Ghost Recon Covers
Posted by Rocky on Monday, June 2 2008
In this the 10th year of Tom Clancy titles from Ubisoft, I've put together a collection of Ghost Recon magazine covers.

The collection goes right back to 2001, and can be viewed in this slideshow, and is available for download here.

Signed Ghost Recon Games
Posted by Rocky on Monday, June 2 2008
Three forum members (including me!) were lucky enough to be the recipients of exclusive signed Ghost Recon games this week.

A scan of the original Ghost Recon game with signed box sent to me is posted here, and photgraphs of the box sent out to dporter is posted here. Thales will be posting his signed box later in the same thread. Many thanks to Kimi and the folks at Red Storm.

Support the Troops
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 21 2008
A recent article has exposed the apparent lack of respect shown towards British fallen troops in comparison to other countries. If you feel, like we do, that this cannot go unchecked, please sign the official petiton here. Forum discussion here.

To all our site members serving at the moment, on the verge of leaving for active service, and those contracting, thank you, and be safe.

Site Issue
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 17 2008
Users may have noticed certain parts of GhostRecon.net being offline recently for periods of time, i.e the forums etc. We are investigating the reason for this and working to resolve it.

Sniper Team Public Release
Posted by Rocky on Friday, April 25 2008
In the biggest mod release this year, Lightspeed and Thales have released a public version of the co-op competition Sniper Team - The Longest Kill.

This is the full competitive campaign based on two man co-op teams, one sniper, one spotter, for multiplayer games. If you don't have a spotter, download it anyway and enjoy it solo, but it'll be near impossible!

There are some extra files included in the public release, so check the readme file for full instructions and explanations.

It's a terrific campaign that will have you both cursing and laughing, don't miss this one.

The Longest Kill Concludes
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 24 2008
The Ghost Recon 2008 Sniper Team Tournament, The Longest Kill has come to an end and the results are published.

An extremely impressive 37 teams saw the ten tough custom sniper campaign through to the end, not bad for a game of Ghost Recon's maturity!

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     9MS_3 / BADS_1

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Equally impressive was the quality of this custom campaign put together by Lightpeed and Thales; the missions were top notch, innovative, enjoyable and provided a tough challenge for the competing teams. There's rumour of another tournment by this pair, so keep an eye on out for details on that shortly!

RSE Interview
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 24 2008
Play2Compete scored an interview with RSE Creative Designer Jeff "Geridak" McGann. It's a good read covering lots of ground, read it at Play2Compete, and post comments in our forums here.

New OGR Anti-Cheat
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, April 20 2008
RogueGamingProductions are working on a new Ghost Recon anti-cheat that seems to have some pretty inventive protection - check it out here.

South Ossetian Autonomous Region April 16, 2008
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, April 16 2008
As Peace has pointed out in our forums, today is a special day - it's the date that the Ghosts' inserted for their first mission in the original Ghost Recon!

"South Ossetian Autonomous Region April 16, 2008 05:45 Welcome to Tbilisi, gentlemen -- I hope you got some shuteye on the flight from Bragg, because now that we're here we've got a lot of
work to do. "

Redstorm and Ubisoft are celebrating with the release of never seen before images and a competition.

GRAW 2 OGR Style
Posted by Rocky on Monday, April 14 2008
BSR_Vhladd has been working on a huge project to turn GRAW 2 gameplay into something that more closely resembles the original Ghost Recon.

Once the installation instructions are followed you'll have a seperate launch icon that will automatically launch GRAW 2 with the OGR mod running, with the following new features:

• diamonds and names removed
• plant c4 explosive on just about everything!
• frags and smokes for all classes (ex sniper and demo)
• unique camo for each team
• Ghillies

And there's much more! Read all about it and leave feedback in our forums here, and start the download here. Check back later for dedi server details for joining other fans playing this mod.

Ghost League Launches
Posted by Rocky on Monday, April 7 2008
A group of Ghost Recon vets have started a new Ghost Recon 1 league over at GhostLeague. For more information read Seba's forum post here.

Shader 2 Effects for Ghost Recon 1
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 3 2008
Foxtrot found a tool that introduces new graphic features to old games, and after some testing we found it produces some neat results in the original Ghost Recon. It's an easy install that toggles on and off with a key press, so if you'd like to see bloom effects in Ghost Recon, download bloom effects and try it out!

Mystery Game Revealed
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 3 2008
The purpose of the mysterious flash advert that appeared on the official ghost Recon site has been revealed - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Watch the video at IGN for more details, and to see why Ghost Recon was involved the the marketing build up. Post your thoughts in our forums here.

New Teaser from Ubi
Posted by Rocky on Friday, March 28 2008
The appearance of a mysterious smouldering dossier on Ubisoft's Ghost Recon website has fans pondering its meaning. Ubisoft marketing are starting to show more and more interest in viral marketing, fans will remember the End War campaign started in a similar fashion.

The burning folder appears as a flash movie shortly after the Ghost Recon page has loaded. If you look  hard enough you can see some clues, a number 42, characters S08, and what looks like a smal circular logo or stamp. Check the forum link below on our thoughts about the S08 marking.

The sudden and simultaneous appearance of a new Ubisoft forum, in the General section, called MACSAT7 Recovery fuels speculation.

Make your guess in our forums here.

All Out War
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, March 20 2008
GRAW 2 Multiplayer modder BSR_Vhladd has come up with a new gametype that boasts some new features, such as "plant anywhere" C4 and operational tagging system. Download this GRAW 2 mod here, and read more or comment in the forums here.

Ubisoft Buy Tom Clancy Name
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, March 20 2008
Thanks to Pave Low for catching this breaking news today...

"Paris, FRANCE – 20 March 2008 – Today, Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announces that it has concluded an agreement with Mr. Tom Clancy to acquire all intellectual property rights to the Tom Clancy name..."

Read the full press release and add your comments in our forums here.

The Longest Kill
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, March 16 2008
This weekend the very much anticipated Ghost Recon co-op sniper tournament The Longest Kill started! Teams who have not already downloaded the training mission can do so now by visiting this page and following the instructions. This tournament comes with a promise of tension and never seen before features so each of the 60 signed up teams are in for a real treat - good luck!

Modelling Competition
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, March 16 2008
GhostRecon.net forum members have a great record for winning competitions over the years. Several members have won various prizes from Ubisoft (I even won a graphics card). More recently GRAW modder Rpghard won a load of cool stuff from Xfire for being a hardcore gamer, with a remarkable amount of time logged against GRAW.

Now there is a chance for the talented Ghost Recon modellers to use their skills to try and win some neat prizes from Codemasters in their "Design a Secret Weapon" competition.

"We are looking for outlandish and creative new designs for all sorts of weapons: planes, tanks, rifles, machine guns, ships, submarines, or whatever else you can imagine. "

Pictures have to be mailed to competition@codemasters.com, or in this thread at Codemasters. Good luck guys, I know you can do it!

GRAW 2 Realism
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, March 11 2008
Shadow has released an updated version of his popular realism modification for GRAW 2. Forum discussion can be found here.

Ghost Town Redux
Posted by Rocky on Monday, March 10 2008
Ubisoft have put together a neat movie explaining some of the design considerations when producing a new updated version of the classic Ghost Town map for GRAW2 on X360. Feedback here.

GRAW 2 Extended
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, March 8 2008
Wolfsong has released a new alpha build of his massive GRAW 2 Extended modification. This mod primarily redifines the whole kit set up, with new classes and upwards of 100 kits to select from. This new version includes many fixes and new features, including access to the previously locked Ageia Island! Full content details are in our forums right here. Please remember that although this mod has been produced by one of GRAW's GRIN developers, it's an unofficial private project and support is only available through the forums.

Co-op Collection Fly Overs
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, March 8 2008
Kimi has posted some fly over movies taken from the new GRAW 2 Co-op Collection 2 DLC. You can watch them at youtube, or download better quality versions from the links in this thread.

GRAW 2 Co-Op Collection 2
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, March 4 2008
Thanks to Kimi for pointing out that the GRAW 2 Co-Op Collection 2 is available NOW on Xbox Live Marketplace right now, for a bargain 400 points! Click here for the pack contents or to leave feedback.

GRAW 2 Co-op Collection2 Announced
Posted by Rocky on Monday, March 3 2008
Team Xbox have details on a brand new Co-op Collection for GRAW 2. Gamers website PlayToCompete have done their sums and reckon that the GRAW 2 Legacy Edition will include all previously released GRAW 2 DLC, including this new co-op collection.

Server Upgrade
Posted by Rocky on Monday, March 3 2008
We've had the GhostRecon.net server upgraded, so if you noticed some downtime a few hours ago - that's why! Hopefully you are enjoying the increase in speed the new server is providing. It's a great system that should make what has been a very reliable service even more reliable. Believe it or not, the new data centre it's housed in even has MoD trained guard dogs!

Sniper Tournament
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, February 19 2008
Ghost Recon 1 fans in are for a treat as the resurgence of interest in the original title of the series continues with a new co-op tournament featuring brand new custom missions and weapons.

In Sniper Team - The Longest Kill, two man sniper/spotter teams will pitch their combined skills in a series of 10 custom missions played out on four classic Ghost Recon maps, and 6 custom maps. The weapons have been reworked to recapture the essence of realistic sniping and the spotter will use a new long range spotter scope which will be invaluable in deciding whether the missions end is success, or failure.

This tournament is brought to you by a team of modders of the highest calibre, and we can't wait to get started. All you need to enter is two players, Ghost Recon and both expansion packs, and the Sniper Team modification, which will be supplied to all entrants.

Don't miss out on this one, sign up your two man teams here!

GRAW 2 Legacy Edition
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, February 19 2008
Ubisoft will be releasing GRAW 2 Legacy Edition for the X360 on the 20th of March 2008. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Legacy Edition will include the full original GRAW2 as well as all the downloadable packs previously available on Xbox LIVE, that's a total of over 60 maps.

Preorder from Play.com.

GRAW 2 PC Patch 1.05 Released
Posted by Dannik on Wednesday, February 13 2008
Ubisoft has released two builds of patch 1.05, one for new installs and one for v1.04 upgrades. Patch content and forum discussion here.

GRAW 2 Weapons Mod
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, February 9 2008
A new version of Brettzies weapons mod for GRAW2 has been released, and includes a Sig550 Commando, and a M4 Combat Shotgun. Additionally there are some new additions to the Ghost's headwear including the mich2001 helmet with NV attachment.

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You can see more screenshots of the brilliant new weapons here, and read about the mods development and content in this discussion. Installation is a snap thanks to clear instructions in the included pdf manual.

Brettzies GRAW2 Weapons Mod v1.4 can be downloaded here.

Design a Banner
Posted by Rocky on Friday, February 8 2008
Ubisoft are running a competition for a new forum banner to adorn their official GRAW PC forums. I know we have a bunch of very skilled artists in our own forums, loitering about our six forum Design House, so feel free to prepare your designs here before submitting them to Ubisoft prior to Sunday the 17th of February.