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Shoot 'Em Up
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Collectors Edition - PC
Also known as: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Collectors Edition
| Viewed: | 3D First-person | Genre: | Shoot 'Em Up |
| Media: | CD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Red Storm | Soft. Co.: | Ubisoft |
| Publishers: | Ubisoft
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Released: | 16 Nov 2001
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| Ratings: | 15+ | ||
| Accessories: | Control Pad | ||
Summary
Hey tough guy! You think you can handle a mission or two from the Tom Clancy cookbook, and that’s fair enough. But how would you go about tackling a whole box full of missions, one after the other, with no respite from the threat of terrorism? Well, you don’t have to go through everything in this Collectors Edition at once. For the sake of your real life (if you have one) use the ‘save game’ option once in a while. You can roll your mouse across the new mat you’ve acquired to do just that.
The original Rainbow Six hit the market like a smack in the chops in 1998, and is the earliest title in this box. The foundation stone for all R6 games and add-ons that followed, if you couldn’t get your jollies from sneaking around in strange places, dishing out the orders, and blowing the enemy away, then you didn’t deserve to be part of the team. Effectively two games in one, Rainbow Six combines the strategic planning of an anti-terror operation, and the heart-pounding thrill of combat missions, into a game that develops into an adrenalin-fuelled rush to save the world.
Knowing they were onto a good thing with R6, developers Red Storm, erm, stormed back into action with the Rogue Spear, Urban Operations and Eagle Watch add-ons/expansions, also found in this Collectors Edition.
In Eagle Watch, terrorist threats have increased around the world, and this time they are attacking the world's most famous places. The Taj Mahal, Big Ben, the Forbidden City, The Senate Wing of the US Capitol Building, and a top-secret Russian shuttle are all in danger Use the full ‘Watch’ mode to simply observe your hostage rescue team taking down terrorists, or take on your friends with the new multiplayer game options.
Rogue Spear is up next, and it’s not a criticism to say that it’s more of the same. Yes, the strategic and combat elements are there, but always unpredictable. Rogue Spear is for those Rainbow Six PC-bound soldiers who are maybe too confident in their counter-terrorist abilities. More of the same maybe, but with the heat turned up, and the intensity of combat pushing you to the limit. The bad men are even badder than before, and you get some new hardware to blow them away with.
Also present and correct in this pack is a counter-terrorist team's worst nightmare: an urban setting. In Rogue Spear: Urban Operations (the add-on to the expansion – whatever next?) your crack team faces its most dangerous missions yet, with every stray bullet putting innocent lives at risk. Due to the public nature of these missions, the secrecy of the Rainbow organisation is also at stake, as the team fights against the most deadly terrorists the world has ever seen.
The Collectors Edition is a handsome package, available at a bargain price. If there’s a better place to start your career in anti-terrorism, PC-style, we’ve yet to see it. Plus you get the added attraction of a poster, a t-shirt and a special edition mouse mat. Admittedly not much use in combat, so stay home and fight the good fight, eh?
The original Rainbow Six hit the market like a smack in the chops in 1998, and is the earliest title in this box. The foundation stone for all R6 games and add-ons that followed, if you couldn’t get your jollies from sneaking around in strange places, dishing out the orders, and blowing the enemy away, then you didn’t deserve to be part of the team. Effectively two games in one, Rainbow Six combines the strategic planning of an anti-terror operation, and the heart-pounding thrill of combat missions, into a game that develops into an adrenalin-fuelled rush to save the world.
Knowing they were onto a good thing with R6, developers Red Storm, erm, stormed back into action with the Rogue Spear, Urban Operations and Eagle Watch add-ons/expansions, also found in this Collectors Edition.
In Eagle Watch, terrorist threats have increased around the world, and this time they are attacking the world's most famous places. The Taj Mahal, Big Ben, the Forbidden City, The Senate Wing of the US Capitol Building, and a top-secret Russian shuttle are all in danger Use the full ‘Watch’ mode to simply observe your hostage rescue team taking down terrorists, or take on your friends with the new multiplayer game options.
Rogue Spear is up next, and it’s not a criticism to say that it’s more of the same. Yes, the strategic and combat elements are there, but always unpredictable. Rogue Spear is for those Rainbow Six PC-bound soldiers who are maybe too confident in their counter-terrorist abilities. More of the same maybe, but with the heat turned up, and the intensity of combat pushing you to the limit. The bad men are even badder than before, and you get some new hardware to blow them away with.
Also present and correct in this pack is a counter-terrorist team's worst nightmare: an urban setting. In Rogue Spear: Urban Operations (the add-on to the expansion – whatever next?) your crack team faces its most dangerous missions yet, with every stray bullet putting innocent lives at risk. Due to the public nature of these missions, the secrecy of the Rainbow organisation is also at stake, as the team fights against the most deadly terrorists the world has ever seen.
The Collectors Edition is a handsome package, available at a bargain price. If there’s a better place to start your career in anti-terrorism, PC-style, we’ve yet to see it. Plus you get the added attraction of a poster, a t-shirt and a special edition mouse mat. Admittedly not much use in combat, so stay home and fight the good fight, eh?
