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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

Engineered specifically for the PC by Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six returns to deliver the tensest close-quarters battles ever experienced online. In this episode, Rainbow faces independent terrorist…

67 8 September 2005

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is a shooter developed by Red Storm Entertainment, released 8 September 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is a shooter game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and released in 2005. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is a 2005 tactical first-person shooter video game published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Windows. It is the fourth game in the Rainbow Six series. The game's plot follows Rainbow, an international counterterrorist organization, as they battle a terrorist organization that has stolen a deadly bioweapon. The PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Windows versions were developed by Red Storm Entertainment and the Xbox version was developed by Ubisoft Montreal.
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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: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is the 32nd of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter in 2006. Its critic score of 67 is 3 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.5 GHz Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon™ equivalents or better and 64 MB AGP or PCI DirectX® 9.0c-compliant video card supporting pixel shaders and vertex shaders (see supported list*).

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What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown launched on 8 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Cheats and codes

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown — frequently asked questions

When did Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown come out?
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown was released on 8 September 2005 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown?
At minimum, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown needs 1.5 GHz Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon™ equivalents or better, 64 MB AGP or PCI DirectX® 9.0c-compliant video card supporting pixel shaders and vertex shaders (see supported list*) graphics.

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