Ghost Recon: Island Thunder - Angel Rage for ArmA 2

About this video: Lightspeed~SPARTA~ has worked relentlessly to convert the missions from the classic Tactical Shooter "Ghost Recon: Island Thunder" so that they can be played using ArmA 2.

I enjoyed the missions so much that I thought they deserved to be presented here in high definition video. To facilitate this, we added a "cameraman" to the mission, operated by yours truly. The free-roaming camera allowed me to capture footage from angles that would simply not be possible from the perspective of a single soldier, and the camera eliminates all HUD elements (with the exception of status messages) to provide a nice, clean picture.

All footage you see here was recorded live as it was played by members of the Legion of Sparta and their guests; communications were facilitated and recorded via TeamSpeak.

This is footage from Mission #2, "Angel Rage".

** EDIT ** Like any user-made map/mod, there are occasional bugs. In this case, the trigger to send in a helo for extraction failed to work for some unknown reason. The guys went to the the right place, but no ride ever came. So I had to make a decision: have a boring ending with a screen that just said "mission complete", or a more "dramatic" ending like the one you see at the end. I thought a "sad" ending fit the mood created by the rain and fog.

Good job to everyone that participated, and I hope you enjoy watching this presentation.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• arma
• ghost recon
• island thunder
• jaguar maze
• sparta
• legion of sparta
• fatal papercut
• fatal_papercut

[M1NIONM4N]

Good video, do you guys use ace?

[dcalpha007]

@M1NIONM4N Legion of Sparta definitely uses ACE on a regular basis. However, if I recall correctly, we did not use ACE for this series of videos (the Ghost Recon conversions) because the mission designer, Lightspeed, wanted to make sure the missions ran well with "vanilla" Arma, so that's what we used for these videos.

[DannyDaBaddy]

can i download the map anywhere ? :D

[dcalpha007]

@DannyDaBaddy You can indeed. I don;t know if these are the most up-to-date version, which is 1.2. Just a few bug fixes.

YouTube won't let me paste a link, so do a search on Armaholic for "Ghost Recon Island Thunder". The author is Lightspeed.

[Mookae5]

Awesome vid. But what exactly happened to those two, anyways?

[dcalpha007]

@Mookae5 LOL, I'm glad you asked, I really need to add this to the description. So...

Like any user-made map/mod, there are occasional bugs. In this case, the trigger to send in a helo for extraction failed to work for some unknown reason. The guys went to the the right place, but no ride ever came. So I had to make a decision: boring ending with a screen that just said "mission complete", or a more "dramatic" ending like I used. I thought "sad" ending fit the mood created by the rain and fog.

[musicman216]

Nice video. Really enjoyed it.

[OperatorC]

Playing these missions in single-player with the AI is difficult. Playing it co-op looks like the way to go, and with you guys it looks like it would be amazing.

[zackhanscom]

oh no, no explosions going off every 5 seconds and soldier stereotypes...the cod retards with tiny attention spans won't like this at all.

[vermanshane]

I love this Campaign, thank you very much for all the hard work!

[dale0404]

First time I have seen this surprisingly, damn fine piece of filmwork there and not forgetting the teamwork.

[DannyDaBaddy]

@dcalpha007 cheers mate ! :D