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Impressive FPS!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the very few that actually forces you to think about your decisions! The enimes have great AI and know what to expect from you. You have to plan out your attack and learn from your mistakes. There are no health kits or body armors in this game, its all realistic...you get shot, you're injured or dead. It's nice to see a strategic shooting game on the market like this. Graphics are impressive and sound is great as well! I highly recommend this game!!

Best FPS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic. The Ghost Recon community has created wonderful mod packs to add weapons, maps and missions. The only disappointment is UBI.COM. Their (UBI) online gaming system is terrible. The best way to play online is to have a friend host it over the internet.

Dissapointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very good and realistic graphics e.t.c.. but in a moment of madness the Developers decided to use a Gunsight out of a Space adventure. This for me destroys all the illusion of realism. I have never seen a Gun on Earth that has a Sight like the one in Ghost Recon.

Real Good but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is a super great game but could have been epic if not for a few flaws.
What is great about this game has already been mentioned: Great scenery and character animation. Amazing sound effects! Super fun missions and objectives. There is no better FP tactical shooter out there. However....

Enemy AI unrealistically good. In the Desert Siege pack, enemies are able to kill you with a single shot from an AK-47 on fully automatic 100 yards away. This just does not happen in real life. Enemy grenades are deadly accurate too.

Enemies also do not respond well to covering fire. Even when your entire team is blazing away fully automatic, many enemies will just stand there and fire back - again with deadly accuracy. This does not happen in real life.

Friendly AI leaves something to be desired as well. On many occasions I have been stuck in tight spots, fighting with team members over a tree or rock to hide behind. Members must be puched out of doorways in order to get by and team members frequently get caught up in bushes and left behind, forcing you to take control of them and lead them the right way. This does not happen in real life.

All the weapons seem to do the same thing. Ballistics are a joke. You can choose between a .50 caliber rifle and a 9mm MP5 with silencer and both kill people with one shot. A suppressed 9mm bullet killing a guy wearing body armor and standing 40 yards away? This does not happen in real life. Choosing weapons for the missions becomes a matter of which one looks the coolest.

Ghost Recon touts itself as being the most realistic squad combat simulator yet the most fundamental squad level tactics don't work in the game. There is no use for suppressive fire since the enemies refuse to seek cover. If a US special forces member went and opened up on me with a SAW I would be pissing my pants and screaming and running for cover or at least hitting the deck! Without effective suppressive fire (the most fundamental of all squad level combat tactics), flanking maneuvers are useless (and suicidal) and many firefights devolve into crawling around prone and throwing grenades.

Also - there are three engagement settings for your team: recon, assault and suppress. These settings are supposed to control under what conditions your team fires. That would be great but the settings also control how your team STANDS and MOVES. In recon mode, team members will always immediately go prone and quiet when they spot an enemy. That is fine. In assault mode, your team will take a knee or find cover and shoot at the enemy. That is fine too. The suppress mode is messed up. There is no way to command your team to go prone AND fire in a suppressive manner. When ordered to suppress, your team members will ALWAYS get up from a prone position and pepper the same spot with everything they've got. This is just plain stupid.
This means that when you order a team to suppress, they stand up, all shoot at the same spot and consequently get shot and die (usually by one guy standing 100 yards away in the open).

I am fine with realism, but not at the expense of gameplay. If you want to be successful in this game and return from missions with all of your men alive, you have to use the quicksave button way too much. A typical mission runs like this: Walk towards an objective - get shot at and killed by an unseen enemy - reload game and kill enemy (now that you know where he is) - repeat as needed.

The saving grace of this game is that there are realism modifications that can be downloaded from the internet. I downloaded a simple realism Mod and the improvement in gameplay was amazing. You body armor and helmet actually protect you some from bullets! If shot from afar you tend to get wounded and not killed. A 9mm MP5 becomes useless on the balltefield (how many soldiers do you know that would choose a 9mm MP5 as their main battle rifle?)

Buy this game. It is great fun. But buy it and then download a realism mod and you will be loving it. I can't wait for the sequel.

My favorite game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In Ghost Recon, you command a squad of elite U.S. Special Forces soldiers (a.k.a. the Green Berets) as you prevent a group of Russian radicalists that are trying to recreate the USSR. You use authentic U.S. Army weaponry (M16A2, M4, M249 SAW, etc.) to eliminate enemies in large, detailed environments.
This is the best game I have ever played. Since I am very interested in the U.S. military, I bought this game and was pleasantly surprised with it. It's very realistic, and some people complain about it being too hard, how you have to crawl around, how the enemies see you, everything. Well, to play this game successfully, you need to have TACTICS. There is a "Shuffle" key that makes you more silent when sneaking up on enemies and such. Also, as you progress through the game, you can add stat points to your soldiers to make them more stealthy, increase their skill with weapons, increase endurance, leadership, and more. Military buffs and fans of other Tom Clancy games should check this one out, you'll enjoy it!

Another average FPS game, Right? Ummm... I don't think so.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I often question myself when I buy a game, "Was this worth the money I spent?". Tom Clancy's 15 mission single campaign with multiplayer support (hosted by UBI.com), without a doubt, is worth every single penny... and plus some.

If you have played any of the previous Tom Clancy games (such as Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, Blackthorn etc..) you may think you know what this game is all about. Whatever you're thinking... you're wrong. For example, in Rainbow Six Black Thorn, ... the designers attempted to create outdoor enviornments for a CQB game. And their sad result was a wall with a tree background placed on it. Not my thought of being outdoors....

Ghost Recon's new enviornment makes you feel like you ARE on the battlefield. This game is what gets your heart pumping faster and faster... ducking behind your computer screen, and peeking around corners to find that hidden enemy firing at you from behind the bush 100 yards away. (Not to mention the HIGHLY improved enemy and friendly AI: Enemies now throw grenades, run for cover, attempt to flank you... everything that an enemy would do on a REAL battlefield.)

Tired of getting frusterated with planning your mission beforehand, unable to make tweaks while on the field, or just forget about planning because it takes too long? Well in Ghost Recon... You now plan your mission on the fly so you can change your strategy, when the enemy changes his. It's nothing more than "Point and click" to set waypoints and even set firing arcs so "Squad A can cover Squad B and C".

I run this game on a P4 Processor, 256MB RAM, Riva TNT 2 Graphics Card, Creative sound blaster PCI128, and Windows 98(SE). The graphics are stunning, and the sound is unbelievable!

Without a doubt... this is THE BEST GAME I have EVER bought. And I have bought many games (Unreal Tournament, Empire Earth, Almost all Tom Clancy games, etc...) Don't second guess yourself. You won't be disappointed. I wasn't. Do not delay. Buy this game TODAY! (And once you buy the game ... because I know you will... page me on UBI ... my name's: SEALteam2).

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all congrats to Ubi, keep up the great work. This game is a must have for any gamer. I will admit though, that this game takes a lot of carefull planning, movements, and force. The controls are fairly simple, and the maps very well designed. The enemy AI is amazing, while your allies seem like they didn't make it past high school. I am soooo glad my dad bought me this game and i reccomend it to anyone who enjoyed rainbow six and rogue spear. Definately deserves game of the year. If you like this be sure to check out ubi's latest project, Raven Shield.
Happy gaming!

Best Combat simulator ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is far and away the best special forces combat simulation on the market. The realism is great, the graphics are great, and the sound is beyond great. There is nothing quite like the sound of an anti-tank rocket smashing into a truck full of bad guys. The online play is great, and playing in huge matches with 30 and 40 players is crazy fun. I only have 2 gripes about the game: One, there is a severe lack of weapons to choose from for the general infantryman. You can unlock specialists with new weapons by achieving special objectives in each mission, but the tasks are usually outrageously hard. Two, it is REALLY hard. The enemy AI is certainly improved from the previous Red Storm games, like Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear. However, while the enenmy soldiers can no longer hit you in the head from 3 miles out, they now take flanking maneuvers, take cover quickly, and return fire in short bursts, making it very risky, if not suicide, to send your teammates into an uncleared area alone. But besides those two minor gripes of mine, I would say that you simply cannot find a better combat sim.

Outstanding

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent. Arguments about its difficulty are misplaced. Anyone who has had the opporunity to conduct small-unit missions in the field will appreciate how difficult it is to locate, move, sustain contact and survive against the enemy. They will also appreciate the difficulty in coordinating fire-teams as you develop the situation. If players want more realism in their games, than they should also embrace the required skill level along with the cool graphics, AI, etc. The game is not easy, nor should it be. It may take multiple attempts to accomplish a mission, including revisions to your team's plan. Why is this bad? There is a reason why the Army requires muiltple rehearsals before all operations, from squad to division.

The only reservation I have about the game is that it is pain to set up and play multiplayer missions online. UbiSoft needs to take a serious look at how to streamline online set-up and gameplay.

Too difficult/complicated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sorry folks, but I thought this game was a little too difficult to play (or even "survive in").

I appreciate the need for realism. But for me personally, there is a balance between realism & "play-ability".

I'm not into "puzzle-solving" as much as I am "shoot-them-badguys!"

Don't get me wrong; I'm not some e-wussy who only plays Pac-Man on Sundays - I absolutely LOVE both Wolfenstein games (early 1990's as well as 2004(?).) When it comes to blood & guts gore - the first Soldier Of Fortune game was sheer heaven (please see my review), and "SOF2" was great too (albeit LESS violent, alas).
But Ghost Recon is too darn complicated to learn, the controls are rigid & not configurable - and I get killed too damn fast!

One last note - When I gave it two stars I was being generous. Now that I've reconsidered, I cannot downgrade it to one star, but I would if I could.

Long Live The UnderAchievers!!!

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