'Your squadmates will support you with crucial information and suppressing fire,' says A.I. You are an army of one, but you're not the only one. He and the other higher-ups aren't saying who's involved just yet (apparently, intel is on a need-to-know basis, and we don't need to know), but when world powers butt heads, it's the Ghosts who make sure it's not Uncle Sam's noggin that buckles from the blow. 'This time it's all-out war,' says Allen. But so far, the guys in green have been restricted to covert skirmishes with tin-pot generals and third-world guerrillas. Sure, Rainbows specialize in counterterrorism and hostage situations while Ghosts combine infantry tactics with cutting-edge military technology on the battlefield.

Until now, novelist Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon unit hasn't seemed all that different from his Rainbow Six squad.

'They break into fire teams, use their actual formations, positions, and assigned weapons to tackle the scenarios.' The sequel, set to deploy on Xbox this fall (and possibly assault PlayStation 2 sometime after), aims to immerse couch commandos in even more convincing combat. I've also had the privilege of playing cooperatively with Marines,' brags Designer Christian Allen, himself a former leatherneck. Army Special Forces soldier told me the game's tension and lethality blew him away. Ask the guys in cammies and combat boots Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon will make you a virtual veteran.

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