Ghost Recon

The first time I ever played this game, I got my a** kicked! I am talking all of my team died. I recently started playing it again after playing games like Rogue Spear, Half-Life, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and have gotten better at it. I also played Desert Siege. It is about the same as Ghost. A very excellent game. The sounds are perfect, its kinda messed up when you are running to take someone down and suddenly hear a machine gun at your back, and those beautiful words "Goodbye!" I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys Tom Clancy's work. UBISoft did a kick a** job at bringing it to the computer screen.

This is still it - THE best tactical shooter on the market today! I started playing Ghost Recon when it had just been released back in 2001, and I loved the game from the very beginning. Other shooters have come and gone since then, with better graphics, better physics engine, better this, better that... but none come close to the depth of game play Ghost Recon provides.

Sure, it has its visual and maybe technical shortcomings in today's gaming world, but Ghost Recon compensates you with its unrivaled immersive atmosphere, with an unparalleled sense of realism, and with an amount of re-playability never again found in any other shooter game offering. There is a good reason Ghost Recon has been named "the thinking man's shooter" time and time again.

Playing Ghost Recon in multi-player Co-Op with some friends against enemy AI - whether in full-scale campaign missions or the simpler Firefight mode - is still a sheer joy, and so it comes as no surprise that even today you will find people playing Ghost Recon online pretty much 24/7.

To resort to the old cliché: If there was but ONE game I could take with me on a desolate island (that happens to house a powered computer), this is it - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - the only REAL tactical shooter out there, the best of its kind!

Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" is so real it makes one have to slap themselves after they are done playing to ensure they are back to reality.

Unlike most games where your player has tons of "health" and can take fifty shots till he goes down, in "Ghost Recon," the Ubi Soft game engine gives the player about one shot and they're down, or two/three if it's a minor wound. Talk about realistic.

The sounds are wonderful. Unlike the loud, unrealistic "blams" most games offer when a weapon is fired, "Ghost Recon" offers realistic little cracks of a rifle.

The gameplay is amazing, and the level detail and graphics are nothing short of incredible.

Imagine walking through a demolished Russian town, your troop regiment behind you, three allied tanks surrounding you. Rain is pouring down from above. All of a sudden, a crack sounds, and one of your men is down. A tank is the next down, after an MI-36 hits it. You have to think quick. You have to search the demolished buildings around you for the enemy, who is most likely hiding up in some blown-apart room.

That's what "Ghost Recon" is: one of the best video-games to date.

5/5 stars --

John Ulmer

For me, Ghost Recon is a poor game. You could say that I am biased, since I prefer action style games rather than stealth and strategy, but I must say I was truly disappointed when I played this game. It is also too short, with 15 levels. I recommend the Delta Force series for army or military games.

4/10

For me this games rocks. With Tom Clancy you can expect great plot and concept. It has great graphics, especially the drawing and animation of character. The game also has excellent sounds. Every rifle and pistols have different sound. You can feel the bullets passing your ears.

This game is a combination of First-person shooter and Squad-based Real Time Strategy. Not like other first person shooter games which you rely in fragging, shooting and jumping. This games focus on stealth and strategy. The success of your mission depends on the way you maneuver your squad. And the life of your men is in your hand. If you plan to have a military career someday, play game.