GR:AW Q/A
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, August 30 2005
Ubisoft have published a short Question and Answer session for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, read it all here and comment here. It doesn't cover much ground, but it is the first in a series, so stay tuned!

OE is out!
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, August 30 2005
We've been following the progress of Far Cry mod Obsidian Edge, not least because some of the project team are big Ghost Recon fans. This week, after over a year in development, the final build was released here. You can read more about this mod, that includes some maps Ghost Recon fans will recognise, in this forum discussion, and alot more of the background here.

Spotlight on GR:AW
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 29 2005
TotalVideoGames take a 3 page look at the Xbox360 version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter this month right here. The article covers quite a it of ground, including details on how the various development teams interact even when if different locations...

"The network between the studios is so efficient that a change being made in one location (such as a re-design of the reticule) would be updated to the other Ubi development locations in a matter of seconds…Industrious is certainly the word."

In summary, TotalVideoGames awarded GR:AW 10/10 for an anticipation rating! Forum discussion on this article can be found here.

PXS Pack 2
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 25 2005
The Phoenix Soldiers Mission Pack 2 is a new pack of 3 tournament class coop missions for Ghost Recon squads to practice on. Visit the Phoenix Soldiers here and download the pack here.

SD 2005
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 25 2005
Special Detachment's Ghost Recon Coop Tournament 2005 came to its conclusion this week when all 24 participating teams played the fourth and final mission. The final standings show Alpha Squad were the clear winners this year scoring an awesome full points in three of the four missions!

SD did an fantastic job of organising and running this coop event, which surely must be arguably this years premier coop gaming event across all gaming communities. Even teams failing to score after the first 3 missions turned up to play in the final mission, such was the quality of the missions on offer. Congratulations to all the participating teams and a huge thanks to Special Detachment for keeping it alive, and keeping it real!

GR3 Movie
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 25 2005
How far away is Christmas? Now double it. That's how far away Christmas is going to seem after you've watched this lastest trailer from Ubisoft for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter! Forum discussion about this new trailer can be found here.

Winners!
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, August 23 2005
Congratulations to the following people who are the lucky winners in our draw to win one of five Ghost Recon 2 USB memory sticks!

Japes
t3K|Murmel2
kwakamacca
ARDelta
Element11

All the winners have been e-mailed and should expect their prize direct from Ubisoft early in September! Many thanks to Ubisoft for supporting the Ghost Recon fan community with another very popular competition! The correct answer was of course 2013!

Sniper Elite
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 22 2005
While waiting for Ghost Recon 3 one game in particular caught our eye - Sniper Elite. When I played the preview version Ubisoft sent in I thought it could have been the sniper's version of Ghost Recon - it has a lot going for it.

HatchetForce spent alot of time playing this preview code and you can read why he thought this game was "... innovative and refreshing and the combat gritty" in our preview report for Sniper Elite. HatchetForce also took a quick movie to give us an idea of the bullet cam, check that out here.

Discussion on this upcoming Ubisoft title from a UK developer can be found in our forums here.

GR:AW PC Footage
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 22 2005
Some shaky cam footage has slipped out from the German Games convention reportedly showing the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter in action. Even though it is low resolution it's a good clip, download it here or check it out in the download section for an alternative download location.

Morris says Yeh!
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, August 21 2005
Dan Morris of PC Gamer has given the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Fighter the thumbs up with this statement...

"If the PC-specific tactical elements arrive as currently configured, this game will go straight in my hard drive"

Discussion of the PC Gamer feature on Ghost Recon 3 can be found here.

GR3 at Gamespy
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, August 21 2005
Gamepsy have been to Germany to see the PC version of Ghost Recon 3 Advanced Warfighter. Read their 2 page preview to see why they think it's a scorcher of a title! Note that for some reason Gamespy have used console screenshots throughout that report, and they also got the campaign date wrong, oops!

SADF
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, August 21 2005
The South African Defence Force modification is a new 13 mission campaign started by Cobaka and completed by Ingeloop and Richmondskin. There are some awesome skins and weapons included. Forum discussion here.

Download removed, bugs to fix!

WK and GR:AW
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 18 2005
As you'll probably know, staff member Whiteknight is in Germany right now talking with Ghost Recon developers and checking out the latest build of Advanced Warfighter (lucky sod). Although his official report on what he sees is some days off, he is keeping us up to date with some tantalising morsels of information and his views. Read todays "Thoughts from Germany" straight from the horses mouth in our forums.

GR:AW Hands On.
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 18 2005
IGN have just published a new article on Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

"...the PC version stands alone. It's a case of "this game and those console games." ... we've been told that Ghost Recon on PC will feature more depth and strategy over its console counterparts..."

Read the full thing at IGN, and comment in our forums here.

New GR:AW screens *updated*
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 18 2005
Ubisoft distributed new Advanced Warfighter screens for the PC, Xbox and Xbox 360 today. IGN have the four new shots from the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter here, comments here. The Xbox360 screens can be viewed here, and comments here.

Some nice screens in there, let us know if you make any nice wallpapers, as the ones in our database by the.ronin have been very popular.

The original images without any pesky IGN watermarks can be downloaded from our Advanced Fighter Downloads section now.

GRAW QA
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, August 17 2005
The Ghost Recon 3 development team have revealed some new details about Advanced Warfighter in a new Question and Answer session posted at Ubisoft.

"...you will be able to have a very fine and accurate control of the ghost squad making it possible to split into several groups and devise ambush and counter manoeuvres."

There is a detailed description of the enemy artificial intelligence, and a very nice explanation behind the decision to adopt the first person weapon view.

You can read the full thing on the ubi news page, and comment in the forums!

Only 2 days left!
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, August 17 2005
You only have a couple of days to mail in your entry for a chance to win a Ghost Recon USB memory stick as supplied by Ubisoft!

Click the image to enter. This has been a popular competition, but remember we have FIVE to give away, so every entry stands a pretty good chance of winning one of the sticks! Good luck.

WK Wins!
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 15 2005
Ubisoft have announced the winner of their very exciting competition to go and see Ghost Recon 3 in Germany at a huge Games Convention. We're extremely pleased to reveal the winner is GhostRecon.net long time Staff member Whiteknight77!

The trip includes a behind-closed-doors Press Event to see Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. It's an awesome prize, congratulations WK!

Warfighter GTTV
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 15 2005
While watching a movie supposedly about Rainbow Six Lockdown, I was surprised to find a neat section right at the end with Amanda from GTTV interviewing Christian Allen about Ghost Recon Warfighter!

Download it from Gametrailers here and fast forward to the last section,  discussion here.

WOI : Ranger Mod
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, August 14 2005
Rebar has released his Ranger mod for War of Infamy, you can download it here. Note that you'll also need WOI Multiplayer installed to play the Ranger mod.

Included you'll find historically accurate Folgore Parachute division details, Infantry, commando and Ranger skins and weapons. To wrap it all up there's a nine mission campaign to get stuck into. Congratularions to everyone involved on another add on to the remarkable War of Infamy series.

GR:AW Desktop
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, August 13 2005
the.ronin has created 2 cracking new desktop wallpapers featuring Ghost Recon 3 Advanced Warfighter.

Download load both images here.

Downloads Open
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 11 2005
After weeks of madly bashing away at the keyboard our brand new download system is now operational. You can access it using the Downloads link at the top of every page, and read the history behind the change, and details of the new features here.

RSE Interview
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, August 10 2005
GhostRecon.net Staff member NYR recently had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with some of the Ghost Recon development team from Red Storm Entertainment. During their discussion they covered Summit Strike,  Advanced Warfighter and Red Storm.

Additionally we have 3 brand new Summit Strike screenshots from Ubisoft in the report. Read about NYR's time with two of the Ghost Recon dev team here. Discussion in our forums.

GR3 Movie
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, August 9 2005
The neat movie shown at Gamespot a few days ago has been released in a slightly better resolution, so it is possible to read some of the text and details on the equipment shown. I've put the new version here, enjoy!

If you watch closely you'll see a lot of detail on the equipment the Ghosts will be carrying in Advanced Warfighter. One of them is OTMHS, if you are wondering what that is exactly, and the intruiging science behind it, read our special report on OTMHS here. Another item that flashes up but without any detail, is the BCHS. You can read Dannik's report on BCHS technology here.

Additionally I noticed that CR6 has a cracking jpg image detailing all the equipment, and you can view that at GR-Retreat.

New GR:AW movie
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, August 6 2005
Gamespot have a new Ghost Recon 3 Advanced Warfighter movie online, view it here and discuss it to pieces here.

Ghost Recon Prizes!
Posted by Rocky on Friday, August 5 2005
Ubisoft UK have given us Ghost Recon USB memory sticks to give away! In order to get your name in the draw answer this simple question...

"In what year is Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter based?"

If you are not sure about the answer, visit the official Ghost Recon 3 UK Portal and you'll have the answer in a flash!

Oh, and just to make it more interesting, we don't just have one - we have FIVE Ghost Recon USB memory sticks to give away! Once you have the answer mail it to us by clicking here. The closing date is midnight GMT on Friday the 19th of August 2005. Good luck!

Obsidian Edge
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 4 2005
Obsidian Edge is a Far Cry mod we've mentioned before not least because it's aiming to be Ghost Recon on steriods among other things. Ghost Recon fans have been following this discussion in our forums for some time now, and this month the mod got mentioned in a couple of UK magazines.

.net magazine have a small item in their games section, view that here. It was also mentioned in PC Gamer, here. Visit the Obsidian Edge website for more details.

Launch Day Shots
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 4 2005
Ubisoft send out some very nice exclusive fan site Ghost Recon Summit Strike screenshots to us today.

They've been added to our gallery of Summit Strike slideshows, click on the image to check them out.

Red X *updated*
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 4 2005
It seems that a number of Summit Strike owners are reporting that the game will not launch due to the Red X error. I've no doubt they are burning the midnight oil at Red Storm trying to replicate this issue and get a fix out ASAP. We'll post it here when we hear more.

*update* Most users are reporting that after 2 restarts the issue clears itself, let's hope so! Official help will be posted here.

GR2:SS is OUT!
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, August 3 2005
Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike was released to Xbox owners in the USA today. This is a huge release for Ubisoft, and one of the most anticipated releases for the Xbox this year.

Review chat has started in our forums here. Here's a quick roundup of what some of the main stream gaming sites have to say about Summit Strike....

Team Xbox 86%  "......definitely hard to pass up"
Gamespot 82% "...just about everything you could want ..."
Gamespy 90% "...better than most games that are twice its price,..."
Worthplaying 85% "more material than most standard games nowadays ...great job on the expansion"

It looks like a convincing home run for Ubisoft as Summit Strike is consistently scoring high and getting some really nice comments from every reviewer who has played it. Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike is available here.