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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 fans, you’ve got it bad. You need more GRAW content. We’ve seen you. Checking your cover at every corner on the way to the shops, laying down covering fire for your wife as she fetches the morning paper, it’s sick. You need to stop. You need to get back into playing GRAW. A new DLC pack, just released, may help with this, as it adds a whole new co-op campaign to GRAW 2, taking place over nine maps (two new, seven recycled from earlier Ghost Recon games). Each will also be available for adversarial play, and the whole deal will set you back a quite-reasonable 800 MS points. A free weapons pack, consisting of seven new guns for the game, should also be turning up soon as well. Die-hard fans can revel in the press release after the click, if they so desire.
I really love the concept of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 throwback packs, which take classic maps from old Ghost Recon titles and port them for use in GRAW2. The second of said packs is now available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace for the low, low price of free. The pack not only contains seven classic GR maps for use in multiplayer, but also comes with a whole new game mode. Co-op Exfiltration is a co-op game mode that challenges your squad to protect AI officers as they try to reach a helicopter extraction zone. Did I mention it was free? Hit the jump for details on all seven maps included in this lovely little slice of free DLC.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 hit the 360 back in March to strong praise, and now five months later it’s set to hit the PlayStation 3 next week, complete with exclusive maps and weapons. We got a chance to chat with Olivier Didelot from Ubisoft Paris, the Lead AI Engineer on GRAW2 about the difference and challenges involved with developing a game simultaneously across the two different platforms.
Olivier, can you tell us how the development was handled between the PS3 & X360 versions?
Just after the original GRAW on X360 was released, the team began to work on GRAW2, simultaneously on the PS3 & X360 versions.
As the game engine (in-house YETI) was primarily built, in GRAW for the X360, the engineer team had a lot of work to do, to gain the same level of mastering on the PS3 hardware. Just as they did on X360 for GRAW1 before.
Since then, both teams have been working simultaneously on their versions, whether it’s UBISOFT Paris & Red storm on the X360, or UBISOFT Paris & Shanghai on the PS3.
This week’s PlayStation Store update should be going live right around…. now. It’s a rather solid week, containing the expansion to the previously released Blast Factor known as Blast Factor: Advanced Research. That’s a $US4.99 download. On the free side, demos for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and The Darkness are also available. But that’s not all!
PlayStation Store’s passive side features trailers for Michael Clayton, Get Smart and The Game Plan. That’s twice The Rock!
A Resident Evil 5 wallpaper has also been added as has a cheaper Super Rub-A-Dub. The duck steering game has dropped from $US6.99 to $US2.99 as of today.
Each new addition should take you no more than a few hours to download, now that the PlayStation Store data centre has added a second modem.
