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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder is a great expansion, packed with plenty of goodies and enhancements that make the first Ghost Recon the standout it should have been.

All in all, if you have Ghost Recon, you need Island Thunder. My one and only complaint was that it takes fairly long to load the game from the desktop; and this was easy to overlook. I highly recommend this expansion to all Ghost Recon owners and even to future owners. If I had to give the expansion a rating, I would give it 9 stars out of 10—I enjoyed it more than the original, and for $19.99 it's a total steal for an expansion...

This game is about the best game I’ve ever played for the PC (IF YOU'RE INTO ARMY GAMES YOU’LL LOVE THIS!). Ghost Recon: Island Thunder has the best graphics I've seen in a long time. (Despite them now being outdated in today's standards) In this game you feel like your right in the middle of the fire fight, and you actually have to use stealth.....Which is a factor that has been lost in games for some time.... Although this game takes lots of patience and time to play, in the end your hail it for its realism.

As far as expansion packs go, Island Thunder has enough wonderful extra and multiplayer maps to add more fuel to Ghost Recon’s highly entertaining fire. Many gamers will still find the missions difficult and occasionally unfair, but this shouldn’t stop them from enjoying this excellent addition. If you own Ghost Recon, do yourself a favor and pick this one up.

Island Thunder (and for that matter, Ghost Recon) is a terrific game that almost qualifies as a genre buster. The only things keeping it from universal appeal are its difficulty and the patience required- not only to become a good player, but to effectively command your men in the heat of battle. Some gamers might not want to make that kind of effort. It’s their loss.

Ghost Recon has had a pretty good run over the last couple of years. This one was a little more interesting to me than Desert Siege because of the atmosphere and cover rich environments, but it falls into the same category. It's a good expansion pack. It doesn't add anything extremely revolutionary, but adds 8 new well designed levels and some more multiplayer goodness.

Die Einsätze sind etwas komplexer angelegt als im Hauptprogramm, in Sachen Schwierigkeitsstufe aber noch fair. Die Grafik-Engine ließen die Entwickler unverändert, jedoch wirkt Kuba mit seinen teils schön aufgebauten Tälern recht ansprechend. In den fünf neuen Multiplayer-Maps kommen zwölf frische Schießprügel zum Einsatz – allerdings tatsächlich nur dort; im Angebot ist unter anderem ein Granatwerfer.

If you prefer your action games to be easy to pick up and put down, you probably won't get much out of Ghost Recon: Island Thunder. Specifically, the single-player game's group skirmishes require a great deal of patience to conquer. But if you're already a fan of tough tactical shooters and you're looking for a real challenge, you'd do well to invest in Island Thunder--its substantial single-player campaign and new multiplayer maps and modes (when you can get into a game) are definitely worth it.

Island Thunder is a great add-on to a fine game. If you are a fan of the original you must pick up this expansion pack.

Ein großartiges Add-On. Island Thunder macht für mich das Warten auf Raven Shield wieder erträglicher. Ich bin schon gespannt, ob die Entwickler auch noch ein weiteres Add-On draufsetzten, denn schließlich ist ja angeblich schon „Ghost Recon 2“ in der Mache. Wie auch immer, Island Thunder macht mächtig Laune und ich werde mich sicherlich öfters bei stundenlangen, nächtlichen Multiplayergefechten erwischen.

Dit is vooral voor de fans van de serie natuurlijk alleen maar fun. Zij zullen nog meer dan voorheen hun skills tot het uiterste uittesten. De jungle, moerassen en vlaktes in Cuba (waar de Ghosts neerstrijken voor een VN missie) zijn sowieso erg mooi gedaan, met een goede combi van indoor en outdoor. En Fidel Castro zag dat het goed was.

Kuba im Jahr 2009: Nach Fidel Castros Tod soll der nächste Staatspräsident per demokratischer Wahl ermittelt werden, doch militante Gruppen und hiesige Drogenbarone wollen das mit aller Macht verhindern. Damit das Urlaubsparadies nicht aus den Katalogen von Neckermann und Co. gestrichen werden muss, startet Weltpolizist USA die Operation Island Thunder und schickt Sie und Ihre Elitetruppe Ghosts auf die Insel.

Competent if rather unremarkable. Certainly aimed at the hardcore tactician gamer.

Finally, there are a few new weapons of each type, but Island Thunder acts as if it can't be bothered to explain why you'd ever want to take them. With enough dinking around, you'll figure out basic facts like ... the MM-1 is a lot of fun for making noise and blowing people up. But there's exactly zero information about the advantages and disadvantages of these new weapons in relation to the older ones. (What do you expect from a series that steadfastly refuses to include visible models of the guns during gameplay?) Nevertheless, with its serviceable single-player game and a gem like the new Defend mode, Island Thunder is a tidy little bonus juuuust worth the price.

Visually, Island Thunder is not much different from any other Ghost Recon game. Sure, the settings are different in a sense that you'll get to play in the jungle, amongst some strange rock formations and so on, but the 3D code looks generally the same as in any other GR game. The only real novelty (though not a particularly important one) are the chopper insertions. During landing, the helicopter will cause whirling trails of dust to rise from the ground, and strands of grass to sway and bend from the blast of air. A catchy scene, but as I said, it's hardly enough to make a difference. I should add though that the weather effects - the storms, pouring rain, and puddles are well-done and quite moody. The rest of the facets of this game bring absolutely nothing new over the original game.

Une extension sympathique et qui devrait savoir se faire apprécier grâce aux différentes nouveautés qu'elle apporte à Ghost Recon. On regrettera que les nouvelles missions solo soient en nombre trop limité, en multijoueur par contre on aura le plaisir de découvrir deux nouveaux modes de jeu.

L'équipe des Ghost est encore une fois appelée pour de nouvelles missions. Après avoir effectué leur précédentes missions en Afrique, les voici de retour sur les terre Cubaines.

Et hop, un add-on de plus pour Ghost Recon. Espérons que ce sera le dernier, car le jeu commence à accuser son âge. Huit nouvelles missions solo, c'est un peu court, seuls les gros accrocs du multi y trouveront donc leur compte avec les nouvelles armes et les nouveaux modes de jeu.