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Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Counter Strike fans you just dont get it how much better this game is than Counter Strike, you say patches and stuff fixes the weird climbing up ladder thing, graphics, gameplay, recoil, addional weapons,mods and characters/skins...BUT IT DOESN'T OK? I hope you now understand that this is RAINBOW SIX 3: ATHENA SWORD "the mission pack for RAINBOW SIX 3: RAVEN SHIELD, brought to stores in 2003, it is NOT RAINBOW SIX: ROUGE SPEAR, that game was made in 1999, and it just kind of really sucks... lol. So my main objective is for that Counter Strike fans out there please follow my idea and buy this freaking good game OK?

Ventura_TAW, or SwissBones_TAW

if you would like to join it has 300+ members in it, best clan EVER!

a must by game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The lates addition to the Tom Clancy game series is great. When raven shield came out it had the best graphics that I had seen in a long time. The expansion is even better. People complain about not being able to climb up on things like in the earlier games. But in this game, if you are taking the time to do that, you will probley be shot. But you opinion is your opinion! I also HATE all those game publishers that try to copy the same idea.(ex. Swat 3)All-in-all if you like Tom Clancy you will like this game. Also look for Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm(I dont think it is out yet but it is comming)Last they are making a Rianbow Six movie!

It Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ive been playing since the original and Raven sheild rocks! Athena Sword adds to the already best online Counter-Terro game.
The awsome muiltiplayer + new levels, guns, and game modes makes this game on the top of my list

Rainbow Six: Athena Sword, by Ventura

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all there is no other game in it's class that could beat it, NO JOKE. I have been a fan of them ever since the book came out! I have even heard that there will be a Rainbow Six movie coming out soon, probably in the year of 2005.TOM CLANCY YOU ARE THE BEST!

[CAN]Ventura

PS, im not 12

Great Expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I dont know why so many people are hating on UBI so much. I have played Raven Shield for over 2 months now. I have no complaint with it at all. The campaigns are very cool. The multiplayer is unbeleveable. There is always a server and i rarely get lag. The gameplay is smooth. The only complaint i have is the freedom the game allows. Many player use the freedom to "tweak" the game is their favor. For instance players can "Bind" keys which mean I could shoot and automaticly crouch. This gets cheap. Also there are some hacks that find their way through punkbuster. A lot of people use a hack so that no matter how they are moving or positioned their reticule does not move. Perfect Aim. Punkbuster though does do a good job with the majority of hacks. I would recommend this game to anyone. But I warn any Unreal fans this game is VERY realistic. 1-2 shot kills. You have to be tactical and precise. You cant jus run into the open and expect to live for 30 seconds. If you liked any of the previous Rainbow 6s or like the genre get this game.

Counter-strike still better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've played ravenshield and boy was it fun!! NOT!!!!!! whole bunch of bugs and almost same stroyline as the first rainbowsix and that one was SENSATIONAL, but hey, a joke is never funny the second time, I spent more than 10 hours playing the first rainbow six and eagle watch(expansion one) this game? lets not go there. but I can say that I enjoyed multiplayer a little, but! I spent 39.99+tax to buy that game and guess what I played my 3 year old counter strike more! overall I can say that this game will have better graphic than CS:CZ but if you look at the bugs and lame storyline I recommend CS:CZ

The best game in the series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Raven Shield is by far the best game in the Rainbow Six series, and as we all know the expansion packs only proves to make it better.

I don't understand why so many people believe there to be a large amount of bugs in the game - I've only run into two, myself, and those happened during online play. It's no more buggy than any other game. As for this other reviewer at the bottom of the page, this game IS the EXPANSION to the SEQUEL to Rogue Spear, which is Raven Shield. If you believe Rogue Spear to suck, then you obviously are appealed only by graphics. Raven Shield retains every good aspect from Rogue Spear, except maybe the fact that you can climb onto objects in Rogue Spear.

Honestly, however, this game is an almost perfect sequel. Most sequels take the old game and completely distort it, with the only thing still intact being better graphics. This game has AWESOME graphics and very fun gameplay - playing online is the best.

Great new maps

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My buddy and I love the new maps that come with the Athena Sword expansion pack. We hook up on a LAN and play terrorist hunt for points. We play on a 6 min timer and see who can get the most guys. After we finish with all the maps the guy with the highest terrorist kill count wins. I've read some complaints about the game from people who feel they pack is short on missions. Since I only play it multiplayer, the large selection of maps is great. The AI is also better. The Tangos on this one actually hunt you down. They also lay down, which makes think they are dead. We have been playing this game since it came out and still enjoy it. The expansion pack made it even better. Tango Down!

LOVE IT / HATE IT A.K.A. UBI LIES ABAIN!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Having played every game in this series I see a few things from earlier games missing here. There is simply missing functionality, controls and ability to select uniforms, the ability to climb over small walls and boxes, etc...
Rogue Spear did several things much better than this game.

On the upside, this game is a LOT of fun even with all the bugs and the missing functionality. It's the best playing game of it's type with a real team atmosphere out there.

My last gripe is that Ubisoft promised to release the source code with this game which would have made for easy modding. They promised it and a year later it has not been released yet.

They promise the source code in December however so it's only fair to mention it. Then we can have some mods!

At least Athena Sword promises more photo-realistic graphics.

Buy Raven Shield used from Amazon and buy Athena Sword new from Amazon.

Well, surprise, surprise, UBI has delayed the release by over a month. The give no explanation or reason whatsoever. This is a very bad habit with them. Raven Shield was months late and now Athena Sword is months late. Why give a release date at all?

Amazon did have this game ranked as under 500th best seller on their site and I ask for what? For another broken promise by UBI.

Can we really expect the SDK in December? Will it be the first promise UBI keeps? I hope so.

I reduced my rating of this game to one star.

Edited October 16th, 2003

Raven Shield is a serious shooter behold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok after reading these reviews its quite obvious that the writers have barely played Raven Shield. I've been playing for about 3 or 4 months and I have no complaints but all praise. This game truly does make you work and practice hard to earn kills. Which ups the satisfaction when a kill is achieved. All I play is online so I don't have much to say about single play except the enemies are smart as hell. But the online play is great. Sure there's bugs but not serious bugs but very minor ones that UBI has done a good job of removing. All I have to say is this is the best tactical FPS shooter out right now. Just play and you will get hooked. Guaranteed.

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