Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Publisher

composer

Bill Brown

August 21, 1998 (Win)
1999 (Mac, PS, N64)
Eagle Watch :
January 31, 1999 (Win), November 16, 2000 (GBC)

Windows , Mac OS , Dreamcast , Xbox , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation Portable , GameCube , Nintendo 64 , Game Boy Color , Apple iOS

system advantages
preconditions

Windows 3x / 95, 100 MHz CPU , 4 MB RAM , 50 MB free hard disk space, 800 KB graphics card, DirectX 5.0 sound, 2x CD

information

The Game Boy Color version was rated 6 by USK. PEGI at 12.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is the first part of the series. It was developed by Red Storm Entertainment and was released in 1998 first for Windows and then in 1999 for PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Macintosh.

The concept and the background story was created by Tom Clancy, who wrote the novel Rainbow Six during the development of the game . Many characters from the book can be found in the game and the plot is similar.

With Rainbow Six: Eagle Watch , an add-on was released at the beginning of 1999.

Gameplay

Rainbow Six is a so-called tactical shooter, which means that great emphasis is placed on strategy and tactics and that rash action usually does not lead to the goal. The game is very realistic, so players, teammates and terrorists (also called tangos in the game ) can usually be put out of action with just one or two shots.

Before each mission, the planning phase takes place, which gives the player the opportunity to plan and weigh up the commitment and approach of the team and his own approach. Teammates, equipment, weapons and waypoints are also set.

In the actual mission, the player takes on the role of a team leader of one of the teams. The player can switch back and forth between the team leaders as long as the team leaders are alive. The team of which the player is the leader can be controlled directly by commands. The other teams follow the waypoints established in the planning phase.

The missions form a campaign through which the plot runs. If a teammate dies in a mission, it cannot be used in further missions.

In contrast to other shooters, the weapon that the player is holding is only shown in the PlayStation version of the game. All other versions only show the target cross.

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The plot of the game is very similar to the plot of the novel, but differs in parts from it.

In 1999, the newly assembled anti-terrorist unit Rainbow was deployed for the first time. Some of the unit's elite soldiers come from NATO member countries; from the US, UK, Germany, Israel and France. The newly appointed director of the unit is John Clark and the team leader on the field is Domingo "Ding" Chavez.

Several seemingly incoherent terrorist attacks and hostage-taking are thwarted by Rainbow. As it turns out, the terrorist acts were all planned and carried out by an organization called the Phoenix Group . The company, which is owned by a person by the name of John Brightling, has set itself the task of wiping out almost all of humanity in the name of conservation with the help of the “Shiva” supervirus.

The attacks were intended to spread fear of terrorism around the world, and to help John Brightling sign a security contract for the Sydney Olympics, from where he plans to spread the virus.

Team Rainbow successfully prevents the virus from being released and follows John Brighling and the employees of the Phoenix Group into the Brazilian jungle, where the fanatics have set up a headquarters for the survival of the virus. Eventually all members of the fanatical association are hunted down, John Brightling and the surviving supporters are left behind in the jungle.

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

September 22, 1999 (Win)
2000 (Mac OS)
2001 (PS1), 2006 (GBA)

Windows , Mac OS , Dreamcast , PlayStation , Game Boy Advance

system advantages
preconditions

Windows 3x / 95/98, 266 MHz CPU , 16 MB RAM , 150 MB free hard disk space, 8 MB graphics card, DirectX 6.1 sound, 8xCD

CD-ROM , download

Current version

Main game: 2.05
Urban Ops : 2.52
Black Thorn : 2.61

information

GBA version of PEGI and USK approved for ages 12 and over.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear is the second installment in the series. It is based on the same graphics and game engine and has a very similar gameplay to the first part of the series. As in the previous game, the player must take action against terrorists who have taken hostages or who have weapons of mass destruction in their possession. The game is also kept very realistic and tactics, strategy and planning play a major role.

Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear was developed by Red Storm Entertainment and first released for PC in 1999, Dreamcast in 2000, and PlayStation in 2001. A total of three add-ons have been released for Rogue Spear , two of which can be played without the main game.

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Many of the missions in Rogue Spear are not related to each other, but there is a main story about the Russian mafia boss Maxim Kutkin and the international arms dealer Samed Vezirzade. In 2001, the two plan to produce nuclear weapons themselves and sell them on the black market with the help of Vezirzade's contacts. Hence the name Rogue Spear , which refers to the possession of nuclear weapons by a non-governmental organization or person.

Add-ons

Urban Operations

The first add-on, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Urban Operations ( Urban Ops for short ) was released for the PC in 2000 and contains eight new and five revised maps that were previously released with the first part of the series.

Covert Operations Essentials

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Operations Essentials ( Covert Ops for short ) is an independent expansion for which the main game is not absolutely necessary. It contains a training simulator with a total of six levels, three main levels and an interactive terrorism lexicon that was only published in English. While the three main missions have no connection and no continuous story is told, the other six missions are to be regarded as training simulators. Of course you can play terrorist hunt, hostage rescue and the other modes on all maps.

Black Thorn and Lone Wolf

With Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn in 2001 appeared the third add-on, which in turn gave the opportunity to be played without the main game. It contains a new campaign with nine missions, six new multiplayer levels, new weapons and the new multiplayer mode Lone Wolf . For the PlayStation, a slimmed-down port of Black Thorn was distributed as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf .

Takedown

An add-on marketed exclusively in South Korea and therefore very little known in Europe is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Takedown, developed by the South Korean developer Kama . It includes a new campaign that involves a majority South Korean team Rainbow. The game also includes 19 new maps and 15 new weapons. All graphics and models have been completely recreated based on the Rogue Spear Engine.

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

March 21, 2003

Windows , Mac OS , PlayStation 2 , Xbox , GameCube

Game engine

Unreal Engine 2

system advantages
preconditions

Windows 98/2000 / XP / MAC, 800 MHz CPU , 128 MB RAM , 350 MB free hard disk space, 64 MB graphics card, DirectX 9.0 sound card, 32xCD

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Current version

Main game: 1.60
Athena Sword 1.10

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield was developed by Red Storm Entertainment, distributed by Ubisoft and is the third installment in the series. It was released on March 21, 2003 and is the first part of the series to use Unreal Engine 2.0. For consoles, the game was released as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 , the title line Raven Shield was omitted.

The gameplay of the game differs a little from its two predecessors. So the game has been adapted to the mainstream market by z. B. the level of difficulty has been reduced and other features such as the visibility of the weapon in the first-person view have been adopted from popular shooters. The new features also include a completely redesigned multiplayer mode. There is also no planning phase in the console version, there is only one team consisting of three comrades, and the player can no longer switch back and forth between characters as usual.

The console version of Rainbow Six 3 differs in large parts from the PC version. The places where the missions take place are similar, but the plot is completely different, and the multiplayer and other game mechanics as well as the gameplay differ drastically.

Ubisoft released an add-on for PC and Xbox, titled Athena Sword and Black Arrow . Furthermore, the free add-on Iron Wrath developed by Ubisoft was released for download on June 9, 2005 at FilePlanet.

Plot (pc)

The plot begins in the past in 1945 when two members of the Croatian Ustaša regime, which is close to Nazi Germany, manage to escape the country with a large amount of Holocaust booty.

Sixty years later, in 2005, Team Rainbow faces a new threat. Neo-fascist terrorists carry out attacks against South American oil companies and European financial institutions. Team Rainbow follows in the footsteps of Argentina, where billionaire Nikola Gospic and right-wing presidential candidate Alvero Guitierrez are embroiled in the matter. Gospic is one of the two Ustaša officials who managed to disappear from Croatia with a lot of money.

Dying of liver cancer, the now multi-billion dollar gospic wants to put his stamp on the world one last time by resurrecting global fascism. To do this, he wants to use a nerve gas to kill thousands of people in South America in order to cause a global crisis, which is said to result in price drops in the South American oil fields. According to Gospic's plan, these then cheap oil fields would then be bought by his companies to fund an international fascist movement. In order to be able to proceed undisturbed in all his projects, he finances the presidential candidate Guitierrez, who in return guarantees him political protection.

Rainbow Six manages to prevent this and brings down the fascists before they can complete their plan and cause greater damage.

Add-ons (PC)

Athena Sword

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword is the first add-on for Raven Shield. The development was taken over by Ubisoft Milan , it was released on March 9, 2004 for the PC. It expands the main game with a new campaign with eight missions, three new multiplayer modes, new multiplayer levels and seven new weapons, set in Italy.

Iron Wrath

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath is the second add-on to Raven Shield. Ubisoft Casablanca had it in development for almost two years before they decided to make it available for download. It contains, among other things, a new campaign with seven missions, eight new multiplayer levels and six new weapons. This mod is only available for the English version of the game.

Plot (consoles)

Rainbow Six is called on to act after attacks against US stakeholders in South America. It appears that fundamentalist Islamists financed by Saudi Arabia are behind what happened. However, this is an attempt to deceive, because in reality the newly elected Venezuelan President Juan Crespo is behind it. This has worked out a plan with the help of which he wants to cause an oil crisis in order to be able to sell the oil deposits in his own country better. This plan also includes nerve gas attacks on US cities. Crespo won the election because he created fear of terrorism through attacks he himself orchestrated, and then scored points with the population with his anti-terrorist election program.

However, Team Rainbow manages to contain Crespo's activities, track him down and hunt him down, which ultimately results in the president's death. The press is now being told that the terrorists killed Crespo in order to avoid any rumors about the existence of Rainbow Six.

Add-on (Xbox)

Black Arrow

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow is a standalone expansion for Rainbow Six 3 . It was developed and published by Ubisoft and released on August 5th, 2004. Among other things, it contains two new multiplayer modes.

Rainbow Six: Lockdown

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

Publisher

Ubisoft

September 6, 2005 (PS2, Xbox)
September 27, 2005 (Game Cube)
February 16, 2006 (Win)

Windows , PlayStation 2 , Xbox , GameCube

system advantages
preconditions

Windows 2000 / XP, 1.5 GHz CPU , 512 MB RAM , 7 GB free hard disk space, 128 MB graphics card, DirectX 9.0a sound, 32x CD

DVD-ROM , download

Current version

1.01

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is the fourth main part of the series. The basic design and the PlayStation 2 version of the game were developed by Red Storm Entertainment, the Xbox version by Ubisoft Montreal. The title, like the previous titles, was published by Ubisoft. Lockdown was released on September 9, 2005 for PS2 and Xbox, on September 27, 2005 for Gamecube and on February 10, 2006 for Windows.

In addition to the campaign comprising 16 missions, the game also includes a multiplayer mode.

Gameplay

Lockdown follows the trend already indicated with Rainbow Six 3 and takes a big step towards more action-heavy game mechanics. The complete planning phase and other tactical and strategic elements that were essential in the predecessor are missing. As a result, the gameplay is similar in many ways to other first-person shooters.

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In Lockdown , Rainbow fights against a global terror network consisting of a wide variety of left-wing extremists, anarchists and third world organizations. The network is called the Global Liberation Front (GLF for short). The organization has stolen an artificially created nano-virus called Legion and is now threatening to use it. Legion has a 100% death rate.

The task of Team Rainbow is now to smash individual terrorist cells in various countries (including Algeria, South Africa, France and other European countries). Things get tricky when the team's sniper, Dieter Weber, is kidnapped by the terrorists and the team carries out a rescue operation against orders to the contrary. Ultimately, the man behind the GLF, Bastian Vanderwaal, is hunted down by Rainbow Six and the threat posed by the GLF is eliminated.

Rainbow Six: Vegas

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

December 1, 2006 ( Xbox 360 )
December 16, 2006 (PC)
June 29, 2007 ( PS3 , PSP )

Windows , PlayStation 3 , PSP , Xbox 360

Game engine

Unreal Engine 3

system advantages
preconditions

Windows XP / Vista / 7, 3.0 GHz CPU , 1 GB RAM , 7 GB free hard disk space, 128 MB graphics card, DirectX 9.0b sound, 4xDVD

DVD-ROM , download

Current version

1.06

information

USK released the PSP version from 16.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is the fifth game in the Rainbow Six series. It was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and was published on November 21, 2006 for Xbox 360, December 12, 2006 for PC and June 29, 2007 for PlayStation 3 by the publisher Ubisoft.

As the first game in the series, the player does not take on the role of Domingo Chavez, but that of Logan Keller, the team leader of a newly formed team. The new Team Rainbow - consisting of team leader Logan Keller, explosives expert Michael Walter and reconnaissance expert Jung Park - frees Las Vegas from dangerous terrorists who are about to destroy the city. For the first time it is possible to heal his two colleagues. However, the poor implementation of the multiplayer for the PC caused displeasure within the community. A demo was published in advance for the console version. Other chargeable maps for download followed later. This changed with the second map pack: All maps were distributed free of charge and a credit should be made. The maps are also available for the PC version since patch 1.05.

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to that of Rainbow Six Lockdown. The planning phase and team management are also omitted here. The player is flown directly to the scene by helicopter in order to eliminate various terrorists and free hostages there. The player now has the opportunity to give his two teammates commands directly at the push of a button and to heal them in the event of injuries. The cover also provides additional protection and allows the player to peek around corners.

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The Rainbow team first has to go to Mexico , where they meet the internationally wanted terrorist Irena Morales. This is planning several attacks on the American gaming metropolis Las Vegas . So the team makes their way to Las Vegas, where several casinos have already been attacked by Irena's troops. The player is taken to various casinos and restaurants (Calypso, Red Lotus, Fremont Street , Vertigo Spire, Dante's Casino (currently under construction)) and there must take out terrorists to free hostages or defuse bombs to relax the situation in the city. The showdown takes place on the Nevada Dam, which the terrorists use as a launch pad for a rocket loaded with a micropulse bomb that they want to shoot down on the city. The kidnapped Gabriel is exposed as a traitor and the game ends with the words "To be continued ...".

Facts

The game takes place predominantly in fictional casinos, which are based on casinos in real Las Vegas. In the game, numerous real buildings, such as the casinos Bellagio and Luxor , can be seen in cut scenes and helicopter flights , but they are not accessible. The only accessible locations from the real Las Vegas are the Hoover Dam , Fremont Street , although the names of the adjacent casinos have been changed here.

Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Xbox 360, PlayStation 3: March 18, 2008 March 20, 2008 PC: April 15, 2008 (PC)

Windows , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360

Game engine

Unreal Engine 3

system advantages
preconditions

Windows XP / Vista / 7, 3.0 GHz CPU , 1 GB RAM , 7 GB free hard disk space, 128 MB graphics card, DirectX 9.0c sound, 4xDVD

DVD-ROM , download

Current version

1.03 (Win)
1.30 (PS3)
1.10 (Xbox 360)