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Excellent tactical military FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Mirrors Rainbow Six 3 in many ways...good graphics. Love the way the enemy uses his rifle to hobble away when you shoot him in the leg. Many of the same tactics are still used today in Advanced Warfighter...

Next level shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Far from your typical squad based shooter; Ghost Recon has a few things that distinguish it from the rest. You have two squads at your command, Alpha and Bravo; each has a squad leader and two additional squad mates. Each squad operates as a unit and cannot be separated into individuals. However, you can tell a squad to go over to a certain place, like making Alpha team hide at the top of a cliff and pick off any incoming enemy soldiers heading toward your position as you make your way to take out an enemy hideout.

GR has four different classes for each member of your squads (e.g. demolition and your basic infantry). The game does not stop there it allows you to pick each members weapon and secondary weapon (which there are a lot of). Ghost Recon has some RPGish elements to it. The more any member of the GR team is used, the better his skills will get. If you get a squad mate hurt in battle he will have to take some time out of action if you want him to heal or you can keep him in the fray, risking the loss of a soldier. If you lose a man on the field he is gone for the rest of the mission.

The battles in this game are fast, furious and truly intense. You will get breaks in the action to catch your breath. The AI in this game will have you second guessing almost every thing you do, they will suppress you with fire and have other members try to flank you. They will use this maneuver often but on occasion they will employ other ways to fill you full of lead. You must use strategy; you cannot go into an enemy base with guns blazing and expect to be successful.

Although there are now new and improved titles in the Ghost Recon series, this is all in all a great game which is now playable on the Xbox 360 as well.

One of Xbox's best Shooters ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is an incredibly fun first person shooter. If you like military squad based games, this is definately for you. The graphics (when it came out) were pretty top-notch and had some extremely fun multiplayer gametypes. I actually didn't start playing this game until Island Thunder was already out (which I played like crazy!) and it still held up as a great game. The sounds in the game really made it seem realistic, like you were actually there on the battlefield. I mean, looking back at it today, the game doesn't hold up in terms of graphics and presentation, but the gameplay is still one the best shooters there has been. Everything worked in it, it wasn't that hard to pick up and play, and the fact that it actually played like a tactical shooter made it stand out from the rest.

Okay, let's now talk about it's Xbox Live play. In simple terms, "it was fantastic." There were plenty of maps available, all with different environments. You could choose what class you wanted to play as, Rifleman, Snipers, Support, and Demolition, and then pick your gun kit, which there were also plenty to choose from. You could play the multiplayer portion of this game for hours on end and not get bored, something that's hard to come by these days (except GRAW, hehe).

Presentation:

One big gripe about the presentation of this game was that the menus were kinda difficult to navigate through (kinda like GR2). This drove me nuts a bit, but this was fixed by the time Island Thunder came out.

Graphics:

In it's day, Ghost Recon for the Xbox had some pretty sweet graphics, unlike other games on the market back then. It seemed pretty realistic and along with the sound made a great gaming experience.

Sound:

The sound in this game was pretty fantastic when it was released. Everything seemed very realistic and gave the gamer a great gaming experience. Explosions, bullets firing...exerything was great!

Gameplay:

This was probably my favorite aspect of this game. It played like a great military squad based shooter and was very tactical, unlike the run and gun games we find on the market today. The gameplay is truly what gave this game it's kick.

Lasting Appeal:

With it's great multiplayer aspects and Live capabilities, this game had great lasting appeal. People played it up to and through GRIT, and some even played till GR2 came out. Talk about lasting appeal...this game definatley had some!!!

Ghost Recon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of Ghost Recon 2 and Summit Strike. These really didn't tickle my fancy with the gameplay of it and everything else. I guess you have to start and work your way up, uinstead of working your way backwards throught the Ghost Recon series as I did.

Get it cheap

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it first came out for the Xbox due to the fact it was one of the early FPSs available for LIVE play back then. Fisrt off the menu system is TERRIBLE! It is cluncky and confusing and the button presses don't always take during game setup. Secondly it is not well done on LIVE at all. The most the average connection will be able to handle is about 3 players online which due to the large maps is pretty dissapointing. Little annoyances like not being able to step over a 2" piece of rock jetting out from a cliff edge can get tiresome. Now the good news as I see it. If you give this game the time it needs to hook you then you will enjoy it. Once you get comfotable with the controls and put the little problems behind you this game is quite fun in single player. Shooting a guy from across the river with the 50cal sniper rifle is worth the HUGE amount of work required to unlock it. I actually completed this game on the hardest setting in order to unlock everything and really got into it. The graphics are good enough but this game was a year or two old when it was ported to the Xbox so today (late 2005) it shows it's age graphically. As cheap as this game is today it is definately worth it in my opinion but if you have no patience then you might want to pass it up. The best games are generally the hardest, they are the games one goes back to play 1-3 years later. (Moto GP2, Ghost Recon, PGR2).

FH Gamer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed the game very much even though I had a very difficult time in a couple of areas I felt secure in believing there was indeed a solution to the problem I was having and if I studied it long enough I would find the solution.

Disapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge Tom Clancy fan. I have played all of his games on the PC and played very heavy with online gamers. When I seen they had this on X box I was very excited, but shortly ended up disapointed. The graphics are good, but I could not seem to get anywhere at all. I can say the dificulty level for this game is a lot higher then PC version. The person is a lot harder to control on Xbox compared to the PC.

EXALLENT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

WHEN I WENT TO NEW YORK CITIE FOR VACATION I WAS LOOKING IN A GAME STORE AND FOUND THIS GAME. IT LOOKED PRETTY GOOD SO I THOUGHT I WOULD GET IT.
PROS:
EVEN THOUGH MANY PEOPLE SAY THE CONTROLS ARE HARD TO GET A HANG OF I DISAGREE. I DO RECOMEND JUST DO A HEAD TO HEAD BATTLE WITH YOUR SELF TO PRACTICE THE CONTROLS.ALSO THE GRAPHICTS ARE VERY WELL DONE. THEVIOLANCE KS VERY REALISTIC ALONG WITHTHE SOUNDS. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR VIOLANCE LOOK NO FURTHER. IN THIS GAME YOUR CHARECTER CAN EATHER STAND, NEAL, OR CRALL AND STILL BE MOBILE. LASTLY YOU CAN HAVE A MULTIPLAYER CAMPAIN.
OVERALL THIS IS THE 4TH BEST GAME I HAVE BEHIND BOTH HALO'S AND THE SIMPSONS HIT AND RUN.

AWSOME!

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

Okay, the only reasons u shouldn't love this game are:
-You can't stomach the violence.
-Your mom won't let you get it.
-You think its to hard cuz u die in 1-3 hits.
-You don't know whats good.
-u are a pacifist, liberal, moron, or a hippie.
-u don't have video game systems.

Rent it first

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game based on all of the hype and good reviews I'd seen on it. Once I got it home to play it, not only did I not have fun, the game only succeded in making me angry.

I played through the training scenarios. Already I was not impressed with the controls. I tried playing the first mission 3 times. The premise seemed pretty simple. You're in control of 2 3-man teams. You sweep through an area, accomplishing tasks and killing unfriendlies. I was thoroughly wasted on all three times I played the first mission. I didn't even get close to the end of the first level. The controls were clumsy and the enemies were nigh impossible to see. Even the map gave me little information as to what was going on.

Now, I know you're supposed to take your time with this game. Halo it ain't. But, I like games that take time. I've played through levels of Splinter Cell and Hitman 2 multiple times just to get the fewest number of kills possible. I also finished Morrowind which is not exactly an instant gratification game. I didn't try to haul through GR, absorbing damage. There are some games some people just can't get the hang of. Maybe this was one of those for me. I also tried the first Rainbow 6 when it came out, and I hated that, too. Maybe it's squad-based games I hate. I would rather be in control of one guy and know exactly what he's doing than 6 and have 3 of those running around doing God knows what.

As with any game, I recommend renting it first. If you rent it and like it, great. It cost you an extra 3-5 bucks than if you just bought it. If you hate it, you save upwards of 45 bucks. The choice is yours.

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