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Team Rainbow does it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was always reluctant to buy any of the rainbow six series. I recieved this game as a graduation present and I love the game. The voice-command technology is very cool.Although you have to talk like youre a 3 year old at times. I like the fact that the game is realistic. The graphics are awesome in every way.Plus it is non-stop intense action. The singler player missions are fun but also hard even on easy. I dont have XBOX Live but I did get a chance to play it at a friends house. Its like they say on the box, the most intense xbox Live game. I prefer rainbow six 3 to the ghost recon series. I also like the fact that your boss talks to you and you hear it through the headset. Its like youre a part of the action. I am kinda pissed that I did not buy this game earlier, but screw it. I play it everyday man, its definintely addictive.UBI Soft makes great games(Prince of Persia,Splinter Cell 1&2,Rainbow six 3 of course, as well as ghost recon. If you want a realistic 1st person shooter BUY THIS NOW.Just dont expect plasma grenades or some other futuristic weapons. Beware those damn terrorists are very smart.

This game blows every other game away

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six 3 is probably the best online first person shooter for the xbox. yes, ghost recon is a very good game, but if you are looking for a ghost recon like game that is way more realistic, then go buy Rainbow Six 3. playing it on xbox live is unbelieveable. the only bad thing is that the levels are so small, but very detailed. the levels are like the size of training in ghost recon but with 10 times more detail and more stories to explore. this is the best fps ever!!!!!!!!!

Best FPS for XBOX

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six 3 is amazing... incredible graphics and controls - the weapons recoil, sound, and look more realistic than I've seen in any other game, with hard-hitting explosions and gunfire that add to the experience. Also, the collision detection is very good in this game - no more bumping around trying to get through doors - your team members actually do what they're supposed to do, efficiently, and without getting in your way.

One of the coolest things in Rainbow is getting a sense of where to place your team for best coverage and whether to send them into a room first or take the lead yourself... should you go in strong or be sneaky... you'll find yourself taking all these things into consideration and making decisions without interrupting the gameplay like in Recon/Thunder.

Zulu option is the best - you set up your team to go in one entrance, while you go in another and catch the bad guys by surprise... real-time tactics that actually help you win the game! Other games claim to be tactical squad-based shooters, but the reality is that you're often better off alone. In Rainbow Six you can actually use your squad to your best advantage without having to micro-manage their every move or having to make up for their mistakes.

The only thing I don't like about this game is that the dead bodies disappear as soon as they're out of sight - you turn back around and the guy you just smoked is gone! Pretty lame but not really important (it just kills the realism a little). Also, while the cut scenes are well done, for some reason the volume of the voice acting is much lower than the mission briefing and the rest of the game... but again not important.

Rainbow Six 3 is in my opinion the best FPS for XBOX right now. The graphics & sound effects, the combat, the choice of weapons, it's all there.

Awesome FPS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Note: this is the off-line review of "Rainbow Six 3". Rainbow Six 3 is a first person shooter; with sqaud tactics. This is NOT an arcade shooter like "Quake". In the Rainbow Six world, you can get killed with a few well placed shots. You need to be stealthy and think of the best way to kill your targets. You will be fighting along with three cpu AI. By giving simple commands such as hold, regroup, bang open and clear and much more. You will be killing terrorists, rescuing hostages, and disarming bombs.

Graphics (10)- the enviroments are nicely done, with detailed buildings (interiors and exteriors), weather effects; snow, rain, night time. Good use of light and shadows. The character models looks nice and animate smoothly, firing weapons with recoil action and reloading as well. The animation also uses "rag doll" physics, so when someone gets shot it will look realistic; shoot them in the shoulder to send them in a half spin, shoot in the head and see them jolt back violently with blood splattering the wall behind. The weapons look and fire realisticly. Everything looks wonderful in RS3.

Sound (10)- The sounds are excellent and add to the intensity of the game. Going from dead silence, to hearing gun fire and the thunderous booms in grenades, people screaming in pain with shot, different footsteps in wood, snow, gravel. Terrorists speak in different langauges, tense music and you got yourself an earful of great sounds.

Controls (9)- The controls are efficient and easy to learn. But if you have trouble, you can always go back into the in-game tutorial which trains you on the different button functions. Getting around is easy as a first person shooter can be. And giving orders to your teammates is as easy as holding one button then pressing a commmand. One button switches weapons, the other trigger to fire and another to reload. If you buy the head-set with the game, then things will be even more easy to give commands to your teammates. You tell them to "frag open clear" and you'll see your team carefully open a door, toss a grenade into room, then run in with their guns blazing to finish the job.

Gameplay (10)- RS3 is an amazing game not only because it looks, sounds and controls great but, also because the gameplay is intense. It made me jump out of my seat. One of my favorite levels; I went with my team into several houses, sometimes the wooden floors in the house wood creak and alert the enemies, so they hid behind furniture trying to ambush me. I would hear wind howling and suddenly gunfire breaks out and I see my teammates shooting it out with enemies in the distance. The outcome is fast and deadly as you can get killed by 3 shots or less . The artificial intelligence in the game is excellent. You'll see them ducking for cover, peaking around corners, tossing grenades to flush out groups, sometimes the enemies surrender by dropping their weapons and putting their hands up. Other times they go into a berserker rage; screaming while running towards you and firing wildly. While other times they try to ambush you. Your teammates are equally smart and will use appropriate tactics. In one of the coolest battles: an enemy hid behind a car, so I sent my team to try and sneak up on him. The enemy panicked and ran out of cover shooting at my team, then one of my teammates did a strafe move and shot the enemy dead. When that happened the other enemy terrorists opened fire trying to kill my team. But my team was smart enough to use cover and fired back, the shoot out got heavy, So I threw a grenade at the baddies and blew one of them away, but one survived. My teammates smothered him with bullets.

Rainbow Six 3, excels in everything and should be in your collection if you like first-person-shooting- simulations. The controls, sounds, gameplay and artificial intelligence in the game make it one of the best games to date!

The Best Showcase So Far for XBOX Live!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six 3 (what a lousy title!) really shows the potential of Microsoft's XBOX Live. A tactical shooter, RS3 provides a deep, addictive, and fun online experience that makes it the HALO of Live games.

Tactical shooters seem to be a perfect fit for Live, in part because the headset communication flows naturally from the genre. (Those guys REALLY DO talk on little headsets, don't they?) The overall effect of the game is transparent and immersive--you really feel like you are on location with your small team of compadres. Adding to the feel of reality is how much the game makes you behave as if your life were at stake, you quickly learn that you are not superman; getting shot really does a lot of damage! (Who knew?)
The connectivity is great; I have yet to encounter a laggy or choppy game. The game really is well done and just plain fun!

Misleading Packaging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great game, but the package says multiplayer. It does not specify you MUST have X-box live for multiplayer only. I love to play with my husband and don't want to have X-box live for gameplay. I enjoy Halo's split screen multiplayer action. This game is excellent as far as play and graphics.

Move, move, move... I said MOVE!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was a huge fan of rainbow six on the PC and was pretty excited about the console version. I expected it to be a bit more 'arcadey', but having also got Ghost Recon, also expected a similar level of realism and strategy. But all in all I have to say I was pretty disappointed. On the plus side, the game is really well presented, with some good missions, great graphics, and the sound is superb. But it's the gameplay where it fell down for me. For starters all you have is one group - consisting of 4 men, of which you are one, and can only play one - Ding Chavez. One of the best parts of Rainbow 6 on the PC (and indeed the Ghost Recon games on console) is the ability to send different units off to different areas, storm rooms at the same time from multiple angles and give eachother cover fire. With the console version there is none of this. You don't plot waypoints or anything like that, you literally issue orders on the fly. To be honest, that didn't really bother me too much. In fact I quite liked the added sense of on the spot realism this gave the game. You can issue a variety of commands, most of which can also be issued with a 'go' code, so you can do your thing, and then shout to code for them to execute their orders on demand.

But without the advance planning what you really need is some AI to keep the game realistic, and functioning smoothly. Sadly I found this quite poor. There are many niggly problems that are really detrimantal to the game. For staters when you tell your team to move - they don't move to your crosshairs - they move towards them and then fan out into all kinds of stupid positions even taking fire from bad guys, which they wouldn't have done if they'd have stopped where you asked. In a game that essentially relies on stealth tactics, it's like sending an army of chimps into a hostage situation.. This is incredibly frustrating. Opening doors is also extremely irritating. You can't seem to sneak it open without your team attempting to do something. For example, you press the A button and the D pad to open the door slightly to check for badguys, but when you release it you get a 'ROGER, opening door..' in your ear, and the whole team arrives to open the already semi open door.. Also can anyone explain why you can only order your team to flash or frag rooms that have a door?? There were many occasions where I wanted to order a teammember to frag an open room.

Also, it has to be said that the voice recognition is not great. Sometimes I had to actually check to see if the mic was muted after having said MOVE!! about 5 times. In the end I found it was a little more successful if I faked an american accent. So perhaps you guys will be ok... I also noticed that Zulu go codes can result in odd things with voice recognition. You will set the team up to storm a room on a go code, get to your door, issue the go code and they will just move to you, or try and storm the room from your door.. This was not a problem when using the interface.

Enemy AI is also not as good as it ought to have been. For starters, in a game that is primarily about stealth, they never run for help, nor seem to get particularly alarmed when you plug one of their accomplices nearby. And how come everyone seems to know that you're coming? An enemy will step out from round a corner, you'll shoot him, and he'll run off. 2 minutes later he will step out from round the corner again, seemingly having completely forgotten there was a team of four camouflaged anti terrorist officers kneeling with big guns waiting there.. Snipers are probably the most ludicrous though. Despite the fact that the enemy effectively has no idea that Rainbow are in the building, they appear to be camped out waiting for you - tiny little spots on distant cranes, that shoot you in the head as soon as you step round a corner. The game is furiously difficult in places.

But it's not all bad. Generally, despite the niggles the game functions really well, (more so if you don't use the headset) and you are rewarded for 'sensible' playing. You can't run around Halo style in Rainbow six, you have to use cover, tread carefully, keep to walls, and not expose the group in wide open spaces. A few shots will kill, so listen to your team mates, and use your different view modes (night vision, and thermal). Whilst it is not as strategic as it's contemporaries, the small level of strategy involved is satisfying enough, particularly when you confuse the enemy by storming a room through two doors etc. Hostages are also dealt with extremely well, you can secure them, or escort them, and the bad guys will not hesitate to kill them if you aren't fast enough.

So all in all, it is more one for those who prefer the arcade side of these style of games than the strategy, and if you can forgive it's shortcomings, it is a good, albeit tough 1st person shooter.

Action/Strategy minus the strategy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is extremely linear.

Clear out a room, move to the next, kill people, move to the next. Occasionally rescue a hostage that has very poor AI and likes to get shot, or defuse a bomb that is in a room previously filled with very stupid terrorists.

The obstacles are static, the enemies are always in the same place, and the only 'strategy' involved is the fact that you can only save twice per level. Talk about realistic, I bet lots of military people wish THEY had a save and a load function (you don't get to save in game in the original Rainbow Six games, which is a good thing). Oh well.

In one level, after clearing your way to a hostage, making as much noise as you like with no repercussions, you take the hostage, who you cannot tell to NOT follow you, to a very large open area. In this area there is another stupid hostage and the only way to move them around is to actually walk into them and push them (a grueling process). You have to wait in this large open area until an evac comes.

Here's a smart idea, let's sit in a big open area while terrorists come at us from every angle while we wait for a helicopter...when we could just go back the way we came, since our cars are outside. The sarcasm should be obvious.

I'm not even going to talk about the next level, which is worse. There are no choices in this game, other than that of weapons, and there is no strategy. I would recommend Rainbow Six (original) for PC, as well as Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. These games allow you to choose your team(s) of up to 8 men and women, from snipers to demolition experts, to scouts, and designate them on 1 to 4 teams.

In Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear, there is a very detailed plannig phase, where you have a 3D blueprint of your next mission's location, and you can set the path for your teams to follow, via waypoints. There is also a great multiplayer system, where you can compete, or you can co-operate and play the any part of the campaign.

Long story short: Rainbow Six 3 is crap, and I'd think Tom Clancy would be ashamed to have his name on it. The original is greater by far, as is Rogue Spear. As well, as with any first person shooter, the PC version is better.

Rainbow Six Still Needs Help!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six has long been a favorite series of mine. However, this recent addition improves among the last few. The missions are done well, and the intensity of a SWAT team is felt throughout each and every mission. The controls, however, are a little bit jerky. The aiming should be much more stable. Your team is highly responsive, although not well defined. For example, SOCOM's members have more personlity. Additionally, they are not as bright as SOCOM 2's team. More choices during the briefing should also be included. During briefing as well, I wish they included a 3-D model map (so I don't go around in circles) as in previous versions of Rainbow Six. The inclusion of stealth missions were okay in theory, but were poor in final execution. Who would send a SWAT member to place bugs on telephones and hack computers "stealthily"? It is usually done by an undercover agents and their ilk. Or at least not when terrorists are still INSIDE the building! Lastly, the environments should permit you to shoot out the lights, turn off the lights, etc. Although I do like this game, particularly online, this game still needs some more work.

Russ Bruno, a gamer, telling you to buy this game now!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game about a week ago and it is still worth it. When you go in to battle you tell your teamates what to do. For example, when you are about to open a door you can tell your teamates to throw a flashbang, granade, or gass granade in the doo befor you enter it. The problem with this game is that it is very hard. When you get shot it usually takes away about half of your health. Altogether i would say to buy this game and i am giving it five stares because it is worth $50.

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