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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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.

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.

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!

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!

Co-op Too Difficult for Developers?
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, January 20 2008
The reward offered by co-op gaming is very familiar to many Ghost Recon fans, especially those have have enjoyed playing in any of the many co-op tournaments over the years. Nine team mates playing together against the AI enemy, multiple mission objectives, built in scoring, and modding tools to easily create an endless supply of new missions, are some of the reasons that Ghost Recon is arguably unmatched in gaming history for quality tactical co-operative gaming. Todays generation of gamers would be overjoyed to hear that their favourite franchise was about to release a title with the above features, and probably shocked to hear that those same features are already available in a game released seven years ago!

The thing is, with the orginal Ghost Recon, Red Storm Entertainment seems to have created a game more than eight years ahead of its time, as todays AAA releases can't match Ghost Recon's impressive co-op feature list, infact those features seem to deteriorate with every new release. Look at Rainbow six Vegas 2, while we might hope that the 9 man co-op limit with Ghost Recon had been surpassed, it has apparantly been decreased to two!

A recent article on C&VG highlights the difficulties faced by developers when creating a game with co-op functionality. The question we should be asking is, if Red Storm could code it seven years ago, why isn't every game developer striving to expand on those Game of the Year features, rather than cutting back? Or is co-op too difficult for todays developers to code in as the C&VG article seems to indicate - post your opinions in our PC Gaming forum!

SANDF Update
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 12 2008
There's been a real resurgence in Ghost Recon 1 interest lately, exhibited mainly by the release of some new and updated mods, and also the recovery of some recently rediscovered mods which are being added to the Ghost Recon download section on a daily basis.

Today though one update in particular caught my eye, the Southafrican Army Defence Mod has just been updated by GWDS to version 2. This means no more bugs, and even better, no more copyright issues with the SOAF maps as they have been moved to a new expansion pack which requires the SOAF game to be pre-installed. You will need The Sum of all Fears installed on your PC to enjoy this new pack as it uses maps from the official installation.

Discussion on this mod can be found here.

Sniper Tournament
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 30 2007
Good news for Ghost Recon 1 fans - a brand new tournament campaign, "Sniper Team - The Longest Kill"

This Sniper Tournament will have numerious custom missions and the mod team are already incorporating some brand new features never seen in a Ghost Recon torunament before. Catch up on the latest news on the exciting tournament in our forums here.

Winter Mods
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 24 2007
Here's a collection of suitably themed Ghost Recon mods, just for Christmas. If you don't already have these in your collection, nows as good time as any to grab them!

Operation Save Santa 1
Operation Save Santa 2
Winter Wonderland
Jodit Haile Winter Edition
Frostbite

There's enough there to keep even the busiest GR gamer going for a few weeks!

Merry Christmas!
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 23 2007
Thanks to Krise for starting our Merry Christmas thread this year, drop in and wish everyone a Merry Christmas wherever you are in the world!

On behalf of all the staff here at GhostRecon.net, we'd like to wish you all the very best over the festive season, and for the coming Tom Clancy game filled year!

Udmurtia Spetsnaz
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 22 2007
Ingeloop, long time Ghost Recon fan and creator of MVD Osnaz modification, has released an early Christmas present for GR1 fans - a new mod called Udmurtia Spetsnaz. The mod features new russian weapon models bundled with Migryder's Pressure missions/campaign. Download Udmurtia Spetsnaz here. Forum discussion here.

SOAF for GR
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 22 2007
Here's a treat for Ghost Recon fans who also have the cool Sum of all Fears game installed. GWDS has produced an installer that will copy assets from your SOAF install into the Ghost Recon, meaning you can now enjoy the SOAF maps and characters in Ghost Recon.

The pack includes sample mission files for modders to use in the creation of new Ghost Recon missions using these maps and characters. Additionally there are also the original TSAF multiplayer files so you can play SOAF maps online in Ghost Recon!

Download GWDS's Mp3 SOAF for GR1 here. Remember this only works if you have purchased and installed SOAF. Forum discussion here.

Tom Clancy Series to Merge?
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 15 2007
An article in an Xbox 360 magazine this month all but confirms rumours we'd heard about an interesting development on the cards for the Ghosts, Rainbow Six, and Ubisoft's new RTS title Endwar.

What this means, is possible plot interaction between each of the new Tom Clancy releases next year. Members of Rainbow Six, the Ghosts and perhaps even characters from Splinter Cell might be involved in the Real Time Strategy End War title.

As the next titles in both the Rainbow Six series and the Ghost Recon series are likely to be released next year there's every chance Ubisoft will be confirming this speculation sometime after Christmas. Chances are that this announcement could confirm a new game engine for GRAW3, and a change in development house, possibly taking GR back to it's roots....

Luckily, we have an entire End War discussion forum here, and our sister site AGR-S.com covers the Rainbow Six Series, so whatever develops, we've got it covered!

SCAR Movie
Posted by Rocky on Monday, November 19 2007
We've an exclusive movie from Special Ops 2007 today that features the SCAR assualt rifle. The movie takes us through the assembly of the components and also the grenade launcher attachment. Many thanks to Dick Splash for making the movie!

You can view it or download it from our SCAR 2007 download entry. More photo's and discussion from Special Ops 2007 in our Military forums here.

Audio FX Headphones Review
Posted by Rocky on Monday, November 12 2007
eDimensional (PC gaming gadget gurus) have released a new version of their popular Audio FX headphones. The new set is designed exclusively by well known modder Ben Heck and sports a new design and 5.1 surround sound.

I've been testing them for around 8 weeks now and they've become my preferred headphones - read why in my Audio FX5.1 headset review!

Half a Million
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, November 11 2007
It's quite a landmark occasion in our forums this weekend, as we crossed the 500,000 post mark! Our forums now have over 16,000 members and half a million posts, remarkable going since we installed the current forum software four years ago. I've posted an image showing how the forums have grown over the years since we first launched back in 2001 in this forum thread. Thanks to you all for making the forums such a massive success!

Memories Cup Movie
Posted by Rocky on Monday, November 5 2007
=[FiRe]= Seba has produced an awesome movie as a record of the 2007 Ghost Recon Memories Cup. It weighs in at a massive 876Mb, and lasts just over 20 minutes, but it's well worth downloading and watching for anyone who has enjoyed playing competition Ghost Recon over the years. The download entry for the Memories Cup movie is here.