Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

by Red Storm Entertainment

Product Features

• Platform: PC
• T - Teen
• Action, Adventure, First-Person Shooter

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000DMAH
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 17, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,532 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a classic Clancy-style story where you lead an elite multinational task force battling international terrorism in highly realistic settings. Game play is organized around a series of missions in which you must plan and execute precise assaults on terrorist installations. As your mission advances, you uncover a larger and more sinister conspiracy, where the fate of the world hangs in the balance. And unlike other games, if you make a mistake, you're gone--because in the real world, one shot counts.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You gotta get this game!, November 14, 1999

By 

Garry Cook (Littleton, New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (CD-ROM)

This game is it! If you have ever wanted to be on a S.W.A.T. team without the boot camp work this game is for you. First you must carefully pick you team, weapons for your team,armor for your team, and much more. Then you must plan your mission strategy. Then you execute the mission. Now this game is so reaistic because if you get hit in the head your dead and if you get hit somewhere else you probably won't survive more than 2 shots unlike other games where you can just walk around getting shot and not die for a while. And that's why planning your strategy is so improtant. Also once your freind dies hes dead the whole game. So get the game cause if you don't you are missing out on far to much fun.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Needs hardware, but rules supreme., September 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (CD-ROM)

Rainbow Six is loosely based around the Tom Clancy novel with the same name. In the game, you lead a team of elite counter terrorism troopers to take down "tangos" or terrorists in a variety of locations.

Pros: Comprehensive and fully realized, the presentation is close to flawless. The game allows you to pick team members, their gear, their strategy and combat plans, and then lets you lead them into combat. An excellent idea, and the strategy parts of the game can take an our to plan out before you even enter the mission. The missions can be very hard, just because one hit kills. If you get hit at close range, your guy is dead for the rest of the campaign. Thus you must move silently and stealthily to take out terrorists before they see you, or it's gonna be a can-you-shoot-faster-and-better-than-him contest. And one error and it's game over.

Cons: Graphics are not very spectacular unless you have a serious processer (ie, Pentium II, above 233 mhz) and some serious 3D hardware (OpenGL, Voodoo II, ATI RAGE, etc). Otherwise, get ready to groan as your spiffy Pentium 366 is only able to run R6 in 320x240 resolution which doesn't look great. Also, your team of crack commandos seem brainless as they run around in circles getting shot, just because they don't understand the concept of backing you up. And you can't peek around corners, so one hit kills can become very adrenaline pumping.

Overall: A very solid buy. If you don't mind bad graphics, I'd seriously fork out the cash for the CPU and 3D gear. multiplayer can be a blast to play, single-player will keep you interested for a very long time, and the game just rocks. It may not seem impressive in this review, but the basic gameplay works fine and remains being insanely fun. Buy it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yard Sale Deal, December 9, 2003

By 

John Kolecki "-J. Ko" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (CD-ROM)

I picked this up at a yard sale along with the expansion pack (eagle watch) and the hint book. All 3 items are now bundled as a "gold edition". While it is a few years old, I was quickly amazed by how the real the scenarios were set up. The game itself plays like Thief, that is, hiding and sneaking and taking your shots when you can. If you are used to playing Doom/Quake/Unreal style of combat games and want fast and furios non-stop blowup action this game is not for you. You may have to sit and wait a minute or two for a guard to complete his patrol to line up a shot 50 yards away, only to miss him by inches. The overall graphics and sound are good for the date of this game. There isn't any theme music or background music. If you are near the ocean, that's what you hear... the waves. If you are in a dam, you will hear the deafening turbines spinning, and not the guard sneaking up on you from behind. Well thought out and well executed. As I write this, Rainbow Six 3 has been released and I am looking forward to Rogue Spear and other missions. My only serious complaint of this game is that, on occasion, the A.I. will do some strange things with the targets (like run into a corner and stand silently, instead of fleeing or firing back) Also, from time to time should you fail to meet and objective the mission will end suddenly and you may not understand why you failed the mission. The game simply will inform you that you did not complete a given task. (frusturating)