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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3

The console version of Rainbow Six 3 features similar mission locations and layouts to the PC version, but an entirely different plot. Rainbow responds to a series of terrorist attacks against U.S. interests…

53 7 November 2003 ESRB M

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 is a shooter developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, released 7 November 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 is

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 is a shooter game developed by Ubisoft Shanghai and released in 2003. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on Unreal Engine 2. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"When a terrorist plot threatens to tilt the balance of peace between the United States and Saudi Arabia, team Rainbow is the only answer. Execute your missions with deadly force and precise tactics in order to protect the innocent and ensure peace."
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are warfare. 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 3 is the 25th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Extended Ops in 2003. Its critic score of 53 is 17 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 3 holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 launched on 7 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 was released on 7 November 2003 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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