Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Island Thunder

by Red Storm Entertainment

Product Features

• Welcome to Cuba in the year 2009. Castro is dead, and the island nation has its first elections. The Ghosts are sent in to help make that first vote proceed without erupting into chaos.
• Battle your way across Cuba in eight new single player missions
• Survive through strategic use of firepower -- 12 new weapons like the M4 SOCOM rifle and the MM-1 automatic grenade launcher
• Five challenging new multiplayer maps and 2 new multiplayer game types
• Dangerous new Cuban enemy vehicles, as well as new allies to boost your side

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00006JHTR
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,282 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Developer

Cuba, 2009: 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.

Note: this is an expansion of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and requires Ghost Recon to play.

Product Description

Cuba, 2009: 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.

Note: this is an expansion of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and requires Ghost Recon to play.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good, December 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Island Thunder (CD-ROM)

This is a hard expansion pack, harder than the Desert Siege pack which came out this summer. As with the original Ghost Recon, I have found that the best strategy is to take command of your teams one at a time - sending them into battle using friendly AI almost always results in quick death.

For most missions, the best strategy is to send your sniper in with one assualt troop as cover and clear a path. Then send you assualt teams into to clear buildings or destroy armor. One especially good early mission takes place in a rainy jungle at dusk. Using stealth and silence weapons I was able to pick off quite a few enemy patrols. Enemy AI is pretty good - often they can pick off your sniper before you can get off a second shot. Each mission is unique and requires a different strategy.

All in all a great game. Highly recommended.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars awesome but hard!, December 5, 2002

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Chris Martinez (Huntington Beach) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Island Thunder (CD-ROM)

I've played all the Ghost Recon games and this one was one of the coolest. The missions are pretty detailed and there are some cool "specialist" figures to play as. Not to spoil anything but the one problem I had was the last guy you have to face is a capture mission and not a total annihilation one, like I would have hoped.

This portion of the Ghost Recon games is one of the hardest that's for sure. The reason is because many of the levels are in a rainy environment or a foggy one. The computer tends to spot you rather quickly obviously, since they don't have to look for you like we do. I give this game a four only because giving a five would have to be an epic game and this one is just a really good one; definitely worth getting though.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good game, but nothing new., January 16, 2003

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L. Blasiman (Canton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Island Thunder (CD-ROM)

If you liked Ghost Recon you are bound to love Island Thunder. This is a solid expansion pack. It does more than add missions; it adds some great new weapons to play with and some features that further enhance the experience. All that said, it does little if anything to assuage the irritating aspects of the game.

The tropical setting is nice, and there are some memorable missions. The lush green jungle is welcome brake from the vast arid desert and drab woodland of the previous missions. Though most of the environment is scratched together from assets of the previous games. And the helicopter insertions are cool if a bit cheap, since they are featured mostly in cut scenes rather than a playable part of the game. One of the features I enjoyed was being able to rename the characters. It doesn't have any bearing on the gameplay, but it's cool to play with "A. Schwarzenegger".

The game it self is the same. While that isn't a bad thing, there are some parts of it I find hard to appreciate. For one the AI is still quirky. Enemies can zero in on the player and fire with laser accuracy at extreme ranges. Even when well concealed from view the enemy AI is uncanny at times. Teammates still wonder in to the player's line of fire. They are also zealous at times when they don't need to be. I am still at a loss to explain why they move out in to plain view (and get shot) when they should stay back. And I have been shot in the back by my own trigger-happy squad.

That's the exception and not the rule however and there is still enough to make a good expansion.