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Summary: Tom Clancy's Games lovers read this!
Review: Great Game and just if u like the "rateing" thing there is it.Single Player Sound: 9 out of ten- Its proberly me but its crisp if u have a good computer if you dont have one and your buget is anywere between 2000-5000 dollars try alienware Story: 9.5 out of 10- Great! The good (you) the bad (your enemies) and the ugly (the mastermind behind the evil plot) Graphics- 7.75 out of 10- its not the greatest graphics ever seen but hey 10 out of 10 is rarely given out on this catigure Gamplay- 9.5 out of 10-its great and when you are fooling around.... kill the hostage Overall- 8.5 Multiplay Sound- 8 to 9 out of ten- it gets fussy becouse your playing with thousands of people and the sever goes very slow Graphics- 7.75- Same thing as single player Story- 0 out of 10- Its multiplayer u kill people im not even going to count that in the over all Gameplay- 10 out of 10- Its fun killing people in online and trying to be first Overall-9 out of ten
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Summary: Tom Clancy's Games lovers read this!
Review: Great Game and just if u like the "rateing" thing there is it. Single Player Sound: 9 out of ten- Its proberly me but its crisp if u have a good computer if you dont have one and your buget is anywere between 2000-5000 dollars try alienware Story: 9.5 out of 10- Great! The good (you) the bad (your enemies) and the ugly (the mastermind behind the evil plot) Graphics- 7.75 out of 10- its not the greatest graphics ever seen but hey 10 out of 10 is rarely given out on this catigure Gamplay- 9.5 out of 10-its great and when you are fooling around.... kill the hostage Overall- 8.5 Multiplay Sound- 8 to 9 out of ten- it gets fussy becouse your playing with thousands of people and the sever goes very slow Graphics- 7.75- Same thing as single player Story- 0 out of 10- Its multiplayer u kill people im not even going to count that in the over all Gameplay- 10 out of 10- Its fun killing people in online and trying to be first Overall-9 out of ten
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Summary: Fan of Ghost Recon / SOAF / R6 / RS / UO? Look here
Review: I've been an avid Tom Clancy FPS PC fan since the first Rainbow Six was released almost 10 years ago.
Recently, I had been playing America's Army: Operations since its release in July of 2002. But after awhile, the game got repititious (same weapons kits over and over and over again), cheaters became rampant (aimbots and engine mods up the wazoo), and deathmatches (to me) were exciting when Doom first came out in 1994. The multiplayer aspect NEEDS to have some type of evolution.
Fast forward to Rainbow Six 3 Gold Pack! You get the Athena Sword expansion pack along with Raven Shield for a great price.
Rainbow Six 3 is based on the same Unreal 2 engine used for America's Army Operations. You can go prone now for more stable sniping positions (wasn't possible in Rogue Spear). You can slowly open doors, toss a frag/flashbang/smoke and close the door in one fluid motion.
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Game Engine: I'd say its pretty decent for a tactical FPS.
There are some glitches like getting stuck by a door, and not being able to lean in certain spots on the maps.
I'd like to see a more powerful M67 frag grenade. Right now, you can toss a frag and only breach a door w/o hurting the tangoe right behind it. The M67 is supposed to have a 15m blast radius which should effectively clear the room of all tangoes, blow out all the windows, and cause a ringing in your ear if you're in the area.
I'd also like to see Lean Toggle like in AAO. I have to hold down the lean key, strafe key, and movement key - I start playing hand yoga on my keyboard afterwhile.
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Weapons Choices:
Athena Sword adds a few extra firearms but IMHO, the overall selection is better than the standard choices for many of the other Tom Clancy games.
It lacks:
more pistol caliber choices, better pistol damage (45 ACP has more stopping power than 40 S&W, but in RvS, the Mk 23 SOCOM - .45 ACP - is rated slightly less powerful than the USP 40)
I'd like to see the 44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a 10mm Glock.
For rifles, they did a decent job of choosing the most common battle rifles.
What they left out were the M203 40mm nade launcher, M136 AT-4 Recoil-less anti-tank launcher, and GP-30 Russian grenade launcher. I'm pretty sure they did this because Rainbow is supposed to be a HRT-type team and NOT a full-on military assault team.
I would have liked to see multiple accessories:
suppressor + high capacity magazine + mini-scope
Because that is more realistic. You can slap on a 90rd Beta mag on a M16, along with a Gemtech and Trijicon ACOG w/o any problems. The rifle would be REALLY heavy, but it's do-able.
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Graphics:
The character modeling is decent, and I love the ragdoll physics! Some improvements are in order but otherwise it's fairly decent!
The rifle modeling, OTOH, leaves something to be desired. The iron sights weren't done right on the M16/M4.
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Single Player:
The maps, as usual, were fairly robust. There's lots of detail and the environment is just overall very realistic.
Multiplayer:
Typical deathmatch stuff, but Athena Sword adds Count Down and some other stuff.
My favorite is Cooperative Tango Hunts. I'm not sure if this is new because I've never tried Rainbow Six or Rogue Spear multiplayer, but Cooperative play against the PC isn't all that bad. Just pretend you're playing against 40 people that all have aimbots, accuracy mods for pistols and submachineguns, and occaisonally look in the wrong direction.
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Recommendations for CQB:
HK G36K + Silencer. It comes with a 2x red-dot scope, and the silencer helps with stability and noise suppression.
Desert Eagle 50 AE + High Cap Mag. Excellent stopping power, accuracy, and range. While you can get a bunch of ammo with 9mm, 40, and 45 pistols - you will need most of that ammo to take down a tango. 1 or 2 shots with the Dessie 50 AE will do the job.
Frags and Smokes: Frags for clearing out rooms, Smokes for you to move w/o the PC firing at you, OR smokes to slow down the PC.
For medium to long-range engagements:
SL8-2 + thermal scope
Desert Eagle 50 + hi cap mag
Frag/Smokes and Primary Mags (or secondary mags if you plan on more CQB than long range).
Use the SL8-2 to snipe (thermal scope helps locate enemies using heat signature, useful in urban environments) and Desert Eagle for close range engagements.
I recommend you download some of the Raven Shield community map packs and practice by yourself.
Overall, this game is totally worth it and I hope my review wasn't too boring.
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Summary: Tactical gaming must have!
Review: If you're looking for a "run & gun" action title, skip this game and look into Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, or DOOM - this is a tactical shooter. This title is great, if you're looking for a first person shooter with a little more substance and realism to it. Right off the bat you're in charge of mission execution/planning, team selection, and choosing specialized weapons kits (flash bang grenades, heartbeat sensors, etc..) for your operators. Instead of running into rooms and shooting everything in site, you will have to carefully lead your team in hostage rescues and similar missions (great use of the mouse wheel to slowly open doors to peak in, or throw a flash bang grenade). Great graphics (especially with a higher end graphics card)and great gameplay. Multiplayer online for Rainbow Six 3 is where it's at, though. Hook up with others and form a team to cooperatively complete missions and eliminate tangos, or go team against team and try to eliminate each other. Another great thing about this game is its use of the Unreal graphics engine. This game's engine looks great and is not too taxing on the graphics card, plus it is easy to make modifications (mods), or custom maps/missions with the Unreal engine (tons of great maps for free download already, which just enhances the replay value!). As with all games, this one isn't perfect, as the computer AI (your teammates and enemies) could use a bit of polishing and some of the missions are pretty difficult, but overall, a great game. If you like this game, you may want to look into Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, which is very similar.
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