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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Mk.12 - Click For Full Size

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.

GRAW 2 Patch v1.05
Posted by Rocky on Friday, February 8 2008
Ubisoft have officially announced details of the long (long) awaited GRAW2 patch. The patch will auto install from next Wednesday, the 13th of February, and contains five of the single player maps coded for multiplayer games, two new weapons (M1014 shotgun and M240) and various undisclosed fixes.

Unofficially we heard that the patch also includes updated network code and adjusted M99 zoom time.

Brettzies GRAW2 Weapon Pack
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, February 6 2008
In advance of the release version of his upcoming and awesome Weapon Pack, Brettzies has released a short showcase movie. All GRAW2 fans should download and watch this movie, if the hype in this discussion hasn't already got you giddy in anticpation, this movie will.

Bungie Interview Serellan
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, February 5 2008
Christian Allen was interviewed by his new employer Bungie this week. In the podcast Christian talks about his gaming roots, favourite games, his work on the Ghost Recon series, Halo and Call of Duty 4.

Download the mp3 file in here, read Christian's blog here.

GRAW 2 for Free
Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 21 2008
Fileplanet are offering GRAW 2 PC as a free download for new subscribers. Rainbow Six Vegas is also up for grabs, more details at Fileplanet.

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!

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!

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!

GPU bundle with GRAW2
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, December 12 2007
VR Zone have a large article on the new G92 based Nvidia 8800 GTS 512Mb graphics card. If you are confused my the current naming convention for the 8 series of cards with all the varios GT and GTS incarnations, this is a good read.

What they also point out is that the Inno3D 8800 GTS comes with a full copy of GRAW 2. It's a picture heavy review that has some interesting photos, but the benchmarks show only marginal improvements in FPS over the GT model. Read the full 8800GTS review and make up your own mind if it's worth the extra cash.

GRAW 2 Patch v1.05 Close
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 1 2007
Version 1.05 of GRAW 2 has been spotted on servers, meaning it could be very close to release. Fans are posting that the patch could include 2 new maps among other details, read more in our forums here.

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.

Hamburger Hill Players Tourney
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, November 14 2007
Signups are open for the GRAW 2 PC Hamburger Hill Players Tournament now! Get your team's details posted now to take part in this fun tournament!

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!