This is pure nostalgia right now. Me and my brothers would do 1vs1 fights as gillied up snipers. And it was SOO intense. Watching for the slightest movement in foggy woods
lmao, the excitement hunting for your friend in ghillie suits, not knowing whether you're being watched or not is fun, everytime you certain that you see someone always sends you in glee, you would fucking giggle and they would ask "are you looking at my beautiful ass? you are, aren't you?"
The permadeath of Operators was my favorite part. Watching them get all kinds of awards after each mission just to have them die and get replaced with an FNG was always sad.
I installed a mod where someone put Rambo as a Specialist, and my base game campaign ended with my Rambo operator having almost the same medals mentioned in Rambo First Blood Part II. Two silver stars, four bronze, Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor. Only didn’t have the Purple Hearts as I didn’t get shot. It was neat to see.
@@karliskokorevics6902 Yeah. So honestly, this is now the best "Rambo" game. I do miss how moddable older games were. I also modded the SPAS-12 into the game as I own that gun IRL and love shooting it. So I put it in the game to enjoy shooting virtually, too.
The true Ghost Recon. Extremely tactical for it's time and had a nice and simple story line. But it still felt like you was doing important things the outside world didn’t know about. And as you could see it was very hard.
@@LordVader1094 as far as I'm concerned no Ghost Recon title past Island Thunder is worth playing. For Rainbow Six any title past Raven Shield is equally abominable.
@@SiCDisaster oh my god just go get a flip phone and cargo shorts while you’re at it, hipster. Rainbow six Vegas 2 is very obviously the best one and graw was an equally fantastic games. God people like you are so annoying.
In fact me and my usual mates, we like to call "Ghost Recon" the games up to Advanced Warfighter, and just "Wildlands" or "Breakpoint" for the new ones. We still tend to gravitate back to GRAW though
@@Legion12Centurion , yes, the PC versions of GRAW and GRAW2 actually tried to be an evolution of GR01. All of the other games have tried to turn GR into COD, Just Cause, or another game. Thanks, Grin Studios, for respecting the "Ghost Recon" and "Tom Clancy" names more than Ubisoft ever did outside of RS3.
Ghost Recon should do some huge revaluation and visit their old games on what to do with this series. No battle royale, no pointless open world gimmick. Maybe a reboot of the series with the original Ghost Recon as a blueprint. Not a carbon copy but with huge inspiration. A tactical gritty realistic GR experience with friends
it's almost impossible. if they do anything even remotely based on the real world it's too political for someone and the game play is too slow for a mass market game. also ubi is more interested in NFTs than making good games.
Ubisoft should release either a remastered version of GR 2001 or a Ghost Recon : Origins game with nothing but 2001 technology and weapons- charting out how the GR started
Im so glad there are players who are still talking about this gem. Fun fact, there is an entire community that still plays to this day, we host almost every day in fact!
The original Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game (the one from 98’) is also great and was ahead of it’s time. I remember playing it as a kid. I remember my first exposure to flashbangs was through that game, I not knowing what a flashbang was threw one at the front door of the first mission and expected it to blow up the door and instead I got blinded and as I began to regain my vision a enemy with a shotgun opened the door and killed me and I screeched so loud. Those were fun times 😂
@@charlesshamseldin9555 Rainbow 6: 3 was GOATED I remember the penthouse mission was a nightmare when I was a little kid. Right up there next to Ghost Recon 2001
This is still my favorite Ghost Recon game. It’s as hardcore as classic Rainbow Six, but since I can quicksave, it’s much easier to learn as when I inevitably die, I only have to redo the last few seconds rather than the whole mission. Also, there is a mod that lets you show your gun model, but it is a bit finnicky. EDIT: Also, small correction: The yellow part of the threat indicator isn’t friendlies, it’s pointing towards where enemies are if they’re not close by. When it turns red, it means enemies are close. It’s simply a way for you to know where enemies are, a gamified way of showing data from satellite imagery, through the wall sensors, motion trackers and the like.
I would love a modern game that kept the pacing and feel of these early Ghost Recon games. A modern Hidden & Dangerous game would be similarly awesome. I'd also love Rainbow Six to remember it's a tactical co-op game, not a fast TTK Overwatch spinoff... but Siege sold so well I have limited hopes for that franchise to return to its roots. Basically, if somebody programmed better AI and added missions/ scenarios in the Tarkov engine, that'd be a blast.
Ground Branch is the closest to caputring the feeling of GR and RS. Unfortunately, it's developing incredibly slowly and is lacking a lot (some of that, weather included, is coming in the next update.) Other than GB, Black One: Blood Brothers is another game that is clearly trying to be like the original GR and RS. It isn't as far along in some areas, but it is further along in other areas.
Fun fact - There was a mod made for this game by the devs that recieved it's own standalone game called The Sum of All Fears. It released on PS2 and on PC and was essentially an anti-terrorism SWAT version of this game. Same engine, same graphics, same squad system, etc. Cool game.
this is one of my favorite games i have on steam......but i cant play most of the time. i also have a disk version of the original rainbow six that doesnt work except on my old ass laptop lol SUM OF ALL FEARS is available on steam for a ridiculously cheap price for anyone who wants to try it out. not sure about rainbow six though....great book btw
@@soldierorsomething that's the weird part, ghost recon and rainbow six used to scare me as a kid because when you're hit you fall and bleed out instantly. but sum of all fears doesn't do that the same way
@@chemicalcreations2022 , I strongly disagree. If I had to choose between the world looking better or having a gun take up a large chunk of my screen space, I would choose the world every time.
I still don't understand the reason for it, couldn't have been a technical limitation because many games of the era looked better, were bigger, and had first person models. They kept doing it up until GRAW2, after that it was strictly 3rd person with a bit of first person for using optics. Kinda just feels like they didn't do it because they didn't want to.
@@The1337guy1 Graw1 atleast on pc had a weapon shown to.? Third person was only on Consoles up until future soldier. But Console and PC Version at that time were basiclly completly different games...
I highly recommend the Heroes Unleashed mod for anyone who wants a extreme challenge or even more content. The mod adds a load of quickplay missions, new hud options, weapons, etc. This vid was a nostalgia trip of fun times with friends. OG Xbox split screen versus matches, and coop campaign was both intense and fun!
The competitive clan scene on this game was huge! I had so much fun with this game. Classic! I still have the box set of this game, with the expansions.
I was still very young when I played this game, honestly I don't think I really knew "online" games as a standard until probably the days of Halo 3 and even then it was playing guest to my brother. I wish I was around for the clan days haha OG Ghost Recon absolutely feels like a game that would benefit from the clans of online FPS communities though.
I remember it being a pretty niche multiplayer game? For a while I did play in a clan. Anyway, clearly it was an underrated multiplayer game because even here most people seem to be talking about the single player experience, while I mostly remember it for the multiplayer.
I loved this game back in the day. You'd die in a heartbeat. To prevent that you'd crouch in the woods forEVER just listening and watching. And then your AI battle buddy would make you jump by saying "I'm right behind you" loudly in your ear.
Brings back so many memories man I'm from India and sometime in 2004 I started with COD the original one and Ghost Recon. Though I couldn't/wasnt mature enough to understand much then, Ghost Recon has always been my favorite. I still play Wildlands and enjoy every minute of it.
dude, you have no idea how much i'd appreciate a series of you going through all the old ghost recon and rainbow six games in chronological order! i know i played so many as a kid, i have no idea at this point which ones they were though. so that'd be an amazing throwback
I remember playing it on my grandpa's pc, me and my brother played this so much (together with tactical ops and cs) to the point my old gramps thought we were addicted and we would turn up violent. so he pleaded with my mom to stop me and my brother from playing it and tried to remove the game from his PC, although from him not being tech savvy he couldn't, so he would remove the shortcut.
Mikee was an absolute gem in Insurgency haha. I loved some of the soundbytes that would only come out very so often like "So does that make me an ace or something?" or whatever it was. The colour he and others added made that game so fantastic.
The thing I liked about the game was that every enemy on the map had an active A.I. running all the time. They didn’t use triggers to activate enemies’ A.I. by area. That translated into gameplay that required stealth. If you went loud then before long you’d have every enemy on the map baring down on you from every direction.
Nostalgic definitely, though I think the reason it feels so "refreshing" is because FPS have become a pretty standardized format at this point. Back before Halo and Modern Warfare became household names, the genre was filled with all different takes on how an FPS should play out. Some really bad takes, but also some absolute gems like Ghost Recon. I guess Milsims came from this type of gameplay (the more methodical approach to objectives and selective engagements) but I do wish more tried to use the squad mechanics we saw here.
@@cyqry I'll take most modern FPS over a lot of the older ones. Thank God games like Half Life were successful on PC so the controls for an FPS were established and easy to copy. Console FPS took years of weird and horrible iteration to finally settle on some good core ideas but at least Halo gave them something to reference.
Disagree,older games still play quite better then majority of new ones. For example FEAR 1 has better gameplay that 99 procent of FPS games that came after 2005.
I remember constantly having to save scum and set up ambushes, because the AI was almost aimbot-level when it was hot. You either completely wiped them out in the first second, or risk taking a loss. That was an entire era of developers not knowing how to design AI to have any competency level other than a uniform level of Extreme difficulty.
The AI is definitely the game's biggest weakness. It's incredibly unbalanced. The AI has absurdly good accuracy and spotting skills when static, yet has no sense of self preservation on the move.
This definitely takes me back. Being over forty now makes me appreciate the glory days of gaming. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in gaming whether it’s VR or AR related to get people excited again.
i still play this game to this day! i still have it downloaded on my pc! thank you for bringing light to possibly one of my favorite games in all of gaming history. this is where everything started for me
Serious nostalgia here lol. As far as these games go, the ghost recon series as well as the delta force series were my first FPS style games and absolutely loved them. some people made some seriously badass missions in the mission editors too
Would love the series to get at least partially back to this style of gameplay and mission design. I recently bought the original game as I never played it as a teen, funnily enough it was purely because there was no gun on screen (loved Rainbow Six 3 though)
Seeing this in 2024, Ghost Recon was such a nostalgic game for me back in my childhood. I played the original game (hadn't played the expansions until much later) back on the PS2 in 2010 when I was a bit on the younger side. I will always remember struggling in the Georgian Crossing level, but I had a blast playing it nonetheless.
It’s kinda sad to see what ubisoft has done to Tom Clancy games and what they have become especially ghost recon and rainbows six and every other ubisoft IP
My dad and I would play this game and the original splinter cell before he deployed the first time and these games were my only sense of structure as my parents were also getting divorced. This game and splinter cell are still my all time two favorite games. Thanks for showing this.
Ubisoft turned this series into a Destiny / Division style looter shooter with human versions of Halo's alien enemies (i.e. the wolves are just halo's elites lol)
This game defined my taste for shooters. For me, part of the appeal Hunt Showdown has (my favorite shooter today) is that it recreates the sense of danger I felt playing Ghost Recon with my brother years back.
6:24 The yellow is not friendlies, it is pointing to the bad guys afar. It helped a lot to find the last enemies on a map or to make sure that a section of the map was clear. And the central disk is red when an enemy is close, but it obviously do not indicate the direction.
You also have to remember the quality of the monitors/TV was no where like it is today. Back then you would have the quality of a CRT and you can see the small dots where it would determine the colors. This made it harder to see the enemy and would mesh the textures together. In some cases gave you uncertainty in some situations in the game. During multiplayer there were sniper vs sniper scenarios where you couldn't tell if there was an enemy in the dirt/tree/rock/pillow that was just out of visual range so you could barely see anything. You could not guess and take a shot at something you weren't sure of otherwise you would surely be shot by the opposing sniper. Todays R6 games are arcade compared to these older games. I mean go look at Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for instance, the trailer/intro is awesome.
This brings me BACK holy shit, I remember my dad had all these games, I think there was like three of them or something and he'd let me and my brother play them after school. Thanks for uploading this Drew, definitely will be letting my dad and brother know its multiplayer is supported by steam
best fps tactical game ever. I poured countless hours into setting up ambushes, using fire and maneuver, recce and observation, studying the AI behavior and reactions. Just so much fun holy shit
One of the best games ever! Played on PC way back when I was a youngin'. I thought it was the most difficult shooter ever at that time. I think this video might have encouraged me to play it again.
Play some Ghost Recon 2. not the advance or future ones but the one released in like 2004. Its a 3rd person perspective shooter with pretty cool squad control. The Single Player campaign is a great game. It was the first game i played that was a tactical team base game.
The amount of nostalgia i have with this can’t be put in words. This was my first major fps title outside halo and i played the hell out of it. I need this again
The OG tactical shooter. This, alongwith Rainbow Six is what defined the Tactical Shooter/TacticalFPS genre. I remember how I was once visiting another city and stumbled upon a small CD/DVD store. I went in and bought a CD that had a compedium of the first 3 GR games in it. At that point I did not know what it was. But playing it was an experience in itself. To this day I absoloutely love it and refuse to believe anything beyond Ghost Recon: Phantoms is a Ghost Recon game. Here's a recommendation, try the Ghost Recon: Heroes Unleashed MOD. It's even more hardcore than the vanilla game.
The old Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games were amazing. What has happened to them since has resulted in me stopping buying almost any Ubisoft games. There was an amazing mod called Operation Stabilise which brought this game to even greater heights for me.
My friends and I go back and play the original GR every few years, so fun to see you guys playing through it. Definitely a different game and a different era for shooters. GR is not what it used to be, hopefully it returns at some point.
So most of y’all probably already know this but, the closest thing I can get to this masterpiece in a modern take, is Arma 3 dynamic recon ops. So close..
You should see if you can get the PC version of Advanced Warfighter working from 2006. I a lot of people skipped over it for the console version, but the PC version was developed by a totally different studio and was more like the OG game than any other game after. I beat it in co-op with a friend and we went into it without expecting much and ended up feeling like the PC version was an underrated gem. I'm not sure where you can even get it anymore or if it even works on windows 10, but it'd be worth seeing if you can do co-op. It would make for good content.
This game still holds up as an awesome experience in realism, and I would play this game over so many other games even today because of how god damned immersive it was.
Man I was obsessed with this game and the OG Rainbow Six trilogy back then - so good! So many great co-op memories with friends. Thanks for reminding people about this classic! Another game that gets overlooked all the time is the Sum Of All Fears video game. It's in this same Ghost Recon engine/style and has more CQB and urban setting missions. Sort of like if they made an old R6 game in the old Ghost Recon style.
Are there still people who play this as a multiplayer team setup ? . I would honestly play it now if that's the case !!! . Single-player made you feel nervous /on edge as if you were actually there haha I loved it !!
I completed it a few months back again after so many years, Heroes Unleashed improves the game a lot. I still can't believe I had so much fun like in the old days. This, to me, is a timeless gem.
I remember playing this when it came out! My computer could only just run it, I'd have to do a fresh start up, and immediately clear the ram with a utility to even get it to launch
I love Ghost Recon, I still have the original CD. There are so many mods available and these can in turn be easily tuned. I clearly remember a mission map with 100 hidden snipers . Extremely hard until you started to remember their positions. Downsides were that silenced weapons meant nothing, AI would just come towards your position regardless. AI would also sometimes not react to their comrade dying right next to them. Also, with multiple mods, you would usually have to modify config files because of the way weapon slots worked or you wouldn't see all the available guns. Oh, Minigun with each projectile having the same effect as tank shells anyone?
Original Ghost Recon was either the first or second game I ever played online (Xbox live). I still remember everyone doing matches on embassy and how you could lock down half the map simply by taking the embassy roof.
Grew up on the Ghost Recon games as well as the early Rainbow Six 3 games such as Raven Shield. Its nice to see these games revived a bit by you and show just how great they were for their time.
My earliest gaming memories are of this game. I remember my father being in a rather large teamspeak group planning out missions and what mods to introduce. There were players from all over the world in the group and it was my first time experiencing different cultures and languages. This expansion really strikes close because it was the one my father would spend the most time in. Its incredible the memories some games can hold in them. Thanks Drewski. Fantastic video it brought so much back.
Bro yes. I played this for thousand of hours back in the day. Even messed around in the editor and made a gatling shotgun. So hard and the limb injuries were game changing. And the medals and ranking system made dying actually matter.
Ghost Recon (2001) is the game that got me into online PvP and LAN parties with close friends. Playing online multiplayer on this game was strategic and intense. Successive games since have been like playing arcade games such as COD franchise and the like.
Always loved the original Rainbow 6 games too. The mission planning in that game is like nothing I have ever seen again. I remember playing Rainbow 6 and the Rouge Spear, and Athena Sword expansion packs. Decades later I read all the books and remembered all the names, especially Ding which is who you played as. Made me feel like I was reading recounts of the things I did in the game years later.
I was part of the tournament leagues back in the day on this. some of the Fondest Memories I have with people inside of Ventrilo, TeamSpeak playing for hours to learn call outs and tactics!
This my favorite tactical shooter. Used to play this almost everyday on the OG Xbox with my bro. This IP went down hill after GR2. The OG formula and DNA of this game was so good.
I remember trying to play this when I was about 6 or 7. It was super difficult because stealth and teamwork were concepts I didn't understand. Probably because all I knew was Lego Starwars, Pokémon, and Gran Turismo.
I still play this game every now and again. I used to Co-op it, but some of the best games were just myself controlling where to place my team. Was great tension and a slow burn at times, especially making sure every single one of my soldiers made it to the end.
oh man, this was my JAM, this and rainbow six/ rogue spear is what got me into online gaming for the very first time, man what a different world/process is was back in those days, I barely remember it. I remember going to a website and having to click on some kind of circular icon for a lobby.
This was my childhood. The really open maps with various objectives combined with the really advanced for its time tactical gameplay was just too fun. Firefights were always quick but brutal.
I used to play this on my Windows XP PC as a kid (probably 10/11 years old back then). This game was amazing. The atmosphere, the feeling of sneaking around. I loved it! I used to sneak around and really take my time to make sure the enemy didn't spot me. Good times....
I used to mess around making custom missions. I modded the SAW to fire like 10x as fast and it would lag the game because each individual bullet is simulated. Impressed me at the time
I got this game when I was in seventh grade because I was hyped for Wildlands. I started playing this and I must say, I seriously wasn’t expecting it to be that different from the newer stuff. Thankfully, I’m a quick learner and figured out that the trick to the game is to take it slow and be patient. Nowadays, I absolutely love tactical shooters
No one can cannibalise their franchises like Ubisoft. Everything good they had they either fucked up, forgot or tried to make accessible for EVERYONE which in turn... fucked those franchises up for older fans... However, seeing how the AAA space is shaping up the past couple of years... I don't think I really want a AAA tactical shooter
The pvp mode is also awesome, because you can play two player against each other, and both player have like 2-3 small AI squads that you can command through the map, to det up ambushes and the like.
GRAW 1 and 2 on PC were actually very similar to Ghost Recon 2001. They were developed by entirely different studios for the console and PC versions, with the devs taking most of their inspiration for the PC version from the original.
I got this from a great friend years ago and I used to play multiplayer with my little bro. From dual stealth missions to personal grudge matches the game was a strange transition in gaming from old tank control run and gun games to adding new stealth elements based on visibility and sound. The only other games like that were stuff like Thief and Counter-Strike. The old Ghost Recon maps were fucking huge for the time and you really could disappear for hours and not see who you were playing with. And you had a split screen and the resolution was like 244p. Imagine shooting at ants.
This is pure nostalgia right now. Me and my brothers would do 1vs1 fights as gillied up snipers. And it was SOO intense. Watching for the slightest movement in foggy woods
Absolutely vibe with this comment. This was the shit I did with my friends when we first discovered arma 2.
@@OperatorDrewski i can attest to this in arma 2, hence the nickname Bush Wookie lol.
@@OperatorDrewski Blast form the past. Man, Drew, I wish you could have played Hostile Intent 1.6 :)
Makes me think even further back to playing Syphon Filter the same way.
lmao, the excitement hunting for your friend in ghillie suits, not knowing whether you're being watched or not is fun, everytime you certain that you see someone always sends you in glee, you would fucking giggle and they would ask "are you looking at my beautiful ass? you are, aren't you?"
The permadeath of Operators was my favorite part. Watching them get all kinds of awards after each mission just to have them die and get replaced with an FNG was always sad.
I installed a mod where someone put Rambo as a Specialist, and my base game campaign ended with my Rambo operator having almost the same medals mentioned in Rambo First Blood Part II. Two silver stars, four bronze, Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor. Only didn’t have the Purple Hearts as I didn’t get shot. It was neat to see.
Remember the sad trumpet music that would play when a squadmate died?
@@gameragodzilla Not to mention, the Ghosts are Army Special Forces/Green Berets like Rambo himself.
@@karliskokorevics6902 Yeah. So honestly, this is now the best "Rambo" game. I do miss how moddable older games were. I also modded the SPAS-12 into the game as I own that gun IRL and love shooting it. So I put it in the game to enjoy shooting virtually, too.
@@gameragodzilla you be sure to baby tf outta that spas for us alright?
The true Ghost Recon. Extremely tactical for it's time and had a nice and simple story line. But it still felt like you was doing important things the outside world didn’t know about. And as you could see it was very hard.
The only Ghost Recon :D
@@SiCDisaster GRAW 1 and 2 tho
@@LordVader1094 as far as I'm concerned no Ghost Recon title past Island Thunder is worth playing. For Rainbow Six any title past Raven Shield is equally abominable.
@@SiCDisaster oh my god just go get a flip phone and cargo shorts while you’re at it, hipster. Rainbow six Vegas 2 is very obviously the best one and graw was an equally fantastic games. God people like you are so annoying.
100 % agree with you, sad to see what Ghost Recon became. we need a remastered of the OG Ghost Recon and it's two expansion packs
"They should be entirely different franchises"
Exactly. Loved the old Ghost Recon. The new ones are too action oriented to cater the mass market.
In fact me and my usual mates, we like to call "Ghost Recon" the games up to Advanced Warfighter, and just "Wildlands" or "Breakpoint" for the new ones.
We still tend to gravitate back to GRAW though
@@Kid574 Thoughts of Future Soldier?
@@memecliparchives2254 Didn't like the 3rd person view but the game was alright but for me still fell behind GRAW/GRAW2
@@Kid574 Graw/Graw 2 specifically on PC is much more like the first Ghost Recon... I really enjoy that.
@@Legion12Centurion , yes, the PC versions of GRAW and GRAW2 actually tried to be an evolution of GR01. All of the other games have tried to turn GR into COD, Just Cause, or another game. Thanks, Grin Studios, for respecting the "Ghost Recon" and "Tom Clancy" names more than Ubisoft ever did outside of RS3.
Ghost Recon should do some huge revaluation and visit their old games on what to do with this series. No battle royale, no pointless open world gimmick. Maybe a reboot of the series with the original Ghost Recon as a blueprint. Not a carbon copy but with huge inspiration. A tactical gritty realistic GR experience with friends
And no fkn metal face masks and cloaks
it's almost impossible. if they do anything even remotely based on the real world it's too political for someone and the game play is too slow for a mass market game. also ubi is more interested in NFTs than making good games.
Ubisoft should release either a remastered version of GR 2001 or a Ghost Recon : Origins game with nothing but 2001 technology and weapons- charting out how the GR started
We need another studio to take on the old Ghost Recon formula, like what is happening for SWAT with ready on not
It won't happen, we need an indie developer to make us a new game.
Im so glad there are players who are still talking about this gem. Fun fact, there is an entire community that still plays to this day, we host almost every day in fact!
We surely are
Can I play with y’all lol
Wanna play?@@redditmanllegnisthebirdofh9887
when?
The original Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game (the one from 98’) is also great and was ahead of it’s time. I remember playing it as a kid. I remember my first exposure to flashbangs was through that game, I not knowing what a flashbang was threw one at the front door of the first mission and expected it to blow up the door and instead I got blinded and as I began to regain my vision a enemy with a shotgun opened the door and killed me and I screeched so loud. Those were fun times 😂
And Rainbow Six: 3 and Rainbow Six: 3 Black Arrow.
Sort of lost to time now, but some of the hardest hitting mp and terrorist hunt gameplay ever.
Ding Chavez goes first and he cannot die!
@@charlesshamseldin9555 Rainbow 6: 3 was GOATED I remember the penthouse mission was a nightmare when I was a little kid. Right up there next to Ghost Recon 2001
@@yeetus59 yessssssss agreed 100%
I found the n64 version of Rainbow six 1 a few years ago at a used game store for 10$
This is still my favorite Ghost Recon game.
It’s as hardcore as classic Rainbow Six, but since I can quicksave, it’s much easier to learn as when I inevitably die, I only have to redo the last few seconds rather than the whole mission.
Also, there is a mod that lets you show your gun model, but it is a bit finnicky.
EDIT: Also, small correction: The yellow part of the threat indicator isn’t friendlies, it’s pointing towards where enemies are if they’re not close by. When it turns red, it means enemies are close. It’s simply a way for you to know where enemies are, a gamified way of showing data from satellite imagery, through the wall sensors, motion trackers and the like.
I figured that it was from your hearing too.
I would love a modern game that kept the pacing and feel of these early Ghost Recon games. A modern Hidden & Dangerous game would be similarly awesome. I'd also love Rainbow Six to remember it's a tactical co-op game, not a fast TTK Overwatch spinoff... but Siege sold so well I have limited hopes for that franchise to return to its roots. Basically, if somebody programmed better AI and added missions/ scenarios in the Tarkov engine, that'd be a blast.
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The original Rainbow Six game is not co-op. Squad-ased and co-op are not the same.
If you haven't heard of it, Ready or Not is really good, it's basically SWAT 4 updated for tye 2020s
Ground Branch is the closest to caputring the feeling of GR and RS. Unfortunately, it's developing incredibly slowly and is lacking a lot (some of that, weather included, is coming in the next update.) Other than GB, Black One: Blood Brothers is another game that is clearly trying to be like the original GR and RS. It isn't as far along in some areas, but it is further along in other areas.
@@Go_Coup Oh, yeah, Ground Branch is one of my favorites. Really hyped for the next update!
Og GR, already know this will be epic.
Wish he did operation Flashpoint also.
Fun fact - There was a mod made for this game by the devs that recieved it's own standalone game called The Sum of All Fears. It released on PS2 and on PC and was essentially an anti-terrorism SWAT version of this game. Same engine, same graphics, same squad system, etc. Cool game.
this is one of my favorite games i have on steam......but i cant play most of the time. i also have a disk version of the original rainbow six that doesnt work except on my old ass laptop lol
SUM OF ALL FEARS is available on steam for a ridiculously cheap price for anyone who wants to try it out. not sure about rainbow six though....great book btw
Yeah but theres no blood in that game
@@soldierorsomething that's the weird part, ghost recon and rainbow six used to scare me as a kid because when you're hit you fall and bleed out instantly. but sum of all fears doesn't do that the same way
Omg ,thank you so much!!! I was trying to remember that game for years now, I had a demo of that a long time ago 🤝
Sum of all fears was dope. Movie book and game.
back in 01 it drove me nuts that you couldn't see your gun in Ghost Recon when you could in so many other FPS games at the time .
It feels more like a bug than a feature.
ok
@@chemicalcreations2022 , I strongly disagree. If I had to choose between the world looking better or having a gun take up a large chunk of my screen space, I would choose the world every time.
I still don't understand the reason for it, couldn't have been a technical limitation because many games of the era looked better, were bigger, and had first person models. They kept doing it up until GRAW2, after that it was strictly 3rd person with a bit of first person for using optics.
Kinda just feels like they didn't do it because they didn't want to.
@@The1337guy1 Graw1 atleast on pc had a weapon shown to.? Third person was only on Consoles up until future soldier. But Console and PC Version at that time were basiclly completly different games...
I highly recommend the Heroes Unleashed mod for anyone who wants a extreme challenge or even more content. The mod adds a load of quickplay missions, new hud options, weapons, etc. This vid was a nostalgia trip of fun times with friends. OG Xbox split screen versus matches, and coop campaign was both intense and fun!
Heroes unleashed is great. However after all these years the code/engine just shows its age. It’s 20 years old and really shows its age imo
@@prancer1803 Hardly a point against it. Old games are by and large better than new ones.
I loved this game and it's style. The long range shots you could achieve were so much fun. GR 2 was great also, the grenade launcher was insane 👍
@@Elatenl yeah it was a console exclusive IIRC
Ghost Recon 2 was slept on. Original Xbox version isn't super easy to find but you can. Haven't played that since I was probably like 7 lmao.
@@nousername2942 I was in college when that game was brand new. Thank you for making me feel even older than my knees make me feel 🤣
@@thebiggrab8558 Hey man at least you can actually remember the game. I was 5 when it came out lmao
GR 2 is the only game I have played enough to get into competitive multiplayer. So much fun.
The competitive clan scene on this game was huge! I had so much fun with this game. Classic! I still have the box set of this game, with the expansions.
I've still got my GR box for the Xbox! What a game.
I was still very young when I played this game, honestly I don't think I really knew "online" games as a standard until probably the days of Halo 3 and even then it was playing guest to my brother. I wish I was around for the clan days haha
OG Ghost Recon absolutely feels like a game that would benefit from the clans of online FPS communities though.
@@cyqry We had to use GameSpy to find servers and what not. Not sure if you remember game spy but it was like Steam, before Steam was a thing.
Ah good old gamespy. Back when you had to run the punkbuster application....that never seemed to bust any punks that were cheating!
I remember it being a pretty niche multiplayer game? For a while I did play in a clan.
Anyway, clearly it was an underrated multiplayer game because even here most people seem to be talking about the single player experience, while I mostly remember it for the multiplayer.
I loved this game back in the day. You'd die in a heartbeat. To prevent that you'd crouch in the woods forEVER just listening and watching.
And then your AI battle buddy would make you jump by saying "I'm right behind you" loudly in your ear.
Brings back so many memories man
I'm from India and sometime in 2004 I started with COD the original one and Ghost Recon. Though I couldn't/wasnt mature enough to understand much then, Ghost Recon has always been my favorite. I still play Wildlands and enjoy every minute of it.
We never are mature enough to understand the story of a game at that age, we just want to shoot things.
dude, you have no idea how much i'd appreciate a series of you going through all the old ghost recon and rainbow six games in chronological order! i know i played so many as a kid, i have no idea at this point which ones they were though. so that'd be an amazing throwback
This is so nostalgic, I remember having a demo version of this game, just one map, but as a kid I have played it over and over again. :)
I remember playing it on my grandpa's pc, me and my brother played this so much (together with tactical ops and cs) to the point my old gramps thought we were addicted and we would turn up violent. so he pleaded with my mom to stop me and my brother from playing it and tried to remove the game from his PC, although from him not being tech savvy he couldn't, so he would remove the shortcut.
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Mikee was an absolute gem in Insurgency haha. I loved some of the soundbytes that would only come out very so often like "So does that make me an ace or something?" or whatever it was. The colour he and others added made that game so fantastic.
The thing I liked about the game was that every enemy on the map had an active A.I. running all the time. They didn’t use triggers to activate enemies’ A.I. by area. That translated into gameplay that required stealth. If you went loud then before long you’d have every enemy on the map baring down on you from every direction.
It's always good to go back to older games. Nostalgic and refreshing
Nostalgic definitely, though I think the reason it feels so "refreshing" is because FPS have become a pretty standardized format at this point. Back before Halo and Modern Warfare became household names, the genre was filled with all different takes on how an FPS should play out. Some really bad takes, but also some absolute gems like Ghost Recon. I guess Milsims came from this type of gameplay (the more methodical approach to objectives and selective engagements) but I do wish more tried to use the squad mechanics we saw here.
@@cyqry I'll take most modern FPS over a lot of the older ones. Thank God games like Half Life were successful on PC so the controls for an FPS were established and easy to copy. Console FPS took years of weird and horrible iteration to finally settle on some good core ideas but at least Halo gave them something to reference.
Disagree,older games still play quite better then majority of new ones. For example FEAR 1 has better gameplay that 99 procent of FPS games that came after 2005.
@@vz7742 Woah right. FEAR 1 graphics and gameplay still hold up to this day ngl.
I remember constantly having to save scum and set up ambushes, because the AI was almost aimbot-level when it was hot. You either completely wiped them out in the first second, or risk taking a loss. That was an entire era of developers not knowing how to design AI to have any competency level other than a uniform level of Extreme difficulty.
But that's what made it fun, it forced you to take a slow and deliberate approach as opposed to running through crazy and blasting everyone away.
@@vigilantestylez Yes, but even back in the day it was BS to be zeroed by an enemy 500m away in prone on a hill in the first burst...
The AI is definitely the game's biggest weakness. It's incredibly unbalanced. The AI has absurdly good accuracy and spotting skills when static, yet has no sense of self preservation on the move.
we had a clan playing that game. the 4v4 last man standing was intense. and you could set up your own clan matches and tournaments.
did u played 1.0 or 1.4? i was leader on a international clan just 14 years old.
This definitely takes me back. Being over forty now makes me appreciate the glory days of gaming. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in gaming whether it’s VR or AR related to get people excited again.
i still play this game to this day! i still have it downloaded on my pc! thank you for bringing light to possibly one of my favorite games in all of gaming history. this is where everything started for me
Island thunder was my favorite up there with Brothers n arms and full spectrum warrior in that type of squad control games
A tactical classic. And generally just one of my favorite games. Thanks, Drew!
Serious nostalgia here lol. As far as these games go, the ghost recon series as well as the delta force series were my first FPS style games and absolutely loved them. some people made some seriously badass missions in the mission editors too
Delta Force Land warrior was amazing!
Yessss. Saw that Twitter post and I was just WAITING for the video. Love the OG Ghost Recon
This was the best. They need to bring this style of play back
Would love the series to get at least partially back to this style of gameplay and mission design. I recently bought the original game as I never played it as a teen, funnily enough it was purely because there was no gun on screen (loved Rainbow Six 3 though)
Would agree that Rainbow Six 3 was a great addition to that franchise. I still think Rogue Spear was my favourite at the time though.
Seeing this in 2024, Ghost Recon was such a nostalgic game for me back in my childhood. I played the original game (hadn't played the expansions until much later) back on the PS2 in 2010 when I was a bit on the younger side. I will always remember struggling in the Georgian Crossing level, but I had a blast playing it nonetheless.
It’s kinda sad to see what ubisoft has done to Tom Clancy games and what they have become especially ghost recon and rainbows six and every other ubisoft IP
My dad and I would play this game and the original splinter cell before he deployed the first time and these games were my only sense of structure as my parents were also getting divorced. This game and splinter cell are still my all time two favorite games. Thanks for showing this.
Ubisoft turned this series into a Destiny / Division style looter shooter with human versions of Halo's alien enemies (i.e. the wolves are just halo's elites lol)
This game defined my taste for shooters. For me, part of the appeal Hunt Showdown has (my favorite shooter today) is that it recreates the sense of danger I felt playing Ghost Recon with my brother years back.
Yoooo, I used to play this game coop non stop as a kid. So much fun and nostalgia, love the videos man.
6:24 The yellow is not friendlies, it is pointing to the bad guys afar. It helped a lot to find the last enemies on a map or to make sure that a section of the map was clear. And the central disk is red when an enemy is close, but it obviously do not indicate the direction.
This game predicted the 2008 Russo Georgian war down to a few months.
You also have to remember the quality of the monitors/TV was no where like it is today. Back then you would have the quality of a CRT and you can see the small dots where it would determine the colors. This made it harder to see the enemy and would mesh the textures together. In some cases gave you uncertainty in some situations in the game.
During multiplayer there were sniper vs sniper scenarios where you couldn't tell if there was an enemy in the dirt/tree/rock/pillow that was just out of visual range so you could barely see anything. You could not guess and take a shot at something you weren't sure of otherwise you would surely be shot by the opposing sniper. Todays R6 games are arcade compared to these older games. I mean go look at Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for instance, the trailer/intro is awesome.
This brings me BACK holy shit, I remember my dad had all these games, I think there was like three of them or something and he'd let me and my brother play them after school. Thanks for uploading this Drew, definitely will be letting my dad and brother know its multiplayer is supported by steam
best fps tactical game ever. I poured countless hours into setting up ambushes, using fire and maneuver, recce and observation, studying the AI behavior and reactions. Just so much fun holy shit
Dude I played all of these! I love them! Future soldier controls were weird
Yeah the controls were kinda weird but the animations were so good
Had Jungle Storm (Ps2 version) as a kid. One of my all time favorites. You knew you were screwed when the intense music came on
It's a huge shame Jungle Storm wasn't given a PC release, it had one of the best campaigns imo.
One of the best games ever! Played on PC way back when I was a youngin'. I thought it was the most difficult shooter ever at that time. I think this video might have encouraged me to play it again.
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@@wantedpwner o_O
@@cshe92 Pretty sure that's a bot that keeps spamming the same reply on a bunch of comments.
This and R6 Rogue Spear online we’re my favorites!!!
I cannot describe how much joy I got when I got the notification for this video. This game was my childhood.
Play some Ghost Recon 2. not the advance or future ones but the one released in like 2004. Its a 3rd person perspective shooter with pretty cool squad control. The Single Player campaign is a great game. It was the first game i played that was a tactical team base game.
No baseball caps
No sliding or grappling around
You die in 1 or 2 hits
People couldn't handle a game like this nowadays
What's wrong with baseball caps?
@@Nomaddrr if its not in Camo or green, it makes no sense.
“Back in my day” ahh comment
The amount of nostalgia i have with this can’t be put in words. This was my first major fps title outside halo and i played the hell out of it. I need this again
I miss this format of Ghost Recon and hate how generic its become.
This was one of the most immersive squad game I played and still remembers being pinned down by enemy fire.
Peak military aesthetic, peak era Tom Clancy games, peak review.
Played this game as a kid but did not understand anything about it. Picked it back up as an adult and could not put it down for like 2 months
The OG tactical shooter. This, alongwith Rainbow Six is what defined the Tactical Shooter/TacticalFPS genre. I remember how I was once visiting another city and stumbled upon a small CD/DVD store. I went in and bought a CD that had a compedium of the first 3 GR games in it. At that point I did not know what it was. But playing it was an experience in itself. To this day I absoloutely love it and refuse to believe anything beyond Ghost Recon: Phantoms is a Ghost Recon game.
Here's a recommendation, try the Ghost Recon: Heroes Unleashed MOD. It's even more hardcore than the vanilla game.
There needs to be a new ghost recon similar to this. Would be so cool
I remember when it released. wish game devs would go back and look at this and the original R6
The old Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games were amazing. What has happened to them since has resulted in me stopping buying almost any Ubisoft games.
There was an amazing mod called Operation Stabilise which brought this game to even greater heights for me.
My friends and I go back and play the original GR every few years, so fun to see you guys playing through it. Definitely a different game and a different era for shooters. GR is not what it used to be, hopefully it returns at some point.
So most of y’all probably already know this but, the closest thing I can get to this masterpiece in a modern take, is Arma 3 dynamic recon ops. So close..
You should see if you can get the PC version of Advanced Warfighter working from 2006. I a lot of people skipped over it for the console version, but the PC version was developed by a totally different studio and was more like the OG game than any other game after. I beat it in co-op with a friend and we went into it without expecting much and ended up feeling like the PC version was an underrated gem.
I'm not sure where you can even get it anymore or if it even works on windows 10, but it'd be worth seeing if you can do co-op. It would make for good content.
I miss this ghost recon so much
Man the sound of that rain is so nostalgic and relaxing...brought me back to those days replaying GR Island Thunder for days.
This game still holds up as an awesome experience in realism, and I would play this game over so many other games even today because of how god damned immersive it was.
I prefer this style, the storyline, music everything was good
Man I was obsessed with this game and the OG Rainbow Six trilogy back then - so good! So many great co-op memories with friends. Thanks for reminding people about this classic!
Another game that gets overlooked all the time is the Sum Of All Fears video game. It's in this same Ghost Recon engine/style and has more CQB and urban setting missions. Sort of like if they made an old R6 game in the old Ghost Recon style.
Are there still people who play this as a multiplayer team setup ? . I would honestly play it now if that's the case !!! . Single-player made you feel nervous /on edge as if you were actually there haha I loved it !!
I completed it a few months back again after so many years, Heroes Unleashed improves the game a lot. I still can't believe I had so much fun like in the old days. This, to me, is a timeless gem.
I remember playing this when it came out! My computer could only just run it, I'd have to do a fresh start up, and immediately clear the ram with a utility to even get it to launch
I love Ghost Recon, I still have the original CD. There are so many mods available and these can in turn be easily tuned. I clearly remember a mission map with 100 hidden snipers . Extremely hard until you started to remember their positions. Downsides were that silenced weapons meant nothing, AI would just come towards your position regardless. AI would also sometimes not react to their comrade dying right next to them. Also, with multiple mods, you would usually have to modify config files because of the way weapon slots worked or you wouldn't see all the available guns. Oh, Minigun with each projectile having the same effect as tank shells anyone?
Original Ghost Recon was either the first or second game I ever played online (Xbox live). I still remember everyone doing matches on embassy and how you could lock down half the map simply by taking the embassy roof.
This is still the best ghost recon period
Grew up on the Ghost Recon games as well as the early Rainbow Six 3 games such as Raven Shield. Its nice to see these games revived a bit by you and show just how great they were for their time.
My earliest gaming memories are of this game. I remember my father being in a rather large teamspeak group planning out missions and what mods to introduce. There were players from all over the world in the group and it was my first time experiencing different cultures and languages. This expansion really strikes close because it was the one my father would spend the most time in. Its incredible the memories some games can hold in them. Thanks Drewski. Fantastic video it brought so much back.
Playing with the chopper minigun dude from insurgency 😂 love it waiting for the "And another one"
the ambient sound in this game is sublime
Bro yes. I played this for thousand of hours back in the day. Even messed around in the editor and made a gatling shotgun. So hard and the limb injuries were game changing.
And the medals and ranking system made dying actually matter.
Back when the Tom Clancy brand meant unforgiving and uncompromising tactical shooters
Ghost Recon (2001) is the game that got me into online PvP and LAN parties with close friends. Playing online multiplayer on this game was strategic and intense. Successive games since have been like playing arcade games such as COD franchise and the like.
wow I didnt know you can play coop still on steam. Lately i tried it my first time with some mods. Way better than most games now.
Always loved the original Rainbow 6 games too. The mission planning in that game is like nothing I have ever seen again. I remember playing Rainbow 6 and the Rouge Spear, and Athena Sword expansion packs. Decades later I read all the books and remembered all the names, especially Ding which is who you played as. Made me feel like I was reading recounts of the things I did in the game years later.
I was part of the tournament leagues back in the day on this. some of the Fondest Memories I have with people inside of Ventrilo, TeamSpeak playing for hours to learn call outs and tactics!
This my favorite tactical shooter. Used to play this almost everyday on the OG Xbox with my bro. This IP went down hill after GR2. The OG formula and DNA of this game was so good.
I remember trying to play this when I was about 6 or 7. It was super difficult because stealth and teamwork were concepts I didn't understand. Probably because all I knew was Lego Starwars, Pokémon, and Gran Turismo.
I still play this game every now and again. I used to Co-op it, but some of the best games were just myself controlling where to place my team. Was great tension and a slow burn at times, especially making sure every single one of my soldiers made it to the end.
man, this takes me back to my early gaming days with my friends
To this day, the wife still thinks the reason we NEEDED to upgrade from dial-up internet to broadband was totally for the kids' homework.
oh man, this was my JAM, this and rainbow six/ rogue spear is what got me into online gaming for the very first time, man what a different world/process is was back in those days, I barely remember it. I remember going to a website and having to click on some kind of circular icon for a lobby.
This was my childhood. The really open maps with various objectives combined with the really advanced for its time tactical gameplay was just too fun. Firefights were always quick but brutal.
I used to play this on my Windows XP PC as a kid (probably 10/11 years old back then).
This game was amazing. The atmosphere, the feeling of sneaking around. I loved it! I used to sneak around and really take my time to make sure the enemy didn't spot me. Good times....
the og ghost recon games mean so much to me, they still haunt my memories lol
I used to mess around making custom missions. I modded the SAW to fire like 10x as fast and it would lag the game because each individual bullet is simulated. Impressed me at the time
I got this game when I was in seventh grade because I was hyped for Wildlands. I started playing this and I must say, I seriously wasn’t expecting it to be that different from the newer stuff. Thankfully, I’m a quick learner and figured out that the trick to the game is to take it slow and be patient. Nowadays, I absolutely love tactical shooters
No one can cannibalise their franchises like Ubisoft. Everything good they had they either fucked up, forgot or tried to make accessible for EVERYONE which in turn... fucked those franchises up for older fans...
However, seeing how the AAA space is shaping up the past couple of years... I don't think I really want a AAA tactical shooter
The pvp mode is also awesome, because you can play two player against each other, and both player have like 2-3 small AI squads that you can command through the map, to det up ambushes and the like.
GRAW 1 and 2 on PC were actually very similar to Ghost Recon 2001. They were developed by entirely different studios for the console and PC versions, with the devs taking most of their inspiration for the PC version from the original.
I got this from a great friend years ago and I used to play multiplayer with my little bro. From dual stealth missions to personal grudge matches the game was a strange transition in gaming from old tank control run and gun games to adding new stealth elements based on visibility and sound. The only other games like that were stuff like Thief and Counter-Strike. The old Ghost Recon maps were fucking huge for the time and you really could disappear for hours and not see who you were playing with. And you had a split screen and the resolution was like 244p. Imagine shooting at ants.
Honestly this feels much closer to arma than modern ghost recon games