Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
A tactical shooter with realistic properties, it adapts various features absent in previous installments of the franchise such as the ability to see one's weapon while in first-person view, many new weapons…
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is a shooter developed by Red Storm Entertainment, released 18 March 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Mac.
What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is a shooter game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1945, as two members of the Nazi-sponsored Ustashe regime in Croatia manage to escape the country with huge amounts of Holocaust-era loot just before Allied troops move into the capital. Sixty years later, in 2005, elite multinational counter-terrorism task-force Rainbow finds itself investigating a series of attacks by Neo-Fascist terrorists against South American oil interests and European financial institutions.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield is the 22nd of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell in 2003. Its critic score of 82 is 12 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.
How it was received
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 53 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 800 MHz Pentium® III, AMD Athlon™, or equivalent (1.3 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, or equivalent recommended), 128 MB RAM (XP users: 256 MB RAM required) and 32 MB DirectX® 8-compliant 3D video card with hardware T&L. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield launched on 18 March 2003, within three weeks of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Championship Manager 4, Final Fantasy X-2 and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Championship Manager 4, Final Fantasy X-2, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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