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Very good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are familiar with Ghost Recon, this is just like it except indoors.

The graphics and animation for the game is great. When a character talk, you can see his mouth move. The environment looks great, and the music and sound effects complement it well.

Gameplay is divided into two parts. Offline and Online. I haven't spent much time with the offline game, but here's what I know so far. You can use the headset to issue voice commands to the other characters. While the commands are not in the manual(and for good reason), you can find them on the net. There are a lot of voice commands to keep you and your team busy without going through all sorts of menus. The game doesn't really have a story, just a number of different missions that have nothing to do with the other mission. Afterall, its more like the real thing. There are three difficulty levels, "recruit", "veteran" and "elite". All quite challenging.

Now this is where I spend most of my time, ONLINE. While I'm not sure how many maps are there, there's definately more than ten, and there's a map waiting for you to download when you log into XBL. There are quite a number of game types to choose from, including: sharpshooter, survival, team survival, mission, terrorist hunt, etc. There are quite a number of weapons to choose from, and you can quickly switch to your secondary weapon in the heat of battle. Such weapons include automatics, semi-automatic, handguns, pistols, grenades(various), and the hady gas mask. A wrong move can leave you watching the rest of the match from the lobby. You can carry a total of four weapons/items during each game, and can change them while in the lobby. If you want to go on a frag hunt, or do it as a team, or even play though the offline mission with other people, then do it. Yup, you can play coop with up to 4 players. Pretty intense I must say. Teamwork is definately vital to success. There are some missions that are near impossible without good teamwork.

While you may experience some lag, it definately isn't bothersome. You won't be shooting at someone and suddenly he vanishes and I'm talking about 16 players here. Very stable I must say. If you are familiar with Wolfenstein, then the lag is definately better than that. You can use a sniper rifle and not worry about someone skipping across the screen. Your connection speed is shown with stars, one to three with three being the best. Most people have a three star connection. I can host games of up to eight people (using a cable connection) and a dedicated server of 16.

The controll setup is pretty good, and you can choose from a number of predefined setups. Luckily you can also invert the Y stick. Night vision and thermal vision are just a button away, and I truly find them useful, especially when you can't see through the smoke. Using thermal vision, you can see people on the other side of a door, but not through walls(and for good reason). You can choose a southpaw control setup if you desire. However, you can't set each button as you can do in Moto GP.

The number of people keep growing and it grows very fast. The last time I checked there were 200K+ people. The total number of players is displayed at the top of the statistic board.

If you've been wondering if this game is worth the purchase, my reply is it definately is. Go pick this game up and stop those terrorist.

Very well put together shooter!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 21
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So far I have only played through part of the single player portion of this game but I can already say that it is one of the best first person shooters I have ever played! To start off, the game has excellent graphics, very similar to Splinter cell. In fact, you can call this game "team splinter cell" with the high tech gadgets replaced with great weaponry! The weapons in this game will cause you to drool...All of the best assualt rifles, sub-machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades & grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns make it into the arsenal for rainbow.
I am also amazed by all the team commands you can give to your other 3 team members. Entering a room has never been better.... such as blowing the door down, using a flashbang entry, frag entry, or just opening the door guns blazing. It's really cool! The single player campaign is similar in style to splinter cell, but it's a lot more realistic & believable and of course more action packed.
Now the only gripe I had with rainbow were the controls. Placing the target on an enemy is a little difficult, because the joystick seems slightly sensitive on the xbox controller. But other than that, the game is near perfect! And that's just the single player! I have yet to play it against a friend or on LIVE. If the single player is this good, then I am more than sure the multi-player & online play is excellent. Definitly worth getting!!!

The Most Realistic First-Person-Shooter To Date.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ubisofts latest Tom Clancy military FPS, Rainbow Six 3, is simply the best to date. Gameplay wise Rainbow Six 3 (R63) plays like a typical FPS. There are two big things that excell this Rainbow over the others. 1) The AI for your squad is much better this time around. The squad members are very good about cover themselves and setting up perimeter covers. 2) The orders you give your squad are very accurate to military monuvers. I also love the ZULU tatics making it posible to storm rooms from two different doors at the same time. Other things I really enjoyed about this Rainbow Is the weopon selection. There are alot of primary and secondary weopons to choose from and also a good selection of grenades to aid you. If you enjoy the Ghost Recon games then you will love Rainbow Six 3. The only thing missing from R63 is smarter AI for the terrorist, though not push overs they are not the sharpest tools in the shed at times. Over all Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 is a very realistic FPS and a thrill to play. This is a MUST BUY!! for X-box owners.

WOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You are Ding Chavez or your Xbox Live screenname whatever it is in this fast-paced first person shooter.This game has cool missions,cool equipment and cool Xbox Live modes.The Xbox Live modes can be Coop or Adversarial,Adversarial is better though,you can stratagize with your team-mates and whipe out the enemies with stealth but then again you can run out with your whole squad with guns-a-blazin',you can also do this in single-player with the Xbox Live headset.You can say to your A.I. buddies "Open flash and clear."so the open the door throw in a flashbang and clear the next room.here is a list of some commands.

"Open,flash,and clear."
"FRAG!"
"Regroup."
"Climb."
"Breach and clear."
"Hold."

The game has shooting coolness of Ghost Recon and stealth/affects of Splinter Cell,and stuff from the old Rainbow's.Its not as realistic as the PC version which is a bit better because on PC I spawned and I lost 5 seconds later.Some cool tactics are to lean over corners,use thermal and night vision,and crouch(sorry no prone this time).Overall this game is great and very fun.I would recommend this over the PC version.

You know what I noticed.......Where's Rainbow Six 2?

The Best Military Game on Xbox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although Halo was awesome, I'd been wanting a game that was more realistic unlike Halo and other mainstream first-person shooters. I have a military background, so I ordered Ghost Recon on Amazon, but while waiting for it in the mail, I picked up Rainbow Six 3 at my local Babbage's. To make a short story shorter, Rainbow Six 3 has been in the Xbox since long after Ghost Recon arrived.

Rainbow Six 3 has an awesome small arms collection: sub-machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles; cool semi-auto pistols like the HK USP. It has several types of explosives you can use like claymore mines, flashbangs and grenades like smoke, willy pete, frags and CS.

The gameplay on Rainbow Six is just plain awesome. It's not Halo where you can jump up and expose yourself and live to tell about it. In Rainbow Six, like in real life, if you get shot in the head once, you die. If you get shot a few times in other places, you are either dead or badly wounded. If you move fast and make noise, the enemy knows you're there. If you move slowly and silently, you are undetected. You are able to use real life tactics like quick-peeking around corners, slicing the pie, dynamic entries into rooms, using your team to cover you while you disable a bomb or secure a hostage. And when the gunfight is on, it's a lot of fun. I repeat, it's a lot of fun.

The controls on the game are very responsive. Once I got the input sensitivity adjusted to my liking, the controls became an extension of my hand. Switching weapons and reloading is easy and takes a realistic amounts of time. The graphics are the best I've seen yet on the Xbox in my small collection of games and the games I've rented. You can see shadows of your enemy as you are approaching corners, if you look at a flash bang as it goes off, you are disoriented for about twenty seconds. The sound on the game is awesome. The gunfire, explosions and other sounds are very realistic. On my home theater system, the explosions were just booming through my subwoofer and rocking the house. The communication between team members is adequate.

Occasionally, a team member may do something stupid like run in front of you while your are shooting at a terrorist. And some of the terrorists occasionally use stupid tactics like the kamikaze charge whereafter they quickly become paper weights. These are small faults that do not take away from the overall gameplay.

I say if you are in the market for a first person shooter or a military style game, Rainbow Six 3 is where it's at.

Rainbow Six 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Unlike its PC counterpart of a similar name, Rainbow Six 3 for the Xbox is much more action oriented. In the PC version, which is also an awesome game, you could take control of up to four teams with several team members on each ala Ghost Recon. The amount of customazation was incredible, you could choose everything that each person had, down to the kind of ammo that they used in their guns. This was a great concept, but you never felt personally attatched to any of your operatives. When one would die you would think nothing of it and just switch to another one. Essentially, there meatbags with guns.

In the XBOX version, you play as Ding (Domingo) Chavez, and always have a team of 3 other people with you. You cannot switch control between each of the operatives, so you become more attached to the character your using. Each of the operatives have different personalities which are actually funny in a stupid kind of way. In the XBOX version, you get to do alot more shooting, mainly because your other teams aren't running through the level gunning down everyone before you have a chance to do a decent amount of shooting. That said, the AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Rainbow Six 3 for XBOX is much better than in the PC version. I remember many times where an entire team would be gunned down by a single enemy because my team refused to attack them until it was too late.

The real draw of this title is the XBOX live play. Basically, if you have XBOX live, you must buy this title because it is easily the best available on live. Voice communication makes you more involved with your team and allows for efficient communication and an unparalleled level of realism (nothing spoils the realism like an "lol" or "lmao" right in the middle of a level). I reccommend that you get the game, you will not be dissappointed.

OK-Bad Missions: Great Online Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, the misisons do stink, but playing online with/or against friends is one of the best games ever. Forget Counter-Strike online...This tops it off. It's always new everytime you play online, becuase the people are differn't so are the stratagies. If you have Live, get this...but if you don't, it's a waste of $$$$$$

Overall Greatly Satisfying

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

I have had this game now since Saturday - November 8, 2003 - and three days later I am already trying to figure out how to complete the last level/mission. So one can see it's a little short, althought it features 14 missions. Having played Rainbow Six 1 and Rainbow Six 2, i really looked forward to this installment. I download the Demo to the PC version, which has better visuals and more controls options - obviously, because one has much more buttoms to utilize. In all the previous version one could switch between the character and one could select a team of four out of 10+ characters. This option is now gone. One is now stuck with Domingo "Ding" Chavez throughout the game, and once he dies the game is over, one cannot change to another character and continue. Mission planning is also gone. And so on, so basically the Xbox version is a stripped-down version of the PC version - I am aware that they are not the same game, but they are close, both have been released this year.
The Xbox version is great nonetheless, but after seeing the PC version a little dissappointing. This game has great features over other and previous version of it. One has a great multi-player, but unfortunately only via System-Link, or Xbox Live. And this is the second game - S.W.A.T: Global Strike Team being the first - to issue the ability to utilize a headset in order to bark close to 90 commands at your CPU teammates - single player mode. Physics are nicely done, especially the rag-doll effect, which has been improved over the latest PC version. Rainbow Six 3 also features trademark Tom Clancy storyline and very nicely done cutscenes with excellent cinematography - for a video game. After completing a mission one can customize a mission for that map and one then has the ability to choose from doing a "Practise Mission" - just practicing that mission and "Terrortist Hunt" - having the selected map and just doing it with your squad and basically clearing the map of hostile occupation.

Overall a well-made king; king of Xbox Live; 4 3/4 Stars; 95%.

Best Addition to date.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six 3 is the best addition to the library of Clancy games thus far. The graphics rival Splinter Cell's, and on some parts i think they are better. Lighting is beautiful, as well as environments and character models... Much better than the Ghost Recon graphics. The gameplay is very easy to get the hang of, but if you want to really master the game you will have to put in a lot of time. The tactical element is definitely there. With every room you enter you will need to read the situation, consider your options, and take the necessary actions for keeping yourself and your team alive (not to mention the hostages).
Giving commands to your team even without the headset is a breeze. I love the Zulu Go Code. It is a huge asset when entering rooms with more than one entrance, and ensures everyone a greater chance of survival. The control scheme is simple and allows you to utilize everything you need to without any hassle. The only complaint i have is that it takes too long to pull out a grenade and throw it during one of the many fast-paced firefights. Aside fomr this everything is perfect. The game itself is very realistic, as two or three well placed shots will kill you every time (unless of course they shoot you in the head, thats an instant kill). The difficulty level of the game is a bit high, even on easy mode.
One of the best things about the level design is that none of the environments or levels are repetitive in any way. With every house, back alley, room, office, hallway, rooftop, sewer pipe, garden, courtyard, and forest (well sort of) that you enter...you will never see the same set-up twice. The AI is very, very smart and uses anything and everything possible for their benefit, as you will also be doing (if you want to live). They will try to flank you from behind, attack in groups when possible, throw grenades, shoot blindly around corners (without showing themselves), and basicly do anything they cant to prevent you from succeediing. This means you will have to be accurate and fast in hostage situations. The other 3 elite killers on your team are also a very long ways from stupid and will execute tasks such as "Open and clear", "open, frag and clear", "Breach door and clear", and many other commands without putting themselves at any unecessary risk.
Most games claim to have varied gamepley, but Rainbow Six 3 uses different types of it better than any game i have previously played: It delivers the element of fast, furious firefights very well. You will also need to use stealth and refrain from killing on some missions. Sometimes you will have to assume a sniper's role...but it is still all based on the strategic and tactical gameplay this series is known for.
Your basic objectives will be one of a few things on every mission. It could be to simply clear a building or area, but usually you will defusing bombs, rescuing hostages and defectors as well as escorting them to safety (NOT an easy task), eliminate certain people, tap phones, hack computers for documents, and find physical evidence to link crimes together for your intel squad.
The online multiplayer is awesome. There is, of course, a deathmatch mode where you kill eachother which is made very interesting by the fact that only 2 or 3 shots will kill you , which means you wont waste a whole M16 clip on your friend only to have him run away before you can reload and later have him nail you in the head. The cooperative is also very fun because, although your AI teammates are smart, they arent quite as gifted as humans at, well...thinking. It opens up many more options for how to approach any given mission.
Well im sick of typing so thats all im going to say, but everyone who has the Box should own this title. It rocks.

my favorite tom clancy game yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far my favorite Rainbow Six game yet. It's graphics are superb and the gameplay is awesome. One of my favorite things about it is if you have the headset, you can give orders to your squad verbally. For example, if you pointed your gun at a door and say "open and flash", then your team will open the door, and then throw a flashbang grenade in. I would give this game 4.8/5 stars because there are a few things that were better in the other Rainbow 6 games. Such as: You can only be one person (Ding) and if you die the mission is over. Also, you cant plan what your team will do personally. On the bright side, the graphics are excellent, almost like Splinter Cell's (Almost) and there are 50+ weapons to choose from, anything from flashbang grenade to desert eagles to antitank rocket launchers.
One thing may slow you down though: it's M rating thats what I thought but when I played it there was only a tiny bit of blood and no gore that I could see. I would have rated it T.

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