CENTCOM Released
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 31 2006
What do you get if you take around 40 skilled Ghost Recon modders and a massive vision for a new unofficial Ghost Recon expansion pack from Jay136? Over a year later you get what is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished Ghost Recon mods ever - CENTCOM.

A very brief content listing might go something like this...

• 12 mission campaign
• 12 new maps with command maps.
• User interface and mouse icon.
• New music and sounds.
• New vehicles.
• New textures and decals.
• New weapons, pulled from the Mod Team's real world experience
• New gametypes

There are also brand new innovative features never seen before in a Ghost Recon mod.

To see such a huge undertaking completed and released, considering the challenges the team faced and the logistics involved in pulling it all together is quite astonishing, congratulations to everyone involved! Download CENTCOM here

Forum discussion is here.

Note that CENTCOM wieghs in at a massive 300Mb and requires 7z to uncompress. 

GRAW Media Downloads
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 30 2006
Four new media packs were added to the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter  downloads section today. There's a screenshot pack, a GRIN logo pack, a GRAW soundtrack pack, and a GRAW sound effects pack! These will be useful for fan sites, mods sites, or anyone looking to make GR:AW movies.

Merry Christmas!
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 24 2006
Merry Christmas to all the fans, forum members and GR.net Supporters who have supported GhostRecon.net during the past twelve months. After many years of waiting 2006 finally saw a new Ghost Recon title released on the PC, with a sequel promised for early next year. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter may have divided opinion within the community, but a community it remained, whether faithful to the new or the old, Ghost Recon fans are indeed a remarkable bunch!

As usual I'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks to the sixteen Admin, Staff and Consultants at GhostRecon.net for the countless hours they put into keeping this site a useful resource and for helping to provide a pleasant forum to use. Thanks also to our ever growing band of Supporters who's support throughout the year(s) has been invaluable.

And finally Merry Christmas to Ubisoft, GRIN and Red Storm Entertainment!

Save Santa 2006
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 24 2006
Perhaps the most prolific Ghost Recon scripter of late has updated NYR's Save Santa mission to a new 2006 version. In this new pack from Tinker, you'll find extra goodies by Oso, and a new Christmas mission he scripted especially for the season. Download Save Santa here, feedback in the forums here, Merry Christmas (and Happy Birthday to Tinker!)

RSE 10th Birthday
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 23 2006
Ubisoft has been heralding their 20th anniversary this year, but not much noise has been made about the fact that Red Storm turned 10 years-old last month. Yes, RSE has come a long way since Tom Clancy, Doug Littlejohns, and a core group of developers committed to making great games back in November 1996.

Since RSE's heyday of Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, and the original Ghost Recon, things have changed with RSE's acquisition by Ubisoft and its focus now on developing for consoles, but RSE's quality and execution are still outstanding, and this has been recognized by the recent Game of the Year awards for GRAW. The studio has now grown to over 130+ employees and celebrated their 10 year milestone on Nov 17th with cake, pizza and ice cream!

In collaboration with our friends at 3d Retreat, we here at GhostRecon.net want to wish Red Storm a belated Happy 10th Birthday. Join us in GR.net's forums here to leave your birthday wishes, wax nostalgic etc.In the meantime, you can read more about RSE's history here.

GR:AW2 PC in March 2007
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 18 2006
Ubisoft's latest release schedule released a few hours ago highlights their intention to release GR:AW2 on the PC late in March 2007, the 30th to be exact. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is being developed for the PC by GRIN, however not more more is known about the PC version at this time. A PSP version is also scheduled for release late in March next year.

GR:AW2 X360 in 13 Weeks
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 18 2006
Ubisoft UK were in touch today with the latest game release schedule. Updates included a release date for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on the Xbox 360 - March 9th 2007, meaning the Xbox 360 will be the launch platform.

C&VG Interview Olivier Dauba
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 16 2006
Olivier Dauba is content producer at Ubisoft Paris, and he's been interviewed by C&VG.com here. During the interview they cover the GRAW2 plot, gameplay, the drone and a Gears of War comparison. Got a comment? Post it here!

GRAW Trailer Interview
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 15 2006
IGN have an interview with David Jankowski, the director of the recently released GRAW2 trailer. Thanks to Calgar99 for spotting this and posting in the forums.

Xbox 360 Signed Faceplate Winner
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 15 2006
You might recall that Ubisoft UK recently supplied us with two custom GRAW Xbox 360 faceplates, and the BAFTA award winning development team at Redstorm in the USA offered to sign them for us. We put the pair up for prizes, and today one of the winners was good enough to post a photograph of the signed faceplate in place on his Xbox 360, check it out here.

GRAW Scripting for Beginners
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 14 2006
In what has to be the most impressive Ghost Recon modding document I've ever seen, Wolfsong has released his GRAW Scripting for Beginners guide. This comprehensive document covers every aspect of scripting your own first missions for GR:AW. For further help or explanation, feel free to ask in our GRAW scripting forums.

RSE GRAW2 Equipment
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 14 2006
Ubisoft sent along a couple of equipment photographs from Redstorm.

See the full size images in our forums here.

GR:AW 2 Trailer Released
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 14 2006
Spike TV aired the full trailer for GR:AW2 today, you can watch it at Gametrailers.com, and leave your thoughts in our forums here.

New GR:AW2 Details
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 11 2006
A UK magazine has published some new details on GR:AW2, so if you don't know what a MULE is, or have never heard of Ambient Occlusion then you might want to check out the details!

New OGR Missions
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 10 2006
Just in case any Ghost Recon fans missed recent new custom missions for the original Ghost Recon, here's a quick summary!

Global Conflict, by POW Lightspeed
Eye for an Eye, released by Tinker
The Great Patriotic War by Variable13
Defend Missions by Tinker
Training Missions by ZeroAlpha
Winder Wilderness Maps and Missions by Oso and Tinker

GRIN Confirmed for GRAW2PC?
Posted by Dannik on Sunday, December 10 2006
There has been much speculation regarding just which studio is developing GRAW2 for PC, as early press releases only noted Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft Paris.

Thanks to member Papa6, evidence has been found showing GRIN is officially returning to create the sequel. Details can be found in this forum post. It certainly seems official!

EDIT: HangtownSOG, the Ubisoft Community Manager for Tom Clancy games has just confirmed, via email, that GRIN is the defacto developer for GRAW2PC. Thanks!

GR:AW2 Wallpaper
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 9 2006
XboxFront have two new GR:AW2 screenshots, one of which would make a great wallpaper, or at least a starting point for the creative fans out there, grab it here.

Make sure to post your GR:AW 2 wallpapers in our GRAW 2 forums!

First GR:AW 2 Teaser Movie
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 9 2006
Ubisoft have released a short trailer for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 in advance of the full trailer next week.

You can download a nice hi-res version from Ubisoft here.

New GR:AW2 Screenshots
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 8 2006
Gamespot have some new screenshots of next years GR:AW2 release on the Xbox 360, check them out here, comments here!

Mission Scripting in GR:AW
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 7 2006
The latest GR:AW patch added some new features and opportunities to create interesting custom missions for GR:AW PC. Wolfsong has been providing some awesome assistance for custom mission makers in our GRAW Mission Scripting forums, and today he is releasing a pack of files to help mod the existing campaign maps. With the GR:AW Clean Maps pack, modders will get a set of 11 world.xml files stripped of the stock missions so you can create your own. There's lots of advice and help in the Scripting forums if you need it!

GRAW GOTY
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 7 2006
Red Storm continue their determined Game of the Year streak with the Ghost Recon series this week with yet another GOTY accolade.

As CR6 pointed out in our forums, Demmex have awarded GRAW on the Xbox 360 GOTY title in the Console Game of the Year award, and also a Best Use of Sound in Game nomination.

Demmex are Digital Entertainment Media, Industry leaders in Entertainment and Media.

GRNET Training Missions
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 4 2006
Over the last few years Team[GRNET] have prepared for numerious coop tournaments, and part of those preparations has been a suite of training aids. These special training missions were put together over a period of time by GRNET-ZeroAlpha with assistance from NYR, to help players get to grips with various aspects of Ghost Recon that come to the fore during coop missions.

Today we are releasing them to the public at large, and we hope that new and old squads find something in this collection that helps them develop their Ghost Recon skills, download the GRNET training pack here. Forum discussion here.

20 Years of Ubi Gaming *updated*
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
To celebrate 20 years of gaming Ubisoft UK are running a free draw with some great gaming prizes including entire gaming systems. Anyone in the UK with a Ubi.com account can sign in to see if they have won a prize, and even if you lose this time, you will still be awarded a discount coupon to use at Ubisofts online store, so, give it a go!

*update* Forum member Crowman from RSi has won a prize - a PSP game! And now another two members have also won a prize! Let's see how many winners we can get!

Dev Map tips
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
Ubisoft are leaking out three top secret movies straight from the dev team showing their own tips and tricks for mastery for multiplayer maps. The first movie covers two maps - Treasury and Nowhere, download or stream it here.

This three and a half minute movie by Prince highlights likely camper spots, good sniping zones and danger zones.

GRAW GOTY Edition
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 2 2006
GRAW 360 Game of the Year edition is out on December the 8th and comes complete with the full contents of the Chapter 2 DLC pack. Additionally Ubisoft have also announced that GRAW Chapter 2 DLC for the Xbox 360 is now available for download at half the launch price!

The content list for Chapter 2 is quite extensive, check it out here.

New Tournament for 2007
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 1 2006
Out of the blue, Ghost Recon Coop fans have the prospect of a brand new coop tournament early next year!

The 2006 Community Coop Tournament will feature missions by Alpha Squad, Special Detachment and 9MS, using Year of the Monkey, Frostbite and White Skull Valley!

More details on the official site, and in the announcement thread in our forums here!