For the most part the enemy AI is pretty good as well. Enemies will react appropriately to you and your squad, seeking cover and moving to better firing positions as needed. Enemies can exhibit a few quirks, though, especially around corners. They never seem to be aware of your presence around a corner even if you are making a lot of noise firing your weapon. Maybe they’re missing the radar that you have the marks the positions of all personnel in the battle. It’s also sometimes possible to take down an enemy behind an obstruction by repeatedly shooting his hand or knee. Sure he’ll pull back a bit when hit but a couple of seconds later he’ll stick that hand or knee right back out there again. You just need to continually fire at the enemy each time he exposes an appendage and wait until he dies of massive hand trauma.

Get ready for some heavy action.

The game’s level design has also undergone some changes. Instead of being given a few objectives and then having free reign to pursue them in any way, Ghost Recon 2 takes a more scripted approach. Like a lot of other shooters these days, Ghost Recon 2 provides you with a compass pointer to your next objective and you’ll need to follow a predetermined path to reach it. There’s plenty going on in each mission so you don’t really notice this that much unless you pay attention to it, but if you’re used to the open spaces of Ghost Recon you may not like the change.

Some things have remained the same as they were in Ghost Recon. You’ll more often than not be significantly outnumbered and it will only take a couple of shots to kill you in your tracks. If you’re not careful you can find yourself dropped pretty quickly by an unseen enemy and running at the enemy with your gun blazing is tantamount to suicide. Don’t expect to find any health packs if you go and get yourself wounded either – you can only take a few shots over the course of the entire mission. Luckily the more careless soldiers out there can rely on the game’s save anywhere feature.

Once you’ve completed the campaign, you have the game’s excellent multiplayer support to look forward to. Co-op mode lets you play any of the campaign’s missions – except for the small handful that are solo missions in the campaign – with up to four players. This feature alone is enough to keep you busy and happy, but then you’d miss out on the other multiplayer modes. There are deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill, and siege modes, as well as an escort mode called search and rescue. The Xbox Live support is full-featured with an amazing number of game options and variants, clan support, and team competitions.

While it is a somewhat different game than its predecessor, Ghost Recon 2 delivers some great modern warfare action. If you’re an action gamer – even if the first Ghost Recon didn’t appeal to you – then you should definitely give Ghost Recon 2 a look. You’ll have a blast with both the campaign and the great multiplayer support.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 90%.  The Ghosts are back with a vengeance.

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