Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm

The Ghost Recon series has been a multiplayer smash on pretty much every available console. Now, the series is coming to the N-Gage, in the form of a tactical FPS with Bluetooth support for up to eight players.  I recently got a chance to sit down and play it, and the gameplay was shaping up pretty nicely.

For those who are unfamiliar with the series, Ghost Recon is a tactical shooter where you must lead a team of operatives through missions in which you must rescue hostages and eliminate the terrorist threat.  You can issue commands to your team and exercise a fair amount of strategy in order to complete the game’s all-new missions.

The N-Gage version does a fine job of mirroring the console incarnations, albeit in First Person Shooter form.  Controlling your soldier was actually quite easy on the N-Gage, using the D-Pad for looking and the number buttons more movement and strafing.  Issuing orders to the team was also pretty easy, and they react quickly and intelligently.

The coolest feature in the N-Gage Ghost Recon was the Bluetooth wireless support.  Up to eight players can play a variety of different gameplay modes, like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Survival, Domination and a co-op team play against the game’s AI.

The graphics were quite good.  The weapon models have a good amount of detail and looked nice, and the environments (set in Colombia) looked pretty good.  The game had an overall look similar to Red Faction on the N-Gage.

Ghost Recon lands this August.

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