Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®

The game's execution is good at disassociating the player in both the gameplay and the story although I have to disagree when it comes to the soldiers.

I recommend mod Heroes Unleashed, which not only adds more weapons and maps, slightly improves textures, models and AI behaviour, but also allows to play the base game + two expansions in a single story campaign with some extra maps.

Interesting story that was geopolitically very plausible in 2001 (what blew my mind is that there is an event in the game that actually happened 7 years AFTER the release of the game EXACTLY in the same year as in the game);

Some of these weapons have downright advantages, such as the sniper specialists Ibraham and Galinsky who have semi-autmatic sniper rifles, or Jacob and Cohen's six-round grenade launcher.

There is both Co-Op and competitive multiplayer available so there is something for everyone in this game.

The multiplayer is surprisingly not dead and there is still a small but ripe community on this game and is actually quite fun to play.