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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

Tuesday Update for GRAW2 X360
Posted by Dannik on Tuesday, January 29 2008
After a forum database issue destroying data at the official Ubisoft forums, word comes down that Tuesday (check your time zone, Tuesday is a vague notion depending on where you live) update has two parts.

The free portion is a new weapons pack for SP, while the new paid content will also be released. Speculation on the cost for the new map/mission pack is rampant, due to apparent inconsistencies between Ubisoft and Microsoft, but it should be available on the Live Marketplace in less than 24 hours from this time of posting.

GRAW 2 X360 Co-op Mission Collection Released?
Posted by Rocky on Monday, January 28 2008
Confusion surrounds the release of the highly anticipated GRAW 2 co-op collection for the X360. Today gamers around the world recieved an e-mail from Ubisoft with details including the purchase price in microsoft points, and stating it was available "now". The problem being, different people were quoted different prices, and the collection is not actually out.

Read the email, see the movie clip, and keep up to date with developments in our forums here. 

Co-op Collection Info Coming Soon
Posted by Dannik on Saturday, January 26 2008
Info inbound from Kimi indicates a formal announcement coming on Monday, about the pending Co-op Collection add on pack for GRAW2X360.

Take part in the discussion!

Sound Nomination for GRAW 2
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, January 23 2008
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has shortlisted GRAW 2 in their 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards for the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design category this year. Forum discussion 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!

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!

Xbox Community Choice Awards
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 17 2007
GRAW 2 is up for 3 awards in the Xbox Community Choice Awards. Vote for it in the following sections: Best Co-op, Best Sequel and Toughest Achievement.

Discuss the awards 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!

Hi-Res Co-op Scoop
Posted by Rocky on Friday, October 26 2007

We've a bit of a scoop in the forums right now as Red Storm have posted a hi-res version of the flypast movie for the upcoming co-op map pack for GRAW 2 X360. Not only that, they've also posted a second movie in hi-res. Suffice to say the old GR maps really look superb running in GRAW 2.

We've added both movies to the downloads section, so grab movie one here and the brand new movie two here!

Co-op Collection Update
Posted by Rocky on Friday, October 26 2007
Red Storm have posted details of the upcoming Co-op collection for GRAW 2 X360 that features classic GR maps, in the forums here. As well as posting a fly-past movie, they've also thrown down the gauntlet for another fans versus devs game!

Updated : Grab a high resolution version of the fly-past movie here!

Ubi Beat Targets
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, October 25 2007
GRAW 2 is credited with helping Ubisoft maximise sales and beat targets, in the latest financial report.

"Ubisoft said that the PS3, PSP and PC versions of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 2 drove sales..."

Read more here.

Ubisoft Contest
Posted by Rocky on Friday, October 19 2007
Last time Ubisoft ran a major promotional contest quite a few members here at GhostRecon.net came away with cool prizes. The latest Ubisoft competition is for its blockbuster title Assassin's Creed. The prize list is worth a look...

3 XBOX360, 20 Assassin’s Creed figurines, 15 PS3 Assassin’s Creed, 15 XBOX360 copies, 150 t-shirts, 100 hoodies, 100 faceplates, 500 5% discount vouchers, and more!

To play visit the competition site here (Europe only).

New Co-op Collection for X360
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, October 17 2007
Ubisoft are releasing a brand new collection of maps for GRAW 2 X360. There are five new missions and nine new maps. Seven of the maps are old classic Ghost Recon maps given the GRAW 2 treatment, like Caves and Railroad Bridge, the other two maps and brand new. Read more at IGN. Forum discussion.

Ubisoft, Next Gen Gaming, and Immersion
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, October 13 2007
The BBC recently visited Ubisoft at their Montreal Design Studios and taked with some of the team there about next gen gaming. Check out the video here.

Ghost Recon Live Action in the UK
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, October 9 2007
Warfighters.co.uk have secured a brand new 100% wireless weapons system that looks and behaves just like the real thing.

To celebrate their new weaponry they are offering a special discounted rates for warfighting this Saturday. So if you are in the UK and fancy trying out the very latest technology in warfighting, head over to their booking page now.

For more information on the days entertainment, and the all important mission list, visit the official Warfighter site here.