Rainbow Six 3 takes the basic formula of the previous entries in the series and simplifies them to make the game less realistic perhaps, but more acessable and fun in the end. You lead a team of four members through levels to kill terrorists, rescue hostages, and disarm bombs. The environments you go through are designed well to allow you to move through strategicaly and have to think about tactics rather than blast your way through. However, there are times where you will be killed by enemies that can hit you while you can't even see them nevermind shoot back and the accuracy of the opponents is often unrealistically unforgiving. That all goes though to make you have to try even harder to utilize your squad to make it through each level. Your squad, and the terrorists as well, have releatively good AI which means you won't have to worry too much about them getting themselves killed while at the same time the enemies never are too easy to eliminate. The command ointerface for your squad is simple and works well to tell your men to do anything from move to a place, to flashing and clearing a room. The voice command is very poor and works only half the time it seems. The idea for voice command is cool but better recognition needed to be implemented first. Two drawbacks to the game are in the story and multiplayer. The story just is not that good and you really won't care too much about what is going on although you wouldn't have really bought the game for a story anyway. The multiplayer although often hailed as the best on X-Box Live is awful in my opinion. The tactics of the one player are thrown away as is the freamerate and the game suffers greatly. The co-operative modes are good however although it would have been nice to have a splitscreen option for them and the framerate still drops. The game is good however, and a reccomended buy for fans of the genre and series.
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