Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online is Free to Play in Open Beta

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online

In case you were not aware, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online by Ubisoft is currently Free to Play for PC. The game is in Open Beta, and can be downloaded here. The actual download is 2.75 GB.

http://ghost-recon.ubi.com/ghost-recon-online/en-US/community-news/index.aspx?c=tcm:19-74097-16&ct=tcm:6-231-32

As stated on the official website: “Ghost Recon Online (GRO) is the next-generation of PC multiplayer shooters. Step into the boots of an elite Ghost and deploy cutting-edge weapons and technology as you link up with your Ghost squad to dominate your enemies on tomorrow’s battlefield. As a Free to Play game, you will be able to download and experience core content without paying a single cent. Read on to find out more.”

Three Classes in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online

There are three classes with special abilities:

1. The Assault soldier uses devices that take time to deploy that get used until they are fully discharged or manually deactivated. Assault devices include the HEAT device which disrupts the enemy with painful microwaves and the BLITZ device which allows the soldier to charge the front lines with a bulletproof shield.
2. Recon devices recharge slowly, but can be switched on and off at will, so long as they have some stored energy to power them. Recon devices include the ORACLE system that hacks enemy intelligence to reveal battlefield positions and the CLOAK device which renders the ghost temporarily invisible to enemies.
3. The Specialist uses devices that can be charged up in order to increase their effectiveness... however, if overcharged these devices may overheat and cause injury to the user. Specialist devices include the BLACKOUT device which disrupts nearby enemy electronics and the AEGIS device with deploys a protective laser-burst plasma field.

I am excited to see what the gameplay is like in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online.

Check it out for yourself.


Keyboard Controls below:

Keyboard Controls for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online

Ghost Hunters Are Lame: Every Show is the Same

Have you ever watched the SyFy channel? If so, then you may be familiar with ads for the following shows:

Ghost Hunters
Ghost Hunters Academy
Ghost Hunters International
Haunted Collector

Now, SyFy must really have a fascination with the paranormal and ghosts, or their audience really does. I'm betting it is the audience, since SyFy bases their programming on ratings of shows. Seriously, this channel is all about ghosts. These shows seem to have been sparked on the heels of MTV's show, Fear, which aired from 2000-2002.

The sad thing is: Every commercial for the Ghost Hunters shows look the same. Two or three people huddled together, filmed in night vision. One person will say, "Did you hear that?" and then someone will act as if they were surprised by a ghost.

Do you actually think anyone will watch these shows if they went into a "haunted" building, and came out empty-handed? The answer is no. But yet, every episode they find their ghost. Sounds like it is rigged, and staged.

Now do I believe there are occult things out there and haunted places. But, I also know that I do not want to go to those places and mess around with things that are evil. Haunted Collector even frames its episodes around "haunted" objects. Keep that stuff away from me!

I grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries, and each episode seemed to have similar type segments of ghost hauntings, demon posessions, and so forth.

Oh, and by the way, I won't be getting the Haunted House Finder App either. Lame!

And don't get me started on Crossing Over with John Edwards (1999-2004). He is dealing with evil, every time he "speaks" with family members that are dead.

I will depart now and go eat at the Chinese Buffet, conveniently located next to the psychic/palm reader.

Interesting Follow-up read for Christians: Do you Believe in Ghosts?