Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that on March 16-18, gamers join the Ghost ranks for 72-hours of intense online action with the "GRAW2(TM) Xbox LIVE Weekend.” The weekend activities include an Xbox LIVE Leaderboard tournament and an online Play & Win where gamers can win prizes every hour playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2.

More details regarding the "GRAW2 Xbox LIVE Weekend” Leaderboard tournament and Play & Win will be available shortly.

Gamers can hone their multiplayer skills today with the release of the all new multiplayer demo for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2, the follow up to the massively popular squad-based action franchise, and next gen smash hit of 2006 - now available for free download exclusively on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace.

To start off the "GRAW2 Xbox LIVE Weekend,” gamers compete online against Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2 game development team on Friday March 16 from 1pm – 6pm EST. Be on the look-out for the following development team Gamertags:

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Last year Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter(TM) blew up the next generation servers on Xbox LIVE, and the release of the Multiplayer demo marks the very first chance for gamers to get a taste of what awaits in the sequel. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2 is scheduled for March 2007 release on the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2 Multiplayer Demo content:

The multiplayer demo for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2 features the 'Outpost' mission from GRAW 2's multiplayer Co-op campaign as well as a variant of that map that will be playable with all new team game modes of play. In the coop campaign mission, players will be tasked with assaulting an enemy encampment, gathering intelligence, and planting multiple demo charges before extracting. The coop campaign mission and adversarial game types will be playable with up to 16 players just like the full release version of GRAW 2.

The new adversarial game mode that will be featured in the demo is 'Takedown', a team elimination game with respawns, but with a twist to it. Players on each team will be randomly selected as the team's 'officer'. This player's kills and death will count for significantly more points than any other's. This encourages teams to better coordinate their movement and tactics to set their officer up for kills, protect them, or hunt down the other team's officer. When an officer dies, a new player on that team is promoted to the position. Solo Sharpshooter matches will be available as well.

Players will also be able to play with all of the 27 new weapons in GRAW 2, including the totally new Storm series weapons suite, M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher, and Claymore mines.