Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Island Thunder™

The last installment for the original Ghost Recon game, this expansion is the pinacle of the game. The AI is even more responsive and their movement makes for many surprises throughout probably making this the toughest the game gets, which is already at a do-or-die. The jungle settings are also quite interesting and allow for lots of cover for both your squads but also for the enemy. As always, approaching the...

99 found this helpful, 2015-05-07

Yet another expansion to the Ghost Recon original game is again...always appreciated. Even after playing through around 30 missions in the series, I never once felt bored. This is a testament to the freshness of each of the levels that were designed. This final expansion does away with almost all the qualms I had from the previous two game. The length of the game was fantastic, the pathing does mess up sometimes, and...

9 found this helpful, 2024-09-04

I wanted to like Island Thunder; I really enjoyed the original game and Desert Siege, and this second expansion pack's missions feature some great maps, environments and atmosphere. But the increased difficulty throughout is infuriating, even on the Recruit (Easy) setting and even in the expansion's early missions. Ghost Recon's always had unnaturally accurate AI--but it was forgivable in the original and the first...

41 found this helpful, 2016-06-06

I've never played a game that takes place in Cuba, the only one I can think of was that one mission from Black Op's 1. While it fails to feel totally authentic to the landscape of Cuba it was an interesting locale at least to explore. Still your gunna need mods again like the base game to make this an enjoyable experience.

9 found this helpful, 2025-09-28

Really fun back in the day. Now it looks really bad due to the bad graphics, but still a good game, brings back good memories.

73 found this helpful, 2014-01-16