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Within the game, the player puts together and then controls a team of up to six soldiers split between up to three fireteams, each with his own specialty, stats, weapon and gear. The ''Ghosts'' fight as a group: it is possible to directly control any of the characters who are still alive, and switch between them at any time during a mission, but the point of the game is to learn how to control the entire team (using a surprisingly simple interface for the task).
Unlike "conventional" first-person shooters of the period, the game attempts to mimic real-world combat as faithfully as possible. Use of "smart" tactics and stealth is practically mandatory. That's because [[AnyoneCanDie bullets kill]], often with just one hit, and enemies are definitely ''not'' graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Covering fire, judicious use of explosives and coordinated assaults are pretty much required if you want to keep your squaddies alive more than a couple of ''seconds'' into a firefight.
In addition to the combat realism, this was one of the first PC games to feature high-quality 3D sound, and was considered very advanced in terms of graphics at the time. The [[TechnologyPorn attention to details]] regarding weapon performance and other military hardware is quite worthy of the ''Tom Clancy'' prefix. There's SceneryPorn as well, especially in missions that take place in locations such as [[spoiler:downtown Vilnius, Riga, and finally Moscow. The Red Square and the GUM shopping mall across from it are portrayed with stunning accuracy]].
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** Inverted with infantry in the first game. Enemies who wear heavy body armor will pretty much be invulnerable in their torso area when hit with 9mm rounds (such as from an [=MP5=] or M9 pistol). It's sometimes possible to empty an entire 9mm magazine into an armor-wearing baddie's torso and still have him be unharmed, in addition the Heavy Armor that the Support Class wears actually gives them better protection against low-caliber weapons like 9mm, it's just the AI nearly always aims for the head/uses high-caliber weapons that highly reduce it's effectivness.
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** Inverted with infantry in the first game. Enemies who wear heavy body armor will pretty much be invulnerable in their torso area when hit with 9mm rounds (such as from an [=MP5=] or M9 pistol). It's sometimes possible to empty an entire 9mm magazine into an armor-wearing baddie's torso and still have him be unharmed, in addition the Heavy Armor that the Support Class wears actually gives them better protection against low-caliber weapons like 9mm, it's just the AI nearly always aims for the head/uses high-caliber weapons that highly reduce it's effectivness. Notably the unarmored enemies in the expansions are actually somewhat easier to fight compared to the Ultranationalists due to the fact none of them wear body armor.
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* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2001.
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* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2001.2008.
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The game received several {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Ethiopia}} and UsefulNotes/{{Eritrea}} and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} after UsefulNotes/FidelCastro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released exclusively for the Playstation 2 as a standalone game. The game is set after ''Island Thunder'' where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened in Cuba.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} after UsefulNotes/FidelCastro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released exclusively for the Playstation 2 as a standalone game. The game is set after ''Island Thunder'' where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened in Cuba.
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The game received several {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows first, released as an expansion for the PC and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked versions and [[MissionPackSequel as a separate game]] on Xbox, while the [=PlayStation 2=] port included its campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. as an unlockable. It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Ethiopia}} and UsefulNotes/{{Eritrea}} and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly supposedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansionpack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's pack, once again as a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. standalone game on Xbox. It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}, a few years after UsefulNotes/FidelCastro suddenly passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente Gente, or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
post-communist, anti-American government.
''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released exclusively for thePlaystation 2 [=PlayStation 2=] as a standalone game. game, including both the ''Island Thunder'' campaign and a new exclusive campaign. The game is set after ''Island Thunder'' where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened FARC guerrillas who funded the FDG's efforts in Cuba.
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* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although there ''was'' a war in South Ossetia in 2008, but it never went any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of the these events seen in the game).
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* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt The game now qualifies as such: while it did manage to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although predict that there ''was'' would be a war in South Ossetia conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008, but it never went the real conflict didn't spread any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Georgia for five days, compared to the seven-month ordeal of Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of trying to annex all the these events seen in the game).former Soviet states as depicted in-game.
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The first game is set in April 2008 when UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n ultranationalists overthrow UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, UsefulNotes/{{Belarus}} and UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}}. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their UsefulNotes/{{South Ossetia}}n allies before Russian forces occupied UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}} to integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus and Eastern UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states (UsefulNotes/{{Lithuania}} mainly) and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] who are against Arbatov.
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The first game is set in April 2008 when UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n ultranationalists overthrow UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor to the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, UsefulNotes/{{Belarus}} and UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}}. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their UsefulNotes/{{South Ossetia}}n allies before Russian forces occupied UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}} to integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus and Eastern UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states (UsefulNotes/{{Lithuania}} mainly) and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] who are against Arbatov.
Arbatov to weaken the Russian forces with operations both on the front and behind enemy lines.
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** Kinda averted with tanks in the first game. An M136 can destroy a T-72 in one shot and an RPG-7 can destroy an M1A2 Abrams in one shot.
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** Kinda averted with tanks in the first game. An M136 can destroy a T-72 in one shot and an RPG-7 can destroy an M1A2 [=M1A2=] Abrams in one shot.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies before Russian forces occupied Georgia to integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] who are against Arbatov.
The game received several {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in Cuba after Fidel Castro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
The game received several {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in Cuba after Fidel Castro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
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The game received several {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon series, except for South Korea since it was released by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon series, except for South Korea since it was released by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
2003. The background for the first game is loosely based off Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RedStormRising'' (which gave its name to the studio).
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* ZeeRust: The first game was released in 2001. It's set in a then-future 2008, but most of your squadmates are outfitted like 1990s soldiers, wearing PASGT helmets, SPEAR BALCS vests, M81 cammies, etc.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] who are against Arbatov.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy before Russian forces occupied Georgia and to integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] who are against Arbatov.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon series, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon series, except for South Korea since it was releasde released by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon franchise, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon franchise, series, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide, worldwide in the VideoGame/GhostRecon franchise, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Various military specialists join the Ghosts from NATO countrie and in Georgia. The end of the first game was credited to anti-RDU troops.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Various military specialists join the Ghosts from NATO countrie countries and in Georgia. The end of the first game was credited to anti-RDU troops.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that are against Arbatov.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that who are against Arbatov.
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* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although there ''was'' a war in South Ossetia in 2008, but it never went any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of the ease seen in the game).
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* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although there ''was'' a war in South Ossetia in 2008, but it never went any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of the ease these events seen in the game).
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with Dmitri Arbatov as the leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that are against Arbatov.
The game received several {{expansions pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
The game received several {{expansions pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
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GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with one Dmitri Arbatov as the their leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that are against Arbatov.
The game received several{{expansions {{expansion pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
The game received several
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' (also known as simply ''Ghost Recon'' Recon'') is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
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''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released exclusively for the Playstation 2 as a standalone game. The game is set after IT ''Island Thunder'' where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened in Cuba.
Cuba.
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The game has numerous expansions packs to expand the story. received several {{expansions pack}}s. ''Desert Siege'' is the first expansion pack.first. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
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''Ghost Recon'' is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with Dmitri Arbatov as the leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that are against Arbatov.
The game has numerous expansions packs to expand the story. ''Desert Siege'' is the first expansion pack. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in Cuba after Fidel Castro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released for the Playstation 2 as a standalone game. The game is set after IT where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened in Cuba.
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* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although there ''was'' a war in South Ossetia in 2008, but it never went any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of the ease seen in the game).
* AmericaSavesTheDay: Various military specialists join the Ghosts from NATO countrie and in Georgia. The end of the first game was credited to anti-RDU troops.
* AnyoneCanDie: If one of your soldiers die, they won't come back. You'll have to recruit a newbie soldier and train him. Specialists with their powerful weapon are gone. Non-fatal wounds, which are rare without high Endurance versus a weak weapon, require time off of the field to heal before the soldier in question is back to full effectiveness.
* ArmorIsUseless:
** Inverted with infantry in the first game. Enemies who wear heavy body armor will pretty much be invulnerable in their torso area when hit with 9mm rounds (such as from an [=MP5=] or M9 pistol). It's sometimes possible to empty an entire 9mm magazine into an armor-wearing baddie's torso and still have him be unharmed, in addition the Heavy Armor that the Support Class wears actually gives them better protection against low-caliber weapons like 9mm, it's just the AI nearly always aims for the head/uses high-caliber weapons that highly reduce it's effectivness.
** Kinda averted with tanks in the first game. An M136 can destroy a T-72 in one shot and an RPG-7 can destroy an M1A2 Abrams in one shot.
* DecapitatedArmy: In the first game, the Ultranationalists place their own president, Dmitri Arbatov, under arrest as the situation turns against them, and later have him executed. You still have to fight several more missions before they're ousted from power altogether though.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: The original game plus expansions had the threat indicator at the bottom of the screen, made up of one circle which lit up red when an enemy was within 40 meters of your position, one segmented ring around that that glowed yellow to point out the general direction of any enemies beyond 40 meters, and another segmented ring around that one that flashes red in the general direction of any enemy gunfire. The map also displayed enemies on it if one of your soldiers could see that enemy and was within a set distance of them.
* EscortMission: The original game had your team escort '''tanks''' on at least two instances. Granted that this is through urban terrain, where they're far more vulnerable to baddies carrying rocket launchers hiding behind walls. Thankfully, as long as you deal with the anti-armor troops and the occasional enemy vehicle (with your own anti-armor specialist), the tanks can take care of themselves fairly well. There were also a few missions with more traditional hostage rescue and the like, such as the optional objective in the first mission (capture the leader of the enemy guerrillas), and the entire point of the second (the crew of a downed F/A-18), fourth (UN peacekeeping troopers caught behind the enemy's advance) and eleventh (prisoners of war and an optional dissident among the enemy) missions.
* GameMod: The first game has many of them, available [[http://www.ghostrecon.net here]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The old bios for the various specialists in the original game seem to have been written before their kits were set in stone. In particular, Scott Ibrahim (sniper) and Dieter Munz (support) are both noted as having qualified with the M136, the former noted as, well, a marksman with the weapon and the latter claimed to keep meticulous track of each and every vehicle he disables with it
* GlassCannon: In the first game, [=M1A2=] Abrams tanks can take out any vehicle on the battlefield in one shot, but one hit from a measly RPG-7 will catastrophic-kill it.
* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: The ultranationalists form the RDU to recreate the USSR.
* MonumentalBattle: The final mission takes place on the Red Square in war-torn UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}, with the Ghosts fighting inside the gallery of the GUM department store and right outside the Kremlin's walls. There's also St. Basil's Cathedral and UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin's mausoleum, of course.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2001.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Some native specialists such as Guram Osadze (Georgian) and Astra Galinsky (Lithuanian) join the Ghosts in the first game. They don't speak, but it's easy to tell they fight to boot the Russian ultranationalists out of their countries.
* PostSovietReunion: In the first game, the government of the Russian Federation is overthrown by an Ultranationalist coup, which accuses the former of betraying the Russian people by [[RussiaIsWestern siding with the Western countries]], and glorify the Soviet Union. They then spend the next few years securing control over Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan through mostly foul means, rebranding the resulting alliance as the Russian [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Democratic Union]], before going on a war of conquest against the rest of the former Soviet states with the aim of forcibly annexing them into the seconding coming of the USSR.
* RogueSoldier: Anti-RDU troops join forces after the Ghosts are deployed in Russia.
* ShownTheirWork:
** In the first game, when you enter the Russian-occupied Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, you can see that the Russian soldiers have taken down the Lithuanian flags from the Presidential Palace's flagpole and replaced it with the old Lithuanian SSR flag from the Cold War days. It makes sense, as the storyline states that the Russians are trying to reestablish the Soviet Union by invading and annexing former Soviet members. If you look closely nearby, you can see a real Lithuanian flag crumpled up on the ground. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn6CqzBXH_0 In the PS2 version of the game, if you beat that level, there is a mini-cutscene at the end showing an Allied soldier taking down the old Lithuanian SSR flag and replacing it with the real Lithuanian flag.]] Speaking of which, the actual city itself is accurately modeled on the real thing, featuring actual buildings rendered realistically and faithfully.
** In the first game, the enemies' appearance also change as the campaign progresses. In the first mission, you're fighting South Ossetian separtist guerrillas, and thus, they wear a mix-match of uniforms with no patches. When you fight in the Baltics against the regular Russian army as they invade, the enemies wear Russian flora uniforms with Russian Ground Forces patches. When you sneak into a Russian Navy base to sabotage submarines, the enemies are wearing Russian Navy patches on their uniforms. The enemies' appearance also differs by where in the level they are. If they're outside, they'll be armed with rifles and wearing thick jackets to keep warm, and if they're inside, they'll be wearing regular uniforms with sidearms only.
** [[https://i.redd.it/cl51w525tzn81.png The first game was developed with help from real Army soldiers]], and it shows.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the final level of ''Ghost Recon'', civilians will be calmly wandering around the war-torn streets of Moscow as heavy fighting takes place mere blocks away from them. Given the history of the nation, it's likely their blasé attitude stems from having already personally seen similar crap at least three or four times in their lifetime.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first game it is mentioned in the intro cinematic that the Russians invaded Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, but no missions take place there and their fates are left unknown at the end of the campaign. Though it can safely be assumed they probably got liberated since the Ultranationalists lose the war.
** Huge battles are mentioned taking place in Estonia between the U.S. and the Russians in the first game, but we never get to see or participate in them, despite missions taking place in nearby Latvia and Lithuania.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Desert Siege]]
* AlternateHistory: Eritrea and Ethiopia didn't go for Round 2 of their 1998-2000 war.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Specialist Jodit Haile, who's listed as a Rifleman but gets Support kits.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2009.
* RogueSoldier: Colonel Tesfaye Wolde of the Ethiopian Army is investigated for being an ArmsDealer for the Russian Ultranationalists. He later leads a coup, partly in order to avoid being arrested.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Island Thunder]]
* AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/FidelCastro died a full ''decade'' after the game projected (and Cuba didn't erupt in violence following this, and still doesn't have "democratic" elections).
* GunAccessories: The M4 SOPMOD is available for use by the Ghosts.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2010.
* WesternTerrorists: The Ghosts take on FARC guerrillas trying to gain control of Cuba. After suffering severe losses, they retreat back to Colombia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jungle Storm]]
* AlternateHistory: The game suggets that FARC was defeated by an American-led coalition force. FARC agreed to disarm through peace talks in the 2010s.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2010 like Island Thunder.
* WesternTerrorists: The Ghosts take on the Movimiento de las Fuerzas Libres Colombianas (Free Colombian Movement) in Colombia. They also take on FARC.
[[/folder]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:The first GR game and the various expansion games.]]
''Ghost Recon'' is the first game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} worldwide, except for South Korea since it was releasde by Creator/{{Capcom}}'s Korean branch. It was first published in November 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It later got ported to Mac OS in October 2002, the Xbox in November/December 2002, the Playstation 2 in December 2002 and for the Gamecube in February/March 2003.
GR is set in April 2008 when Russian ultranationalists overthrow the Russian government with Dmitri Arbatov as the leader. Under his watch, he establishes the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), a political and military alliance that would serve as the successor of the USSR. The RDU later occupies and attempts to integrate Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Pro-RDU troops are later deployed to help their South Ossetian allies to occupy Georgia and integrate it to the RDU. The Ghosts are deployed in Eastern Europe to support NATO operations against Russian attacks on the Baltic states and in Russia to free friendly [=POWs=] and political prisoners. They later join forces with [[RogueSoldier rogue Russian troops]] that are against Arbatov.
The game has numerous expansions packs to expand the story. ''Desert Siege'' is the first expansion pack. While it can be bought separately in Windows and bundled with the Mac version, it can be unlocked as a campaign level in the Playstation 2 version. It's set in Ethiopia and Eritrea and concerns a coup in the former led by Colonel Tesfaye Wolde, who is trying to cover his tracks after an investigation starts for suppsedly helping the RDU.
''Island Thunder'' was released as the second expansion pack for Microsoft Windows. For the Xbox, it's a standlone game. In addition, it has five additional campaign missions and 12 multiplayer maps. It's set in Cuba after Fidel Castro passes away. The FDG (El Frente Democratico de la Gente or People's Democratic Front) seeks to establish a post-communist government to the day of Batista.
''Jungle Storm'' was a version of ''Island Thunder'' released for the Playstation 2 as a standalone game. The game is set after IT where the Ghosts are deployed to go after the BigBad responsible for what happened in Cuba.
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!!Tropes found in ''Ghost Recon'':
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[[folder:First Game]]
* AlternateHistory: There was no attempt to reunify the Soviet Union in 2008 (although there ''was'' a war in South Ossetia in 2008, but it never went any further than fighting between Russia and Georgia, then Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with none of the ease seen in the game).
* AmericaSavesTheDay: Various military specialists join the Ghosts from NATO countrie and in Georgia. The end of the first game was credited to anti-RDU troops.
* AnyoneCanDie: If one of your soldiers die, they won't come back. You'll have to recruit a newbie soldier and train him. Specialists with their powerful weapon are gone. Non-fatal wounds, which are rare without high Endurance versus a weak weapon, require time off of the field to heal before the soldier in question is back to full effectiveness.
* ArmorIsUseless:
** Inverted with infantry in the first game. Enemies who wear heavy body armor will pretty much be invulnerable in their torso area when hit with 9mm rounds (such as from an [=MP5=] or M9 pistol). It's sometimes possible to empty an entire 9mm magazine into an armor-wearing baddie's torso and still have him be unharmed, in addition the Heavy Armor that the Support Class wears actually gives them better protection against low-caliber weapons like 9mm, it's just the AI nearly always aims for the head/uses high-caliber weapons that highly reduce it's effectivness.
** Kinda averted with tanks in the first game. An M136 can destroy a T-72 in one shot and an RPG-7 can destroy an M1A2 Abrams in one shot.
* DecapitatedArmy: In the first game, the Ultranationalists place their own president, Dmitri Arbatov, under arrest as the situation turns against them, and later have him executed. You still have to fight several more missions before they're ousted from power altogether though.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: The original game plus expansions had the threat indicator at the bottom of the screen, made up of one circle which lit up red when an enemy was within 40 meters of your position, one segmented ring around that that glowed yellow to point out the general direction of any enemies beyond 40 meters, and another segmented ring around that one that flashes red in the general direction of any enemy gunfire. The map also displayed enemies on it if one of your soldiers could see that enemy and was within a set distance of them.
* EscortMission: The original game had your team escort '''tanks''' on at least two instances. Granted that this is through urban terrain, where they're far more vulnerable to baddies carrying rocket launchers hiding behind walls. Thankfully, as long as you deal with the anti-armor troops and the occasional enemy vehicle (with your own anti-armor specialist), the tanks can take care of themselves fairly well. There were also a few missions with more traditional hostage rescue and the like, such as the optional objective in the first mission (capture the leader of the enemy guerrillas), and the entire point of the second (the crew of a downed F/A-18), fourth (UN peacekeeping troopers caught behind the enemy's advance) and eleventh (prisoners of war and an optional dissident among the enemy) missions.
* GameMod: The first game has many of them, available [[http://www.ghostrecon.net here]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The old bios for the various specialists in the original game seem to have been written before their kits were set in stone. In particular, Scott Ibrahim (sniper) and Dieter Munz (support) are both noted as having qualified with the M136, the former noted as, well, a marksman with the weapon and the latter claimed to keep meticulous track of each and every vehicle he disables with it
* GlassCannon: In the first game, [=M1A2=] Abrams tanks can take out any vehicle on the battlefield in one shot, but one hit from a measly RPG-7 will catastrophic-kill it.
* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: The ultranationalists form the RDU to recreate the USSR.
* MonumentalBattle: The final mission takes place on the Red Square in war-torn UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}, with the Ghosts fighting inside the gallery of the GUM department store and right outside the Kremlin's walls. There's also St. Basil's Cathedral and UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin's mausoleum, of course.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2001.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Some native specialists such as Guram Osadze (Georgian) and Astra Galinsky (Lithuanian) join the Ghosts in the first game. They don't speak, but it's easy to tell they fight to boot the Russian ultranationalists out of their countries.
* PostSovietReunion: In the first game, the government of the Russian Federation is overthrown by an Ultranationalist coup, which accuses the former of betraying the Russian people by [[RussiaIsWestern siding with the Western countries]], and glorify the Soviet Union. They then spend the next few years securing control over Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan through mostly foul means, rebranding the resulting alliance as the Russian [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Democratic Union]], before going on a war of conquest against the rest of the former Soviet states with the aim of forcibly annexing them into the seconding coming of the USSR.
* RogueSoldier: Anti-RDU troops join forces after the Ghosts are deployed in Russia.
* ShownTheirWork:
** In the first game, when you enter the Russian-occupied Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, you can see that the Russian soldiers have taken down the Lithuanian flags from the Presidential Palace's flagpole and replaced it with the old Lithuanian SSR flag from the Cold War days. It makes sense, as the storyline states that the Russians are trying to reestablish the Soviet Union by invading and annexing former Soviet members. If you look closely nearby, you can see a real Lithuanian flag crumpled up on the ground. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn6CqzBXH_0 In the PS2 version of the game, if you beat that level, there is a mini-cutscene at the end showing an Allied soldier taking down the old Lithuanian SSR flag and replacing it with the real Lithuanian flag.]] Speaking of which, the actual city itself is accurately modeled on the real thing, featuring actual buildings rendered realistically and faithfully.
** In the first game, the enemies' appearance also change as the campaign progresses. In the first mission, you're fighting South Ossetian separtist guerrillas, and thus, they wear a mix-match of uniforms with no patches. When you fight in the Baltics against the regular Russian army as they invade, the enemies wear Russian flora uniforms with Russian Ground Forces patches. When you sneak into a Russian Navy base to sabotage submarines, the enemies are wearing Russian Navy patches on their uniforms. The enemies' appearance also differs by where in the level they are. If they're outside, they'll be armed with rifles and wearing thick jackets to keep warm, and if they're inside, they'll be wearing regular uniforms with sidearms only.
** [[https://i.redd.it/cl51w525tzn81.png The first game was developed with help from real Army soldiers]], and it shows.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the final level of ''Ghost Recon'', civilians will be calmly wandering around the war-torn streets of Moscow as heavy fighting takes place mere blocks away from them. Given the history of the nation, it's likely their blasé attitude stems from having already personally seen similar crap at least three or four times in their lifetime.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first game it is mentioned in the intro cinematic that the Russians invaded Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, but no missions take place there and their fates are left unknown at the end of the campaign. Though it can safely be assumed they probably got liberated since the Ultranationalists lose the war.
** Huge battles are mentioned taking place in Estonia between the U.S. and the Russians in the first game, but we never get to see or participate in them, despite missions taking place in nearby Latvia and Lithuania.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Desert Siege]]
* AlternateHistory: Eritrea and Ethiopia didn't go for Round 2 of their 1998-2000 war.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Specialist Jodit Haile, who's listed as a Rifleman but gets Support kits.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2009.
* RogueSoldier: Colonel Tesfaye Wolde of the Ethiopian Army is investigated for being an ArmsDealer for the Russian Ultranationalists. He later leads a coup, partly in order to avoid being arrested.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Island Thunder]]
* AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/FidelCastro died a full ''decade'' after the game projected (and Cuba didn't erupt in violence following this, and still doesn't have "democratic" elections).
* GunAccessories: The M4 SOPMOD is available for use by the Ghosts.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2010.
* WesternTerrorists: The Ghosts take on FARC guerrillas trying to gain control of Cuba. After suffering severe losses, they retreat back to Colombia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jungle Storm]]
* AlternateHistory: The game suggets that FARC was defeated by an American-led coalition force. FARC agreed to disarm through peace talks in the 2010s.
* NextSundayAD: Takes place in 2010 like Island Thunder.
* WesternTerrorists: The Ghosts take on the Movimiento de las Fuerzas Libres Colombianas (Free Colombian Movement) in Colombia. They also take on FARC.
[[/folder]]
