July 2004

Maze Map Posted by Rocky on Saturday, July 31 2004
There's a new map on the way that is shaping up to provide some great mutliplayer battles. BornToKill TAW is working on this finishing touches right now, and the latest shots look great!

SD Movie Posted by Rocky on Thursday, July 29 2004
SD Movie by Ben is a heavy wieght Ghost Recon movie featuring several clans battling it out, including ClanBase matches, theIGS matches and Public HH RIZ game. If you have broadband it is worth downloading, but at 332Mb it is probably just outside the reach of dial-up users. you can download SD Movie now, and read all about this 15 minute epic in our forums.

Mod Roundup Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, July 27 2004
Giwex has produced a Mods roundup for this month covering upcoming Ghost Recon mod releases. Projects such as the Brazilian Special Forces, Operation: Desperate Cry , SWEBAT 2005 and CIA SOG/SAS  are all covered, including a brief summary and some images. Read July's Mod Roundup by Giwex here.

Ghost Recon 2 Release Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 26 2004
Ghost Recon 2 has at last made it onto Ubi Soft's release date schedule. It's currently listed for a November 2004 release on the following formats; PC, XBox, GCube and PS2.

JointOpsCentral.com Posted by Super_Bob on Monday, July 26 2004
We are pleased to annouce the opening of a dedicated Joint Operations site for all you Joint Ops fans out there.  JointOpsCentral is run by the same people that run GhostRecon.net, so you can expect the same great quality and even forums.  If you already know all about Joint Ops then hop on in, we've been waiting for you.  If you have no idea what Joint Ops is then come on over too!  There's no better place to find out more.

Omega Posted by Rocky on Saturday, July 24 2004
Here's a brand new map from Mordred that he's been working on for several months. It's a 56k friendly 5Mb download and features 8 new multiplayer missions from Raven, Kamst & Equ][noX. Make sure you also visit the offical website which is pretty cool.

Forum discussion here, download main file here (needs DS and IT).

Making of GR2 Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 19 2004
The USA Official X-Box magazine has been released, and as expected contains some Ghost Recon 2 media on the covermount disk. CR6 at GR-Retreat has the contents nicely summarised, check it out at GR-Retreat now.

Elsewhere in the media, Ghost Recon 2 fan concerns were published in 3 seperate letters in the September issue of PC Gamer.

SR2004 Finished! Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 19 2004
The final leaderboard for Alpha Squad's Stealth Recon 2004 Tournament has just been published. The winning squad was...Unknown Enemy! Congratulations to the winners, indeed every single team that took part and saw the campaign through to the end deserves recognition.

It was a fantastic tournament, run with the usual high degree of professionalism by Alpha Squad. The challenging missions that Alpha Squad prepared for the tournament were challenging, entertaining, and even innovative and once again the community finds itself in their debt. Thank you Alpha Squad!

Ghost Recon.net's own competitive team finished joint 5th in the leaderboard, you can read more about that at Tactical Elite.

The SR2004 missions will be available for public download soon, Alpha Squad are finalising release details now.

DTD update Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 19 2004
The DTD Team Mod has been upgraded to version 1.1 which corrects an issue with a kit in the "team spec" weapons kit restriction for MP, and a few other minor tweaks. Fans of this great mod should delete the old version and install this full new version. Visit DTD for more or download directly from here right now.

Streinger Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 19 2004
In our 4th Ghost Recon Modder spotlight Giwex has interviewed Streinger. Most fans will already be aware of Streinger's awesome Ghost Recon mods, but perhaps don't know much about the man behind the mods such as his Croation Army modification.

"Q: I believe you served in the military during a real war and not only in game? Can you tell us something?

A: Yes, that's true.. during the war in Croatia, I served in Croatian army, as an infantry medic... but have to say that medics in Cro army ARE combatants.. meaning they carry weapons and participate in combat duties"

Read the full interview by Giwex here.

OPCOM Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 19 2004
A character upgrade for Ghost Recon has just been completed by modding team moakes2783 and DOG-ZEBRA. OPCOM (OPerative CrossOver Modification) has been in production since March this year and progress images duly posted in our forums here. DOG ZEBRA mailed us the final version today, so you can download it right now by clicking here [also grab this small patch].

Gamer-Talk Posted by Rocky on Saturday, July 17 2004
Gamer-Talk.net have published a preview for Ghost Recon 2. There's not much news that hasn't been released already, but if you've never heard of Gamer-Talk.net, it's a reason to go check them out. Read their thoughts here.

New Models Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 12 2004
Chems has done it again and produced some amazing new models, look at this Australian Defender.

Click the image to see more of Chem's latest and greatest models in our forums.

GR Finale Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 12 2004
Team Warfare are launching a Hamburger Hill tournament which they are calling Ghost Recon Finale League.

Read all about it in our forums here.

New Dedi Online Posted by Rocky on Thursday, July 8 2004
We have a brand new dedicated server online this week, thanks to those top folks at GameServers.net. With almost 900 game servers online these guys really know how to run gaming servers. Currently we are running Ghost Recon, Joint Operations and two Team Speak sessions on our server and it's running like a dream. Read more about Gameservers.net here and check their competitive pricing here.

The Ghost Recon server is running at IP 83.149.64.1 and will be open for public use out with official Team [GRNET] practice times. You can check what map is running and who is playing at our competitive site Tactical Elite, where details are displayed in real-time on the right of the news page.

We are also providing a free Teamspeak server on the same IP for the use of other squads and Ghost Recon.net regulars, and hope it is of use to Ghost Recon fans!

Ghost Recon 2 Box Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, July 7 2004
Here's a sneakpeak at what the Ghost Recon 2 X-Box box art might look like!

If you look closely it has "Not Final" overlayed on it, so we might not get "screaming man" by the time of release. Discussion here. Caption competition here!

Chem's DC3 Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, July 6 2004
Check out this amazing model from Chems.

The model can take two pilots and can be scripted to take off and land! He has made it available for use in Ghost Recon mods, download from Fileplanet, or this temporary mirror. Discussion in our forums here.

Ghost Recon 2 Trouble Posted by Rocky on Friday, July 2 2004
It seems Ghost Recon 2 has hit many headlines this week as North Korea is up in arms over the plot line, as reported by American military newspaper Stars and Stripes. The quote translated from the Korean press is reported to say

"This may be just a game to them now, but a war will not be a game for them later. In war, they will only face miserable defeat and gruesome deaths"

Although as reported by TheForumz.com, miserable defeat and gruesome deaths are the hall mark of a Ghost Recon title anyway....

Discussion here.