Escher's Dream
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, November 18 2008
Fishmonger has taken inspiration from the famous paintings by Escher for his latest GRAW co-op map - Escher's Dream. If you are not scared of hieght (or snipers) check it out.

Urban Conflict Legacy
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, November 18 2008
GRAW2 co-op mission Urban Conflict Legacy by Legacywork is one of the first missions resulting directly from the GRAW2 Modding Wiki resource.

In this mission you must avoid snipers and destroy two adats, good luck! Mission help and feednack available here in the forums.

3800 Enemy
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, November 18 2008
If it's a GRAW killing spree you hunger for look no further than the latest mission from AmEyeBlind - Arsenic Trihydride. In addition to 3800 enemies, there are some mission objectives in order to collect security data to complete the mission. Forum discussion here.

Ghost End War Enlistment
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, November 13 2008
The US Joint Task Force has sent out enlistment papers to former Ghosts to respond the the End War call up.

Click the image above to see Ubisoft's latest end War publicity and Ghost Recon tie in. Discussion in our End War Forum.

Ubisoft in the Spotlight
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, October 28 2008
Publication of Ubisoft's financial statement recently has thrown the publisher into the limelight, with various industry commentators finding plenty to compliment the Ghost Recon publisher with. With a £1.5 billion revenue total demonstrating an increase of 43% over last years figures, Ubisoft's results appear to buck the current economy trends.

As NG4's breakdown shows, the Nintendo DS accounts for more Ubisoft sales than any other platform, with the big three consoles left fighting for the scraps.

Next Ghost Recon Merging with End War?
Posted by Rocky on Friday, October 17 2008
Australian site Gameplayer.com had an interesting chat with a lead programmer at Ubisoft his week. With Ubisoft buying the Tom Clancy name for its series of games it was clear Ubisoft had big plans for all their Tom Clancy titles - now that vision is a little bit clearer as according to Gameplayer's interview the Ubisoft Tom Clancy universe is to merge, bringing all the titles home to one combined experience.

The next Ghost Recon, and also Rainbow Six are included, with End War being the vehicle to make this all happen. Some of the details in the interview may be speculative, but this is definately something to look out for. Read the full Ghost Recon / End War Super Game Merger interview here. Forum discussion here.

GRAW 2 Modding Wiki
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, October 15 2008
A really superb new resource for GRAW2 modders has been created by Davros.

The GRAW 2 Modding wiki is an extremely clear and concise guide on modding GRAW 2. There are screenshots and videos included in the tutorials. The most recent additon is a movie that aims to have a new co-op GRAW 2 mission created in 15 minutes!

This really is a great starting place for would be modders looking to make their first steps in making custom content for GRAW 2. Visit the GRAW 2 Modding wiki here, and the launch thread for the wiki is in our forums here. Anyone would like to help expand the wiki can contact Davros here.

End War Winners
Posted by Rocky on Tuesday, October 7 2008
I drew out twenty winners and mailed them a moment ago, so congrats to you and hard lines to the folks who missed out. This was a very popular competition, and I can tell from the entries a lot of console owners are really pumped about End War. You can read all about it at the End War forums. Speculation about a PC version carries on regardless, although the folks at IGN seem to think they found prrof of a PC version in the works, there is still no official word.

In the meantime, 20 lucky X360 owners just recieved their VIP keys for use tomorrow, enjoy folks, and thanks to Kimi at Ubisoft for letting us share these keys with you!

End War MP Beta Keys
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, October 2 2008
This coming Tuesday there's a private demo for the next big thing in the Tom Clancy gaming universe - End War. This RTS from Ubisoft is going to be huge, and X360 owners are clamouring all over for beta keys.

Lucky for you, we've got 20 (yes twenty) beta keys for the private demo of End War. To have one of these keys delivered directly to your Private Message folder on our forums all you have to do is send in the missing word in the following sentence correctly, and hope you're one of the 20 drawn from the correct answers on Monday 6th October at midnight GMT.

"End War ... the first video game controlled entirely by your *****"

Mail your entries to Rocky@GhostRecon.net with "End War" in the subject line!

Operation Blue Glow : 9MS
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, September 28 2008
Possibly the largest Ghost Recon mod to be released in 2008, Operation Blue Glow is the official campaign for the huge 9MS modification by Tinker. To try and summerise the contents in one news post would be difficult, but expect to find 18 new actors, over 20 new vehicles, new kit restrictions, over 20 of the best custom maps included, almost 200 custom missions and gametypes!

Download Operation Blue Glow here and read more in our forums here.

Nvidia PhysX GRAW 2
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, August 28 2008
Until recently the only way to enjoy the advanced physics used for explosions and environemntal effects in GRAW 2 was to have a dedicated PhysX card installed on your PC, or used a processor sapping xml hack.

Back in February 2008 Nvidia announced they were going to release drivers that would permit 8800 series upwards to enjoy PhysX without the need for a dedicated card. Earlier this month the driver pack was released, as detailed in our forums here. In addition to the extra effects, they also unlocked the Ageia Island map.

How the GRAW 2 maps perform with PhysX set to extreme in the options, will vary greatly depending on the power of our graphics card, but to see the extra effects Thales has posted some videos in three posts starting here.

For the very latest drivers see this post by Pave Low.

DEA Most Wanted
Posted by Rocky on Monday, August 18 2008
Thales has just released his tournament class Ghost Recon campaign. Prepared specifically for 4 man teams, this mod will score your squads attempt at completing each of the six missions.

For more details on this feature packed mod check the development discussion, or skip directly to the download.

GRAW 3 Rumours Start
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, July 23 2008
Beonder13 noticed that The Official X-Box Magazine started the ball rolling regarding a possible announcement on the next Ghost Recon title with a short note in it's Rumour Mole column. If the rumour carries any wieght there could be a new game on our Christmas 2009 wishlist.

Ghost Recon Campaigns
Posted by Rocky on Monday, July 21 2008
I've just finished housekeeping the Custom Ghost Recon 1 Campaigns section of our Ghost Recon downloads. There's 72 custom mission packs for download, that's a few kilobytes under 4 Gigabytes in total! That amounts to an amazing 415 individual missions!

Some of those were found lurking on my hard-drive so there might be some in there even the most die hard Ghost Recon veterans may not have seen before. If you can't download 4Gb of files check this discussion for a DVD compilation.

GR Complete on Steam
Posted by Rocky on Friday, July 18 2008
SillyHalfMexican noticed that the complete Ghost Recon series is now available on Steam, and for a limited period the package price has an additional bonus discount, bringing the 5 game pack down to just under $36!

Check out Ghost Recon Complete on Steam here, and comment in our forums here.

GRIN in the News
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, July 9 2008
GRAW developer GRIN has been getting some airtime recently. There's a write up at Gamasutra detailing a talk they gave at a recent conference. There's also a series of videos on Youtube detailing GRIN's history via a Gamereactor interview. Part 1 has Bo explaining where GRIN started and details on their first major title, Ballistics.

Part 2 covers Phoenix Rising, Vultures, Unknown, Ghost Recon AW and some straight talking from Bo. If you only have time to watch one of these, spare 7 minutes for this episode, not only does it include Ghost Recon AW, but also an interesting swipe (?) at Bioshock. Hardcore fans will get a real kick out of Ghost Recon section though....

Part 3 brings up to date with their current project, Bionic Commando and also the future as they have scooped a top drawer brand although wouldn't reveal what it is. Bo also emphasises why GRIN love independence and won't be selling out to any major publishers anytime soon.

There's plenty in there that will draw some comments, so feel free to add your thoughts in our forums here.

Ghost Recon Covers
Posted by Rocky on Monday, June 2 2008
In this the 10th year of Tom Clancy titles from Ubisoft, I've put together a collection of Ghost Recon magazine covers.

The collection goes right back to 2001, and can be viewed in this slideshow, and is available for download here.

Signed Ghost Recon Games
Posted by Rocky on Monday, June 2 2008
Three forum members (including me!) were lucky enough to be the recipients of exclusive signed Ghost Recon games this week.

A scan of the original Ghost Recon game with signed box sent to me is posted here, and photgraphs of the box sent out to dporter is posted here. Thales will be posting his signed box later in the same thread. Many thanks to Kimi and the folks at Red Storm.

Support the Troops
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, May 21 2008
A recent article has exposed the apparent lack of respect shown towards British fallen troops in comparison to other countries. If you feel, like we do, that this cannot go unchecked, please sign the official petiton here. Forum discussion here.

To all our site members serving at the moment, on the verge of leaving for active service, and those contracting, thank you, and be safe.

Site Issue
Posted by Rocky on Saturday, May 17 2008
Users may have noticed certain parts of GhostRecon.net being offline recently for periods of time, i.e the forums etc. We are investigating the reason for this and working to resolve it.

Sniper Team Public Release
Posted by Rocky on Friday, April 25 2008
In the biggest mod release this year, Lightspeed and Thales have released a public version of the co-op competition Sniper Team - The Longest Kill.

This is the full competitive campaign based on two man co-op teams, one sniper, one spotter, for multiplayer games. If you don't have a spotter, download it anyway and enjoy it solo, but it'll be near impossible!

There are some extra files included in the public release, so check the readme file for full instructions and explanations.

It's a terrific campaign that will have you both cursing and laughing, don't miss this one.

The Longest Kill Concludes
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 24 2008
The Ghost Recon 2008 Sniper Team Tournament, The Longest Kill has come to an end and the results are published.

An extremely impressive 37 teams saw the ten tough custom sniper campaign through to the end, not bad for a game of Ghost Recon's maturity!

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     9MS_3 / BADS_1

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Equally impressive was the quality of this custom campaign put together by Lightpeed and Thales; the missions were top notch, innovative, enjoyable and provided a tough challenge for the competing teams. There's rumour of another tournment by this pair, so keep an eye on out for details on that shortly!

RSE Interview
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 24 2008
Play2Compete scored an interview with RSE Creative Designer Jeff "Geridak" McGann. It's a good read covering lots of ground, read it at Play2Compete, and post comments in our forums here.

New OGR Anti-Cheat
Posted by Rocky on Sunday, April 20 2008
RogueGamingProductions are working on a new Ghost Recon anti-cheat that seems to have some pretty inventive protection - check it out here.

South Ossetian Autonomous Region April 16, 2008
Posted by Rocky on Wednesday, April 16 2008
As Peace has pointed out in our forums, today is a special day - it's the date that the Ghosts' inserted for their first mission in the original Ghost Recon!

"South Ossetian Autonomous Region April 16, 2008 05:45 Welcome to Tbilisi, gentlemen -- I hope you got some shuteye on the flight from Bragg, because now that we're here we've got a lot of
work to do. "

Redstorm and Ubisoft are celebrating with the release of never seen before images and a competition.

GRAW 2 OGR Style
Posted by Rocky on Monday, April 14 2008
BSR_Vhladd has been working on a huge project to turn GRAW 2 gameplay into something that more closely resembles the original Ghost Recon.

Once the installation instructions are followed you'll have a seperate launch icon that will automatically launch GRAW 2 with the OGR mod running, with the following new features:

• diamonds and names removed
• plant c4 explosive on just about everything!
• frags and smokes for all classes (ex sniper and demo)
• unique camo for each team
• Ghillies

And there's much more! Read all about it and leave feedback in our forums here, and start the download here. Check back later for dedi server details for joining other fans playing this mod.

Ghost League Launches
Posted by Rocky on Monday, April 7 2008
A group of Ghost Recon vets have started a new Ghost Recon 1 league over at GhostLeague. For more information read Seba's forum post here.

Shader 2 Effects for Ghost Recon 1
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 3 2008
Foxtrot found a tool that introduces new graphic features to old games, and after some testing we found it produces some neat results in the original Ghost Recon. It's an easy install that toggles on and off with a key press, so if you'd like to see bloom effects in Ghost Recon, download bloom effects and try it out!

Mystery Game Revealed
Posted by Rocky on Thursday, April 3 2008
The purpose of the mysterious flash advert that appeared on the official ghost Recon site has been revealed - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Watch the video at IGN for more details, and to see why Ghost Recon was involved the the marketing build up. Post your thoughts in our forums here.

New Teaser from Ubi
Posted by Rocky on Friday, March 28 2008
The appearance of a mysterious smouldering dossier on Ubisoft's Ghost Recon website has fans pondering its meaning. Ubisoft marketing are starting to show more and more interest in viral marketing, fans will remember the End War campaign started in a similar fashion.

The burning folder appears as a flash movie shortly after the Ghost Recon page has loaded. If you look  hard enough you can see some clues, a number 42, characters S08, and what looks like a smal circular logo or stamp. Check the forum link below on our thoughts about the S08 marking.

The sudden and simultaneous appearance of a new Ubisoft forum, in the General section, called MACSAT7 Recovery fuels speculation.

Make your guess in our forums here.