Beyond Reality
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, May 31 2005
If you like watching Ghost Recon movies, here's a new one weighing in at 269Mb authored by Ben! There are too many contributers in this movie to name them all here, but they have pulled off some neat effects that are worth seeing. For more details read this forum post, to start downloading visit Filefront.

TCZ
Posted by Rocky on Monday, May 30 2005
The Combat Zone have relaunched with a nice clean new website design, a brand new laddering system, and new games ladders.

TCZ have been providing a place for competitive tactical gamers since 2001, with these new improvements their 21,000 membership will really start to multiply. If you've not been for a while check them out now! Forum discussion here.

Gamebiz GR3 Video
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 27 2005
Gamebiz have an 81Mb Ghost Recon 3 for download right now, no sign up required. Note that it is similar to the video taken for GR-R that we posted yesterday.

"(We)... have a exclusive Ghost Recon 3 walkthrough video. Ghost Recon 3 will be the ultimate in military combat action games. And this video walkthrough shows off some of the weaponry and features of the game."

Thanks Rob!

GR-R E3 movie
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 26 2005
Ghost Recon Retreat have released their 5 minute video taken at the Ghost Recon 3 stand at E3 this year. The footage adds about a minute of new material never seen before, and an all new Lee Reherman commentary that I know you fans are just going to love....

Read more about it and find the download link at GR-Retreat.

Insane Movie
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 26 2005
CR6 noticed Fileplanet are hosting a new "insane quality" Ghost Recon 3 movie, if you can download 100Mb files, you just have to see this!

Forum Signups Fixed
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 25 2005
An issue with the forums that was preventing new sign-ups from joining has been resolved.

GR3 Jobs
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 25 2005
Grin, the Swedish developer for the PC version of Ghost Recon 3 will be launching their new website very soon. Modders might want to make a note to check that site daily, it looks like they are hiring..... 

Down Time
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, May 24 2005
Sorry for the down time over the last couple of days, but it appears some hacker thought it would be fun to wipe out all our data. Thankfully our host was superb and recovered and reinstalled everything for us.

Unfortunately there is about 2 weeks of data loss in the forums, so apologies on that score. I know there have been some really good discussions started over the past few weeks, and I would encourage members to re-start those discussions and help get things back to normal.

You may notice some news pages missing and quite a few news articles, but these will be re-posted over the coming days as I catch up with what is missing and reinstall local backups.

Thanks to the members here for the kind words and offers of help I recieved, it really is much appreciated.

GR3 Desktops
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 21 2005
Dan has designed a set of four Ghost Recon 1024x768 desktops showing four of the team. Each one selects one Ghost as the primary figure so you can select your own favourite.

Download the pack of four here.

Future Force
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 21 2005
Ubisoft's E3 portal has a brief video clip from the Ghost Recon 3 stand and some photo's of the Future Force Warrior, check it out here.

GR3 Interview
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 21 2005
Our Ghost Recon 3 interview with Christian Allan from Red Storm Entertainment at E3 this year is online now. Thanks to everyone who sent in the questions, and to DS for making such a good job of the interview.

"Players will have the ability to launch drones, which will automatically update their maps with perishable intelligence. This, plus future war weapons and technology should get the player thinking."

You can discuss its contents and ask DS for more details in our forums here.

US Vehicles Pack
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 20 2005
There is a small but elite band of Ghost Recon modders who's names will be long remembered for their unstinting devotion to Ghost Recon and the quite breath taking results their devotion heeps upon the community. One of those names is Blakarion, who's modelling skills are only surpassed by his never ending passion for producing them.

Today he completed his US vehicle pack, and it contains no less than 37 new vehicle models that can be used by Ghost Recon modders to enhance their missions with brand new vehicles. Read the full list of vehicles in this forum post, and download the 8Mb pack here.

GR Classic
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 20 2005
I can't quite believe this has made it to the news page, but it's gathering such momentum it's getting hard to ignore. What am I talking about? This...

The Ghost Recon Classic campaign was started recently by Whiteknight as he mused over an anology based on a new cola compared to the new Ghost Recon. Whiteknight explains his thoughts about what happened way back when the makers of Coca-Cola thought they'd replace the hugely succesful formula for a new variant, and had to change it back due to public outcry.

The gameplay changes Ghost Recon is going through are being likened to those dark times for Coca-Cola, and his analogy has struck a chord with the very core of the Ghost Recon community. Fans both here and at the official forums are adding the Ghost Recon Classic logo to their forum signatures in support of a return to the gameplay formula that made Ghost Recon great. So when you see this image on every Ghost Recon forum page, sported by more and more fans, you'll know what it's all about, and hopefully agree enough with the sentiment that you'll also add it to your signature file. For anyone needing a hi-res version, the best we've seen so far is Prozac360's here.

Grin
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 20 2005
Grin are a Swedish games developer that started out in 1997 and developed their own game engine called Deisal. Why are we telling you about Grin? We are introducing you to the guys developing Ghost Recon 3 for the PC, that's why!

Their games back catalogue doesn't reveal very much about Grin, if you find something interesting about the company working on our favourite title, let us know in the forums!

Talk with the Devs
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 20 2005
Today at E3, RSE designer Christian Allen took time out to chat with our representative about Ghost Recon 3. Dick came away with some nice information, read the full Christian Allen E3 interview here.

GR3 Booth
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 20 2005
NYR has taken a photograph to let us see how the Ghost Recon 3 booth looks at E3.

Now all we need is for Dick Splash to get some booth babe photo's to us! I believe those are due this weekend, so stay tuned.

Summit Strike
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
Summit Strike is a new stand alone Ghost Recon 2 expansion, available from August only on the Xbox console. Read the full press release in our forums here, and click on the images below for more detail.

Movie
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
This Ghost Recon 3 Quicktime movie is a longer version of the MTV short, in a higher resolution - download from Fileplanet.

33Mb, 80 seconds running time.

E3 Update
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
NYR (GR.net's second E3 man) reports back from E3 with the following information straight from the Ubisoft booth!

In an interesting discussion about Ghost Recon 3 it transpired that Ghost Recon 3 is a multi-studio project with different aspects if the game being handled by different studios. The multi-player aspect is being worked on back at Ghost Recon's birth place in Carolina by Red Storm Entertainment, using their own inhouse engine.

The single player game is powered by a different game engine developed by a Swedish development studio, and we were told that visually it was stunning, as good as Half Life. The Red Storm team confirmed that the PC version of Ghost Recon 3 is well underway, possibly further along that the Xbox 360 version at this time.

One detail that we managed to tie down is that first person weapon view is an option, which will please alot of gamers.

GR3 Answers
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
Whiteknight has posted details of a Question and Answer session released by Ubisoft at E3, that reveals some interesting information.

Here's what they had to say about Ghost Recon 3 gameplay

"PC gameplay will be altered to suit the PC audience. Tactical and strategic elements will be added to create an experience more similar to the original Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® PC title which garnered Game of the Year awards from IGN and PC Gamer."

Read the full thing in our forum here.

GR3 Vehicles
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
Here's the first look at some of the vehicle models from Ghost Recon 3!

Click each image for a look in detail at the model construction.

GR3 Factsheet
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
For anyone new to the party, here's the official fact sheet for Ghost Recon 3, summerising key points.

"Command the Ghost squad and remote allied forces and drones, and direct artillery and air strikes. See what the squad sees and receive visual and auditory intel from allied forces and unmanned drones. "

Characters
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
This is the first close up look we've had at three of the squad from Ghost Recon 3. Introducing Ramirez, Diaz and Beckman.

Click each image to take a closer view.

Concept Art
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 19 2005
Check out these concept art images for Ghost Recon 3.

Click each image for a closer view.

Gametrailers
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 18 2005
Here's a new Ghost Recon 3 movie as spotted by Razor87 over at Gametrailers.com.

Gamespot 1st!
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 18 2005
Gamespot have had their first look at Ghost Recon 3 for the Xbox 360, read it here.

GR3 Ubi Site
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 18 2005
The official Ghost Recon 3 site has gone live with some great new media. There are two cool wallpapers for your desktop but the best thing is a new movie called the E3 Trailer which is very cool.

You can stream it from the site's Video's section or download the 15Mb file to view later. It's a really cool 2 minute movie, don't miss it!

Movie
Posted by Rocky on Monday, May 16 2005
Gamespot have a new Ghost Recon 3 movie up, stream it for free from here. In the first section of the 2 minute movie Adam Novickas from Ubisoft talks alot about the amazing potential offered by the Xbox 360 hardware, while game footage can be seen running in the background. The later part of the video talks about the multi-windowing that will enhace gameplay.

E3 2005
Posted by Rocky on Monday, May 16 2005
Tens of thousands of people will be attending the trade only Electronic Entertainment Expo this week, E3, which runs from 18 to 20 May. The event has 400 exhibitors from 80 countries showcasing games and hardware being released over the coming months.

GhostRecon.net has two insiders at E3 this year, who will be reporting back live from the floor of E3. Dick Splash and NYR will be bustin' into E3 and taking no prisoners.  We'll be covering a lot of the cool exclusives at E3, so we've put up a dedicated E3 news page, where you'll find the latest information on the games and platforms we are gagging for more information on.

GR3 Xbox 360
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
Ubisoft has officially announced that Ghost Recon 3 will be a launch title for the Xbox 360.

"Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® 3 will deliver the future of gaming and of warfare in one stunning package, as well as projecting a global political future that has always been a hallmark of Clancy titles"

Read the full Ghost Recon 3 press release here.

GR3 Screens
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
Thanks to Ubisoft for sending us the original Ghost Recon 3 screenshots from the Xbox 360.

IGN
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
IGN's Pre-E3 article on Ghost Recon is up.

"Ubisoft's game jumps into the future, to 2013 to be exact. Eight years from now, the U.S. Army will implement the Integrated Warfighter System (IWS), evolving the modern soldier with advanced weapon systems, satellite communication devices, and "enhanced survivability"

"The game looks incredible from a visual standpoint. The soldiers walked with smooth barely noticeable motion-captured movement, their bodily actions looking less and less like polygonal puppets and more and more like real human beings. "

Read the full article here.

1Up
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
1up.com have started their Ghost Recon 3 coverage here.

"The beautiful Mexico City makes up the setting for Ghost Recon 3, where a recent insurgence has forced US Special Forces to be deployed and regain control. Outnumbered, it's up to Captain Scott Mitchell to control the Ghosts and use their technological edge for survival. While technically taking place in a single city, the game's environments encompass many of the capital's diverse locations."

Character Model
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
Check out this hi-res model of one of the Ghosts from Ghost Recon 3 Xbox 360.

GR3 Footage
Posted by Rocky on Friday, May 13 2005
The game footage from the recently released screenshots of Ghost Recon 3 can be viewed at MTV. Add your comments in our forums here. You can also download this movie at Fileplanet now.

GR3 Screens
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, May 12 2005
Camel has posted the first screens of Ghost Recon 3 for the next generation Xbox console, the 360, in our forums. Dannik at GRtwo.com has done the detective work and confirmed they are indeed shots of Ghost Recon 3!

Dropzone
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, May 10 2005
Here's a single mission from Hein called Alpha Dropzone.

"The newly-elected, pro-West government leaders of the Ukraine are en route to a nearby city troubled by old-school Communist agitators and terrorists. Your team of Ghosts has been tasked to ensure that the convoy gets there safely. From your position on the railway bridge, cover all possible attack zones. Neutralize any insurgent or guerilla activity"

Download here.

Bothunt
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, May 8 2005
An interest in AI and fuzzy logic has led X69RZX to produce one of the most unique Ghost Recon mods to date. In BotHunt you will face enemies of enhanced artificial intelligence, who actually are familiar with their surroundings and will use it to their advantage, offering a whole new challenge. You can read all about the development of this mod in our forums here, tech heads can skip right to this post for the logic information. If you want to see how much work goes into one of these scripts, just take a look at this!

As a bonus X69RZX includes all the information you need to use these new bots on your own favourite maps!

Silent Op has done some extensive testing on this interesting idea, here's some of his comments...

"This is the best AI I have ever seen attempted in GR. I love the way you can see them hunting you down. I turned on the Dev mode and sat up and the embassy roof top with a sniper. It was so very creepy to watch them move around in formation looking for me."

The second pack adds bots to the fantastic MLP map pack 2 (which is available for download here).

Operation Jack Frost is X69RZX's next project, and it will place the bots into the superb Frostbite maps. Until then, download and enjoy both bot packs here (requires both expansion packs).

Reinstalling GR
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 7 2005
I've updated our Recon article on removing and reinstalling Ghost Recon with some clearer guidance on resolving uninstall issues with Ghost Recon.

The update also contains instructions on how to reinstall Ghost Recon, all the official patches, and both mission packs. Read it here.