Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (2004) The game’s intense competitive element proved a perfect fit for the fledgling online service, whose persistent friend lists and matchmaking made multiplayer simpler than it had ever been. Though it abandoned the tactical planning phases of its PC predecessors, this version had something they didn’t: Xbox Live. The first game in the franchise to appear on Xbox, Rainbow Six 3 was a console-optimized version of the 2003 Windows release Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. This led to a range of expansion packs featuring new single- and multiplayer levels, as well as a new system allowing players to create their own maps. Though not very different from the original in terms of gameplay, Rogue Spear was notable for more fully embracing a multiplayer component.
The success of the first game paved the way for a quick sequel. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999) The result was a challenging and addictive hybrid of strategy and action. teammates, and manage loadouts, this planning phase could last longer than the real-time level experience itself – especially considering how a single bullet could take down just about anyone. With having to plot out waypoints, issue commands to A.I. Extremely tactical and brutally realistic, the game required an intense planning stage before each level.
In a market flooded with arcadey first-person shooter experiences, the original Rainbow Six was a shocking departure.
But while we look forward, let’s also take a look back at this series that virtually defined the tactical first-person shooter. That game was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.Įight games, six expansions, some 15 million sales, and more than 16 years later, we’re eagerly looking forward to the release of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, due sometime this year on Xbox One. Two years later, the company would launch the first game in a franchise that is still going strong to this day. That’s what happened in 1996, when the late Tom Clancy – king of the techno-thrillers – co-founded a game studio called Red Storm Entertainment. When one of the world’s best-selling novelists decides that he wants to get into video games, people pay attention.
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