Ubisoft Speak Out
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 30 2004
Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot has spoken out regarding Electronic Art's recent acquisition of almost 20% of Ubisoft in an interview with Game Spot. During the interview Yves Guillemot confirms his view that the $85 million+ share purchase is a hostile move by one of their competitors, but also diplomatically adds ".... getting great games out there is a common goal".

These shares also give Electronic Arts a way in to the lucrative mobile games market as Ubisoft already have invested with Gameloft. Some of you might recall we were very impressed with Gameloft when we reviewed their Ghost Recon Jungle Storm for N-Gage QD here.

*UPDATE* CR6 has just linked us up to the very latest development....

"Ubi Soft Entertainment SA could receive government support in its fight against the threat of a takeover by US video games giant Electronic Arts"

This subject has stretched to four pages now in our forums, pick up the pace with this latest interview as posted by Zantar45 here.

Merry Christmas!
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 24 2004
Depending on what part of the world you are in, right now it's either already Christmas, or it's only a matter of hours away! Best wishes to every one of our visitors and forum members from all of the staff here at Ghost Recon.net. Here's hoping Santa brings you lots of goodies and perhaps one or two new games to tide you over, just until Ghost Recon 2 finally graces the PC in a few months time!

Have a safe, fun, and happy Christmas!

Geisterspaehtrupp
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 24 2004
Dog Zebra has completed his Geisterspaehtrupp modification just in time for Christmas, and you can now download here.

Geisterspaehtrupp is a character mod that replaces original Ghosts with German operators. The kits include a compliment of HK weaponry, German voices that replace the standard Ghost communication and multinational specialists. There is also a nice selection of some of the best Ghost Recon modded weapons to choose from. View images and leave feedback here.

Bill Brown CSI
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, December 21 2004
Fans of the Ghost Recon soundtrack will be interested to hear that the composer, Bill Brown, is now doing the music for the popular TV series CSI. There's a full interview with Bill Brown over at CSIFiles.com.

EA buy into Ubi *updated*
Posted by Rocky on Monday, December 20 2004
This news just in!

"Electronic Arts is to buy 20 percent of French publisher Ubi Soft, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed this morning, at a reported cost of between $85 million and $100 million."

Neither publisher has made a public comment as yet, but that doesn't stop you from having your say!

Here's an update (from gametab) that puts a slightly more worrying slant on things....

"Update: Unsurprisingly, it's hostile: "Pending further information, we consider this operation as hostle," an Ubi Soft spokesman told Reuters. "

Forum Awards
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, December 16 2004
If you have not already taken a look at the upcoming Forum Awards section, now is the time to do it! We are at Nomination stage right now, which means you can nominate any forum member for an award in any of the many categories we have open. These nominations will then go forward for voting in the Award Polls next month.

In the General Forum Award section you can let us know which of our 25 forums you enjoy most, you can also nominate who you think should be considered for the most informative poster or most addictive poster.

In the Humorous Forum Awards there are 20 fun categories where you can make nominations for awards such as Best Name or Best Avatar, or even Poster With Most Typos.

Back to a more serious subject - modding. In the Modding Awards section there are a whopping 30 categories where you can nominate missions modders, campaigns, and weapons etc.

Of course you do not need to nominate in every category, if you have ever played a mod and enjoyed it - find a suitable category and post your nomination. This is your chance to say thanks to the communities extremely talented and hard working modders, don't pass it up, nominate someone, or something now!

Gamezone
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 10 2004
Gamezone have reviewed Ghost Recon 2 Xbox and awarded it 9/10.

"I’m going to need a bib . . . I can’t stop drooling." ... "a solid action-packed shooter that will make you proud you own a Xbox" ... "Somebody give these guys over at Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment an award..."

Xbox v PC Ghost Recon 2
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, December 7 2004
Now that the Xbox version of Ghost Recon has been out for a while, fans are starting to feedback what they would like see changed for the PC version. In an attempt to draw together all the various ideas spread across many discussions on the subject CR6 has started a new feedback thread for posting your precise suggestions.

"Red Storm does monitor fan forums, and has a solid history of implementing fan requests into their games. We want this wishlist to be a one-stop simple and clear list for the devs to read." CR6

If you have a suggestion for the PC version, post it concisely here, if you wish to debate or discuss any aspect of the PC version, please use the general Ghost Recon 2 forum, thanks!

Online Movie
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, December 5 2004
Gamershell have a new 2 minute Ghost Recon 2 movie showing the multiplayer aspect of the XBox version. Check it out. Also available at Fileplanet.

GamerDad
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 4 2004
The review site that takes a parental skew on things has awarded Ghost Recon 2 4.5/5 in their review, check it out here.

9/10
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, December 4 2004
Here's two new Ghost Recon 2 reviews, both scoring 9/10.

XboxCore say ...

"great gameplay surpassing even that of SOCOM, amazing Xbox graphics... highly recommended"

and Xbox3565 have prepared an interesting Ghost Recon 2 v Halo 2 comparison. Although both games socre very closely in each department, Xbox365 have scored Ghost Recon 2 a whole 20% better than Halo 2 for online play.

"The satisfaction of killing the enemy in Ghost Recon 2 is far bigger than the all out attack mode in Halo 2 - the pressure of getting nailed is also far more extreme...Ghost Recon 2 is
about as good as it gets online"

Roast Recon
Posted by Rocky on Friday, December 3 2004
No it's not a typo, it's Ubi Soft's latest advertising campaign for Ghost Recon 2! Currently showing at websites including Military.com the advert starts with a "Sir, we've spotted the roast" binocular clip.... wierd..!