Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Will Hit Shelves in Early October

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - August 21, 2002 - Ubi Soft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™ mission pack will hit store shelves in early October. In the tradition of its predecessor, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™--which won Game of the Year from PC Gamer and IGN PC and was the only DOUBLE PC Game of the Year Winner for 2001--Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder is expected to blow PC gamers away with its realistic battlefield action.

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder was developed by Ubi Soft's Red Storm Entertainment, the studio that raised the standard for realism in games with the introduction of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six™ series. It is the latest addition to the Tom Clancy franchise which is expected to lead the holiday sales charts with the introduction of three widely anticipated new games: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™ for Xbox™ and GameCube™, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell™ for Xbox and PC, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3™: Raven Shield™.

Title: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™
Genre: First-person shooter; tactical squad-based combat
Platform: PC CD-ROM
Ship Date: late Sept. 2002
MSRP: $19.99

Story:

Cuba, 2009: Castro is dead, and the first free elections in decades are thrown into turmoil by a drug-funded warlord. The Ghosts, an elite team of U.S. Army Green Berets, are sent to Cuba as part of a UN peacekeeping force to destroy the rebel forces and their mercenary leaders and secure the elections for a free Cuba.

Game Details:

8 new single-player missions in an all-new campaign set across the island of Cuba.

5 new dedicated multiplayer maps.

12 new multiplayer weapons, including the M4 SOCOM rifle and the MM-1 automatic grenade launcher.

2 new multiplayer game types.

New Cuban enemy vehicles, new allied vehicles and insertions by helicopter - Ghost Recon takes the next step in battlefield realism with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™.

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