Ghost Recon's smoking file teases us
by Xav de Matos 
{ Mar 27th 2008 at 11:00PM }
One of our eagle-eyed readers tipped us off to an interesting development on the official Ghost Recon site. Users are treated to a large smoking file flash overlay when the site is loaded up. It appears that some information still marks the burning folder but as it stands the entire thing is a mystery. With the recent release of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, the ownership agreement with Tom Clancy and the continued domination of Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Xbox Live (proving gamers want more than just Halo 3) is it possible this new smoking file could contain a gun? A gun called Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 3?
[Thanks, Jbarnum]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Stewart Bananas @ Mar 27th 2008 11:09PM
Or maybe it's another one of those End War things. Or possibly something to do with another Clancy franchise like Splinter Cell...
Arcaynn @ Mar 28th 2008 12:19AM
Viral Marketing like this tops the iPhone on my list of most annoying inventions ever.
Xav de Matos @ Mar 28th 2008 12:22AM
@Arcaynn: Bothers me because it takes over the entire site with no easy way to close the file down.
Deck @ Mar 28th 2008 12:36AM
@Xav: Yea same here. There is always like a little tiny transparent "X" in one corner of the screen. Can never tell where it is though because of the damn thing on the screen!
erivera3 @ Mar 28th 2008 3:34AM
halo 3 is the most complete game ever made
Teabag @ Mar 28th 2008 6:26AM
I like the animation. Especially considering it's Flash. Not that i know anything about Flash and what it can do. Still..it's pretty!
Khayrhalt @ Mar 28th 2008 6:39AM
Have you seen the little "42" (tha universal answer), right of the file ? Mmmm... Seems like a private joke inside, for me :D
Neuromancer @ Mar 28th 2008 7:45AM
"halo 3 is the most complete game ever made"
Most completely asinine game that is
GRAW1 & 2 > COD4
mcwattersm @ Mar 28th 2008 8:38AM
Guys there is a way to close the file on the top right of the file. Its pretty far away, but its there.
GhostDoggy @ Mar 28th 2008 8:48AM
Its probably something more along the lines of Army of One-Half considering the rate of multiless player evolution in the Ubicamp.
Maichy @ Mar 28th 2008 10:49AM
Looks like an aeroplane Black Box to me :/
miniboss @ Mar 28th 2008 11:30AM
GR has to go old school again. The GRAW games have to much crap on the screen. Maybe, I'm old but the old school GR on the PC played around 2001 with the desert and jungle expansions, and a ton of a free mods (maps, weapons, outifts) was the shiz nite. The community was pretty close given most of us were on 56k. Even the single player campaign was more indepth with team stragegy realism, then the games now. GRAW now is more of a novelty, COD4 360 is holdin it downnow. NEW MAPS APRIL 3rd $$
Xanto @ Mar 28th 2008 1:34PM
Maybe it's just me but if you click accept, another screen comes up with an estimated decryption time, at the the time of this post it says 118:42:and some seconds, maybe a countdown?
Xanto @ Mar 28th 2008 1:39PM
This is what I'm talking about, it's circled in red
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b239/Xanny/smokingfile.png
HD58 @ Mar 28th 2008 2:32PM
Yea, check the site out now, you can click accept, then it loads some screen where it scans some European countries. It also has a video you can play. Looks like a new GRAW to me.