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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 !

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.

It left me feeling dirty..... its that bad.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is not Rainbox Six.... the box says it is, but I disagree. I will inform you that I did not play this much, so my descriptions may not be accurate through the entire game. I will list the positive and negative points I noticed below.

Pros:
1) Nice graphics. The graphics are definately better than those found in R6 3.
2) I liked them you can now throw a grenade without switching away from your assault rifle (which is nice when under enemy fire). That improvement is more realistic in my opinion.

Cons:
1) I only played this a couple times and then uninstalled it from my machine... it sucked and it was not worth the 7GB listed on the minimum requirements (I didn't check to see how much space was actually used).
2) This is just another first person shooter. The only thing that is different from other run & shoot games like DOOM is that you can only get hit 3 times in Lockdown.
3) You no longer plan missions.
4) The maps are linear. If I wanted linear maps, I would play Half-Life or DOOM.
5) They took many weapons away (including my favorite).
6) You only have control of one squad.
7) If you die, then the mission is over. You do not take over one of the squadmates charcters.
8) The sound for the guns didn't work on my system (but from what I have been told, I am not missing much).
9) Unlike the tactical style of shooting used in the previous versions, I was able to run around (on normal difficulty) with an automatic gun on and take out a lot of enemies without effort before finally dying (I would not have been able to do that as well on the EASY mode of R6 3). Like I said, it is just a run and shoot first person shooter.
10) I was not able to move sideways while peaking/leaning to the side. That was annoying when trying to peak just a little bit around the corner.
11) I could only squat or stand. While that is the way it was in the early Rainbow 6 games and the ability to lay down is not really needed, I still liked that option in Rainbow 6 3.
12) The AI is stupid. Teammates step in front of you while firing. When given the order to open a door and flash bang a room, they will line up nicely at the door, but wait to see who will go in first. To quote one review I read, "It almost looked like they got the door open and were doing the 'no, you go first. No, you go first. NO, you go first!'"

Final opinion: Don't waste your money.

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.

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.

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.

UBI Soft Should Be Ashamed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like many others I read the reviews before buying. I have a top of the line machine and thought, this will work--I'm sure of it...NOT! Like many others I was not able to do much of anything after waiting for the 7GB of game to install. The game started up and promptly froze 30 sec in. I have looked for a patch, but alas, UBI doesn't read the reviews from AMAZON.COM customers--to bad for them. They should be ashamed to publish a Rainbox title that is broken out of the box.

R6 Lockdown Damaged my DVD/RW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: April 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately - I did not have enough sense to check the ratings here at Amazon before buying this crap game (I got it from CompUSA). I tried to install it and immediately my (Dell 6000D) DVD/RW started thrashing and making odd noises. The first (of five!!) CDs installed but the second would not read - nor eject from the Dell. Long story made short - I am out $90+ to replace the drive. After many years (since 1998) of buying Red Storm/Ubisoft games - this is my last crap game from them. I STRONGLY recommend that everyone boycott Ubisoft over this terrible joke on consumers.

Starforce killed it and my PC

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

No matter how fun a game is, Starforce CD protection kills it... and your PC too.
Search boycott starforce and you'll see. Horrible.
I'll now carefully avoid all Starforce games. They can kill your DVD-RW drive rendering it useless. Copy protection only hurts the legitimate user. Pirates are gonna copy it anyways. Whats the point of destroying my PC....
Don't buy this game or any game with Starforce protection in it.

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