Ghost recon is a game by tom clancy, same person who brought you rainbow six. In this game you play a solider in part of an elite squad where they use sort of ultra good technology, and the latest weapons (all weapons in this game at the time of this game were actually experimental or brand new, none are sort of made up weapons!). Anyway, now this being a tom clancy game, you can't just run in guns blazing, you actually can die really easy from enemy fire, the idea is to outrange, outstealth your opponenets, and call in air strikes, sniper support and stuff like that.

The story is all about dealing with terrorists in bosnia, and chile and some other random places. The game is actualyl really good, and although i didn't really follow the plot, i did enjoy the gameplay, it is really good, and for a game on this console, the graphics are very good.

Anyway, the gameplay feels really involved, and you do feel like you are actually there at times. Furthermore, the gadgets aren't so futuristics that they couldn't be real if that makes sense. The main thing the the HUD, heads up display, which lets you highlight enemies and do stuff like that, and gives you a map. It doesn't feel like it couldn't be done if that makes sense.

There is also a challenges mode, where you basically just try to fight off enemies for as long as you can. This was quite fun, as its just you with lots of built in machine guns and stuff holding off an entire army from say an embassy or something like that.

One problem with this game is (what i presume to be) the last level. Basically some pilot in your group turns out to be bad, and trys to kill you in a apache helicopter. I just found this level way to difficult, and unfair against you, as you have 2 machine gun implants, with 1 friend, and an army of soliders attacking your postion, vs a helicopter with lock on missiles, and to mount/dismount the machine gun often doesn't work brilliantly as its the same button as crouch, so i would always die crouching at the machine gun instead of shooting. I just got fed up with it, and stopped playing.

There is also a multiplayer mode online, but as i never had a ethernet cable for PS2, i could never connect to the internet, so i have no idea what this game mode was like.


Overall its a pretty good shooter game, ruined by the last mission, but apart from that very very good. I would recommend it for any person who likes FPS games