Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17446 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2006-02-17
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
The Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six franchise, hailed for its immersive single-player and multi-player experiences, continues with Lockdown as Team Rainbow, the world's premier counter-terrorist unit, is called on to fight a deadly bioterrorism threat. The crisis takes Rainbow into new territory and new situations, as for the first time the hunter becomes the hunted.

Key Features

Re-imagined missions, more challenging than ever before
Revamped Rivalry Mode: Rainbow vs. Mercenaries, battling over three different objective types simultaneously. No two Rivalry matches play out exactly the same way!

Enhanced Tactical Experience
Deadlier enemies with improved tactics require quick and intense decision making.
Hostages that must be navigated through the level and accountedfor during firefights. Keep them safe and get them out alive!

New Multiplayer Features
Class Style gameplay for multiplayer, allowing more specialisation
Multiplayer reward system
New Free-for-all game type
The return of 3 classic maps 747, Mint, and Bunkers

New Equipment
Enemy use of lock fusers in single-player gameplay presents new challenges to the player
Laser trip mines, virus grenades and C4 explosives add new options to the multiplayer arsenal

New Weapons and Attachments
20 new weapons 42 overall
6 brand new weapons never seen before in a Rainbow game Customise your weapon to suit your style of play: silencers, scopes, red-dot sights, hi-cap magazines.

Customer Reviews

It wasn't worth the wait.
I own all the other Rogue Spear / Rainbow Six games and I've not bought this one.
My reasons for not purchasing this game are simple, I've played the Demo.
I loved the previous versions and have been eagerly anticipating a new game.
The things I liked about the previous versions were the fluidity and scale of the maps, you could plan your missions choosing your teams , their kit and the routes they take or just go it alone trying to wipe out as many tangos as you can, whilst roaming the maps however you see fit.
This "Real World" environment is what is missing here. The route you take is very scripted with terrorists appearing when you pass a certain point etc. while you follow a predefined path much like Medal Of Honour or Call of Duty 2. The environments are compartmentalised, splitting the maps into rooms effectively breaking 1 mission up into 3 or so sections breaks up the flow of the game, and in my opinion destroying one of the major selling points of the previous games. Having waited a long time for this sequel I feel very disappointed indeed that the roots of this game have been sacrificed for the console market.
Fingers crossed that another UBI favourite "Ghost Recon" which is soon to be released, does not suffer the same fate.

Console Convert means Poor Game
This game doesn't deserve to be titled Rainbow Six, with the pedigree in Tactical Simulation that the name implies. The only reason I bought it was to complete my Rainbow Six collection. I should have saved my money.

I was absolutely disappointed- no, devastated is a better word, to discover what Ubisoft have been doing with the Rainbow team. Previously, it was the standard by which other tactical shooters were measured: brilliant graphics, imaginative missions, well written storylines; if a little corny and cliched. Also, the all important planning stage meant that a mission could be won or lost before you even got in to the action stage. Selection of kit was all important; the right gun could also mean success or failure.

I was saddened to find out that Rainbow has sold out to the consoles. Now a linear, boring game, with appallingly bad AI, and no need for any gun choice. Turning the difficulty up to Hard to try and improve the AI means your crosshair disappears! You can turn up with the hostages with no danger of them being executed. The planning stage has gone, the guns are no longer called by their real names, both characteristic of the Rainbow genre. Reality has been thrown out of the window. Targets stand around waiting to be shot, suddenly appearing if you don't disactivate a camera. Some of the missions are quite original, and the graphics is one of its saving points. The "special" vision mode is useless. This has all come about because it is a console game remake, and Ubisoft should know better than to produce this sort of game for the PC market. They really should be ashamed of themselves.

This game should never have been made for the PC.

What a let down...
Great graphics let down awful gameplay, lousy AI and bug ridden. No planning for missions, no team selections and limited kit availability. Shoot some objects , crash the game, shoot some more, crash the game again. Unfortunately I didn't get to play the demo before buying the game, purchasing on reputation. Don't make my mistake and purchase this game thinking it will be a graphically improved version of the previous games, this is nothing like the Rainbow Six series has been previously. Just awful.