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Fantastic First Person Tactical Shooter

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

Ok, before I say anything let me remark that you should be buying this game for the multiplayer gaming. Why? Because this is where it really shines. If you are looking for a single player game, this is still an excellent game yet I would rate it four and a half stars if that is what your looking for. Either way it is a title to definitely put into your collection. Read on and I'll let you know why:

First, as you are probably already aware, the Unreal engine is used for this game which produces fantastic visuals, moody environments and a believable sense of immersion--all the things that a FPS really needs right? It doesn't stop there however. The gameplay is tense and each second leading up to the next staccato of gunfire will leave you anxious and gleeful. It is a perfect mix of first person action with a serious dose of realism charged into it.

That leads to the tactical part of the game. Unlike Unreal Tournament, Quake Arena and others that are of the FPS Genre, Rainbow Six has established itself as a premiere tactical shooter. If you've played others in the Rainbow Six series you'll be familiar with the style, otherwise let me put it this way:

Combat is extremely lethal and is quite final in its outcome. Someone will die and they will stay dead--at least during the match at hand. Bullets can wound but more often than not, they kill. Guns mimic their real life counterparts. The muzzles flare toward the ceiling when you let your fully automatic weapon unload. Reloading can take precious moments during a heated firefight. Each weapon holds various pros and cons that need to be considered for a coming engagement. Yet, for all it's worth the weapons are only a fractional part of the tactics involved.

Doors can be opened "fluidly"--that is slowly and not completely. Enough for you to toss a flashbang or peek inside at the tango lingering within. Corners can be leaned around in a "fluid" and natural manner. Your choice of approach into an area can mean instant death or heartfluttering success. Tactics matter far more than mere rampage.

During multiplayer gaming you can even use a map to give brief direction and instruction to your mates, coordinating your attack on computer controlled tangos (i.e., terrorists) or witty and ever sinister human controlled opponents.

Gameplay online really makes this game blossom into its full potential and offers co-operative and adversarial play with several game types sure to fill your attention. While the single player game is well done, it is a bit repetitive and short. In fact, several of the maps are reused during later missions, meaning that you'll have to carry out a mission at the same location only under different conditions (i.e. at night, etc.).

If you like to edit games, you will also find that the available content feels a bit sparse compared to others that use the Unreal engine as a basis. Still, it is adequate and will be familiar if you've ever edited for Unreal before with only slight variations to the standard.

Overall it's a worthwhile game that should belong on the shelf of everyone that enjoys FPS games. Even if FPS games aren't your standard game of choice, this one deserves to be one of the rare times that you pick up one from the genre. Undoubtedly there are many hours of gameplay for both the single and multiplayer interest.

AMAZING THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIMES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is definetly the best game ever created by tom clancy. this game is packed with good stuff from the sound to graphics to movment. it has been desinged for the modern computer so just from that u can say that it is a good game. i hope every one that has read this review has liked the game as much as i have.

Military Man's Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a grad of Team Tactics and Anti-Terrorist training schools. With that in mind this is how I break out Raven Shield.
First off the graphics were great, quite a step up from Rogue Spear. The graphics really require a top notch video card, I tried running the game originally on a 128 card an it was very glitchy. Once I upgraded to a 256 card, things smoothed out and I had no more problems.
Game Play.
Pros: Team planning allows you to adjust the the number of team members used, the equipment they use, and the load out of weapons. Most importantly you can control entry to each and every room.
Teams move in actual team fashion, entering rooms in either storm or zipper fashion, and they are far better shots than you.
Story line, although perhaps a tad hollywood fantasy, it was engaging and you wondered what you'd uncover next. I usually hate little cinamatics between levels, but these were great!
Weapons choice is great, remember to outfit your guys with weapons YOU are comfortable using. The game in intrest of emulating the armed forces of the commandos you are pretending to be or maybe just to get you to use other weapons, loads you out with all sorts of useless weapons, so make sure you change them to what YOU like. I especialy liked the acuaracy differences between the weapons as well as knock down differences.
Armor and Cammo selection. It was great that you could pick your cammo, which made it easy to differentiate between your teams by giving each team a specific color of cammo. I also like that you were nosier and slower in heavier armor.
Cons: In a tactical team you have the lead man or point, the tail end charlie and in between you have utility men. Now the hardest thing about learning team tactics is trusting each member of your team to cover his line of fire. I can't tell you how often my Utility man would rush ahead of me and block my line of fire, then get shot himself. While engaging my target, my team members would often ignore their target to engage my target.
Team members not under my direct control would walk cheerfully into ambushes. I would often have to clear ambushes in their sector before I could send them on. Eventually I structured my assualts so that the other teams would cover my back to prevent terrorist from circling around while I cleared out all the bad guys.
A terrorist that can't be brought down by a 7.62 round fired from an asualt rifle, can easily take you out at long range with a pistol in one shot through your heavy kevlar.
Unlike Rogue Spear, this AI just could not get flash banging a room right. If you told one of your teams to flash a room before entering they would get themselves shot to pieces first then flashbang themselves. Not that it mattered, Flashbangs didn't seem to effect the terrorist at all. While your team stumbles around, the terrorist would pick you off from the very spot that the grenade went off.
Although I listed a lot of cons, overall I love the Rainbow six series. It is very realistic as far as the tactics needed to accomplish the missions. The weapons have kick. Your ability to shoot is comprimised by wounds. Team members that are not snipers have a tougher time using the sniper rifles. The missions were great. I espesially love that the bad guys don't show up in the same spots each time. I love being able to swap team members out and that as you use them they get better at certain jobs, like leadership if you put them in charge of team. I highly recommend this game. I didn't even go into how much fun this game is online. If you like FPS, then the Rainbow series is hands down the very best.

Best... Game... Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, maybe no best game, but a lot of fun. I just did that to get your attention. Anyway, it's incredibly realistic. Every gun has its goods and bads, the graphics are just crazy and the gameplay is incredibly addictive. At first you'll just look at damage, then accuracy, then range on the gun's stats. But slowly you'll realize ho important some of the other things are such as stability and recovery. You'll then realize how deep it really is. Plus, with Up to 3 customizations for each gun (Thermal Scope, Sound SUppressor, Mini Scope, Hi_capacity Mag, etc.) You get over 150 combinations. The levels are fun, challenging and intuitive. Plus, it's not like CS or Unreal where you can just charge in guns a'blazin'. (I know that sounded redneckish) You really have to strategize. Do I open the dorr all the way and unload my G3A3, or do I nudge it open just an inch so no one notices and toss in a flashbang? Or, do I toss in some tear gas and blow them to pieces as they rush out coughing? My only gripe would be that the single-player game is very difficult. You'll ant to practice a lot before you attempt them. However, that just means I'll enjoy it longer.

Best Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

UBI has really taken Rainbow Six to a new level. Each game better then the last, this game has really done it! From the graphics; which are the best (guns, maps, people) and the plot and levels of the game. Single player, is in my opinion, the best of all. Some liked multiplayer but there are only 17 active servers with generally 2/10 people in each at a time; it's hard to find a good game with lots of people in it in MP (multiplayer). Otherwise, I've had no compatibility issues like other owners stated and would give this game 5/5.

You can control multiple teams (assault/sniper) and quiclky test your tactics on the S.W.A.T. team with those stupid tango's (terrorists). Definitly buy this game or download the SP (single player) demo to check it out. You can do that at http://raven-shield.com or my website http://trentscott.com!

WOW! PC gaming at its best!

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

first off, if you ever buy a FPS, buy RvS (ravenshield). while the game may lack a few desirable features )i.e. using bibods on boxes, not just in prone positions. or being able to climb on over stuff) it provided more hours of entertainment than any other game I've ever played!!! it is definitely not an arcade shooter, though you can always just grab a high cap mag (50 or 100 round magazines depending on which weapon)and charge! with 57 weapons, the replay value of this game is amazing. I'm sure you know how many games have one gun that you like and you just use that forever, well, that's not so in RvS. when you use, for example, the FAMAS G2, a French assault rifle with a cyclic rate of 950 rpm, on an indoor mission you can pack twenty rounds into a guy and constantly stay on the move. or you can grab a Remington SSG-3000 bolt-action sniper rifle with a silencer (or thermal sights) and quietly sneak around to the opposite spawn point and pick them off from behind. Though this goes without saying when it's a Tom Clancy game, this game is unbelievably realistic!!! I consider myself to be quit knowledgable in weapons, etc. and Tom Clancy games have really mastered it. each gun has its own exact specifications for multiple catagories (i.e. stability, accuracy, range, damage, etc.)and it really makes a difference. you can come to a stable state much faster with a compact sub machine gun (i.e. the MP5A4 ) than with a light machine gun (i.e. the M249 SAW). and every detail is taken into consideration, if you have a high cap mag, the added wait means it takes longer to regain stability, and a suppressed (silenced) weapon has less damage, range, etc. I found that it really helps to read about the different weapons (it's also kinda interesting) so www.raven-shield.com is a great spot to read about the weapons, strategies, etc. And I always wanted to ask questions about a game before I buy it so I figure you can feel free to kick me an email if you have a question and I'll try and help ya out! overall though: great game, really the most entertaining game I've ever played.

P.S. [ASS] clan rocks!!!

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Raven Shield has got to be the weakest Tom Clancy game while Splinter Cell is the best. Built on the Unreal 2 engine the game looks and runs great but the main interface is struck in low resolution. There is not much of a story just pick your team, hunt down terrorist, defuse bombs, save hostages ect. The single player gameplay is impossible due to lack of save games. In one mission you need to sneak in and sneak out undetected which is really frustrating. The AI is bad weak sometimes over smart and sometime dumb. The multiplayer and co-operative gameplay are great but i expected a better single player gameplay after Ghost Recon and its expansion packs which were great.

Pass - Stick to Ghost Recon

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Nothing really new. Looks fine, but expected more from all the hype.

Sniper pistols

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of UBI Soft Ghost Recon which is why I am so disappointed. What happened?! This is easily one of the worst games I've seen come out of any company, but to come from UBI Soft, is a real shock. The only saving grace for the whole game is that unlike most others, when you play a level a second time, the enemies are not in the same places and react differently. It keeps the game from getting old. What does make the game very old, very fast, is the AI. I eventually had to give up with using AI teams because they never fail to blow themselves up with thier own breeching charges, ignore terrorists 10 feet away from them or walk around corners and give away my postion. But by far the most frustrating part is what I have come to call, the sniper pistol. Here is the scene: You've spent 20 minutes clearing the level of all terrorists. You sneak up on the last one. He's 100 meters away, you have an unobstructed shot and he's looking the other way. You draw a bead on him, centermass on his back. You fire a shot but instead of dropping, he spins, kneels and fires a single shot from his pistol, killing you instantly. Eventually I resorted to god-mode just to get some entertainment out of the game. We deserve better from UBI Soft.

Best Rainbow Six ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't have time to write a full-page review so I will tell you about the game quickly. The graphics are better then any Tom Clancy game I have ever played they are amazing. There are 15 single player missions and a whole bunch of multiplayer ones. You can have as many as eight soldiers on your team and as little as one. You can customize every thing on them from their camo to their weapons to there gear and body armor. Here are some of the weapons and items you can choose from
PISTOLS
-desert eagle .357cal
-USP.40cal
-Micro Uzi 9mm
-TMP 9mm
ASSAULT RIFLES
-M4 5.56mm
-FAMAS G2 5.56mm
-AK-47 7.62mm
-M16A2 5,56mm
GRENADES
-Smoke grenade
-frag grenade
-Tear Gas grenade
-Flash Bang
EQUIPMENT
-Night vision goggles
-Gas mask
-Suppresser
-IR scope
This is just a small amount of the weapons and equipment available to you. Your team is very smart and without your team you will fail. Your team can do a wide variety of things: they can snipe, go on recon, defuse bombs, open and clear rooms and they can follow waypoints. The terrorists are very smart too, so you'd better be up to the challenge. THIS IS THE BEST TACTICAL SHOOTER EVER, EVEN RAINBOW SIX HATERS WILL LIKE THIS GAME.

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