January 2005

Mod updates Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 29 2005
It's been a while since the mods database was updated so I spent the day bringing it back up to speed and adding all the mods released recently. All in that's around 36 mods that you may have missed as they slipped off the news page, so check out the mods list on the right and see what you missed out on. There's an awesome variation, from Biffa's fun Film Gun mod to Mr Pibb's awesome WWIII Fight For Freedom campaign there really is something for everyone!

Prima Guide Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 27 2005
Console owners getting bogged down with Ghost Recon 2? Never fear, the Prima Guide is now available from Direct2Drive! If you prefer it on your bookshelf and not on your harddrive, you can also get it at Amazon.com.

Best Game Ever Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 27 2005
Speed has released his movie tribute to Ghost Recon, check this forum thread for more information and the download link!

French SF Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 27 2005
Callmehobbes has just finished his French Special Forces mod for Ghost Recon featuring brand new SF camo, download here, questions and comments here.

Eagle Claw Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 25 2005
Way back in April last year Sixpence announced he was working on Eagle Claw, a new Ghost Recon mission pack. The mod is now available at Filefront and contains 9 new missions, redesigned maps and one brand new map from Tof. Other contributing modders include Stalker, Duke and t3kMurmel. Leave feedback for Sixpence here!

GR:JS Award Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 25 2005
The mobile version of Ghost Recon Jungle Storm that appeared on the N-Gage impressed us so much we called it remarkable when we published our review in June last year.

Now, 7 months later it is still being heralded as something special on the mobile scene as it has just picked up Gamespot's Reader's Choice Award for N-Gage Game of the Year 2004. If you have an N-Gage it really is worth a look.

Wannabe GR Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 21 2005
Wannabe.uk.com have produced a video they are calling "Training Day" that features two of their wannabe members out for a stroll in the woods. The reason I'm mentioning it is because you will all recognise the voices and sound effects used throughout the movie. It's just over 90Mb, right click and save as here.

WWIII Released Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 20 2005
Mr Pibbs completed testing his last ever Ghost Recon and sent it in recently, the remarkable WWIII Fight For Freedom! The files are now ready for download, so get ready to enjoy a quite unique experience for Ghost Recon missions.

WWIII has been worked on long and very hard by Mr Pibbs to offer Ghost Recon fans something new, challenging and fun. The mission scripting that went into WWIII is complex and well worked, hopefully you'll agree all the effort by Mr Pibbs is reflected in the playability of the missions.

There are four versions to select from:-

WWIIIFFFGold v3.0 - all the missions + menu music - 115 MB
WWIIIFFFGoldNM v3.0 - all the missions - no menu music - 40 MB
WWIIIFFFGoldNMMac v3.0 - For Mac users - all the missions - no menu music - 40 MB
WWIIIFFFPart2 v3 - only the new 3 missions - 18 MB

If you previously download a v2.0 file please also install this tiny v3.0 patch.

As you can see Mr Pibbs has tried to accommodate everybody! After you have enjoyed the missions, please make sure you visit this discussion and leave some feedback for Mr Pibbs, this is his last Ghost Recon project, so say your thank you's and bid him well!

Militiaman Missions Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 18 2005
Here's a pack of brand new missions from Militiaman that require Island Thunder and Desert Siege, but offer fun games in single player and online.

Download these five missions here and leave feedback in our forums here, where you'll find some screenshots and information from Miltiaman.

Los Angeles Photos Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 17 2005
It's a photo-fest today with our publication of 16 photos taken at the Los Angeles Ghost Recon 2 event. This was the other end of the Ghost Recon 2 competition that Christian Allen took part in at Jacksonville.3,000 miles away at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, celebrities, such as professional basketball player Rick Foxx and movie star Pauly Shore, tested their skills against the Marines, and we have some great photo's of marines in uniform and stars out of uniform, just what you army nuts like to see! Read more on the event at usmc.mil and view all 16 photographs in our forums here.

Sixpence Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 14 2005
Sixpence has done it again. His latest USMC Desert mod has been out for one week and already he is releasing his next modification!

Australian Skinpack is based on the Australian Armed Forces and includes soldiers in woodland and desert Auscam uniforms and the famous Steyr rifles which are used by the aussies. Get further informations and leave feedback in our forums here and download the mod here or here

Also his Navy Seals modification has been updated to v1.2, there is a full install available here and here. Visit our forums for more infos and support.

Some mods released by Sixpence in the near future will be Brazilian Special Forces, Tage des Zorns and Eagle Claw. He took over Brazilian S.F from Sgt. Crocodile and does the final work on it. Tage des Zorns is an entire campaign for his KSK Skinmod but will also be playable with other equipment mods. And the 12 mission campaign from Eagle Claw tends to be another "must have" mod

Scripters Wanted Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, January 12 2005
Most of you will be familiar with the names Stalker, Giwex and Blakarion. These hard working modders are preparing an ambitious modding project for Ghost Recon and are in need of some assistance from scripters. If you have produced Ghost Recon missions before and would like to get involved in Operation Desperate Cry, let Stalker know right away by posting here or clicking his PM button!

Forum Awards Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 10 2005
The forum awards are now ready for your votes! There are numerous polls that you can take part in spread across the 3 categories; Humourous, Modding and General. You don't need to vote in them all, just dip in and take your pick! For your convenience there's a banner at the top of every forum page that'll take you to straight to the polls.

USMC Skinmod Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 8 2005
Tireless Ghost Recon modder Sixpence has produced a USMC - 24th MEU, Skinmod for the fans of the United States marines in Iraq. The Mod shows US marines, as they are stationed in Iraq, equipped with the new MARPAT uniform in the desert camouflage and with updated weapon equipment.

Images from this Desert Siege mod can be viewed at Sixpence's website here, download is here and discussion is here! Fileplanet mirror now available.

26 WOI maps. Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 8 2005
Don Miguel has posted a new year treat for Ghost Recon fans over at warofimfamy.com. The final release of War of Infamy now includes 26 maps for use online or offline. For a full list of the maps and a download link visit GR-Retreat here, for WOI  updates and a full list of downloads, visit WOI.com here.

Up 60% Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 8 2005
GR-Retreat are reporting that new developments in Ubisoft's shareholdings have seen it's value rise by almost 60% since the EA interest was announced! That's not all, it seems Vivendi are not interested too! What a little soap opera this is turning into.... forum discussion is now up to 6 pages and counting....

USSOCOM Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 7 2005
The USSOCOM Afghanistan skin mod from callmehobbes features 5th SFG in Northern Afghanistan in the winter of 2001/spring 2002 with a few CCT specialists included.

Images here and here. Download here and leave feedback here!

Ubi Vote Posted by Rocky on Friday, January 7 2005
Gamespot's front page poll features Ubisoft at the moment, they are polling who should run Ubisoft! Thanks to zantar for noticing this one!

Trainride Posted by Rocky on Thursday, January 6 2005

"excellent... OUTSTANDING!!! ... WOW Deleyt, awesome job... Son of a (Censored)! That looks ### amazing ... the most innovative map/mod in a long time... That's insane ... revolutionary... Awesome stuff ..."

That's just a selection of comments that |rsi|™deleyt has received as feedback for his latest project, Trainride. Considering those comments came from long time Ghost Recon fans and experienced Ghost Recon modders, this is one hotly anticipated mod release!

There are seven pages of details on the progress of this exciting new mod that features moving trains to be found in our forums here, which includes many awesome screenshots, and even a movie. The original 23Mb movie by |rsi|™deleyt was encoded using the fraps decompressor so I've taken the liberty of shrinking the movie down to 1 Mb and encoded it for windows media player, can grab it from Fileplanet here.

EA and Ubi Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 4 2005
The Board of Directors at Ubisoft have issued the following statement through their corporate website.

"In light of recent news spread by the press, Ubisoft’s Board of Directors reiterates that, in the absence of information from the company Electronic Arts regarding its intentions, the latter’s acquisition of 19.9% of the group’s capital is unsolicited and currently considered as hostile. Moreover, it states that there are no negotiations between the two parties at present."

Discussion rages on in our forums here.

SnowFox Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, January 4 2005
Papa6 has reworked his original winter airbase mod and included a SnowFoxII firefight to enjoy it on. Once activated launch a multiplayer server and select the coop mission called Snowfox2. One thing I noticed right away was the Nvidia bug that produced huge snowflakes on Ghost Recon seems to have been fixed with the latest drivers, so if you suffered from that problem before, update your drivers and enjoy this retextured map! Download SnowFoxII here.

1/4 of a Million! Posted by Rocky on Sunday, January 2 2005
It's a bit of a landmark occasion in our forums today, as we just passed the quarter of a million posts mark! That dubious honour goes to none other than long time forum member, GR.net Supporter and RAF 51 Squadron member ..... Mark Van Damme!

All those posts and over 7,000 members have signed up during the last 2 years almost to the exact day! In December 2002 we lost all our forum data and had to start from the beginning again with new forums installed by Super Bob. The first batch of posts were made here in the first week of January 2003, and now 2 years later to the week, Mark Van Damme made the 250,000th post right here!

I'd like to personally thank all the members and the forum moderators for making the forums such a great place to hang out, debate, and have a laugh - it's been an awesome 2 years! Here's to 2 more!

Marines on GR2 Posted by Rocky on Sunday, January 2 2005
A group of US Marines battled it out on the virtual battlefield against a select group of celebrities in a Ghost Recon 2 Ubisoft sponsored event that saw Ubisoft donate $10,000 to the Armed Forces. Ghost Recon 2 Designer Christian Allen was at the event which saw the Marines leave victorious. Read the story and view some photo's at usmc.mil, and find some additional information and photographs from the event in our forums here.

New Sounds Posted by Rocky on Saturday, January 1 2005
Here's a brand new sound pack for Ghost Recon that will offer some variation to the stock game sounds. It's by Beerbelly and you can download it at Fileplanet.