Customer Reviews

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was psyched to pick it up in the store while traveling. Got home... took 10 minutes to install it (damned starforce protection) and WOW!!! IT SUCKS!

I could not believe what has happened to Red Storm Entertainment since they were bought. (...). UBI Soft throws its fans NOTHING. OOOOOoooo!!! They actually allowed it to be modded by the fans! Thanks guys! They did it because they KNEW it would suck out of the box.

Is it patchable? Who knows... when Ubi Soft produces such crap I would not waste my time modding it.

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.

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.

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.

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.....