military and espionage

For those of you who haven't experienced Ghost Recon it's time to cash in. You can get Ghost Recon, Ghost Recon Desert Siege and Ghost Recon Island Thunder for $39.00 what a bargain. In all the Ghost Recon games you will play as an elite Green Bureau soldier. Your Missions will take you from Eastern Europe, to Southern Africa, and to Cuba. You jobs in the missions will range from stopping rebels and terrorist, to rescuing hostages and blowing up bridges. The Game never gets old especially with all 3 games in one; there is over 100 hours of game play. Once you have beaten all 31 single player missions (good luck) you can fight on line for even more action and suspense. The Graphics are a little out dated but who cares; this is one of the best tactical army shooters out. Each expansion keeps adding on new items, weapons, and missions. Ghost Recon Gold Edition should definitely be on you shopping list.

P.S. This game only requires a Pentium 2 proseser, 450MHz, and 128 Ram; so even if you have a bad computer you should be able to play this game.

but I LOVED this game! I had never played a squad-based first-person shooter before, and I saw this for $15. Game of the Year, 2002? How bad could it be?

I then found myself spending the next month slogging through 30 delicious missions of special forces fun. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not perfect. I ran into some pathfinding problems (guys getting stuck in stairwells, or jumping off a 6-inch drop, rather than taking a ramp, and breaking their legs no less), and it is annoying that my guys never used their grenades. But they were certainly quick on the draw, regularly taking out enemy soldiers before I could even spot them, let alone draw a bead.

Maps are nicely varied and large, graphics and sound are solid, and the control scheme is not nearly as difficult to learn as I thought it would be (although it does take some practice, and the tutorial is kinda stinky). But the thing that amazed me most is that just about every mission contains a lot of NOTHING happening. You're moving soldiers into position, looking around for the bad guys, wondering if you should take the high road or not and then BAM! BAM! RAT-A-TAT-TAT! The sudden (usually short) bursts of violence just mde the lack of action unbelievably intense.

Odds are pretty good that if you're a fan of the genre, you've already played this one. If not, cough up the $15 and buy this right now. I'm already dreaming of replaying it as soon as possible.

I regularly play multiplayer games with my game clan friends online. Up until recently we were all playing Battlefield 1942 and Warcraft III Frozen Throne. Then one of my friends got this Gold edition of Ghost Recon and then we all ended up getting it once we found out all the maps and weapons available in this edition. I had the original edition for some time but I hadn't played it much recently because only one other of my friends had it.

The Gold Edition adds so much more to the game with the Island Thunder and Desert Siege maps and the additional weapons you can use in Multiplayer. I paid at least as much for just the regular edition as what the Gold Edition is now selling for here. Don't pass this one up. If you like to play by yourself you will love the single player campaigns and quick missions. If you enjoy multiplayer you will rock with your friends doing recon, defend, firefight, or missions on all the great night and day maps.

What started as two playing the regular version went to eight of us playing this gold edition almost nightly after about a month. Only a couple minor complaints. The AI even set at recruit pulls off some unbelieveable shots sometimes. You can be waiting for them to come out from behind a rock or tree and they will magically shoot you after you have emptied a clip into them. This is the one thing the developers need to fix.

Don't set invincible spawn time, some how AI will once again magically know when it is over and shoot you right after you become vulnerable before you can shoot them. They should also make it possible to climb out onto rocks and ledges, and even fall off them. I don't mind getting killed if I fall, I just don't like not being able to get a vantage point on a cliff or hill because of some game restriction. I would give it five stars if they would fix these issues. It is still a great game and so we are willing to put up with these inadequacies.

There are a good number of excellent web sites offering mods and maps to this game. The Navy Seals, G8, and some weapons mods I tried are great. They included new skins and a wide variety of weapons for your team. This is one of the best Tom Clancy games available and I highly recommend it. For this price getting three games in one is a steal.