Ghost Recon Press Release
Posted by blurred on Monday, August 26 2002

Press Release

Get Ready PC Gamers! Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Will Hit Shelves by Oct.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - August 21, 2001

Ubi Soft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder mission pack will hit store shelves in October. In the tradition of it's predecessor, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon--which won Game of the Year from PC Gamer and IGN PC and was the only DOUBLE PC Game of the Year Winner for 2001-Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder is expected to blow PC gamers away with it's realistic battlefield action.

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder was developed by Ubi Soft's Red Storm Entertainment, the studio that raised the standards for games with the introduction of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series. It is the latest addition to the Clancy franchise which is expected to lead the holiday sales charts with the introduction of three widely anticipated new games: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon for Xbox and PS2, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for Xbox and PC and Tom Clancy's Rainbow: Six Raven Shield.

Title: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Genre: First-person shooter; tactical squad-based combat

Platform: PC CD ROM

Ship Date: late Sept. 2002

MSRP: $19.99

Story:
Castro is dead, and the first free Cuban elections in decades are thrown into turmoil by a drug-funded warlord. The Ghosts, an elite team of U.S. Army Green Berets, are sent to Cuba as part of a UN peacekeeping force to destroy the rebel forces and their mercenary leaders and secure the elections for a free Cuba.


Game Details:
· 8 new single-player missions in an all-new campaign set across the island of Cuba.
· 5 new dedicated multiplayer maps
· 12 new multiplayer weapons, including the M4 SOCOM rifle and the MM-1 automatic grenade launcher.
· 2 new multiplayer game types
· New Cuban enemy vehicles, new allied vehicles and insertions by helicopter - Ghost Recon takes the next step in battlefield realism with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder.