If you are looking for a great, realistic, heart pounding First Person Shooter, then your search is over with Rainbow.
The campaign of the game starts pretty simple. You are Ding Chavez, the head of an anti-terrorist group named Rainbow, and your boss John Clark, tell you to ready your team up for a practice (tutorial), because something big is probably about to happen. And as in other Rainbow titles you are in charge to stop it, and it will not be so easy, for instance, having a scenario where a guy is pointing to the hostage, two other guys are hidden with shot guns behind the door, and that’s the only way in.
The Game Play on the game is brilliant. The controls are really tuned up to feel the strategy behind them. And for what orders to the team is concerned you just point where you want your team to do the action, then you just press “A” and select the action from a menu on the d-pad. Another achievement from Ubisoft is that instead of throwing grenades with LT you rapid change primary-secondary weapons.
Weapons in this game are also a primary characteristic of the game. Why? Because for all weapon exist in real life, and second, they all behave like in real life. AI is also good, they will behave as a team: hiding, covering, sniping… both team and enemies. And something nice witch gives the game an extra counter terror feel is that this time enemies will either kill the hostages or activate the bomb if they are threatened.
The game’s graphics are overall good. Since Ubisoft decided to use normal mapping the textures seem at times not real, NCP’s even seem to have their textures glued as wallpapers rather than actual skin. But differing from that the environment, weapons desing and animation are good looking.
If there is something in what this game excels is the sound. Weapons sound extremely good, when you fire, it’s sounds like a real war is going on. The voice action is great: your team will respond to every order you give, even if they have to say “Can’t do that sir”. 5.1 Audio is well implemented, and will be a lot helpful when your orders are to track enemies down.
The Multiplayer is great overall, while the Ethernet may be a little boring and short lived; the online mode is addictive, and well balanced. Either if it means playing one vs. one or four against four…
My last word is that Ding Chavez and his team will not disappoint any gamer, it will at times get very hard, but that just adds replay value to the game. In addition to all the excellent sound, game play, and the counter-terror feel, will have you playing Rainbow six 3 for hours in the future.