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Tom Clancy does it Again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far the best tactical shooter availible for any system right now. This game sets a new standard for FPS games. I loved the other Rainbow Six games (with an exception of the first one)and this one is no different.

Graphics-4.5/5-Only because I've played Splinter Cell

Controls-4/5-Relivively easy control setup, once you get used to all the alpha bravo charlie go code commands

Story-3/5-Some madman stying to stel forgotten Nazi gold, a little strange, but it doesnt relly matter for gameplay

Multiplayer-5/5-One of the best multiplayer online modes I have ever played.

Enemy AI-4/5-Its either almost perfect or terrible. Enemies will scatter from grenades and bullets, take cover, and throw grenades back at you (if theyre lucky. On the bad side, some times they will run into oncoimng fire or just crouch out in the open, where you can easily pick them off, and sometimes when you use a breaching charge on a door they will just stand there waiting to see what comes out,not exactly smart.

One thing I loved about this game was the weapons. You can choose from over 55 realworld weapons and put tons of different attachments on the. You can use things such as scilencers, high capacity magazines, mini scopes, thermal scopes and bipods. There are tons of graet weapons in this games like: MP5,M16,M4,AK-47,M82A1,FAMAS,UZI,Mac-11,phosphorous grenades, remote charges, claymores and much more. If you havent played this game already I sugguest you do so. Go out and buy this awesome game today.

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield; Counter-terrorism at its best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In this gripping and compelling game made for all platforms, Raven Shield thrusts you into the world of the elite counter-terrorist world of Rainbow, a group of highly specialized and trained soldiers working to defeat terrorism around the world. The storyline is set in the year 2005, and as you watch the intro movie close, you understand that certain documents of WWII have been secreted from the abyss of destruction in a bank in Zagreb, Croatia, following the regime of the Ustaccia in Yugoslavia. The main culprit for all this? A man named Sicic. After the crumble of the German warmachine, he flees to Cayman Brac, a group of islands full of lovers of privacy. And slowly, from deep within the walls of his mansion, he organizes the fall of the Argentinian oil rigs and some other important locations around Europe, including the naval port at Bremen, in Sweden. Later, he shifts his movement into the more centralized region of Argentina and South America, and your team must uprise to the conflicts he begins creating.
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is a great game, made for those fanatics of the earlier editions of Rainbow Six, including Rogue Spear and the original game. Unlike Ghost Recon, you are not awarded medals or special recognitions, but the graphics and visual effects are so great, it makes you forget everything else.
And, this strategy game brings you the best arsenal of any other game made under this series, and brings weapons ranging from sub-machine guns, like the all-new Skorpion, to the infamous Mini-Uzi 9mm, and arms your men with the new AK47 and AK74, the MP5 series, and the M16 and M4A1 automatic rifles. It equips you with new weaponry add-ons, such as the new, high-definition thermal indicator that fits nicely on any sniper rifle, the quick loading cartidges for any weapon, and the silencer that fits according to the muzzle of your weapon. Plus, it includes new pistols, secondary weapons, and secondary items, including lacrimogenal grenades, CS gas, and new kinds of explosives.
Truly, this game gives the best of graphics, and will adapt to the newest of computers now selling on the market, along with other standard computer systems, and other game platforms, such as X-box and Playstation 2. I would highly recommend this game for any gamer fanatic of single-player shooter games.

NO save game function!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bought this after playing (and loving) Ghost Recon Gold - the first Clancy game I've ever played. Learning curve was steep coming from games like Return to Wolfenstein, Quake, Half-Life etc. but well worth the effort. Raven Shield looked to have so much promise but although the graphics and gameplay are excellent, the AI is real flaky. The previous articles written here cover well the good and bad points so I'll tell you what drops this from a four to a two star game for me - NO SAVE GAME ability.

Nothing like playing the same mission over, and over, and over because you make a single mistake and a hostage gets shot - hence the automatic mission failure. If there's a way to save I haven't found it and that's a game killer for me no matter how well it shines in other areas. If this doesn't bother you then by all means buy it, otherwise I'd recommend Ghost Recon and/or Sum of All Fears.

Big Step Back

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

With the Ghost Recon franchise, UBI Soft built a quality game with excellent interfaces, huge flexibility for multiplayer action, and an exciting new on-the-fly planning system that allowed players to create complex tactics they could adapt to the mission situation.

So what does UBI do for the next title? Remove all of these things.

Many faults include:
-A multiplayer map shortage.
-A return to the pre-mission waypointing system with no hope of adjusting the plan on the fly.

-Bizzare, counter-intuitively-designed interfaces.
-A complete lack of respawn-based play, (I know a significant group of players dislike respawns, but come on, it's an OPTION, not an imposition.)
-And a goofy regression to dopey "neo-fascism" instead of the people American gamers desperately want to ventilate.

On the plus side, however, the game's physical presence is superb.
-Weapons are plentiful, varied, customizable, and impressive to operate.
-Character models (A Red Storm signature) remain excellent.
-The rag-doll physics (which I grew to love in Hitman 2) may not have been neccessary, since Ghost Recon had excellent death animations, but they do work well, and handle concussive explosion deaths better than their pre-animated counterparts.

With some patches to add a respawn option, more maps (Which, I'm told, can be fan-made) this game could be a showstopper. As it stands now, it seems more like a missed opportunity.

Fun Game, but not my Fav

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rewrote this review after playing a couple of months. This game is a lot of fun: The graphics are great, the online play is better that others cause of the level of graphics and weapons choices. Can't switch weapons while playing multi-player, but the best time to change weapons, if you want to, is after you've died in a match and your waiting for the next round to start, press tab.

Single player is fun, but your teammate bots are dummer than Ghost Recon bots if that tells you anything. The enemy bots are too smart sometimes though( they still do an occasional really dumb things)--they will shoot you from a way far away when it seems impossible that they would even know you were even there...jokingly, the bots should have a higher amount of FF casualties since they normally shoot you with just your head peeping around a corner.

You'll hear the same enemy comments too many times to in single player, "hello", "what was that", "that was odd", I'm getting out of here", "I need help". Might've been funny if the enemy bots had of used more colorful comments.

Get it out the doorI

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Out of 20 years of playing video games, I have never played a game that sucked worse than this one. Not that it locks up. Heaven forbid that the agony be interrupted. This game is crammed with inconsistencies. Over and over, the shooters, although obscured behind objects, have the ability to shoot you when you are unable to shoot them. At distances, and many other instances, the sights appear to be locked on but when you repeatedly shoot, the computer opponent cannot be brought down. The left hand keyboard controls are hard to find and easy to get lost in. I believe this software to be reflective of a "get it out the door" philosophy that pervades Engineering today. Get it out the door so we can start making money and the hell with the customer. I am so outraged; I will support nothing that UBI has anything to do with ever again. If I were Tom Clancy, I would hang my head!

Who is smoking the cheap stuff?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Is it the developers or people who paid $60.00 for this repetitious and unimaginative piece of garbage?

Although I agree that there has been an improvement in Graphics, the game is plagued with problems much like its predecessor. It seems the developers haven't improved the game at all. The storyline is very similar to the two games before it and layout of the missions seems almost identical, as well.

In single player missions your team members seem blind and AIs can take you out with a 9mm from 200 yards with a single shot. Ridiculous.

I got this game at Boxing day sale in Canada for 20 Canadian dollars. If you did spend more than 20 US than you are smoking the cheap stuff:)

RVS still rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even after the years sense its release, it is still a number one game in the rainbow six line up. From the planning of the single play missions to the online ownage ubi know what they were doing and did it right.
Tight controls, the best graphices of its day, and a nice list of real weapons from 92sf pistal to the m60e4 light machinegun make it the winner it is.

Great Multiplayer Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the multiplayer demo a few days ago, and I've been playing ever since. I normally play Counter-strike, but this game just blows it away. The graphics are 100x better, if not more. It is also a more realistic game. Stealth is as important as shooting skill. You don't have to pay for the guns in this game, but you do need to choose wisely and put on the right attachments. So far, the maps i've seen look amazing, and I know they'll keep getting better. If you are a fan of Counter-strike or any other multiplayer shooter, you gotta check out this game!

The Ultimate Close Quarter Battle Simulation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This installment of Rainbow Six is by far the pinnacle of urban operations/CQB simulation. Having both been trained and taught Urban Operation tactics, techniques and procedures, I can say this simulation is spot on.

The graphics are top notch. From the details of the weapons, to the movements of the fire teams as they clear a room, no detail has been left out. The scenes within the buildings or moving through a snowy swiss town are breathtaking. You will find yourself peering cautiously around corners looking for any signs of an enemy. Footprints in the snow, breath condensation, and the clatter of spent round casing pinging off the floor only enhance the realism.

Tactically, this game is the best I have ever seen. Your fireteam pulls 360 security, when breaching doors, one man covers the door while the other primes the entry device. Flashbangs and tear gas incapitate accurately along with door breaching charges. Your sniper assumes an accurate posture while scanning for targets and, based on your orders, will engage as they present themselves.

I have played all the Rainbow Six series of simulations and this one, Raven Shield (based on the Full Version), is years ahead of the previous installments. Tactically and graphically, you will not be disappointed in this sim!

UPDATE: After playing the game for about 2 weeks now, everything above still stands for the single player mode. However, both his game and UBI are having serious issues trying to make the multi-player game work. Be forewarned that the multi-player portion of this game is having some major problems. Hopefully UBI steps up to the plate and fixes the issues.

God bless our troops.

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