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bad.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

They say this is a fun game. I got this game since it was ten bucks and it was christmas. I'll get to the point.

GRAPHICS

Screw em. They're terrible. They're like cardboard cutouts.

GUNS

Screw em. They have the worst graphics ever.

MAPS

The only good thing about it. Big. And you can get lost too. And the enemies are impossible. They kill you the first time in training.

Over all this game sucks terribly. Hate it and don't get it. I'm lucky I only payed ten bucks. ONE STAR.

Already traded

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of both squad-based cambat, and open-world games. I have been searching for an experiance equal to the Ghost Recon series games for some time. Rainbow six 3 is not it. Absolutely not open-world at all, very linear. As a squad-based tactical shooter, I found it was sub-par. Since you are trapped in tight hallways the whole time, there is little use for the rest of your team, other than when entering a room with multiple doors. Then the "Frag and Breech" commands are fairly interesting. But for the most-part, you are ducking and shooting around corners. I got bored with that pretty quickly. For squad-based shooters; go with Ghost Recon. For open-world, go with Mercenaries.
I played R 6 3 for a few nights before trading it in at Gamestop.

Rainbow Six is back again.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game used at Game Stop for only $7.99, I'm glad I didn't pay too much for it. Don't get me wrong This is a good game, But only a few things are very frustrating... When you get towards the end of the game, there is a mission where you have to bug a terrorists phone without being seen. I'd rather just shoot them & forget them. Another thing, if one of your team mates dies in a mission, they somehow ressurect him for the next mission. WHAT"S UP WITH THAT?! Are rainbow six supermen now?! Anyway if you like first person shooters like me, buy it.

Rainbow Six 3 ultimately frustrating.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not new to the Rainbow Six games, and I'm not new to first person shooters. I loved the first person shooter missions. But about half way through there is a 'bug phone' mission where you have to place a device on the terrorists' phone. First of all, what terrorist hasn't switched to cell phones by 2003 (or whenever this was released)? Second, I spent hours on this and never could get by the guy watching TV. The idea of these games, not to beat a dead horse, is shooting and strategy. I don't want to sneak around like splinter cell (a much better game) when I have no options for climbing, knocking people out, etc. And I didn't feel the PS2 game gave me the necessary training to get me through this mission. Like, was I supposed to move less times, or move less distance? Or move at certain times? And who stands in front of a widescreen tv for a half-hour? AAAAHHHH!!!

There's a reason this game didn't sell well. If it was just tactics and shooting (like the Rainbow Six I know and love) it would be great.

Great Game, some A.I. hiccups

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe that RS: Lockdown was delayed, it looks great. I recently began playing this game again, because there's nothin' but crap coming out this summer. I don't think that this game is hard, you may just have to play it 3 or more times to get it. There are 15 missions where you either rescue hostages or defuse bombs, you also bug a penthouse, and snatch incriminating documents, all while shooting tangos with SMGs, ARs, LMGs, and sniper rifles. Also with grenades. On most missions you will have three other squadmates, you can order these men to cover, open and clear a room, open and frag or flashbang a room. There are some minor A.I problems especially in tight areas, like in the Import/Export mission just after the room where part 2 of the mission starts in the room w/ all the tangos, after killing them all you hide next to a window, where on the other side are bunch of tangos usually one of your squadmates will run out and stand in front of the window and get shot (you can only survive about four shots from an AR). Another A.I problem is when your team is covering a door, you stand back and open the door and you're shooting a tango, on the other side of the room is another tango, your dumbass squadmate runs out in front of you and you shoot him in the head.

Rainbow Six 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, if you like squad based tactics, this is your game. Well worth the money.

different from pc version but still fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok I cut my teeth with the PC Rainbow Six back in 1999. In the pc version, you have a lot of freedom to choose your team, where they will enter and exit, what they will do once there etc. Naturally this means a lot of pre-planning before you actually start the mission. The PS 2 version of things is definitely geared more towards action and less towards planning and stealth. That's not necessarily bad, but if you are a fan of the PC version of Rogue Spear or Raven Shield, please understand that this game is lot more like Soldier of Fortune - a very linear shooter with the emphasis on action. R6 vets will recognize a lot of the maps - most of them are modified versions of the maps found in Raven Shield.

Still I enjoyed this game. In this game you can do a few things which you can't do (or do easily) in the pc version. For example, using zulu go codes, you can leave your team while you go and do something else. This is especially fun if you want to set up an attack from more than one side of a room. Unfortunately, since the game is very linear and you don't have a map, you don't get to do this a whole lot, and usually you can tell when the map wants you to do it that way (two doors side by side). And since you don't plan stuff out in advance, you can simply back up and retreat if things go wrong. You character can take up to 4 shots in the game - the PC R6 is one shot, one kill unless the enemy is very far away.

It's fun to drop this in for some old school shooter action with realistic weapons and maps. Just don't expect the same experience as the PC version.

One fun ride...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a great first-person shooter from Tom Clancy. The gameplay is fluid and pretty realistic. The squad control is great with stategy being equally important as marksmanship. Highly recommended.

A good 'ol RB6 time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't played the earlier Rainbow Six series, here's a brief rundown: you play as a squad commander, outfit your team of counter terrorist specialists with the proper equipment for the mission (for the record: it doesn't matter one bit which guns you pick), then sneak around buildings/jungles/houses/boats, etc. obliterating a bunch of bad guys. Yeah, super original, but the emphasis is definitely on the word "sneak"-if you go in guns blazing the ornery terrorists will quickly dispatch the weak-ass hostages, causing your mission to fail and you to fling your controller against the couch in disgust. By coordinating your movements with your crack team of operatives (they all have different accents, and it's sometimes fun to blast the French guy in the face just because), you'll be able to simultaneously kick in a door on one side of the room while tossing flash-bangs in from another door; then you can simply go about your business, shooting terrorists in the chest while ducking and taking cover. The graphics are nicely rendered, the AI is pretty smart, and it's tons of fun to peek around a corner and rat-a-tat some fool in the neck who doesn't even know you're there, which really reminds me a lot of my regular life.

There's better Tom Clancey games.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good game with pretty good levels, a competitive Al, and ok graphics. A lot of die hard Tom Clancey fans hate this game. I'm not one of them though but I have played my share of them Splinter Cell, etc.... It has a great virety of weapons but your teammates are kind of smart and dumb. They follow orders ok but they make stupid decisions when in combat. There is an extra level in here unlike the XBOX version. The levels are a little short but are very hard. You would have to repeat the levels over and over again which makes it a little boreing. It doesn't even have a thing where you can set the difficulty. It has a very nice multiplayer mode which makes the game very fun for 2 people. The online mode is so-so. Other then that the game plays fine and I never had any serious glithces. For $20.00 you should get this game if your into the shooting genre.

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