Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield | 
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| From: Red Storm Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 9686
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: 680388
UPC: 008888680383
EAN: 0008888680383
ASIN: B00006GSNY
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: ******BRAND NEW****** ** Over 1.5 million orders shipped worldwide and more than 500 000 items in stock, BUY FROM A TRUSTED SOURCE, ESTABLISHED SINCE 1998 - INETVIDEO ~~~
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| Features:
| • | Fifteen all-new single-player missions, 6 dedicated multiplayer maps | | • | Built on next-generation Unreal technology for unequaled visual effects | | • | Fifty-seven weapons with real-world accessories for endless customization | | • | New multiplayer modes and rules for online play | | • | Real-world tactics and methods from Mike Grasso, Senior Instructor for LAPD SWAT and LAPD Medal of Valor winner |
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Product Description
Command an elite, multinational squad of special operatives against a hidden terrorist foe. In Raven Shield, the third installment to the wildly popular Rainbow Six series, RAINBOW races against time to stop terror and unravel a mystery. In locations around the world, from London to the Caribbean to Rio de Janeiro, lead team RAINBOW in a desperate effort to battle a madman and foil his doomsday plot.
Amazon.com Review
The Rainbow Six game franchise gets its name from the Tom Clancy novel of the same name; both the game and the book detail the exploits of an elite international counter-terrorism unit codenamed Rainbow ("Six" is tactical lingo for "leader"). Rainbow Six pioneered a genre known as "squad-based tactical combat," and eschews fast pacing and exotic weapons in favor of methodical gameplay and realistic combat--a single bullet can take down a target. In Raven Shield, the third game in the franchise, the men and women of Rainbow return to thwart the plans of an evil madman out to recover hidden Nazi loot. This barebones plot is merely a tool to link the objective-based missions that are the meat and potatoes of the game.A standard mission will start you off with a situational briefing and overview of your objectives. After the briefing you'll pick your team of up to eight operatives in as many as three different fire teams, and then outfit them with a wide variety of realistic weaponry. You can choose to map out a mission plan for you and your AI-driven teammates, or you can just drop into the mission and figure things out on the fly. Speaking of AI, this is one of the areas of the game that deserves the most criticism. Despite a largely improved AI that will show enemies using great teamwork or even running away in fear, there are still moments when nearby opponents will walk directly into weapons fire, or even ignore nearby gunplay. Raven Shield allows for cooperative and competitive online play, but unfortunately there's no mechanism that allows you to play cooperatively with friends through missions in a linear order with the storyline intact. This missing feature aside, cooperative play is still a great feature, and a refreshing break from standard deathmatch play. There are several significant improvements in Raven Shield, most notably the use of the Unreal graphics engine. It's vastly superior to previous games and provides crisp, clean graphics that are beautiful enough to help suspend disbelief--a feat that's typically more difficult for games with modern settings. Moreover, the inclusion of the Karma "ragdoll" physics engine typically models realistic collapsing animations for fallen enemies, though occasionally there are problems with oddly angled body parts. New controls in Raven Shield such as incremental door-opening and fluid movement controls allow for much stealthier (and thus more fun) movement around the map. Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is both a hoot and a holler to play, and I highly recommend it to anymore, but especially for anyone who favors realism in games and is tired of fast-paced but mind-numbing first person shooters. --Jon "Safety Monkey" Grover Pros: - Squad-based tactical combat a refreshing change from standard FPS fare
- New Unreal engine cranks out terrific graphics
- Lots of cool new features like fluid door-opening and fluid movement
- There is something undeniably fun about yelling "Tango down!" in multiplayer
Cons: - Rag doll physics are sometimes painfully unrealistic
- Normally great AI is sometimes inexplicably awful
- Cooperative mode doesn't include the planning mode, linear progression, or story offered in single player
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| Customer Reviews: Read 70 more reviews...
 Extremely fun once you work out the kinks : \ April 15, 2006
This game is very entertaining. Although it is a little less realistic than its predecessors, Raven Shield boasts better AI, and provides the player with an impressive arsenal of weapons to destroy things with.
I'd like to warn you now though: this game can suffer from a wide range of peculiar bugs and malfunctions, namely, bad CD keys and in some cases a reduced ability to connect to online games. My biggest complaint is the integration of Punkbuster into this game. It's software that limits and punishes people who like to cheat during online games with various kicks and bans. However, it often will kick you for trivial reasons and other things that aren't really your fault ("bad" screennames, timed out while trying to update PB clients, etc.). It's disconcerting when you're kicked from a server for every 5 minutes because of some error code you can't understand or remedy. Don't expect any help from Ubisoft or Evenbalance. The former always blames evenbalance, and Evenbalance does not post its phonenumber and will not return your emails -- they don't like helping people fix their glitchy software. Aside from that I have one *IMPORTANT WARNING*: when you connect to an online game, Ubisoft determines whether or not your CD key is allowed on that server. If you get banned, reinstalling will not help...you're just out of luck. Often times, people who get banned from too many servers will craftily sell their useless software to some unsuspecting user over the internet. The game will appear to work fine, but you will soon realize that you've been had when you try to connect to a game server -- from which YOUR CD HAS BEEN BANNED. Ask questions before buying, or you might get ripped off.
 Military Man's Review October 28, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Sniper pistols September 5, 2005
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????!!!!!!!!!!!! August 28, 2005
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
wass up everyone this game was cooool!!!!! super realistic!!!!
In most games(SOCOM BHD.......ETC) they make the AK-47 INNACURATE!!! in this game it is soo accurate!!!!!!
..............................it was fun
REALISIC..... but not my cup of tea August 9, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is very realisic. And one of the best things about it is there is a whole line up of weopons to choose from, going from 50 M82A1 sniper rifles, to M60s, to AK47's, to M16's.
But this game can become very boring after a while.
For people who like to do stealthy kind of missions... BUY IT!!!!
For people who like to grab an M60, scream "CHARGE", and run at the enemy's base while sparying bullets in all directions... DON'T BUY IT!!!! buy BattleField Vietnam!!!!
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