Ghost Recon 2 Preview
IGN has a new preview of Ghost Recon 2, going hands-on with the online part of Ubisoft/Red Storm's team based shooter. New videos and screenshots are included.
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replyredeemed. nice screenshots posted there, too.
a number of hardcore, PC version GR1 fans attended a recent xbox preview in san francisco. some reports can be read here:
http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=21699
http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=21629
and here:
http://www.ghostrecontwo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1675
the earlier, E3 previews were tainted by several factors, least of which being that the preview movies (and xbox demo on the E3 floor) were geared more toward attracting "the mainstream gamer," rather than vieing for the attention of the existing fan base.
that backfired on Ubi/RSE by making the hardcore fans feel disenfranchised -- evidence of this is dan morris's review in PC Gamer where he said that fans "won't be getting the sequel to ghost recon 1."
it seems a lot has changed since then. a demo will be the decider for many, but i'm already sold and will definitely be picking this game up. my only wish is that they kept the limp :-(-
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i was hooked on GR from the moment i first installed and played the PC demo -- the day it was released -- but it really depends on how you define "hardcore."
did i ever play GR online competitively? nope. did i enjoy the fuck out of the single player and coop gametypes... including trying almost every mod that was worth my time to download...? FUCK YES, i did... so yeah, in that regard i'd say i'm pretty hardcore.
what sold me on the xbox version? my faith was restored in the sequel by A.) the recent flurry of media (screenshots, movies, and the new material available at www.ghostrecon2.com/uk/, inclusive), and the fan reports from GR 1 PC fans who had hands-on with the xbox version in both london and san francisco.
they unanimously praised the game in every regard -- and said it played very much like GR1.... in spite of Ubi trying to market the game to 12 year old xbox'ers. i was not, by any stretch, impressed with initial previews. i hopped on the hater wagon pretty quick and posted with a vengeance in the official forums.
however, i have to eat my words and once again pour praise on RSE. even with their hands tied by a fuck-it-all-for-money publisher, they're still producing a topshelf game.
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Do you know the guy who wrote the first of those tree "reviews"? He just registered on those forums and after the "bust" where a bunch of people were caught talking all good about Driver 3 on some forum "as fans but in reality were hired by the publisher, I remain skeptic otherwise.
The later two were very short and didn't really praise the game as much.-
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Paranoia bullshit? Those guys working for the publisher of Driver 3 that where hired to talk good about the game on fansites are true. The moderators on one of those forums grabbed their IPs and the company's website clearly stated that was what they worked with and that they worked with that publisher.
And now with Ghost Recon 2, everything we've seen and read before has been pretty disappointing and then it's one guy who's tried it, and who's a PC gamer as well, and completely loves the Xbox version? I think it's justified to be a little paranoid. If you want to get your hopes up, be my guest, but I think I'll wait a little longer before starting to hope again.-
while i don't doubt that the incident you're referring to is true -- i do want to point out that applying the same type of suspicion to another publisher because the news doesn't jibe with "the word on the street" is more than a little reactionary -- it's over the top, crackhead paranoia.
pssst. i think it's safe to take off the tinfoil hat now, dude.
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another hands-on review by a PC fan
http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=20773
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