Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Track down a hidden neo-fascist organization in a race against time to stop their evil plot
• Travel from the Caribbean to Rio De Janeiro to London in a desperate effort to stop a psychotic doomsday plot
• In 15 exciting single-player missions, you'll use real counter-terrorist tactics and military weapons
• Over 50 weapons, from handguns to rocket launchers, as you battle in 30 different Specialist modes
• Nine all-new multiplayer modes, for up to 16 other players connected via LAN or Internet

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000ANCVLI
• Item Weight: 7 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,691 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform:  WINDOWS 98/ME/2000/XP Publisher:  UBI SOFT Packaging:  JEWEL CASE Rating:  MATURE Command an elite multinational squad of special operatives against a hidden terrorist foe. In Raven Shield the third installment to the wildly popular Rainbow Six series RAINBOW races against time to stop terror and unravel a mystery. In locations around the world from London to the Caribbean to Rio de Janeiro lead team RAINBOW in a desperate effort to battle a madman and foil his doomsday plot.Features: Fifteen all-new single-player missions 6 dedicated multiplayer maps. Built on next generation Unreal technology for unequaled visual effects. Fifty-seven weapons with real-world accessories for endless customization. New multiplayer modes and rules for online play. Real-world tactics and methods from Mike Grasso Senior Instructor for LAPD SWAT and LAPD Medal of Valor winner. System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP 600 MHz CPU 128 MB RAM 32MB DirectX 8.1 or higher DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card High speed Internet connection.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Best, July 5, 2011

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Pandamonium - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (CD-ROM)

I've played every single kind of FPS from the heavily saturated Battlefield Series games to the overwhelmingly popular Call of Duty series. Here are the problems I've always had with those other games: they're always unrealistic no matter how hard they try. In Call of Duty: Black OPS for example, you still have to shoot someone 5-6 times with an assault rifle from two feet away just to kill them. It seems like every single modernized warfare game fails to deliver the unparalleled realism that Rainbow Six: Raven Shield has. This game was made in 2005 and it still beats all modern shooters!

Here are just a few of the features this game introduces that have yet to be matched by any other franchise:

1) Proper Weapon Dynamics- Whenever you fire a self-repeating or gas-operated firearm, recoil is incredibly dependent on several factors and not just the caliber. Just because you're firing a 9x19mm submachine gun, for example, doesn't mean it's not going to kick that severely. Barrel length, grip placement, etc. all play into the recoil of the gun. This game takes that into account on every single weapon.

2) Reloading- Every FPS has you pull out a magazine, put in a fresh one, and charge the weapon. Here's the problem with that: if you still have a round in the chamber, you don't have to charge the weapon when you slap in a new magazine. Only the Rainbow Six franchise has taken this into account. Additionally, the ammunition system is tallied by how many MAGAZINES you have on you and not how many BULLETS you have. This is also extremely realistic. You don't count bullets, you count magazines.

3) Kill Shot System- Most tangos drop dead after two or three shots from a primary weapon like they should. If you have a large caliber, unsilence weapon they drop after one shot. Realism is maintained as well if you go up against targets in a harder setting as they have body armor on.

4) Injury- If you do luck out and survive a shot to the body, you will experience both the best and worst part of this game. You proceed to limp around for the rest of the mission and it directly affects your accuracy unless you're standing/aiming perfectly still. Even if you just turn to aim somewhere else, your crosshairs bug out and shake with the pain.

5) Medical Leave- If one of your operatives gets taken down during a mission, they can be listed as DEAD on the duty roster if they are hit in a vital area. If they die, they're gone for the rest of the game. If they are listed as INCAPACITATED, they were hit in non-vital areas. This makes them available after an additional mission has been played and they've had enough time to "recover". Also, if a team member is injured during a mission, they also need an additional mission to recover.

6) Enhanced Difficulty- The harder the difficulty setting, the faster you die. The higher difficulty settings do three things to all tangos: they make them more tactically gifted, they dawn more body armor, and their weapons are significantly more upgraded. In all other FPS games the higher the difficulty just means that you have less health and they have more health.

There are way more features to this game other than these. All of them make it that much more unrealistic. After waiting and wanting an FPS that is truly realistic, I finally got it when this game was released. If you're looking for more, check out any of the other Rainbow Six games. It's the only franchise that has this level of combat simulation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RVS still rocks, July 17, 2007

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James M. Lanning (martinsburg,wv) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (CD-ROM)

Even after the years sense its release, it is still a number one game in the rainbow six line up. From the planning of the single play missions to the online ownage ubi know what they were doing and did it right.
Tight controls, the best graphices of its day, and a nice list of real weapons from 92sf pistal to the m60e4 light machinegun make it the winner it is.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great first person shooter, January 5, 2010

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BRB (Naples, FL) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (CD-ROM)

Classic rainbow Six game, my son loves it and is an avid MGS fan. This game does not work on anything higher than XP and I could not find patches for Vista.