Mitchell manages to escape aboard Black Hawk 9 with the aid of a Mexican soldier, before providing air support for the American salvage convoy sent to recover Black Hawk 5. Barely escaping the immediate warzone via Humvee, the vehicle is hunted down and destroyed by a rebel Havoc helicopter, killing the driver, PFC Provenanzo, and incapacitating Mitchell's team members. With all other assets devoted to protecting the reporter, Mitchell and his squad link up with Black Hawk 5 in front of a local church for evacuation.ĭisaster strikes when Black Hawk 5 is crippled by enemy RPG fire and brought down, and the Ghosts, now cut off from rescue, are forced to defend themselves against a group of heavily-armed and highly-trained mercenaries assisting the rebels.
Working with Jimenez's most elite troopers, the Ghosts destroy a series of anti-aircraft batteries and hold off a devastating rebel counterattack, enabling the journalist to be extracted safely, and the information she holds preserved. After linking back up with Jimenez and his soldiers, intelligence arrives suggesting that a local journalist with inside access to the rebel leadership knows the location of the remaining two nukes, and is willing to come forward and assist the Americans. Realizing that the market held one of the missing Red Star IV's and containment was lost, Keating orders a retreat. As the Mexican troops advance to secure the marketplace, however, an underground explosion rips through the district, killing the loyalist vanguard and flooding the area with deadly radiation. Aided by Mexican armored vehicles and American fighters, the Ghosts and their allies clear out much of the rebel presence from the city, neutralizing several checkpoints before crushing a rebel stronghold in the local marketplace. With the WMD threat confirmed, the Ghosts travel to Ciudad Juárez to search for the nukes, and link up with loyalist Mexican Army troopers led by Colonel Jimenez. Combined with several medium-range, Pakistani-built Kashmira-II missiles stolen from cargo ships in the Canal, the rebels now possess the ability to destroy any major city in the United States. The Ghosts also learn that de la Barrera has obtained old Ukrainian Red Star IV nuclear warheads. Shortly thereafter, Captain Scott Mitchell aids an aerial attack against a rebel supply base from Black Hawk 5, annihilating two enemy weapons convoys in the process. Immediately after arriving in Mexico, the Ghosts are put to work destroying a sizable rebel position guarded by two large artillery pieces, enabling additional American forces to reach the main battle-zone. The Ghosts are sent to Mexico by General Joshua Keating to investigate claims that the rebels are in possession of a dirty bomb, as well as prevent the rebellion from directly assaulting US soil.
Despite the death of Carlos Ontiveros, the insurgency has continued under the leadership of Juan de la Barrera, even spreading into other Latin American states, including Colombia, Honduras and Panama where rebel forces have effectively shut down the Panama Canal. The game begins in Ciudad Juárez just after General Ontiveros' rebellion, where Mexican rebel activity has caused civil unrest throughout Mexico.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Another problem is that if a target is marked for sniping/focused firing, a lot of the time, something will be in-between the squad mate and the target and he/she will not maneuver so he/she can shoot the target rendering the ability to mark targets almost useless. Unfortunately, squad and support AIs have problems with aiming and take an unnecessary amount of firing before they actually kill an enemy. "behind the red car", or "under the green roof"). Units will actively seek cover and descriptively call out targets (e.g. is improved, with less problems occurring than in the last Advanced Warfighter. This makes the direction of friendly units much more accurate and effective.
One significant change is the addition of the improved CROSS-COM system, a battlefield information interlink between all friendly units, that now allows a full screen view of what any unit is seeing. The gameplay is similar to the first Advanced Warfighter, although some new features have been added to improve gameplay.