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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter vs Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is an FPS game from Ubisoft Paris (2006) while Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint is an FPS open-world game from Ubisoft Paris (2023).

Quick answer: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has the higher Metacritic, 90 to 58.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

2006 · Ubisoft Paris

90Metacritic

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint

2023 · Ubisoft Paris

6.7GamingPickz Score

$59.99

Steam: Mostly Positive

What each one is

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is filed under FPS. In contrast, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint under FPS and Open-World.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is a 2006 tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. As in previous Ghost Recon games, players command their team while neutralizing hostile forces and completing various mission objectives. These objectives can range from escorting friendly units across the map to rescuing hostages or taking out enemy artillery.

Description from Wikipedia

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a tactical third-person shooter set in a vast open world. You must survive, adapt, and fight a rogue spec ops faction, using stealth, strategy, and high-tech gear in solo or co-op.

Description from its Steam store page

Story, characters and reception

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Plot

In 2013, United States president Ballantine, Mexican president Ruiz-Peña, and the Canadian prime minister meet to sign the North American Joint Security Agreement (NAJSA) in Mexico City to cooperate in national security and anti-smuggling initiatives. Elsewhere in the city, a Ghost team led by Captain Scott Mitchell is deployed to recover Guardrail IX, an American communications disruptor device stolen from a spy plane that was shot down in Nicaragua .… (Wikipedia)

Reception

Reception In May 2005, the Xbox 360 edition of Advanced Warfighter was shown to the press in trailer form at the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) convention in Los Angeles. The Xbox 360 version of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was released on March 7, 2006 to multiple rave reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 90. (Wikipedia)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Plot

Setting and characters The game is set in the then-future year of 2025, six years after the events of Wildlands and one year after the events of Future Soldier . The story takes place on Auroa, a fictional island in the South Pacific owned by a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist named Jace Skell ( Rodney Mullen ). Skell is the founder of Skell Technology, a blue chip company producing drones for commercial applications, but the company has also… (Wikipedia)

Reception

Reception Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . The game was described as "underwhelming" and "miserable", with criticism for its mechanics and mission design. Richard Wakeling of GameSpot wrote that " Breakpoint is a messy hodgepodge of disparate ideas, pulling various aspects from other Ubisoft games and shoehorning them in, half-baked and out of place… (Wikipedia)

At a glance

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
GamingPickz Score—6.7/10
Steam rating—Mostly Positive (73%, 47,338)
Critic aggregate90/10058/100
PriceUnknown$59.99
Install size—67 GB
Steam DeckUntestedunsupported
Released20062023
DeveloperUbisoft ParisUbisoft Paris

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter vs Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterFPS game
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon BreakpointFPS open-world game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterNo descriptive tags
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon BreakpointOpen World, Co-op, Shooter

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter ✓Metacritic 90
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon BreakpointMetacritic 58

    Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.

  4. Content and scale

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter—
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint47,338 reviews · 1 add-on · 67 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterUnknown
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint$59.99

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The better reviewed of the two: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Metacritic 90)

Where they differ

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is also

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint is also

Open WorldCo-opSingleplayerMultiplayerShooterAction

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Minimum GPU—AMD Radeon R9 280X
Minimum CPU—AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @3.1 GHz, Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.2 GHz,
Minimum RAM—8 GB
Install size—67 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter · Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and 1 for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint in scope?

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter lists little scope data. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint has drawn 47,338 Steam reviews, ships 1 add-on and installs in 67 GB.

Is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter or Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint better?

Neither carries enough reviews for us to score it reliably, so we do not call a winner. The table above shows what each does have.

Which is cheaper, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter or Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint?

One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.

Should I get Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter or Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint?

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has the higher Metacritic, 90 to 58. It also depends on what you want: the "which to pick" section above calls out which is cheaper, lighter on storage, better on a Steam Deck and the safer bet by weight of reviews.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

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How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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