Video Gaming News - February 2003
San Francisco, CA (February 25, 2003) - Ubi Soft today announced that
they will be releasing an expansion game for the Xbox version of Tom Clancy's
Ghost Recon.
"The Clancy brand owes its incredible popularity to gamers who want an
intense and realistic gameplay experience," said Tony Kee, Ubi Soft's vice
president of marketing. "With this new campaign disk, Ubi Soft Entertainment can
give back to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon fans, providing them with more of their
favorite Ghost action without the price tag of a whole new game."
"Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is one of our most popular games on Xbox Live and
has everyone going wild!" said Andre Vrignaud, director of technical strategy,
Xbox Live. "With Xbox Live, gamers can download exciting fresh content like new
missions and maps, injecting new energy into gameplay, and keeping games like
this fresh and engaging."
From Ubi Soft:
The Ghosts are back and ready for more action as Ubi Soft announces the
summer release of a stand-alone Xbox campaign disk for the award-winning Tom
Clancy's Ghost Recon. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is the game that gave Xbox Live
players the total battlefield experience and earned numerous awards for its
stunning gameplay and features, including an Editor's Choice award from Official
Xbox Magazine.
This first-ever campaign disk for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft
will not require players to have a retail copy of the original game to enjoy a
new Ghost campaign.. Both new recruits and seasoned vets who earned their
stripes playing the original Xbox game will enjoy the camaraderie of the shared
battlefield. Xbox Live soldiers can experience the intensity of the front lines
side-by-side with their battlefield brothers while covering each others' backs
and calling out commands using the Xbox Live communicator.
Gamers who purchase the campaign disk will have future access to exclusive
downloadable content featuring new missions and maps. Included in the campaign
disk will be a dozen game types and twelve multiplayer maps for Xbox Live play,
including four maps from the original Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon.
Developed by Red Storm Entertainment the Ubi Soft studio credited with
originally developing the award-winning Tom Clancy's Ghost Reconand Rainbow Six
franchises, the campaign disk will feature the Cuban campaign from Ghost Recon:
Island Thunder (PC) and popular maps from Ghost Recon: Desert Siege (PC). As an
added bonus, four additional maps from the original Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
(Xbox) allow new recruits to experience the battlefields of Eastern Europe
exclusively on XBOX Live.
Game features include:
- Xbox Live compatible
- Downloadable content
- 8 mission single-player campaign set in Cuba
- 8 multiplayer maps ranging from desert to city to jungle
- 4 fan-favorite maps from the original Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (Xbox) for
additional Live play
- New types of multiplayer gameplay
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