March 2006

Ubisoft have also published a new Question and Answer session that can be viewed on the Ubisoft forums, or in our own forums.

The demo will feature adversarial game types on the Boneyard map, and is a free download.

Bo (Grin), Colin (GR.net), ZeroAlpha (GR.net), UbiRazz

Colin and ZeroAlpha spent a few hours in the company of Ubisoft and Bo from GRIN giving them the third degree about the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and also trying it out themselves. The full report is being worked on now, and we are sure it will make great reading as the guys had a fantastic day.

"It was such a big experience to play GRAW and there is no doubt in my mind that Ubisoft and GRIN have listened to the community about the spirit in the game and the gameplay from GR1 is kept intact."

Thanks must go Ubisoft for allowing fans into their offices for an early look at the PC version. Forum discussion here.

The GhostRecon.net GR:AW Xbox 360 team are:

W1ngsh0t - Captain
BSATNCSU - Co-captain
Payle Ryder
Maulasses
Jerri Blank
Pabes
F0NZ
Ganthur
Delta18071 (Standby)
LordGeek (Standby)

Keep up with developments for this match scheduled for late April here.

Firefight, Recon and Defend gametypes are also supported! Download Armenia SCARed here. You can read some of the background and development phase of this excellent campaign here.

The faceplate is signed by members of the development team from Red Storm and as such will be an extremely saught after item. The auction will raise funds for the following organisations which will benefit from the entire final auction price, Special Operations Warrior Foundation, Naval Special Warfare Foundation and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Now Ubisoft want to know which genre of music Ghost Recon (and Rainbow Six) fans like best, and they are running a poll to find out. Visit Ubisoft and let them know what sort of music you like by voting in the poll down on the right of the main page! Who knows, it could lead to one of your favourite tracks appearing in an upcoming title.

There are three to view, here, here and here!

On the 30th of March at 8pm GMT Sarin and Jan from the Frag Dolls will be recruiting seven team members for a huge online GRAW battle. Kitt and Voodoo will be putting their teams together from members of the Official XBox Magazine.

After a night of training on the 6th of April the teams will prepare themselves for the knockout phase on the 13th before the grand final on the 20th.

If you wish to be considered, you only have 6 days to send your details to battle-uk@Fragdolls.com, so don't hang about!

Scroll down the news page to our item posted on March the 13th for an image of the car that is up for grabs! Thanks to Dick for the scans.

I'm not sure if this works outside of the UK or not, post in our forums if you figure it out!

"Groundbreaking graphics and revolutionary gameplay at your disposal."

The trailer is available in two resolutions here and runs to almost 7 minutes long. The HD version can be viewed full screen and looks fantastic; these video reviews from Gametrailers really are special. Forum discussion on this video review is on going here.

" There is no game on the 360 that comes close to the graphical mastery that you'll experience throughout GRAW" 

Read their full GRAW review here.

Thanks to Colin for putting it all together, and also Dai San for his input at the start of the process!

Sign ups start soon, and we want to see some GhostRecon.net members on that winners podium! Get your name down here.

If it's fan reviews you'd rather read there are two from PC gamers in our forums worth checking out. M95-Sniper posted his brief thoughts on GRAW here, and a few fans that have already completed the single player campaign have been posting their thought here. Xian Saint's review has become quite an indepth analysis here.

Copies of the Xbox 360 version have been flying off the shelves as the title is hailed as the first true next gen title on the 360. Ubisoft's unprecedented promotion campaign has been hard to keep up with at times, with screenshots, dev diarys and movies galore.

If you need a catch up, check out CR6's GRAW News Summary at GR-Retreat. If you have GRAW running on your 360 already, make sure and visit our GRAW console forum which is filling up fast with tips, first impressions and more. 

Also listed is a new Tom Clancy title called "Firehawk", and Rainbow Six 5 for November this year. Firehawk discussion can be found here.

It's worth repeating, this is UNCONFIRMED information that while sounding a little dubious, is worth mentioning! Speculate away over here.

"something special you'll remember for a long time to come"

Forum discussion here.

"best-looking game to date on the Xbox 360", " The game's sound is an excellent complement to the fantastic graphics", "unmatched presentation", "arguably the best game yet on the Xbox 360"

Comments on this review can be found in our forum here.

The team at Red Storm Entertainment must be extremely proud of their efforts and the results of their work, that's over 400 man years of work, on Advanced Warfighter alone! You can read more about the team members in this forum post by Christian Allen RSE.

The IGN review is full of praise, as you would expect. Where they scored GRAW highest was in the lasting appeal category...

" This is the first real online game to party over -- the co-op, offline or on, is worth the price of admission alone."

IGN's final word on GRAW is quite simple

"... get this game..."

You can discuss this review in the forums here.

"... doesn't get much better..."

There's a brief translation in our forums here.

Click here for the download.

"Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, is pleased to announce the official release dates of the game and that it has gone gold on Xbox360™."

As reported yesterday, the PC of GR:AW has slipped to May 2006 (Q2).

• March 9th 2006 on Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
• March 9th 2006 on Xbox® video game system from Microsoft
• March 30th on PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system.
• PC-DVD Rom next May 2006