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. 

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.

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

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!

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!