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Hmmm.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Raven Shield is a great game, to say the least. This expansion pack sounds great, if you do multiplayer levels. If you don't, then it's $30 for an 8 level campaign (plus 3 classic missions). If you do alot of multiplayer gaming, there's 8 new levels and 5 new modes, and seven more weapons (it's definately worth it for that).

It will also feature more realistic weapon noise (the Matrix sound effects team helped out on this one).

If you're wondering about the campaign, it's a continuation of the game's. The objective is to wipe out Gospic's organization, from it's roots. (There's missions in Croatia, Italy, and Greece)

I give this a pre-release four stars becasue of the fact it only has 8 missions, and a relatively uncreative campaign. I would expect the missions themselves to be challenging, but many people wanted the campaign to feature current events. Maybe next time. But I can't complain too much- Raven Shield is a great game with excellent graphics, detail, and control. If you haven't bought it yet order both Raven Shield and this pack!!!

Wait to order.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: July 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Raven shield is a fun game, but it still has a lot of bugs in it. I suggest waiting until they get the bugs fixed in the origional game before buying an expantion pack for it. Also, the origional game had 15 single player and 6 multiplayer maps. The rest of the maps out there are mods so if they include new modes of play, those modes probably won't work on moded maps unless the maps are upgraded individually. So, again I suggest waiting.

LOVE IT / HATE IT A.K.A. UBI LIES ABAIN!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Having played every game in this series I see a few things from earlier games missing here. There is simply missing functionality, controls and ability to select uniforms, the ability to climb over small walls and boxes, etc...
Rogue Spear did several things much better than this game.

On the upside, this game is a LOT of fun even with all the bugs and the missing functionality. It's the best playing game of it's type with a real team atmosphere out there.

My last gripe is that Ubisoft promised to release the source code with this game which would have made for easy modding. They promised it and a year later it has not been released yet.

They promise the source code in December however so it's only fair to mention it. Then we can have some mods!

At least Athena Sword promises more photo-realistic graphics.

Buy Raven Shield used from Amazon and buy Athena Sword new from Amazon.

Well, surprise, surprise, UBI has delayed the release by over a month. The give no explanation or reason whatsoever. This is a very bad habit with them. Raven Shield was months late and now Athena Sword is months late. Why give a release date at all?

Amazon did have this game ranked as under 500th best seller on their site and I ask for what? For another broken promise by UBI.

Can we really expect the SDK in December? Will it be the first promise UBI keeps? I hope so.

I reduced my rating of this game to one star.

Edited October 16th, 2003

Rainbow Six: Athena Sword, by Ventura

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all there is no other game in it's class that could beat it, NO JOKE. I have been a fan of them ever since the book came out! I have even heard that there will be a Rainbow Six movie coming out soon, probably in the year of 2005.TOM CLANCY YOU ARE THE BEST!

[CAN]Ventura

PS, im not 12

a must by game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The lates addition to the Tom Clancy game series is great. When raven shield came out it had the best graphics that I had seen in a long time. The expansion is even better. People complain about not being able to climb up on things like in the earlier games. But in this game, if you are taking the time to do that, you will probley be shot. But you opinion is your opinion! I also HATE all those game publishers that try to copy the same idea.(ex. Swat 3)All-in-all if you like Tom Clancy you will like this game. Also look for Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm(I dont think it is out yet but it is comming)Last they are making a Rianbow Six movie!

Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Counter Strike fans you just dont get it how much better this game is than Counter Strike, you say patches and stuff fixes the weird climbing up ladder thing, graphics, gameplay, recoil, addional weapons,mods and characters/skins...BUT IT DOESN'T OK? I hope you now understand that this is RAINBOW SIX 3: ATHENA SWORD "the mission pack for RAINBOW SIX 3: RAVEN SHIELD, brought to stores in 2003, it is NOT RAINBOW SIX: ROUGE SPEAR, that game was made in 1999, and it just kind of really sucks... lol. So my main objective is for that Counter Strike fans out there please follow my idea and buy this freaking good game OK?

Ventura_TAW, or SwissBones_TAW

if you would like to join it has 300+ members in it, best clan EVER!

Be Warned

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack to Ravenshield promises a lot.

Unfortunately, as with Ravenshield they have only partly delivered. RVS was a single player game with huge multiplayer potential. Sadly, several bugs made the game highly frustrating, and changes from patch to patch had a huge impact on multiplayer performance.

The company UBI promised dedicated server versions both Win32 and (more importantly) Linux. More than 6 months later, there is still no sign of these. They told us they were releasing an SDK.. No sign of that either.

There are a few people concerned that this upcoming expansion will largely be a pay-for-play patch to the existing games with a handful of new weapons. Personally I think that this expansion could be the shot-in-the-arm, that this game needs.. but only if UBI deliver it with the SDK and Dedicated Servers.

To keep up to date with the progress of Ravenshield and Athena Sword, I can recommend that you visit UBI's General Ravenshield Forum at http://forums.ubi.com/messages/overview.asp?name=us_ravenshield_gd

ATHENA SWORD IS BETTER THAN COUNTER-STRIKE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First when Raven Shield came out, no one really knew about it, intill the world wide XBOX commercials came out, so then it was the most online xbox live game ever played! So I am very proud to say that Athena Sword will rock as well, and will out number all the other games that "supposedly" are good games...Like Counter-Strike for example, ummm wait, no that game just SUCKED. Same as Condition Zero and all those dumb STARWARS games. I really can't believe that people accually play those sad games...Oh if only they knew.

Ventura

2003

Counter-strike still better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've played ravenshield and boy was it fun!! NOT!!!!!! whole bunch of bugs and almost same stroyline as the first rainbowsix and that one was SENSATIONAL, but hey, a joke is never funny the second time, I spent more than 10 hours playing the first rainbow six and eagle watch(expansion one) this game? lets not go there. but I can say that I enjoyed multiplayer a little, but! I spent 39.99+tax to buy that game and guess what I played my 3 year old counter strike more! overall I can say that this game will have better graphic than CS:CZ but if you look at the bugs and lame storyline I recommend CS:CZ

The best game in the series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Raven Shield is by far the best game in the Rainbow Six series, and as we all know the expansion packs only proves to make it better.

I don't understand why so many people believe there to be a large amount of bugs in the game - I've only run into two, myself, and those happened during online play. It's no more buggy than any other game. As for this other reviewer at the bottom of the page, this game IS the EXPANSION to the SEQUEL to Rogue Spear, which is Raven Shield. If you believe Rogue Spear to suck, then you obviously are appealed only by graphics. Raven Shield retains every good aspect from Rogue Spear, except maybe the fact that you can climb onto objects in Rogue Spear.

Honestly, however, this game is an almost perfect sequel. Most sequels take the old game and completely distort it, with the only thing still intact being better graphics. This game has AWESOME graphics and very fun gameplay - playing online is the best.

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