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Summary: The first person shooter for people who don't like them!!
Review: If you've played Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Rainbow 6, or any other first person shooter, then you have NO IDEA what Ghost Recon is like. The game is in a class by itself. There are a few bugs, so if you really want to, then wait for the patch to come out in February (or whenever they get around to it). The online play is intense and has been reported to cause heart failure. WOW! Come...join the fun.
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Summary: War on you Personal Computer
Review: It is amazing how good this game recreates the feelings and sensations of real combat. You are inserted into enemy territory, and clearly outnumbered, try to success on suicide missions. The game is thrilling, exciting and full of action and war tactics. The downside is that this game really needs a good computer to run with good graphics. I have a 1.0Ghz 256RAM 32Mb PC and it barely manages a medium detail resolution. You'll be placed on several different tactical mission like blowing tanks, rescuing people, kidnapping rebel leaders... You can expect everything from these missions, just like real-world combat.
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Summary: Ghost Recon
Review: Game play is fine the problem is bugs. This game has more problems than any game I purchased in 12 years for the PC. From video to sound causing the game to lock up or crash no matter if your using win 98/me & with most video and sound cards. I would expect more from redstorm and will not purchase anymore of their products.
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Summary: For Real...
Review: I purchased Ghost Recon a while back and have just now returned to read the reviews. I must agree that this is the best tactical shooter ever created, and I sincerely disagree with some of the complaints that others have posted.
The pros of this game can be found in other reviews, and the game has tons of them.
THe con that I keep seeing is that the lack of planning gets your men killed in battle. One particular review said that it's impossible to command the men during a firefight without your men getting pummelled while you use the point and click interface. Please ignore this review! It is very easy to tell the men to get to a checkpoint, then tell them to hold their position, select the next point or point to go to. It just requires a single button to send them off to the new checkpoints during a fight. It's just a matter of in-game planning rather than pre-game planning like Rainbow 6. It's very easy to do. This game is awesome and has excellent replayability. \Hope this clears up any doubt you may have about buying this game. It is game of the year in my opinion.
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Summary: GR Rocks!!
Review: After spending too much time with Counter-Strike, Ghost Recon was a nice change. Some have complained about the "good-guy" AI not being that great. It doesn't bother me. I'm more concerned about the enemy AI and if they're going to put up a good fight or not. If you want some serious realism and some tough single-player action, Ghost Recon delivers!
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Summary: Realistic at the expense of fun
Review: As an average gamer, I want to have fun, be entertained, and feel like I'm making some progress. If you're like me, don't buy this game. I think all of the positive reviews are from people who value realism over fun. First, it's tedious and boring. You have to skulk around and save all the time because at any minute, a shot could ring out and you're dead. The field is really big and it takes a long time to cover it and kill the bad guys. While this is brutally realistic, for me, it's boring. I bought this to have fun. Second, it doesn't look good. Again, it's painfully realistic. It's in olive drab and brown. Last, the interface to control your team is a pain in the _ss. I only played this for about an hour and sold it to a friend. Bottom line, if you like to skulk around a huge drab field for hours, buy it. If you like more action, an easier game, and less realism, don't touch this one.
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Summary: Its nothing compaired to Operation Flashpoint...
Review: I have all the rainbow six games, and I think this is a stumbling attempt to create a battlefiel war game. I think it was stupid of Ubi and Red Storm to put somthing this pitiful out there with operation flashpoint out... Its good if you like the rainbow six series, but if you want somthing a little better, go for operation flashpoint.
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Summary: One Great Game
Review: Anyone who says this games stinks needs to take a bath cause they stink.buggy? nope fresh out of the box and its kicking and alive to. sure, has steep system requirements but its worth it who doesn't want to blow up a tank? or snipe and unsuspecting foe. Multiplayer rock on solid and fun! who ever says this game is buggy as hell needs a new computer. the game gives you more plesure than any other game.
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Summary: Ghost Recon IS first person squad combat
Review: This is a first person character building game. Graphics are good. The trade off for just good graphics is the amount of them. Sounds are realistic. Your squad acts like a team (AI is somewhat realistic). You, as the commander of the squad, lead one team and command the others (up to 6 but normaly 3 teams). Your men cover you and eachother. The opposition is fierce, have patience or you and your team are kibble (ex. After strafing a room and taking cover, any opposition left will pepper the area to keep you down; toss granades to wipe you out; and attempt to flank/ surround you to finnish you off). You can switch between squad members depending on how you feel; Go sniper for the ranged patience istakill; Go Rifleman to be a shooter with flair; or be the Heavy gunner for bullet throwing fun! Most of it is one shot, one kill on both sides(I like this feature). If you succeed a misson with none of your team in a shallow grave, its an awsome feat! Downers: You need a beefy computer to get the full effect. You, as team leader can kill your team easily by moving to a cover spot ((you are covered and they don't take cover)not that big of a downer, but frustrating). Cannot drive vehicles. Over all a great game, hours of gut wrenching fun! - Redwind
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Summary: Finally, someone gets it right.
Review: To sum it up in a nutshell: Ghsot Recon is *the* best "tactical" shooter to come down the pike. Delta Force can't touch it. Operation Flashpoint can't touch it. Hidden & Dangerous can't touch it. (And I've played them all.)
It's pretty to look at and the sound is spot-on and immersive. Often, I found myself stopping to just look around and admire the scenery and sounds of nature (much like all the Unreal vets out there can relate to, I'm sure). The gameplay is a perfect mixture: ten minutes of tense patrolling and maneuver, punctuated by sixty-seconds of pure terror as the woods around you erupts into gunfire and explosions. Squad-mates chatter desperately on the radio as they return fire, dive for cover, and scan for new targets. Then, as quick as it began, all is quiet again, and you're left with just the sounds of tree limbs creaking and leaves rustling in the breeze. Amazing.
As to bugs. I'm not quite sure exactly what "bugs" other reviewers were referring to. This is, out of the box, probably one of the cleanest examples of code a gamer can ever hope to install. Perhaps the bugs cited were system-specific to those unfortunate individuals, but we've had it running for a couple of weeks, on three separate machines, with no problems. Even the multiplayer via LAN was rock stable.
What's the catch? Well, I'm afraid I have to agree with the reviewers who mentioned the game's resource-hungry engine. Make no mistake about it: this game *is* a system-hog. My 1.5G CPU, 512M RAM, and GeForce3 GPU choked badly until I rolled back some of the quality settings a bit. It looks darn good, mind you, even with the resolution, FSAA, and a couple of other things ratcheted down, but I'm still averaging about 30 FPS. I don't get excited about frame-rates, like some gamers, but 30 FPS can be annoying, even for my taste.
Someone lamented the lack of a Rogue-Spear-like detailed mission pre-plan. But, let's face it, in Ghost Recon, you're not a precision entry team striking an embassy with near-complete intel on the threats and assets inside. You're a recon squad, and, by definition, are usually surveying an area wherein there is an incomplete picture of the enemy. It's hard to simulate Rogue Spear-esque pre-mission planning when you ostensibly don't know where the enemy is, from what direction he's coming, what type and size threat he will pose, and what he's doing.
Give Ghost Recon a shot. I sincerely feel this is another one of those "benchmark" games that will change our expectations of the games that follow in its footsteps, much like the original Rainbow Six did. Just don't expect Rainbow Six 3 when you play it, and you won't be disappointed. :-)
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