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Ghost Recon is a series of military tactical shooter video games created by Red Storm Entertainment, the game development studio founded by American author Tom Clancy.

In the series, the player is in charge of a fictive, newly-conceived squad of United States Army Special Forces operators from Company D, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (5th SFG) stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Except for the "5th SFG" designation, this unit is entirely fictional. They are sometimes referred to as "the Ghosts". Their role is not unlike other real world special operations forces, in that their operations are kept highly classified.

Games in the series

Title Year Released for
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2001 PC, Mac, Xbox, PS2, GameCube, N-Gage
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege 2003 PC, Mac expansion pack
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder 2003 PC expansion pack, Xbox
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm 2004 PS2, N-Gage
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 2004 Xbox, PS2, GameCube
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike 2005 Xbox
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2006 Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PC
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 2007 Xbox 360,PS3, PSP, PC

Storyline

Ghost Recon

Main article: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Ghost Recon begins in 2008, with civil unrest in Russia. Ultra-nationalists have seized power in Moscow, with plans to rebuild the Soviet Union. Their first step is clandestine support of rebel factions in Georgia and the Baltic States. This is where the Ghosts come in: to silence the invasion. Armed with some of the most advanced weaponry in the world, the soldiers of the Ghost Recon force are covertly inserted into Eastern Europe and given specific missions to curtail the rebel actions and overthrow their benefactors.

Ghost Recon: Desert Siege

In the year 2009, old hostilities between Eritrea and Ethiopia have resurfaced. Colonel Tesfaye Wolde of the Ethiopian military had participated in illegal arms trades with the same Russian ultra-nationalists who launched the coup the previous year (see above). Sparing no time at all, and with a newly refurbished arsenal, Col. Wolde seized the opportunity to reclaim Eritrea (which won independence in 1993). The situation garnered international interest when the conflict threatened the shipping lanes in the Red Sea. In response to a plea from the Eritrean government for international support, the Ghosts have been mobilized to stop Col. Wolde from advancing any further.

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Main article: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

In 2010 Cuba is free, or at least it is supposed to be. Since Fidel Castro's death in 2006, the island of Cuba is wary of the communist rule it had been under for nearly 50 years. It is time for the first free and open elections since Carlos Prio Socarras, who was overthrown by Fulgencio Batista in the early 1950s. The FDG (El Frente Democratico del Pueblo or People's Democratic Front) has fronted a man named Priego as their candidate. The FDG are an outspoken anti-American political faction that wishes to return Cuba to its perpetual state of independence. Although the FDG publicly denies utilizing violence as a means of coercion, the reality is quite the contrary, as the Ghosts quickly discover. Now it is up to them to set things right again, without making it appear that America is getting their hands too dirty, and ensuring the elections proceed smoothly.

Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm

Main article: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm

Taking place just after Island Thunder in Bogotá, Colombia, the drug cartel that had aided and financed the FDG in their efforts in Cuba has initiated a number of terrorist attacks against the Colombian government who have allied themselves with America. After Colombia's call for help following an attack on a U.S. Embassy, America responds by deploying the Ghosts to restore order and put the cartel out of business.

Ghost Recon 2

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In the wake of one of North Korea's worst famines, an insidious North Korean general influences the government to secretly divert humanitarian aid to beef up its army, slowly gaining power in the process. Fearful that North Korea is amassing huge quantities of military weapons, the new Chinese regime eliminates arms sales to North Korea. In response, the North Korean government initiates secret overtures to Russia, who strikes a quiet alliance. In the midst of another North Korean famine, food riots begin rocking the countryside and the rogue North Korean general assumes complete control of the army. Blaming China for the famine, he begins charging north to seize Chinese territory with tacit support from its new Russian ally. China moves to respond, but limits the level of escalation, fearing open conflict with Russia and a possible nuclear exchange. Instead, China officially agrees to a multinational force to safeguard the China-North Korean border. Unofficially, the Ghosts and other special forces go in. Their mission: cripple the North Korean threat and depose the rogue general.

In a very subtle story line that very few players seemed to have noticed, the events of Ghost Recon 2 parallel the events in another of Tom Clancy's stories - that of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The main character, Sam Fisher, is in Korea at a missile battery. Ghost Recon 2 and Chaos Theory even use the exact same movie cutscene sequence to depict an attack on the United States' state-of-the-art ship the Clarence E. Walsh stationed in the area to monitor recent aggressions between Korea and China against Japan. The storyline in Splinter Cell is rather ambigious in regard to who actually fired on the Walsh but the Ghosts are in fact implicated in something of a support mission to Sam Fisher (as they are told over comms - yet Sam is never named to them).

Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike

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The Kazakh President has been assassinated by a Pakistani warlord attempting to take control of the country. Follow the Ghosts as they work in concert with U.N. forces to track him and his military across Kazakhstan. The Ghosts are the only chance to thwart his attacks against high profile targets and to prevent national devastation.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

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Taking place in Mexico City in 2013, stolen U.S. military surveillance hardware has fallen into the hands of Nicaraguan rebels. They arrange to sell the device to Mexican paramilitary forces. Meanwhile, the Canadian prime minister and Mexican and American presidents gather to sign NAJSA, the North American Joint Security Agreement, which is meant to cut down on drug trafficking and illegal immigration. The Canadian prime minister is killed. The U.S. president has disappeared. Cpt. Scott Mitchell and his elite team of Ghosts have 48 hours to rescue the U.S. president, cut down the insurgency, and destroy its source.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Main article: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Taking place just a day after Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, The US finds out that rebels have access to a nuclear weapon. Scott Mitchell and his team have only 3 days to stop the rebels from firing the weapon on US soil.

Reception

Though well-received by game reviewers, the games however are criticized by players for unreasonable difficulty due a lack of any sort of ability to regenerate heath, as well as poor Squad A.I. It is reportedly stated by Ubisoft according to Electronic Gaming Monthly that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 will attempt to rectify this problem.

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