is "see the bad guy first" which is easier said than done. The single player game consists of 15 missions in which you control 6 Recon soldiers. The idea is to accomplish all of your mission goals. If you can pull this off, no mean feat, the game will open "specialist" soldiers that have somewhat better weapons and combat experience (stats) allowing you to "take" them along on your next mission. If you think you know small arms battlefield tactics this game will test you to the max.

Ghost Recon could have broken through to the top of the heap for type but unfortunately it is buggy as heck. I have had to do more work-arounds and adjustments to my computer in getting the game to run than any other game I have ever played (and I play a lot of computer games by-the-way). GR was originally scheduled for release after the first of the year however it hit the shelves about three months early (to cash in on holiday sales probably) and it plays and feels like it - just not quite finished. The developer promises to release a patch around the end of January and that should address most of the "bug" issues.

Do I recommend it? Most certainly, however you might want to hold off till after the patch is released.

Good game that blends several types of combat game play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is a fine blend of gaming styles. It borrows parts from Land Warrior, Flashpoint, and Rainbow. Ghost Recon has the graphical detail of Rogue Spear, and the strategic depth of Landwarrior. The game format allows you to plan 'on the fly,' which is very helpful in real-life combat engagements. And this flexibility doesn't compromise the game's graphics (as Landwarrior does). The hard drive req. of 955 Megs is fairly ominous, but the game is very operator friendly. Aside from only a minor sound problem, which was quickly fixed, the game offered me no complications. If you want a realistic, challenging, and high quality, first-person combat strategy game, get Ghost Recon today.

Excellent game, but too short

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is excellent, although it is somewhat not as realistic as I would have hoped. Snipers are useful early on; however, they quickly get shot up in later difficulty levels as the AI apparently is a crack shot from long distances with an AK. Regardless, it is alot of fun to unload a SAW into a camp, and to toss a couple of rockets at some tanks. When you do get a sniper well protected, he can potentially win the entire level single handedly, but that is rare. Your troops do not get many different types of guns. The idea of having a specialist is nice, but gets old. After a while, every new specialist is so great and wonderful that using your standard people is pointless. It's debatable whether or not the standard people are of much use other than cannon fodder after a while. However, this is a VERY fun game, with lots of action, and lots of dying. Expect to ask yourself often, "What? Who shot me?" Worth your money to buy. The modding community will make this one a definite keeper.

Amazing gameplay, graphics, multipl...OK! This is fantastic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Red Storm has worked magic once again. The days of enclosed areas dueling it out with terrorists are over, and now you get to be unleashed from small maps into the great expanses of Ghost Recon.

Im not going to throw all the praise at this game, because you have heard it before. I will say that every good thing that has been said about this game is true.

The graphics are mesmerizing, no blocky testures and flat polygons anywhere. It is like you are standing on the battlefield it is so realistic looking. I have played many FPS', but none compare to this.

The AI is frightening. They will organize themselves and come after you in groups using advance and cover maneuvers. Your team can be torn apart if your not careful, because Red Storm has worked wonders with the AI.

Gameplay, like the rest of the game, is excellent. "Must play" is not the phrase for this game, it is addiction once you start, and so good, even in its current form that you just will not want to stop playing!

Multtiplayer, the most important feature of any game like this is a Rainbow 6 fan's dream! Up to 36 people can play simultaneously, with individual squad leaders which teammates select. It is the Rogue Spear fun factor times 10... And I played Rogue Spear nonstop online since its initial release.

If you like FPS', wargames, realism, or anything military, buy this. There is no way you will regret it if you meet even one of the requirements at all.

Not for the kid who likes jumping 50 feet in the air and firing a rocket launcher at the same time. One shot kills, and this game is all about realism.

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