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Rating: - Highly Recommended.
Ghost Recon is a welcome break from death match, you-must-be-on-speed-to-keep-up type games. Instead of pulling a trigger and running around until you kill someone, this game forces you to develop detailed strategies to accomplish your tasks. The action you do encounter (and there is plenty) is intensified by the fact the stakes are much higher -- a couple of bullets or a well-placed grenade takes you out of the game. This forces you to develop a properly planned and well executed course of action.The game is squad based. During single player mode, you play one of six soldiers and can switch between them at any time. Your player leads one squad of three, and you set a course of action for the other squad which is controlled by AI. As you complete missions and tasks, you unlock addition items such as new soldiers to choose from. Surviving missions also increases soldier skill. Ghost Recon has significant replay value. It has 15 levels and 50 different tasks to complete, but because there are so many strategies that can be used to complete a level, they can be played numerous times with the same enjoyment level. Of course, on-line play adds tremendous replay and excitement. In my opinion, the mark of a good game is how quickly time slips by while you are playing. Time after time I have intended to wrap up in 10 minutes only to find that an hour has passed. This is a fantastic game. I do have a few complaints. The graphics are generally good, but can be on the choppy side at times. I have also experienced instances where the AI squad didn't do what I had mapped out. But, for the most part, the game is a welcome addition to my game library.
Rating: - Things you should know.
This game is pretty great. The single player missions are a lot of fun and the graphics are up to Xbox standards. The Xbox Live play is a lot of fun but there are some things you should know. 1) There are no dedicated servers for Ghost Recon. At least none that I've seen so far. This means that players are hosting these games on their consoles. 2)Your Xbox only 64MB RAM. This makes hosting a 16 Player game highly unlikely. 3) Most people on Xbox Live have cable modems. Many of these are intended for general internet surfing only and have limited upload rates as low as 15K/sec. If you're hosting a game this will cause a lag if you've got more than 3-4 players. 4) So far I've only been able to play games with 2-4 players without much lag. The 6 player games lag really bad and are almost unplayable. If you don't get your hopes up about a 16 player game this is definately worth it. Maybe they'll add some dedicated servers in the future. Try renting this title first.
Rating:  - ghost recon
Ghost Recon is probably the best xbox game I have ever played. Well, I really can't tell you much about the single player of the game because all I've played is the online multiplayer, and let me tell you, it is extremely fun. This game is not an average shoot em up game, it requires skill. You will almost always die in one or two shots so people don't go around spraying bullets, people lurk around hiding in corners. In fact, a lot of the time you die you don't even know where person who killed you was. And when your on a team talking to people with the headset, not a keyboard, planning out how you're going to take down the enemies it is so fun. Definitely a must have game if you have xbox live, and if you don't have xbox live get it.
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