Well, I finally get my hands on this old school Ghost Recon game along with two great expansion pack called Island Thunder and Desert Siege. Three games in one... nice. It give me at least a hundreads of awesome and truly great gameplay and a lot of fun. Ya know... GR have one of greatest community's ever with a OUTTRAGEOUS amount of content - mods, maps, missions, campaigns and almost all of them are giving next couple of gameplay and chance to spend a nice night with PC. I've already finished three main campaigns and few from mods and others. Also, I played several quick missions in SP and in MP - second option is the best. Cooperative work with friends against enemy is that what tactical gamers like most. And so do I.
Gameplay. IS AWESOME! Really. It's an old-school game but still video performance is still impressive like animations, I'd really like them. Audio performance is also great and you can fell like in a silent battlefield between Ghost Team and their enemys. Basically, there is a great single player with a lot of content and OUTTRAGEOUS multi player with hundreads or thousands missions (included in mods etc.) and every from it can be played with your net pals. Job for a years. And MP gameplay is better bacause AI of your human friends is higher than a NPC and they can quickly and better resolve a problem how to flank and take out enemy sniper for example (but that I think, everybody knows) instead of waiting in one place untill whole squad will be wiped out. And because of that, SP campaigns take a lot more time and patience to complete. We have unlimited ammo and weapon support but human resources are low. We have only several normal troops and some hero's with unique weapons (btw. in oryginal GR there are low amount of weapons, armory is weak) and if somebody die in missions, he won't be avaible in next. Keppin' alive your teammates is worst thing. To this game patience is needed. And the oryginal campagins for Ghost Recon + expansion packs are tought, but you get an awesome story, felling when beating every missions and visit a lot of interesting places like this while Heavy Rain operation. Enemys AI is also high - they are flanking, reacting to contact, throwing granades etc. Great. So after beating SP camp's are some other from mods I have started my multiplayer gaming. I'm after few nice matches and missions... so here we go. Almost every new session and match is something with great fellings and impressions. Therefore are also a dynamic missions on some maps with always different objectives, enemy force and generally - everything is random. AWESOME. For example, I'm after one great game with net friend - codename Jones - on his server. We both cleared all 'Tank' map (this is Desert Siege exapnsion pack) on Navy SEALS and some other mods. I have told ya already that SEALs mod have OUTSTANDING armory - then I repeated it. M4 SOPMOD is awesome, overpowered but owns enemy soldiers badly. I died one time almost at the end of mission during evacuation to extraction side. But to the end, everything went smoothly. Great job. OK, peace. Further updates will be only on multi player career but... well, maybe not...
UPDATE #1:
So I've downloaded next custom campaign called 'Free Russia' and like title says it takes place in Russia during some local or cyvil war againts two factions. Ghost Team is send there to restore a Democratic movement in Moscow and restore peace. Along with some great visual or armory mods (awesome Navy SEALS) with a lot of stuff we will fight during 10 long and tough operations. Especially, I don't like the first one and number 5 or 6 I think, this taking place at Russian aiport and collecting intel. Also, the one which we need to escape POW camp is really hard and player need a lot of patience. Sometimes, best way is to play alone, without NPC mates. And thing I'm most proud of - I've beaten the campaign on Elite difficulty and it took me a several hours to complete it. But with some great weapon kit's from Navy SEALs mod - the all firefights are just outstanding and fellings after won battle is just great. And because of that, my fellow Ghost members achieved several ribbons and few medal which I'm really proud of, especially Medal of Honor, but also - Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star. I'm also began campaign called '8 Days' on well known Desert Siege maps. And so, after few really challenging few hours I completed it. This is my second campaign which I completed on Elite and I'm proud of it and either not so many of my Ghost mates died - only few were injured during last opeartion. This campaign can be boring - almost on every mission we go somewhere, kill someone and destroy something. Get in, kill, get out. We visit all known places from expansion pack as rail, oil refinery and even destroy a roadblock (this mission is hard). Also, sometimes we need to defend and rescue hostages - especially in refinery that work is hard. Of course, few of Ghost get's a nice medal like Medal of Honor for killing large number of enemys - about 30 tangos I think. Shooting, explosions, tactics. How to not love it? It's impossible. Peace.
And of course I were figting in some multiplayer games. Tonight - 9 May '08 - I played two maps - both victories with my net buddies - codename Jones, Buby and Cloneus. Both games were quite short - we've played about 45 minutes but fun and enjoy of game was always great. Possibly, that game never get's boring during so much amount of stuff in it and great pal's to play in multiplayer. So first mission was 'Bridge' and objective was quite simple - defend base at all cost. Sniper (me - M25 SD + HK MP5k SD] was covering the brdige site and I hunted a nice amount od FDG troops (it was Jungle Storm map), but there was a hot one situation when enemy attacked us from right flank and two of us dies, but al least we have respawn. After 5-10 minutes enemy retrated and we had victory! Next mission - 'Tank'. Ealier in the day I tried to beat it with NPC comrades but we were simply owned. Now, with human buddies we won, but we have few dies and respawns... for example me after headshot from sniper. At least, I know that M14 is also great weapon for middle range.
