04/1/2006 Electronic Gaming Monthly 9.5 out of 10 95.0%
04/1/2006 Game Informer 9.5 out of 10 95.0%
04/1/2006 Official Xbox Magazine 9 out of 10 90.0%
GameSpy 5/5 100% *Editor's Choice Award
"few days ago, we brought you our initial impressions of the single-player component of Ubisoft's highly-anticipated Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Generally, we follow up our Out of the Box articles with a full review that touches on all aspects of the game, but I'm going to be doing things a bit differently this time around. You see, while most of the games that we review feature nearly equal amounts of single- and multiplayer content, Advanced Warfighter is a bit different. You'll probably be able to beat the highly enjoyable single-player campaign in 8 to 12 hours (depending on the difficulty setting), but it's likely that you'll never tire of playing the absolutely addicting multiplayer mode."
03/7/2006 IGN 9.2/10 92% *Editor's Choice Award
"March 7, 2006 - Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has been a long time coming. The game showed poorly at X05 last October, missed the November 2005 launch, then finally re-appeared in February for a March 2006 launch. Since then, we've had ample time to play and beat it in every imaginable mode, a rarity in the business, so that its launch is almost an afterthought. Having spent the last weekend playing it non-stop again, I've reached many of the same conclusions I arrived at before and a few new ones. GRAW, as we've come to call it, is a first-rate game, one that not only looks next gen, but plays like it."
GameSpot 9.2/10 *Editor's Choice Award
When Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was first announced for the Xbox 360, it looked like a pretty ambitious project. Ubisoft was asking a lot out of the engine to have the game set entirely within a sprawling metropolis, complete with advanced lighting and particle effects, as well as lots of picture-in-picture video screens on the heads-up display. The early video and screenshots looked fabulous, so it was disappointing when the game didn't quite make the release of the system late last year. The wait was definitely worth it, though, as Advanced Warfighter isn't just the best-looking game on the Xbox 360, but also, arguably, the best game in the series.
Games Radar 10/10 100%
You're pinned down, crouched low behind a car while bullets play a tinny percussion on the mangled remnants of the car's bumper. One of your men screams a cry of pain into your headset as he drops to the ground writhing. The dusty, sun-drenched pavement of Mexico City begins to look more and more like the most likely site for your headstone - but as long as there is one ounce of fight left in you, you must reach your objective and pull your men the hell out of here.
Team Xbox 9.3/10 *Editor's Choice Award
Originally scheduled as an Xbox 360 launch title, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) was pushed back twice in order to ensure the game was up to par and not rushed to meet the November console launch date. Having had a chance to play the game a few months back it was evident that Ubisoft had made a wise decision in doing so. The game in its final form is a finely polished realization of what the Ghost Recon franchise is all about, as well as a good indication that developers have only began to touch the potential of what the Xbox 360 is capable of. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter serves up a hefty helping of tactical combat in a variety of interesting and complex environments that every living, breathing shooter fan definitely must experience.
1up.com 9.0/10 Outstanding
When the shine started wearing off those first couple of must-have 360 games (and let's be real -- for launch-day adopters, that was at least a month ago), Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter took center stage as the next big thing. That hardly came as a surprise; after all, it was originally slated as a launch-day release, and then there was that amazing target video shown off at X05. Those are big shoes to fill, and 360 owners can breathe a big sigh of relief, because GRAW delivers not only on its own promise, but also on the promise of next-generation gaming itself.
09/20/2004 Gamespot Hands-on preview
"The original Ghost Recon for the Xbox and the SOCOM games for the PlayStation 2 have proven that there's a huge audience for tactical-based multiplayer shooters on consoles, and Ghost Recon 2 is aiming to raise the bar even higher."
"…there's much to look forward to as we approach the game's November 25th release date."
08/06/2004 1UP Preview
"…we see potential for it to hit more of a mainstream audience than the original Ghost Recon…"
07/08/2004 Team Xbox Preview
"Ghost Recon 2 will be THE not-to-miss third-person action title of the holiday season"
05/16/2004 Total videogames
"… the main innovation stems from an all-new camera system that switches the view from the traditional first-person to just over-the-shoulder, allowing players to view your character and weapon from an advantaged position."
