Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Realistic ragdoll physics deliver staggering realism and spectacular close quarter firefights
• Increasingly intelligent enemy A.I.
• New weapons and equipment
• Tension-building Sound effects
• Superior multiplayer experience with Adversarial & Cooperative modes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007DGB44
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,520 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Your team stalks terror for a living. Now terror is stalking you. You've got cutting-edge weaponry and peerless military training. They've got a man-made virus, capable of killing millions. You have the world's best operatives. They have one of your men hostage. The chips are stacked. Ready to tango? In the near future, terror has escalated to a new level: bioterrorism. A global terrorist network threatens to strike with a terrifying nanotech virus - but the target is uncertain. Team Rainbow, an elite counter-terrorism unit, is spearheading a new war on terror. They are the only ones who can save millions of innocent lives threatened by radical terrorists. But when Team Rainbow is personally attacked, close-quarter battles reach unprecedented levels of tension and intensity. They will do whatever it takes to protect their people and bring then home. Team Rainbow does not negotiate with terror. They destroy it.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not the same game, October 12, 2005

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Eric L. Willard (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown (Video Game)

Ok..If you're looking for mindless, look around a corner and shoot bad guys, have fun with this.

There's no mapping. This means you have no idea what the terrain, size of the building etc is. So this makes the game pretty linear. There's one or 2 ways to get to the doorway to the next board.

Teammates:
Your teammates, even if you tell them to hold, will come running to where you are if you fire a round (this usually gets them killed). When I told them to hold, then threw a grenade, they ran to the grenade and died.

Weapons:
There's only one weapon with a silencer. Sniping on a console sucks. Give me back my PC and track ball sniping. Even on the normal level, one hit to my teammates was killing them and they just stood there. I'm on the last sniping board and enemies are firing on my team as the enter the screen which gives me zero time to snipe them before they kill my teammate. IF ONE DIES, YOU FAIL. No other boards fail you if a member dies!!!???

Enemies:
Pretty much look alike. Most are very similar. Although the AI is smart, bad guys spawned behind me after I secured a room. So they didn't have to be too smart to spawn and pick off my team.

Cheats:
Don't trust the cheats screen.
I got curious and used my points for invisibility. It doesn't make the whole team invisible. They get shot just as fast. The cheats screen says your whole team is invisible. nuh uh.
One shot kills works fine though.

GOOD: The cinematics were pretty good. You learn more about the team members.

ok..good..any more good stuff to say...nope

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing Flop, December 29, 2005

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Daniel A. Duffield (NAVSTA, San Diego) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown (Video Game)

I am a long-time fan of the original series. This title is not a wonderful improvement, as all fans were expecting. There are some definite strengths, but they are severely overshadowed by this title's shortcomings. I'll make this as simple as possible.

Strengths:

* High detail map scenery. Graphics look awesome. Also, smoke grenades look much more dense, like the fire extinguisher explosions in RS3.
* Breach Order. Now you can finally order your team to breach a door and clear a room. Previously, it was ONLY the player's responsibility to breach. New options of breaching also. Shotgun is now capable of taking the door off its hinges. A standard shotgun blast breach also looks more realistic than in previous versions--the door swings open, then closed, then open, and flaps like so. Player can walk right in, no buttons to push to open the door once it has been breached in this fashion.
* Some enemies are much tougher, but not unrealistically. They still die, but sometimes fight ferociously, leading to interesting battles. Grenades thus become an essential tool in ending a firefight that drags on.
* New Secondaries: The Maul allows someone to breach a door mechanically, though this method is slow. Stun grenades complement the ordinary array of flashbangs. Finally, Willy Pete, or White Phosphorus grenades will light your foe like a candle, with fun visuals of "screaming alphas."
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Weaknesses:

* By far, the single most aggravating thing about the game is the oversimplification of the weapons. Customizing a gun--adding a suppressor, hi-cap Beta C-Mag, or scope--was one of the greatest attributes of Rainbow Six 3. Not only has the weapon choice been reduced by more than half, but this ability to customize has been revoked. Don't worry about choosing ammo type either. Revoked. Picking your teammates? REVOKED! Oh, I almost forgot... one thing that made Raven Shield leaps and bounds better than any other tactical shooter, was its "combat loaded" round-in-the-chamber weapon realism. When swapping magazines, if a live round was present in the chamber, IT STAYED THERE, giving the possibility of a full magazine capacity + 1 round. In the new game, a change of magazines translates into the removal of this realistic extra round. Where did it go? Down to one round in your 30 round mag? No problem, change mags and you'll have a combat loaded 31 rounds, right? WRONG! Lame!
* There's still no such thing as a heart beat sensor.
* Game is made for arcade, not for a serious tactical shooter. Teammates don't follow orders. Oh sure, they'll try, but they will forget what you told them as soon as a firefight breaks out. And they won't remember after it's finished unless you "remind" them. Better to just shoot your teammates. More realistic. No planning anymore. As one comment noted, maps are LINEAR. There are about one or two ways of accomplishing a goal. No more DYNAMIC tactics. This is HIGHLY frustrating, as it leaves nothing to the imagination. The game plays like a script. After the game is played, there is no way to revive it by making different choices in the field, or trying new routes to an objective. It loses its playability instantly after it is completed. However, I STILL enjoy playing Rogue Spear, Urban Ops, and Raven Shield (3rd installment).

Don't expect a tactical shooter. Buy Raven Shield instead, there are still plenty of people playing it, and there are many map packs available online. If you pay more than $20-$25 for this game (after shipping), you're getting ripped off.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun shooter but it's not the Rainbow we knew way back., October 9, 2005

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J. Ng - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown (Video Game)

I have followed the Rainbow Six series from the very first version for the PC. Before, it was the most realistic shooter with great pre-mission planning. This was a "sim" on how counter-terror guys really operate.

Sadly, the Rainbow Six series deviated from it's roots and evolved (or should I say "devolved" if there's such a term) into a generic shooter with minimal squad commands.

Good points:
Nice graphics and enviromnental effects.
A lot of enemies to shoot at that shoot back.
More action packed levels instead of stealth based (infact, your guns don't sport silencers anymore).
Cinematic movies.

Bad points:
Goggle view is lame and unrealistic.
Your characters don't wear masks and helmets (Real counter-terror operatives use masks)
No more pre-mission planning (same comment with Rainbow Six 3)
No recognizable differences among firearms (just the difference in sighting mechanism).

Bottomline:
For people looking for realistic counter-terror ops, this is not the game for you. But for people looking for fun action shooters, this game is good enough.

I'm just playing this because of the fun factor. Too bad the realism that was present in the previous games was scrapped out.

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