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Single Player Mode (Good) - Multiplayer Mode (Excellent)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six Lockdown:This is the first Rainbow Six version I ever played so I can not compare it to any previous version.Single player haves 16 missions total ,and about 4 or 5 subdivision in each mission.In Single player you are a Squad leader consisting of 4 men.You can command your squad to perform various maneuvers in campaign missions.I am not going to say that the AI are good or bad.It really depends on the squad leader's commands which make the difference.Each mission have certain objectives to complete ,kill terrorists,disarm enemy security systems so you can enter without being noticed,steal and download information from enemy computers, rescue hostages and plenty more objectives.You have an option to equipt your squad and yourself with any weapon and gear.You will be able to choose which character you want to be.Both male and female characters are available.Missions take place all over the world.You are never in the same place.When commanding your squad you use keyboard keys.Each key is assigned to a command.Or you can use a microphone and headset to vocally command your squad. In single player you also have a choice to start the campaign without your AI.It is called (Lone Wolf mode).The graphics are great. Sound is also good.If your computer system can not handle the graphics and not able to load the game correctly with the automatic setting set,just drop to minimal graphic settings ,and it still looks great.Even though single player is extremely fun, Multiplayer is much more entertaining.You can play different Rainbow SIX lockdown online modes connected with ubisoft website. One type of multiplayer mode called (CO-OP MODE) - which groups you with 3 other real people not computer generated AI Squad. In this mode there is no leader just a 4 man squad fighting a mass number of computer generated Mercenaries which are extremely skilled ,you and your squad have to complete certain objectives during campaign missions.You work in a group as "An Elite Team" .Since your squad are real people no need to have a leader to give constant commands. Or you can play or create other multiplayer modes.There is (TEAM ADVERSARIAL MODE): which can consist of 16 players at once.You choose the side to be on, either Rainbow or Mercenaries .So if there is 16 players it is 8 against 8: (FREE FOR ALL MODE) - Up to 16 players ,No squad or team in this mode.It's every player for themselves.Duke it out with each other ,something like quake 3 arena. (TERRORIST HUNT MODE)-Eliminate all terriorist in a mission with 3 other online squad members. (RETRIVAL MODE)-This is capture the flag type of game.And lastly (RIVALRY MODE)Team Based Play,Get points by completeing team objectives.Which ever team with the most points wins the match.....In each online game mode you can pick which weapons, gear and character to start the game with.You can also pick which Map to play on.The maps are well detailed and difinity different from each other. If you decide to create your own multiplayer game,you will be able to choose any mode I stated above and have an option to make the game setting normal or difficult. Once you create a game, you wait a little and other players online join the game.Or you can play having some one else create the online game and join their game.You can also communicate with one another during missions or before a mission starts through typing.Microphone and headset is another way to communicate with other players.Multiplayer mode is difinitely non linear .I think Rainbow Six Lockdown is an outstanding game.I do not know why the other reviews of this game were not so good.In multiplayer you have an array of guns and other weapons to choose from before a game starts.You do not need to buy any weapons from Rainbow Six lockdown website as one person's REVIEW stated.Also if people upgrade their computers and graphic cards,there should not be any problem playing this game. For playing multiplayer online,high speed internet is the way to go.There are 5 totally different multiplayer modes.It's like having 5 great games rolled up into one.Take my advice and buy Rainbow Six Lockdown and play multiplayer,{EXCELLENT} .....Play with people from around the globe.Lastly ,Rainbox Six Lockdown Multiplayer is just as good as Battlefield 2 for online playing.The 2 games are not similiar in anyway.I was speaking in terms of fun.Another thing you can do with this game.If you work with co-workers that like online gaming ,this game is it.If you just want to play with your co-workers or friends only,you can create an online game which requires a password to join. .....If you like good tactical squad based games try also Close Combat First to Fight which is great in (single) player mode.

Rainbow six my way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I admit i am not a true rainbow six game fan. but i loved the book and finally there is a game suited to my playing style. Run, Shoot and ask questions later. Unlike the earlier and later Rainbow six games this is a true shooter and not a tactical shooter. the boring planning and waiting is over. run in guns-a-blazing and destroy any resistance.

great unless you have Vista

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game a lot, but couldnt play it on my newer computer because it causes Vista to crash and need to be reinstalled.

Lots of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It seems from other reviews that they do not like this game because it does not work like the other Rainbow Six Games. Personally, I'm glad it doesn't. I'm not big on mapping out moves, on and etc., because it gets to be a lot of work. I don't want to work, just enjoy myself.

Rainbow Six is a lot like Ghost Recon. If you liked Ghost, you'll like Lockdown. You make your commands on the fly. Graphics are great. But you have to have a pretty strong computer. It doesn't take a military scientist to play it, but it is a lot of fun. It was a breath of fresh air to me after playing the tactic intense Six's.

If you liked Ghost Recon, or even Splinter cell. You'll like this.

Enjoyable but forgetable.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: April 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lockdown is the Rainbow Six answer to SWAT 4. The earlier Rainbow six I liked, but you where supposed to do a lot of pre-action planning and I admit to being impatient. Besides, a plan falls apart as soon as the fighting starts and this was a major disadvantage in Rainbow Six: you where limited in giving orders on the fly.
I think I was not alone in thinking so and it was to be expected that a more action oriented Rainbow Six version would hit the market. And Lockdown is it.
Alas it isn't very good. The most painfull weakness being the AI. To my amazement I could easily run down a corridor with my team in trail and gun down the opposition. It became a new challenge to me: to do it as fast as possible by running through the game with a machine gun. The AI at normal level is unable to cope with this. Only when there are just about too much of them in one room or you get stuck they succeed in killing you. When you set the game to a more difficult level they perform a little better. Or rather they perform at what should be the minimum performance.
To balance this ineffectiveness, Rainbow got a massive amount of enemies who take a heap of bullets to kill. Each set of maps got over 100 or more enemies and each one of them might take a dozen bullets before snuffing it, except if you succeed in a shot through the head.
The dumbness also applies to your team members. You soon learn not to equip them with something like frag or phosphorous grenades and grenade launchers, it get's the wrong guy killed. They won't protect your back and even fail to fire on tango's standing right in front of them. Since you can't order them individually, order to face a certain direction or fire at a specific target they are a mixed blessing at best. This bears out in the kill ratio: you will kill about two thirds or more of the enemy. I found them most usefull to send them as decoy to draw fire or send them in a room where terrorist are mixed with hostages as they will not shoot the hostages.
Lockdown remains a let down. You have no control over who joins your team and your team is reduced to four. The choice of equipment hasn't improved, with the noticeble lacking the ability to trade off grenades against extra ammo. The game suggest that you get more advanced weaponry to choose from like a sniper rifle, well I am through the game two third and as far as i can see i got only a grenade launcher added to the standard weaponry. You also can't pick up any weapon your enemy drops: a feature it has inherited from the earlier rainbow. Some weapons are quite useless like shotguns as the areas keeps changing between interior and exterior requiring to be able to engaging short range and long range targets. There is also a special look added with is sort of a infravision which allows you to see through walls and door, but it fails to work properly. At some time it didn't show enemies who where there to see in plain view while highlighting others standing right next to them.
A last annoyance is the bugs. Several times my team members became stuck or failed to respond to commands or ran in a totally different direction then ordered. At one point they so annoyed me because they failed to fire on tango's who standing right in front of them that I shot them down.
yet despite all of this there are redeeming qualtities: the environments are good ranging from anything you can imagine: deserts, ships and catacomb. The equipment looks good. Your teammembers look great, detailed and sound like individuals(note the detail: lofquists pair of braid stick out from under her helmet). I especially liked Alana Yacoby who gleefully reports that she taken out another terrorist.
Despite the bugs and the weak ai I still enjoyed myself with the game. But I don't think I will be going back again and again like I did with Rainbow Six Version 3.
Enjoyable but forgetable.

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.....

Fun, Shallow, Repetive, Detailed!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Rainbow 6 series goes pop in this arcade homage to the counter terrorism simulations they have been delivering. Loosing some of the realism (planning in particular) I feel that this does offer some fun that the previous games sometimes lacked. Yes the a.i. is not competent, especially for a Rainbow 6 game, but there are enough missions of varied, detailed length that will still have you on edge with the extremely limited health range and the chance of sudden death (one of the few traits they decided to leave in). Using the Rainbow 6 code and applying it to a more arcade type game might dissapoint fans of the series, but will hopefully gain many fans who simply couldn't deal with the overtly sim nature of the previous incarnations..

It's OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is continuation of a series of Tom Clancy International SWAT team style games. Your a secret international anti terrorist squad that machine guns down people on sight. Now, Lockdown is a few years old. It will work fine on almost any current computer, or even an older one fine. Graphics are good, better than the previous Rainbow game. The guns "feel" realistic, they kick and take a little time to aim and reload.

Cons: Old. Basic gameplay. You equip with a few available guns & accy's, then walk down a path, kill, command your team, and load to the next scene. Limited areas you can go on maps. Outdated graphics, and nowhere even close to as well made of a game compared to the Half life series. If you buy this game you really won't spend much time playing it compaired to the other games available.

My advice, Spend the $10 or $20 on this instead of Taco Bell drive thru.

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.

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.

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