The gaming industry is working with a unique vortex of creativity. Born from a variety of concepts and ideas of many people involved in it, most games are able to produce a unified experience. No wonder so many big names who worked behind the scenes, from "mere" sound engineer and stage designers to those who have a greater responsibility as director and producer became a star in the eyes of gamers. But, you know, there is a character who is so famous in the gaming world, but he himself was not a part of it? In fact, it is doubtful he could ever play the game or even before. So, why gamers respect him? Two words: the fabric of the story.

Gamers who never knew where the big games, like Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, or Rainbow Six? Game-themed action game is always the theme war is full with magnificent atmosphere as well as suspenseful. Said plot which tells great conspiracies, politics, betrayal, weapons of mass destruction, and the future of military technology is indeed a plot of ground suitable for a video game. So, what unites all these big franchise? One major figure on the back: Tom Clancy.

History lunge Tom Clancy's phenomenal start in 1984, when his first novel The Hunt for Red October was released. Novel, which tells about the defection of one of Russia's nuclear submarine crew is presenting a fascinating plot of the cold war. Even the President of the United States at the time, Ronald Reagan, praised the book publicly. Immediate praise from the highest authority of this then makes the popularity of The Hunt for Red October skyrocketed, making it as the New York Times best-seller at the time. For the gaming world, this is the beginning of everything. Fantastic story and exceptional detail that Clancy presented in this book make it ogled by Oxford Digital Enterprises, Ltd. which makes versions of the game for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and IBM PC in 1987. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy became the first story is adapted into the game.

The Hunt for Red October is the beginning of a history. Dozens of books are born from cold hands Clancy thereafter, including Rainbow Six, managed to reach the level of sales excellence. No wonder indeed if many people who see Tom Clancy's fictional world as the author of the best military in the world has ever seen. One main point that makes his work loved Tom Clancy is the ability to bring the detail is so real that all the scenarios that might happen in the real world. World military openly admiring Clancy. The President frequently invited him to eat, the admirals and generals to give access to information for the latest war equipment, boats, planes, even the technology that will be present in the future. No wonder the latest Clancy novel is not currently regarded as a mere fiction, but as information that is accurate enough to describe the United States military forces.

In 1996, Tom Clancy decided to expand its dominance. Together with his partner Doug Littlejohns, they built a game developer company - Red Storm Entertainment. The first game they release? Of course based on one of Clancy's novels, Politica. Red Storm Entertainment was established to focus on to video games and visualization of Tom Clancy novels. Remarkable success was achieved when the company is introducing to the world, for the first time, Rainbow Six in 1998. In contrast to FPS games in general, Rainbow Six is ​​not just a game that asks your character just advanced, firing weapons, and won. Rainbox Six is ​​the first FPS Tactical game, in which purely military tactics should be used to complete each mission there. Working closely with other team members, determining the exact position of the attack, thinking about an exit strategy, to hone skills for the "One shot, one kill" becomes part and parcel of this game. Rainbow Six versions of the game to achieve extraordinary success, like his novel.

Success achieved by Tom Clancy and Red Storm Entertainment company gets special attention from the gaming industry a much larger, Ubisoft. In 2000, Ubisoft decided to buy Red Storm Entertainment for U.S. $ 45 million. At that time, Tom Clancy has just completed work on the project's first Ghost Recon. FPS game that carries the gameplay is not much different from the Rainbow Six managed to achieve remarkable success, Ubisoft will make the trust companies is increasing. Combining small companies that are under shade, Ubisoft Red Storm set as a subsidiary company has one main purpose: to handle all the Tom Clancy franchise.

What then makes Tom Clancy so special that he deserves to be a VIP gaming? Developments after Ubisoft took over the Red Storm was the one that shows the position in the world of Tom Clancy games. If in the past most of the game that bears the name of Tom Clancy novels are always in touch with his rock, the name Tom Clancy is now transformed itself over the existence of literary works. Ubisoft used the name Tom Clancy in certain games such as Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy's HAWX not ever tell about the second plot of this game, but rather as a means of promotion. Borrowing the name of Clancy proved to be a powerful strategy to attract gamers are crazy with conspiracy theories and the scale of the great military world war. Splinter Cell and H.A.W.X tremendous success. In fact, the novel was born from the hands of different authors also appear to accompany those games.

Recommended System Requirements :

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7

Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 1.8 GHz/Athlon X2 64 @ 2.4 GHz

Memory: 1.5 GB for Windows XP; 2 GB for Windows Vista or 7

Hard Drive: 10 GB Free

Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS/ATI Radeon 4670)

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

DirectX: 9.0c or 10

Keyboard & Mouse

DVD Rom Drive

Note :

1). Unpack release

2). Mount image or burn it

3). Install

4). Copy the content from the SKIDROW folder on the DVD to your installation directory and overwrite

5). Play the game