Rating: 
Summary: It was OK but there were some problems
Review: 1st of all i'd like to say that the game has pretty good graphics. The only problem I really had with it is that when you are choosing ur weapons, there aren't that many to choose from. There are like 4 different primaries and they com in sets. And each person has a specialty so you cant get a person you like wit a certain weapon. Like you cant choose grenades and an M16 for som ppl some you cant even choose grenades at all. You only get a primary and secondary weapon. Other than that the game was good. The maps are really big and you have to be careful because there are some hidden enemies. Also the controls are hard at 1st. And also i was disapointed with the amount of enemies there were. Some maps only have about 10 ppl to kill. And there arent 2 many levels, but each map requires a lot of time. I think this is an OK game to buy, but if you want a game with a lot of action and bad guys, then i suggest you buy a different game.
Rating: 
Summary: Awesome Game!
Review: 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!
Rating: 
Summary: Real Good but...
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Real Good but...
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Best Combat simulator ever!
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Compared to Rogue Spear...
Review: I bought this after playing a lot of Rogue Spear. There were some things I liked, and some that I didn't. There are a few things that I really like-
1. SNIPING! You're outdoors most of the time, with big maps and plenty of opportunity for sniping. That was one thing I really missed in Rogue Spear.
2. Kneeling and LYING PRONE!
3. The new dynamic planning feature.. You can plan your waypoints in the field instead of doing it all beforehand. My opinion- If you liked Rogue Spear, then this is a great addition to your game collection. I still play Black Thorn and Ghost Recon a lot, interchangeably, depending on whether I'm in the mood for CQ combat or Ranger-style field combat (SNIPING!!).. The only reason I give 4 out of 5 stars is that I'm an SQA engineer and could rant to these guys about the things they need to work on. Its still a very good game.
Rating: 
Summary: Not even as good as thier previous games.
Review: I bought this game hoping it would be a sequel to Rogue Spear and Rainbow Six, boy was I wrong. Ghost Recon is just a dumbed-down version of those games. This game seems to be a response to Wolfenstien and other run-around-and-shoot games. Rogue Spear was more realistic, had more weapon choices, better control for your own soldiers, and was a LOT more detailed. Rogue Spear took planning, this game is just about running around and finding the bad guys. I found Ghost Recon to be far from life-like. Many times the enemy was able to spot and kill my men from very far away, the grass and trees didnt hide my prone troops at all. Ghost Recon has a few features I do like: going prone (and crawling) and better graphics, but graphics dont make the game. If you want a true point and click, first person shooter with some squad control, get this game.
Rating:
Summary: Ghost Recon: The Best Game Ever
Review: I can start out by saying, this is the best game i have ever played in my life, period. There is nothing in computer gaming like being in a firefight with your 4 computer controlled squadmates, and sometimes over 20 enemies. You see your machine gunner kill two or three enemies and then you smirk. Then maybe five seconds later you see blood fly from the back of his head after a bullet penetrated his skull. This is the closest that i plan on ever being to war. I almost started to cry when my veteran sniper died after stupidly forgetting to send him behind cover. With i believe 12 missions and an AMAZING multiplay this game has hours of playability. My only gripes are that controls are a little odd to get used to, although they are similar to half-life (plus you can always change them if you are uncomfortable) but DO NOT COMPARE THESE TWO GAMES, two totally different experiences. Also fairly high system specs, but its not that bad, nothing to hinder it from getting a 5 PLUS Desert Sieges missions are great fun + more multiplay maps. Desert Siege is also alot more challenging because of a lack of cover provided by the Forest. My humble opinion, BUY THIS GAME!!!!
Rating:
Summary: Love it
Review: I don`t know what i`ve been told,but Ghost Recon`s worth its weight in gold. Sound off,one,two,three..... This is a great game. Grenades blowing off, gunshots everywhere. Real cool. It cost a lot of money though. I can`t wait to get the exspansion pack. I should have bought the bundle.
If you think this is a Rainbow Six game, you are wrong. But if you played them you might be used to this game. If you are not used to this kind of game, you will be jumping out of your seat.....literally. You got to buy this game. It`s almost the best First person shooter i`ve played. Take my advice and, buy this game. It cost some money...but it`s worth it! That`s why I gave this a war-torn five out of five.
Rating: 
Summary: This game is okay
Review: I kinda liked this game it was okay, but I recomend something else.
| 
