Those in fear that the sequel to the highly acclaimed Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter would be a rush job to cash in on the original’s success need not panic yet: the game is starting to look better every time. Whether gameplay will be on the same level is anyone’s guess, but meanwhile check inside for some drool-inducing shots.

The screens show quite some interesting new stuff. First up there’s some kind of satellite overview of the area you are exploring, allowing you to plan strategies with a top-down view combining all the available data. Secondly, there’s some highly impressive explosions going on in this game, surpassing those of the first game by far. Third, those smoke effects are great, bring on the smoke grenades! And last, combining smoke, explosions and some hefty distance haze and blur effects makes for some almost surreal impressionist shots in the bottom-right screen.

As said, we all hope the game will live up to the high expectations set by the first title, and solve some of its problems, mainly in the graphics area where the first game was slightly troubled at times by framedrops and clipping issues. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is set for release on the 6th and 9th of March in US and Europe respectively, almost exactly a year after its predecessor. We’ll be there with a review as soon as we can!