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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

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93 9 March 2006

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a shooter developed by Darkworks, released 9 March 2006 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

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What Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a shooter game developed by Darkworks and released in 2006. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on YETI.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a 2006 tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. As in previous Ghost Recon games, players command their team while neutralizing hostile forces and completing various mission objectives. These objectives can range from escorting friendly units across the map to rescuing hostages or taking out enemy artillery.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is the 33rd of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials in 2006. Its critic score of 93 is 23 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Players rate it 80, 13 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter launched on 9 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.

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When did Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter come out?
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was released on 9 March 2006 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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