Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (Game)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

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You are freedom's answer to fear. You stalk terror wherever it hides. These deeds you do so others may live. Hunt down terrorist cells worldwide from London to the Cayman Islands.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is a pc game developed by Red Storm and published by Ubisoft, for release on March 16, 2003. The game used a modified version of the Unreal 2 engine, and stands to die-hard fans of the series as one of the last true tactical shooters to be released -- before the supposed mainstream popularity sunk into the franchises pores.

The game was later re-released on consoles with slightly different game mechanics, storyline, and features. The subtitle was dropped from the name, and was published for the Xbox, Playstation 2, and Gamecube. This version of the game is arguably what catapulted the Rainbow Six franchise into mainstream popularity, and even spawned an expansion, called Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow.

Plot (PC Version)

Raven Shield's story spans a good sixty years, as the prologue centers around World War II and the holocaust, beginning in Croatia. Two people have fled the country with a hefty sum of cash, and escape the Allied forces right in the nick of time. Fast forward to the year 2005, where the Rainbow team takes to task a Neo-Fascist terrorist group.

The terrorist organization has apparently been attacking various South American oil interests and European financial institutions. The story leads you to Argentina, in search for Nikola Gospic (Argentinian billionaire) and Alvero Guitierrez (presidential candidate). Rainbow team discovers that Gospic is one of the surviving members of the Ustashe regime, the group that got away with the Holocaust loot. As Gospic is on his death bed, he plans to use his large wealth to resurrect global Fascism -- with the use of chemical weapons.

John Clark, member of the Rainbow team, interrogates a captive Guitierrez and learns of Gospic's scheme. He plans to kill masses of people in South America, and create an economic crisis as the price of oil plummets. He would then throw around some cash to obtain the oilfields, and use them to finance an international Fascist movement.

You find that Guitierrez's presidential campaign was financed by Gospic, in exchange for political protection. Gospic is described as a "raven picking the bones of an old war," and that Guitierrez would be his shield. It's just too bad that all had to be put to a stop, as Gospic is now dead, and Guitierrez behind bars, thanks to the Rainbow team.

Gameplay (PC Version)

As with the titles in the franchise before this, Raven Shield for the PC takes place entirely from a first-person perspective. Your gun is shown by default, but can be turned off in the options, just in case your a hardcore Rainbow fan. There is no jumping to be heard of, and the movement speed is what players of today may consider to be slow, but all is done to convey a sense of realism, as your weighted down by all the gear that a special-operative would be carrying.

He's in my sights!

The single-player game focuses around a strict mission-structure, for a total of 15. Each mission begins with a briefing, at which point you can change your teams load-out, skim through blueprints of the location, and even plan your course of action. After you wrap your head around all that, you'll be dropped into your location, and will receive instructions through radio transmission of your objectives. The game centers heavily around the combined effort of up to three teams of people, in which you will be put into situations that call you to rescue hostages, disarm bombs, retrieve intel, and take down terrorists.

The multi-player game uses the same basic functions of the single-player game, but put into the context of an online environment. All the standard gameplay types of most FPS games are here, with the usual Rainbow twist to them, which people clamor for. Most Rainbow Six game types for the PC version are on a one-life basis, which means that there is no re-spawning system, and at the start of each round teams spawn from either the preset Red or Green position for that map.

Primary Weapons

Sub-Machine Guns

MP5A4 9mm
MP5SD5 9mm
UMP .45
TMP 9mm
Mac 11/9 9mm
SR-2 9mm
P90 5.7mm
Uzi 9mm
M12 9mm
Micro-Uzi 9mm
MP5K PDW 9mm
MP5/10A2
MTAR-21 9mm
CZ-61 9mm

Assault Rifles

M4 5.56mm
M16A2 5.56mm
AUG 5.56
Galil ARM 5.56mm
Tar-21 5.56mm
AK-47 7.62mm
L85A1 5.56mm
FAMAS G2 5.56mm
G36 5.56mm
G3A3 5.56mm
M14 7.62mm
M82 5.56mm
FAL 7.62mm
AK-74 5.56mm
FNC 5.56mm
Type 97 5.56mm

Shotguns

Spas-12
USAS-12
M1

Sniper Rifles

M82A1 .50
PSG-1 7.62mm
Draganuv 7.62mm
AW Covert 7.62mm
SSG-3000 7.62mm
VSS Vintorez 7.62mm
WA-2000 7.62mm

Light Machine Guns

M249 SAW 5.56mm
M60E4 7.62mm
21E 7.62mm
23E 5.56mm
RPD 7.62mm

Secondary Weapons

Pistols

92FS 9mm
USP .40
Mark 23 .45
Desert Eagle .357
Desert Eagle .50
P-228 9mm
SPP 9mm
AP Army 5.7mm

Machine Pistols

Mac 11/9 9mm
Micro-Uzi 9mm
SR-2 9mm
CZ-61 9mm

Single-player Missions

Stolen Flame

Amuay, Venezuela
Oil Refinery

Cold Dagger

Jura Canton, Switzerland
Alpine Village

Mountain Watch

Jura Canton, Switzerland
Mountain Highway

Sentinel Wolf

Bergen, Norway
Shipyard

Falcon hour

Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Private Airport

Pearl Castle

Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Island Estate

Crimson Hook

Pilar, Argentina
Meat Packing Plant

Stone Cannon

Porto de Alegre, Brazil
Import/Export

Shattered Glass

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Penthouse

Lion Shadow

London, England
Banking House

Broken Stone

Pilar, Argentina
Meat Packing Plant 2

Briar Gate

Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Island Estate 2

Talon Steel

Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Private Airport 2

Whisper Blade

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Garage

Steel Rose

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Parade Lineup

Multiplayer Gametypes

* Mission: Experience a single-player like experience as you and a group of your friends work together to complete missions.

Terrorist Hunt: This is fairly straight-forward, you and a group of players work on a map of your choosing to take out a user-defined number of terrorists.
Survival: Survival is a free-for-all gametype, which supports up to 16 players, and continues until there is one person living, or time expires.
Team Survival: This is Raven Shield's version of Team Deathmatch, for up to 16 players, with a user-set time-limit and that special Rainbow flavor.

Expansions

Athena Sword

Raven Shield received two expansions over the course of its lifecycle, the first of which being Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword. Developed in Ubisoft-Milan, the add-on featured eight new missions (along with a new story arc), five multiplayer missions, seven new weapons and three new multiplayer gametypes. It was released on the 9th of March, 2004 to moderate success. The expansion ultimately wasn't a huge part of the online community, and was eventually filtered out of server listings.

The second and final expansion for Raven Shield appeared June 9th, 2005, and was available exclusively on FilePlanet. Iron Wrath was developed by Ubisoft-Casablanca, and featured seven new missions, two classic missions, eight multiplayer maps, and six weapons.

Maps

Airport
Airport 2
Alpine Village
Bank
Garage
Import/Export
Island Estate
Island Estate 2
Meat Packing Plant
Meat Packing Plant 2
Mountain Highway
Oil Refinery
Parade
Peaks
Penthouse
Presidio
Shipyard
Streets
Warehouse

Console Versions

Plot

A series of terrorist attacks American interest and its citizens. As a war looms in the background, it is up to Team Rainbow; a top secret organization of the best field officers the United Nations has in its disposal to eradicate the threat before it is too late.

Gameplay

The console version gameplay differs from the PC version. There is no mission planning stage and the player is responsible to command their own team, not control them. In the game, you control Ding Chavez and lead your team (Eddie Price, Louis Loiselle, and Dieter Weber) to success. Orders can be given through the in-game commands or voice commands through a headset connected to the Xbox controller. Xbox Live

Online gameplay with Xbox Live created a large community that was long lived through the Xbox console life. The game consisted of 8 maps and 5 more with downloadable content. Modes consisted of both team oriented goals and traditional deathmatch.

Modes

Mission: Co-operative play which sets you in single player maps and situations while playing with your friends or players through Xbox Live.
Terrorist Hunt: Four players kill terrorists in the single player maps.
Survival: Up to 16 players attempt to kill as many terrorists as possible without dying. Last man standing wins.
Team Survival:Up to 16 players are divided to two teams and the first to eliminate the other team wins.
Sharpshooter: More traditional deathmatch mode, attempt to achieve the most kills within the time allotted or reach the kill limit to win.

PC - Minimum System Requirements

Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/XP-x64/Vista
Processor: Pentium IV 1.6GHz / AthlonXP 1600
Graphics: 3D accelerator 16 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c or better
Memory: 256 MB (512 MB with Vista)
Sound: 16 bit DirectX compatible sound card
Hard Drive: 1.5 GB free disk space

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