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Great first FPS experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game on a friend's recommendation. Not having a "super computer" for gaming, this game is ideal. Single player missons are great. Multiplayer mode is awesome. This game is hit with our LAN party and has become "the thing to do" on a Saturday night. Still have many faucets of the game yet to explore. Only drawback is that the game does not support the use of a handheld controller. You can, however, re-adjust your key configuration for ease of use. Enjoy.

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.

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!

IT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS IT IS!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, this is a fantastic game. I have the Ghost Recon and Desert Siege games already and I love 'um. I spend most of my computer time, playing them. I wanted to buy the Gold Edition so I would have Island Thunder and another copy of the ones I already have, just in case something happened to the ones I had.
BE WARNED!!!! What they are selling here, "IS NOT" for computers using a CD-ROM only! This is for DVD-ROM. They have it listed as CD-ROM, the picture of the game on the website, says CD-ROM on the box, the e-mail conformation you get after you buy it, says it's for CD-ROM and even the Packing Slip you get with the game when they send it to you, says it's for CD-ROM. When in fact, it's for DVD-ROM ONLY!
If you buy this game and don't have a DVD-ROM in your computer, you will not be able to use it. I have wasted my time buying this from the seller. when I e-mailed the seller about this, they said nobody else had complained and for me to send it back and they will credit my credit card. Will they?
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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.

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.

The Best Military Game Ever Created

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best game I have ever played in my entire life. I was very happy I that I bought it when I first played it. My friend recommended it and I never regret buying it. This game is worth the money.

Good fun but could be much better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: September 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As far as first person shooters go, this one is as mixed a bag as any. I will not address the numerous mods there are for this game that may fix many of the issues I take with this game. This is an out of the box and into your computer review. Lets start with the story line: Pretty damn lame, nothing original in here. But as former 24 year verteran of Ranger/Delta Force /and Special Forces Master Srgnt. Stan Goff states, Tom Clancy is and always will be, full of sh*%.

This is a squad based combat simulator and as for that part, they pretty much fail. Your companions are practically worthless. They will be killed by enemies right under their noses, and almost always blow carefully crafted ambushes, even when you've ordered them all to hold their fire. If you are looking for a game where you can actually control your men a bit more, seek Operation Flash Point.

The maps are pretty cool, but not nearly as open and expansive as they are in Operation Flashpoint, which allows a player some serious ground to play with. I mean come on...how fun is it to be a sniper with your squad under fire, seeking high ground to send the hell down range, only to find that you can't climb the hills in the game? Pathetic. I mean come on, these highly trained SF commandos can't crawl up a hill that is less than 45 degrees? Gives the game an arcade feeling rather than a bonafide simulator feel. Limits strategy severly. Again, seek Flashpoint where you can walk as far as you need to and go pretty much where ever you want to find your tactical advantage--een if you have to jack a Yugo to do it.

Weapons-really, I have only a few beefs with the weapons. One--unlike most first person shooters, you cannot see your own weapon. And the weapon sight is this huge yellow obscenity that takes up a lot of the screen. I mean come on, what are these SF guys wearing, a helmet mounted HUD? Stupid. Again, Operation flashpoint has by far the best sighting system. I OFP When you zoom in to engage targets in the distance, you actually look through the weapons iron sights or scope. Much cooler. In GR, you can't see your weapon belching fire and spitting brass. What a buzz kill. What they do is simulate the weapons sounds well. Each weapon sounds pretty authentic, and a with great many weapons to choose from. There are some gliches. Where is the ammo on the FN MAG? And it appears to have this huge scope on it, but do you use it? No.

Weapons ballistics and sounds is one of the games strong points. But they do fail in some pretty simple ways. For instance--when outfitting your character, you are limmited to totally generic kits. You can't mix and match things which can be very frustrating, and just down right stupid. Does anyone remember the very early PC game called SEAL TEAM made by electronic arts? You could put whatever you wanted on your guy, as long as you were conscious of wight. You could load him down so much he could barely move with whatever combination of weapons you could think of.

Funny how simple games with basic graphics got the details right. Now it seems new games with fancy graphics expect to dazzle you with scenery and expect you to forget about realism. Say you are going on an op where you want to carry a suppressed pistol. Well, you can't carry demo charges, claymores, or even grenades?! Take a pistol, leave your grenades. Take your grenades, leave your pistol. Riiiiigghht. I mean, that kind of crap always baffles me. And unlike Flashpoint, you cannot place and detonate your own demo charges. If the mission calls for them, you place them and the mission ends without you getting to set them off! Forget sitting in hiding, watching a huge column rumbling into sight, knowing you are going to cook off some serious fire workds to start your ambush. Again, for this, see Operation Flashpoint.

And what about the claymores in this game? Even if you are carying three of them, you can't place more than one at a time. You place one, then you must detonate it. This limits their use drastically, and is also very unrealistic. You should be able to place them all if you want and fire them either at the same time, or one after the other.

And the enemy AI has its bad points when it comes to combat. The enemy will have amazing aim, often killing you with one shot, standing oblivious to your team mates (If they deserve that title) blasting away at them. Fire and maneuver? Forget about it. Cover fire does not keep the bad guys heads down in this game. Break cover to run forward and cover your mates so they can move up and you just get shot down, even if the dumb AI squad members do remember to fire their weapons. And even if you wound the enemy, they may stagger for half a second, then turn and shoot you with one shot from a few hundred yards away with an AK. As some one who as seen people shot before, I can say with some certainty that you'd have to be one tough mother to take a bullet and stand up and shoot perfectly only a second after being hit.

And its also pretty classic to see an AT-4 round kill a T-72 with one shot every time. Possible? Sure. But not that likely unless you hit the perfect spot. What would have beem more realistic is if you called in for TAC air in when faced with armor. I do have to say, that although there is no sighting system except Kentucky Windage for grenade launchers, their affects and explosions are very realistic looking, as are the grenades. This is refreshing. This is something that many games get wrong. Hand Grenades and 203 bombs kick up a lot of dirt, but you don't see the big Hollywood Propane explosions, complete with blinding blast and mushroom cloud. Flashpoint does well in this simulation, and SOF II is terrible. And what about that futuristic super gun with the 20mm grenade launcher mounted under the HK 5.56? You are supposed to be able to program the rounds to explode where you tell them to. This game leaves out this feature, which is one of the main attributes to this weapon system. So my question is? Why put the gun in the game if you can't even use what makes it special?

Ballistics for the most part in the game are pretty good, except for the suppressed SR25--it has the same range as other sniper weapons that are not suppressed. Also, your snipers may be wearing a lot of personal cammo, but it really does not hide them from our super markesmen bush guerillas.

Play this game enough and you'll find that its good points do shine through and it can be a lot of fun if you are not too critical. But play it long enough, and you'll definitely end up wanting more.

great graphics and game play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is my first spuad-based game. And what a deal! It pays to wait until 3 games are packaged into a gold or platnium edition! The training session was helpful. You control 3 separate squads, and you are a member of one squad. As a team, you assualt the enemy and complete the objectives. You control where and how the teams move (and during set-up, you can choose your team members and their weapons...or just let the computer do it for you). I learned to tell my squads where to go and then start/stop them every so often to look around and fight the enemy. You have 3 main screens; the action screen where you see all the pretty graphics; the soldier screen where you can check health status and switch between different soldiers (you can change to any soldier on any of your squads and assume his role...really cool!); the map screen where you plan the route that your squads will take. I also really like the objective briefing screens; they did a nice job on those. This is definitely different than the typical first person shooter game or real-time strategy game. It does take a little getting use to, but once you get the hang of it, it's really fun! Even for an "older" game, I thought the sound and graphics were great!

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.

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