Manual

Good manual, lots of details. Frankly I didn't even bother reading it, I just threw the quick ref on my keyboard, ran the training missions once and went for it. No problems.

Bug Report

While playing I've experienced some rather annoying drop to desktops, and one lockup. The drop to desktop bug is particularly annoying as it happens to me at least a few times a night, generally when I'm playing online. On my graphic anomaly list is the fact that my smoke is green for some reason, which just plain looks strange. I've also noticed a few wierd clipping errors. Dead bodies will fall through the ground, leaving a shadow behind. I've also had a few enemy soldiers go prone and push most of their bodies through walls, leaving only a gun sticking out.

My install screens were also messed up for some reason, might just be my video drivers. Quite a few people on the forums are bitching about problems and bugs, but those are the two I've run into thus far.

Conclusions

Well, there are a few things about this game that make me want to march right down to Red Storm's HQ and give the dev team a good beating with my vendor appreciation bat (TM) the overall creamy goodness of the game has restrained my hand and the good points of this game definitely outweigh the bad.

If there's only a few things annoying about a newly released game, the dev team is running a pretty good average.. Considering the shape that so much of the software coming out there days is in when it ships. I'm having one hell of a good time in Ghost Recon both in the single player campaign and in multiplayer. It certainly won't be a game for everyone, but with the new arcade and respawn modes it should appeal to a wide audience than the previous Red Storm games, and tactical shooters in general have. (And no, I don't class Counter Strike as a tactical shooter.) Good story line, great graphics, sweet guns, and the fact that it's generally just a fun game to play should keep this one in your drive for a bit.