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Rogue Spear: Black Thorn

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded and played the demo and...

This game is and look's better than Rogue Spear's expansion pack (Urban Operations) even though you DON'T need Rogue Spear to play this game. There will be 9 new single player missions with a new story and with 6 new training/multiplayer maps. There's only two in Rogue Spear, City Street Large and Double Kill House. There's also 10 new guns added to single player and multiplayer, including a new M-16 rifle (M60 Machine Gun) etc.
And i'm also pretty sure, this game will include all the old guns from Rogue Spear. Some new equipment and gadgets include land mines, trip mines, and even mine detectors.... Looks like there's another "frag type" of weapon! But what's confusing, is on the box it's rated MATURE, but everything says RP (Rating Pending). In multiplayer, the "Lone Wolf" feature has been added, but i'm not sure how it works. If your a Rainbow Six and/or a Rogue Spear fan, you got to get this.. I know I will.
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Is this really by red storm!?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I own every rainbow six game. I am so so so disappointed, the textures in the game were old. Details were left out big time, I expected this to be the best on account of it being the newest, and probobly the last add on to rogue spear. And I know my guns big time, red storm paid no attention to making the guns real like. Basicly this was a last attempt to make more money, but it was worth it because it expanded th multiplayer possiblilities. I say if you like playing it online, go for it. But if you want something more than just covert ops, dont get it. I dont want to knock red storm down completely, but i play operation flashpoint. If you've played it, you would know what im talking about.

Newest Rogue Spear!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Woohoo! Finally - new maps, new weapons!

While Black Thorn is still the Rogue Spear enging (made in like 1999 or something) it's still the only game out there that's realistic. Now we've got new maps and new guns.

Also, now that my computer's caught up to modern technology, Black Thorn runs like a dream in high, high resolution on my PC. I can see a lots more stuff I didn't see before.

The new maps are pretty cool - they have a whole African village with buildings and alleys and streets, a cruise ship that's just huge, a hospital (that's really tough to beat in single player) and jungle map.

It has a couple of low points - the M60 is way too accurate for balance. It might be really accurate in real life, but it's like a laser beam of death in this game. Also, they added a pistol with 30 rounds of ammunition in a magazine - that's really tough in the lone wolf multiplayer mode.

But - it was only like ..., and if you don't have Rogue Spear, you can run Black Thorn al by itself, so if you've never played the Clacny games before, you can give this one a try.

NOT WORTH IT!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First let me start off saying that this expansion pack was probably a last-ditch effort for R6 before Ghost Recon came out (which is an excellent game i might add). I bought Black Thorn for [price], and it only comes with 9 missions, and a couple new guns. Its VERY boring! I wish i'd never bought it. The graphics are pretty ok, the sound is good (creative EAX), game play is fine, but it just doesnt live up to the other R6's. I'd get Ghost Recon insted.

Black Thorn

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have heard that this game was highly anticipated, then when it was relaesed, it was dissapointing. I really looked forward to it and i read the reviews, and i said "Forget it" and i bought a better game like Delta Force 2. I heard this game has cool graphics and neat new weapons like the French FAMAS G2 rifle, FN P90 5.7mm submachine gun, and the Steyr TMP. Although these weapons sound cool, the difference in the weapons compared to the other weapons is just noise and range. Usually, 3 round bursts from any weapon will drop a tango (terrorist). But, it has neat, new missions in cool places and has cool counter-terrorism tactics.

One of The Best Games Ever Made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ah, Tom Claney comes out with another great Rainbow Six game.
This game is so realistic, it has great grafic senes. I would rate it game of the year. Nothing comes closer to putting you in real life special forces ation. It's so real you'll be yelling "Brovo Go" in your sleep for weeks.

All you people dont know wat youre talking about

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game ever. And can you play urban ops ONLINE??? Yea thats wat i thought.

Not very good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Urban Ops was a lot better. The online play addition was nice, but that's all this game is really good for. The earlier R6 games have much better environments and provide a much greater challenge. I think it's pretty bad when one can complete this game on the Veteran setting in under two hours. On the brighter side, the weapons additions are very nice. I'm not too sure how many are added (and they are only available on the multiplayre setting), but they are all pretty fun to play around with. It gives a sense of what the enemy is using against you.

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