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GHOST RECON is the real thing....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love military games and I like 'em hard and realistic. No extra ammo, no health, and no extra lives. With that said, Ghost Recon gets it right. I am a big fan of Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear, so as you can imagine I was pretty excited to get a copy of Ghost Recon for OSX. Ghost Recon is pretty different from the previous games in both game play and graphics. The planning interface is more informational than graphical. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand it's easier to set up your team, but on the other it isn't as much fun. The graphics and sound are pretty good, but not the best out there. I'm probably a little spoiled from playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. One thing I really liked graphics wise was the uniforms. Your snipers look more like a tree or a bush than a soldier. This also gives them some extra stealth and the enemy has a harder time trying to spot them. But the real amazing thing to Ghost Recon is the game play. When you send your teams out, you better secure all possible angles and move in slow, otherwise be fully prepared to have all your guys picked off one by one. Almost every time I get lazy and skip by an area, some terrorist comes up behind my guys while they are laying in the dirt and shoots them in the back. This brings me to another cool thing about this game, the AI. The computer players are good. Here's a good example. I tried to secure a corner of a building by standing right up next to it. I was able to pick off a handful of terrorists when BAM, one of my guys got hit with a grenade. As soon as the AI figured out what I was doing, it changed strategies. How's that for realistic? Here's one final thing I liked about the game, the weapons. Rogue Spear gave you a ton of machine guns to use but most of them were crappy. Ghost Recon gives you only good guns and everything from anti-tank rockets to rocket propelled grenades. I love blasting one of those anti-tank grenades into a room full of terrorists. This game isn't like Quake or Return to Castle Wolfenstein. There are no monsters or zombies, just terrorists and your team. It's so realistic, it's more of a simulator than a game I guess, and it's a ton of fun.

Great tactical game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My brother and I have been looking for a good team-oriented strategy/tactics game for quite a while. Finally found it in Ghost Recon. This game is great fun to play, and lends itself extremely well to multi-player cooperative action. The game runs great in OS X (I bumped down the graphics settings for my G4/466 Powerbook). Having a third player would really be ideal, since the co-op boards are assigned 3 fireteams each, but I can't even begin to make my wife see the merits of the game ;).

For now, we are playing through all the missions in cooperative mode, with each of us taking turns controlling the third "C" squad. We're playing remotely over DSL, and it works great. When you can really communicate and execute a plan, it's really loads of fun. When you can't state your plan clearly, you tend to die messily and restart a lot.

I really like the pacing of the game. It's all real-time, and you can't pause it. But you can generally execute small movements, stop and regroup in some defensible position, and plan your next move. The AI for the computer-controlled players is impressive. Not perfect by any means, but they definitely are supportive to have. This takes away most of the need for micro-managing your troops, since they can usually spot enemies and handle them about as effectively as you could through manually controlling a team leader.

One small gripe: if you set a waypoint for a squad, the only way to delete it seems to be to 'right-click' on the waypoint. Hope this is fixed in the future, to support us single-button folks. Aside from that, the game performs almost flawlessly. Curious to see how well my new GHz laptop handles the graphics when it gets here...

In the interest of completion for this review, I've played the single-player boards, and it's a lot of fun, but it's much more interesting to play them through the first time with someone else. Haven't even touched the internet play aspect, or played against another human opponent.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short. This game is fantastic...you may, however, need to bump the graphics settings down a bit for smoother gameplay. The other review says it all; but I will point out for his edification that you don't need to right-click to delete a waypoint, although it says that in the instructions. Just control click and the waypoint is deleted. No need for a fix there.

I love Ghost Recon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Turn your Macintosh into a pivotal wartime control center. In Ghost Recon, Russia has fallen to ultra-nationalistic leaders driven to rebuild the Iron Curtain. In Desert Siege, 60-year conflict boils over as Ethiopia invades its smaller neighbor Eritrea, threatening the world's most vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Command this elite team of U.S. Army Green Berets through a series of demolitions, search and rescue missions and all-out fights for survival. Select, train and lead the offensive spearhead as the first team deployed and the last team to leave. Ghost Recon and the Desert Siege expansion pack put you in the deadly, realistic combat of tomorrow's battlefields like no other game. If you meet them in combat, you're already dead.

Ghost Recon...best fps ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have the ghost recon desert siege pack, and it is great! The graphics are incredible and are realistic. And with gameranger you can play online and it is tons of fun. Also, with some mods you can get over 300 new guns and different levels. I HIGHLY reccomend this game to all gamers.

Ghist Recon Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think that Ghost Recon is the best Game which Tom Clancy has made. it has a realy fun and interising story line. Any one would want to play it, well not every body...
Any way i think this Game rules!
You shoud use Game Ranger with this as a type of battle.net
Enjoy!

Dude, this game rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 17
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Oh man, this game rules. THe controls are excellent, and the lightsaber effects are excellent. The physicengin is great. And it moving story is ecellent. I was crying when the dinosaur died. And the part where Luke Skywalker was killing the evil robot was really supensful. I love this game.

One of My All Time Favorites!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A GREAT game! The single player campaign is challanging, great story line, great weaponry. Mulitplayer is also great, and easily expandable with a plethora of Mod's (http://www.planetrainbowsix.com/damnr6/start.html is the best source). Highly recommend to anyone who likes strategical challanging.

Best of the War Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Recon is by far the best of the war games. It involves strategy and first person action.

VERY FUN !!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Got this game 3 years back , And it still my go to game. A must for all war gamers.

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