Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege

East Africa, 2009. A 60-year conflict boils over as Ethiopia invades its smaller neighbor Eritrea, threatening the world's most vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea. An elite team of U.S. Army Green Berets…

85 27 March 2002

Shooter Simulator Strategy Tactical Action Warfare

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege is a shooter developed by Red Storm Entertainment, released 27 March 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege is

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege is a shooter game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege is a 2002 expansion pack for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubi Soft for Microsoft Windows. It is also an unlockable campaign in the PlayStation 2 version of Ghost Recon. Set in the Horn of Africa one year after the events of the base game, Desert Siege follows the "Ghosts", an elite special forces unit of the United States Army, as they intervene in a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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How it plays

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

How it was received

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium® II 450 MHz, AMD K6 III 500, or equivalent and 16 MB DirectX® 8.0-compliant 3D card; Voodoo™ cards not supported.

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What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege launched on 27 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Cheats and codes

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Screenshots

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Parents

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

13 November 2001

Quick answers

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege — frequently asked questions

When did Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege come out?

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege was released on 27 March 2002 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege?

At minimum, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege needs Pentium® II 450 MHz, AMD K6 III 500, or equivalent, 16 MB DirectX® 8.0-compliant 3D card; Voodoo™ cards not supported graphics.

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