Product ReviewsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike (Microsoft Xbox, 2005)

Ghost Recon 2 Summit strike

Technically, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike is a stand-alone expansion pack to the original Ghost Recon 2, which was released on the Xbox less than a year ago. But don't let that distinction and the marked-down price tag fool you. Summit Strike has the same level of quality as any full-priced third-person shooter and is every bit as enjoyable as its predecessor, with a varied campaign, wide-open levels, and a wealth of multiplayer options and modes.

Summit Strike offers a varied and interesting single-player campaign.
The game's campaign finds the elite Ghost commandoes on the hunt for Asad Rahil, a Pakistani terrorist. Rahil's crimes, which include unleashing chemical weapons on a hapless village, have created a great deal of unrest in Kazakhstan, which has been further exacerbated by the assassination of the Kazakh president. The entire country is thrown into upheaval with the new power vacuum, and UN forces sent to stabilize the region have been overwhelmed thus far by Rahil's burgeoning army. As a Ghost squad leader, you're tasked with taking down Rahil and bringing peace to the region.

Aside from taking part in a couple of lone-wolf missions, you'll find yourself leading a four-man fireteam of Ghosts across large, wide-open levels. The sheer amount of area available in each of the game's 11 missions is quite impressive, and with multiple objectives to achieve, you'll find that you need to cover most of that ground. As in past Ghost Recon games, you have the ability to issue simple orders to your squad, such as laying down a hail of suppressive fire, holding position, and flanking either left or right. You also have the ability to order them to perform context-sensitive actions, such as attacking enemy vehicles with portable rocket launchers or laying explosives on a demolitions target. In most cases though, you don't need to tell your AI teammates to do anything. They're great at following you around, finding their own nearby cover, and engaging and taking down enemies. Until you get used to squinting into the distance to find enemies moving about, you'll often find your teammates acquiring and killing hostiles almost before you realized they were there.

That's not to say that Summit Strike is easy or plays itself, however. The game offers a fair amount of challenge, even at the default normal difficulty. In almost every mission, you find yourself terribly outnumbered against dozens of enemy foot soldiers, and vehicles ranging from machine-gun-mounted jeeps to tanks and helicopter gunships. With those odds stacked against you, you'll definitely need to assist your teammates in combat. Since the game strives for some sense of realism, you can't take much damage before going down, and there are no contrived items that let you restore lost health. If a squadmate goes down, you can bandage him and bring him back up to half-health. But if he goes down again, he's lost for that mission (dead teammates do magically reappear in later missions), and squadmates cannot bandage you if you go down. Once you die, the mission is over. Thankfully, Summit Strike does allow for in-mission saves at any time, so if you get through a particularly sticky situation, you can create a checkpoint of sorts for yourself and continue from there.Read full review...

As good as Ghost Recon 2. Great sequel with an acceptable game level.

The game level can be difficult in Hard, I had to change it to Normal.

The game is more dynamic that the previous Ghost Recons.
It is nice to give and provide orders to the teammates.
Love the fact that now it is possible to carry more weapons and that it is possible to refill your clips, mags, and rockets.
Love the fact that it is possible to pick up the weapons of your fallen enemies.
A nice way to increase firepower is that you can order your teammates to man automatic weapons.

Recommended.Read full review...

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Nice big maps! Great graphics! Very fun on XBox Live!

I pretty much stumbled upon this game because I had just purchased XBox Live and was looking for a game to play! And well, I found it! For a long time I played America's Army on my laptop, but when like version 2.2 of America's Army came out, it stopped working on my laptop (was getting real weird "slow motion" symptoms) and I stopped gamming for a while. Anyways, this game is pretty much the console version of America's Army (except of course for the actual console version). So if that's the type of experience you're looking for, this is the game for you! The games are related in the sense they both fall in to the genre of games known as "Tactical Shooters". This game type is a combination of Real-Time Strategy + First Person Shooter + Simulation which equals a very fun type of game.

I never played the original Ghost Recon 2: 2011 Final Assault, so I can't compare. However I'll go on to explain why I like this game. First off the graphics are as good as you'll get from XBox. Some call this game "The Last Great Release for the XBox". And yes, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was released for the XBox, but don't even get me started. That game is a step BACKWARDS because it was originally coded for the XBox 360, and then dumbed down (way down) for the XBox. Just read what they say about it at the www.ghostrecon.com forums. With that being said, Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike is the best you'll get out of the Ghost Recon series on the original XBox. Game play is very fun! Although I only play the single player campaign when XBox Live goes down, I find it very fun for the fact that I can send voice commands with my headset! Like "Flank Right!" and my guys advance up my right side, or "Hold position!" and they'll find cover and stay put while I move out. Also can tell my guy to "Reload!" and sure enough he does it! Also, this game has very big maps!! This is a huge plus in my book, especially when playing on Live! The big maps also look good, and play very well! This means there’s plenty of cover throughout the maps to take advantage of, like cars, trees, rocks, buildings, or just hilly terrain. Also there’s lots of good vantage points, or angles to shoot from, which is good on big maps. Also, there are plenty of game modes when playing online. Co-Op I personally find to be pretty fun believe it or not, and there’s lots of different Co-Op modes, from simply completing the missions together, or doing different modes on the different maps like Fire Fight, Bunker Modes, Helo, and others (havn’t played them all, I mostly like Mission mode). Also my guess is there’s at least 80+ people playing at all times, although it may take a couple searches to find the bigger rooms. Also I play usually 10:00am-2:00am PST so there’s probably lots more during peak game hours! I think that’s pretty good for a console that’s getting phased out (by the Xbox 360).

One thing I would think could have been improved could have been the ladder system. Right now there’s a 5 star rank system, but it’s kinda weak, 5 stars is the best you can get and I don’t think it takes long. So basically you just kinda play for fun, as opposed to playing constantly to get your rank or honor up (they used Honor system in America’s Army).

Overall good visuals, good sound, very short load times(!!) and very fun game!! 9.6/10Read full review...

Great Game, Really Like Real Life

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike for xbox you get a huge variety of weapons,which is always great. You can play Online, you can play on LAN or just regular multiplayer. If you are doing multiplayer there is many different kinds of games you can do. In this game you can also pick between 1st and 3rd person. It also has a campaign that is very intense and it is hard but, if you do it with your friends it may be easier. But, the only problem with doing it with a friend is that you don't get a squad to lead, so if you don't do the campaign in single player you should play with more than one person. But, if you get stuck and you don't want to play with friends you can look up some cheats. So I would say that this game is one of those games that you keep for a very long time, and also if you played Ghost Recon 2 and you did not like it, Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike is so much better than it.Read full review...

Ghost recon 2

My experience with this game is mixed. The online play is great, I had lots of fun. However, the single player was vexing. I would shot the enemy and it would take too many round to kill them, sometimes this including head shots. I spent too many rounds killing one enemy soldier. Other wise, that's the only fault I found with the game. I rented the game and I am still considing if I want to buy it or not.Read full review...

The more, the better.

Summit Strike is a great game and it is even better when you can play with some friends. This is what will happen: you will be playing Halo and think to yourself, "Is there a game that we could play mutiplayer co-op missions?" and then you will buy this game. Go ahead, try to defend the Sub Base for 30 minutes. The game play is great. Since it has been out for awhile, Summit Strike should be quite affordable meaning there is no reason not to buy this game.Read full review...

Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike

Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike is the best Ghost Recon game I have played yet. Incredible graphics that only the XBOX can provide and immersive gameplay make this game a winner. My friends and I have already logged about 200 hours on this game so far. Each mission is in its own respect as difficult, if not more difficult, than the last. The single player mode allows you to command 3 other soldiers into the fight. You can direct your members to flank, suppress fire, advance, hold fire, etc. The multiplayer allows you to co-op missions, squad, and several other variances. This game overall is one of the best fighting games I have ever played.Read full review...

Works

Game works really well

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Great Game

Bought the game for my 15 year old son. He loves to play Xbox/Xbox Live. He really enjoys the game. Plays it all the time. The only bad side of it, was he beat it within the 1st 24hours, so now he only plays it online, which takes up MY TV..:)He has other Ghost Recon games that he plays, but he seems to like this one for online play better.Read full review...

single player is still terrible,and multiplayer rocks

The games single player campaign is lacking in any sort of morbid fun,and i say this for one reason alone...the enemy AI is terrible.If you are thinking of picking this up you are gonna want xbox live because thats where all the fun is. On another note if you're are still addicted to Halo 2 then you may want to consider this before buying,this game is for hardcore tactical shooter fans.This is a game of one shot kills and can be a bit frustrating at first to players new to these games.

That last paragraph was from my review of the original Ghost Recon 2.

Now whats new for this exspansion? all the best multiplayer levels from the first and a bunch of new weapons and gametypes.Also all the NEW maps are alot better than the original because they're more exspansive and look even better.The singleplayer is still useless but again,if you want a amazingly fun multiplayer exsperience look no further.Read full review...