Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: Video Game Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 0827307939549 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: UBI Soft Manufacturer: UBI Soft Model: 8888510147 Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Xbox Publisher: UBI Soft Release Date: October 29, 2003 Sales Rank: 8143 Studio: UBI Soft
Features:
Track down a hidden neo-fascist organization in a race against time to stop their evil plot
Travel from the Caribbean to Rio De Janeiro to London in a desperate effort to stop a psychotic doomsday plot
In 15 exciting single-player missions, you'll use real counter-terrorist tactics and military weapons
Over 50 weapons, from handguns to rocket launchers, as you battle in 30 different Specialist modes
Defeat a plot to destroy the world -- one takedown at a time!
Product Description: In Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, you are freedom's answer to fear -- the leader of Team Rainbow, the most elite counter-terrorism force on Earth!
Product Description: Team Rainbow faces the hidden global forces of a new and secretive foe; command Rainbow in a race against time in locations around the world.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not for me... a 45 year old gamers review.
I purchased this game for my new xbox... and as a 45 year old man, this game is way too hard to play. I am looking to relax and need something simple. Too many commands. I am sure the game is great but it was just too complicated for me to enjoy.
Rating: - Game
My husband and son like this game alot. Just wished more than 1 player can play it at a time.
Rating: - One of the better Xbox games
Don't know why it's taken me so long to do a review on this particular game, but here goes:
Whilst there are issues with the AI and issuing commands to your team members, overall this is a great game.
It's not the same tactical shooter that some of the previous Rainbow Six games have been, but graphically it is one of the great Xbox games.
This is a great game for those who just want to get in and start shooting and blowing things up, the tactical part can be thin in many areas, but a few areas lend themselves to good planning and execution.
I've played the game through two times, but never finished it. The last mission is the only one I didn't like.
*minor spoiler alert*
The final mission seems to me to be more of something I would expect to find in Splinter Cell rather than a tactical shooter and doesn't do it as well as Splinter Cell.
Overall this is one of the better games on Xbox and is highly recommended.
Rating: - Beautiful tactical shooter
A lot like Ubi's other tactical shooter franchise (Ghost Recon) except for whatever reason, they employ native voice actors throughout this franchise's history (they also sound French or German in this one)...goofy. "Roger...Open UND clear" Playable on the 360. If you have Vegas, give it a try, it ain't bad.
Rating: - Action/Strategy minus the strategy
This game is extremely linear.
Clear out a room, move to the next, kill people, move to the next. Occasionally rescue a hostage that has very poor AI and likes to get shot, or defuse a bomb that is in a room previously filled with very stupid terrorists.
The obstacles are static, the enemies are always in the same place, and the only 'strategy' involved is the fact that you can only save twice per level. Talk about realistic, I bet lots of military people wish THEY had a save and a load function (you don't get to save in game in the original Rainbow Six games, which is a good thing). Oh well.
In one level, after clearing your way to a hostage, making as much noise as you like with no repercussions, you take the hostage, who you cannot tell to NOT follow you, to a very large open area. In this area there is another stupid hostage and the only way to move them around is to actually walk into them and push them (a grueling process). You have to wait in this large open area until an evac comes.
Here's a smart idea, let's sit in a big open area while terrorists come at us from every angle while we wait for a helicopter...when we could just go back the way we came, since our cars are outside. The sarcasm should be obvious.
I'm not even going to talk about the next level, which is worse. There are no choices in this game, other than that of weapons, and there is no strategy. I would recommend Rainbow Six (original) for PC, as well as Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. These games allow you to choose your team(s) of up to 8 men and women, from snipers to demolition experts, to scouts, and designate them on 1 to 4 teams.
In Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear, there is a very detailed plannig phase, where you have a 3D blueprint of your next mission's location, and you can set the path for your teams to follow, via waypoints. There is also a great multiplayer system, where you can compete, or you can co-operate and play the any part of the campaign.
Long story short: Rainbow Six 3 is crap, and I'd think Tom Clancy would be ashamed to have his name on it. The original is greater by far, as is Rogue Spear. As well, as with any first person shooter, the PC version is better.
- Not for me... a 45 year old gamers review.
- Game
- Action/Strategy minus the strategy
