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NOT Rainbow Six

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 21
Date: February 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT BUY.

I don't know what this game is, but it is NOT Rainbow Six. The whole reason to play Rainbow Six games was for slow, tactical, and squad based game play. Lockdown has NONE of these features.

No longer can you plan out your missions on a map. This lack of planning leaves you wandering around or traped in a linear map without options of attack. You only have one squad, instead of the usual 3. The sound was just... aweful; All of the weapons sounded like cap guns. If you want to be quiet and tactical, forget it... This game is made for running and gunning. I could go on and on about this crappy, crappy game, but I don't want to waste anymore time on it.

The only reason I give a 2 overall is for the graphics. Those were nice, but good visuals don't make a good game.

Skip this one, and hope that this company gets it right next time around. Or better yet, sells the Rainbow Six name to a company with a desire to keep the realism.

Yes, it is NOT rainbow six

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I agree. Don't buy this game. It is not a original rainbow six. not even close. All the key are different, gun sound are crap. graphic is OK. no mission planning. Come on UBI, what happened? Please do not fool people, change a title name instead using rainbow six. This will make the rainbow six friends very disappointed. Don't buy this game if you are thinking this is a rainbow six 4. This title not even worth one star. TRASH !

El Sucko

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was psyched to pick it up in the store while traveling. Got home... took 10 minutes to install it (damned starforce protection) and WOW!!! IT SUCKS!

I could not believe what has happened to Red Storm Entertainment since they were bought. (...). UBI Soft throws its fans NOTHING. OOOOOoooo!!! They actually allowed it to be modded by the fans! Thanks guys! They did it because they KNEW it would suck out of the box.

Is it patchable? Who knows... when Ubi Soft produces such crap I would not waste my time modding it.

StarForce may make this game "incompatible" with your PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can not review the game play itself. Why you ask? Because the USB optical drive I HAVE to use with my laptop is not "compatible" with starforce copy protection. Neither are newer SATA drives and some other brands. StarForce is also technically a "rootkit" which not unlike the product Sony has already gotten in trouble for and by it's very nature opens your PC up to various worms and viruses.

I am extremely unhappy and will probably never buy UbiSoft again. Even if they remove "StarForce" from their games this episode has shown what they really think of their customers.

Piece of trash.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I spent years playing Rogue Spear and the Original R6. I played the demo of Raven Shield but didn't buy it because it was initially so glitched. Then I was delighted to download the demo for this and it is a piece of trash. It is like Medal of Honor: Allied Assault meet RvS. The game is very unstable and the AI is stupid and it is definately not tactical. The realism is just not there. This is too bad, really, it is.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

great graphics, multi player is not very challenging and the bad guys bodies disappear after you shoot them. Did you kill them or did they run away ?? you don't know because the bodies disappear. There is really no way to make the game more challenging like in rainbow six. You cannot lay down to take a shot or sneak up on the bad guys. The weapons are limited (only one sniper rifle). Take the original rainbow six game and apply these graphics and you would have a great game !!! As it is I give lockdown only 3 stars. It is a disappointment.....

Crap crap crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Crrrrrrrrap! This ISN'T the same game, and there's no mention of this on the box! It's Rainbow 6 with anorexia: no changing characters; only one unit to command; no attack planner; half as many weapons and equipment! Ubisoft owes us a refund.

Letdown

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

They should have named it Letdown or maybe Lockup. It's a let down because it is clearly a step down from the the last games in this series. Maybe a patch could fix the lockup part of it but a patch can't fix the lack of options regarding team makeup, weapon loadouts, and planning.

not very good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i was very dissapointed, the online play, very bad. it has many flaws in it you dont have much wepons and you have to buy your weapons. with points! who ever heard of a special op ever buying his own gun its all tax payers money. the graphics thank god are ok. but graphics arent good if you enjoy playing the game. a total rent before buy.

Disappointment to the Origional Series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The book was great, the origional game, Awesome. I have played every single expasion and core in this whole series. This was a very large disappointment. This game has now become a first person shooter. There is no longer any planning, the maps are linear, so linear in fact I know where I need to go before getting in to the room. Mid mission it has to do a level change. It reminds me perfectly of playing Doom. This game however isn't supposed to be Doom, but a tactical shooter. Multiplayer is severly lacking too. I'm going to stick with R6 3 and the expansions. Hopefully UBI will get it right on the next one in the series, if there is one, though I think this may be coffin as well as the nails.

As for actual graphics they're ok, but definately the engine is bloated. On a Dual P4 Xeon at 2.4 GHz with a GeForce FX 5600 256MB VRAM and 2 Gigs of RD800, the games graphics had to be toned down, it still looked great, but DOOM 3 runs better on this machine, not to mention just about any other 3d game. Save your money, go by RS3 and the expansions. I'm taking my game into EB and selling it back for credit on another game.

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