Get ready to dish out some more orders to your squad as we have a look at another one of the classic games in the Rainbow Six series.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Lockdown (2005) Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, PCBy now, Rainbow Six was one of the premier shooter franchises and for this installment, things to a bit more of an action heavy kind of feel. Once again you play as Rainbow team. In the year 2009, you have been tasked with putting a stop to a terrorist organization called Global Liberation Front who have a virus called Legion that they want to unleash.
The console versions of the game were certainly more action based. Added into the console versions were these sniper sections which had a real shooter gallery kind of feel as you had to pick off various targets. Interestingly these sniper sections were not in the PC game. While Rainbow Six Lockdown still featured many of the tactical elements from past games. Action certainly seemed to be the direction that Ubisoft wanted to take the series in.
This more action heavy game resulted in mixed reviews, especially for the PC version as many fans felt this was a dumbed down version of what they had come to love.
Both the PlayStation 2 and Xbox would get their own exclusive online mode with the PlayStation 2 having Rivalry and the Xbox having a mode called Persistent Elite Creation which was actually a huge deal and something many people got into. The GameCube version did not support online play, but it did have an exclusive 2 player co-op mode.
This is not one of the more popular games in the series and you could argue that the response it got made Ubisoft take a long hard look at the series.
Here we go again as we look at the next installment in the Rainbow Six series.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 (2003/2004) Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCubeRainbow Six was no stranger to console having appeared on PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Sega Dreamcast. But this would be the series’ first entry on this generation of console. The game was originally released on the Xbox before making an appearance on the PlayStation 2 and GameCube the following year.
While this version is called Rainbow Six 3, you will notice the subtitle is missing. That is because the console versions are completely different to the PC. There is no complex planning of missions before you do them like in the PC version (which is one of the major things about the Rainbow Six series) and in general, the game has a much more action feel to it. The story was also very different to what the PC version offered. The rainbow team is sent to South America to investigate a series of terrorist attacks and soon finds out that it is the president of Venezuela who is behind them.
Players now only control one character, Ding Chavez who is the field commander of the Rainbow team. You can still dish out orders to the rest of the team, but you only have direct control of the one character. In general, this is a much more streamlined Rainbow Six experience. But while this sounds bad, Rainbow Six 3 on console is actually a very fun game in its own right, especially the Xbox version which got great reviews at the time. The PlayStation and GameCube versions of the game did not get quite as high review scores at the time.
Prop Hunt Mode Is Coming To Call Of Duty WWII
To say that I have been having a blast with Call Of Duty WWII is a huge understatement and I am super pumped for the first DLC pack. The resistance is a limited time community event which starts on the 23rd of January. Included with this is a brand new Resistance Division which will have its own gear. A bunch of new weapons, double XP, Demolition Mode and most surprisingly of all, Prop Hunt Mode.
Prop Hunt Mode was kind of sneaked in here and many people did not even realize that it was part of this community event. Prop Hunt is a game mode that is just all about fun and having a good time with people online. If you do not know exactly what Prop Hunt is, let me explain it a little bit to you.
Call Of Duty WWII does have a few kind of stealthy sections, but Prop Hunt takes it to a new level. It is a team based mode where one team is tasked with hunting down the other team who are hiding. What makes this such a fun mode is that you get to hide as random objects like a bucket or a crate. It is up to the other team to figure out what seems out of place and blow it away!
Prop Hunt in Call Of Duty WWII is not a game mode that is meant to be taken seriously and if you are looking for a distraction to give you and your buddies some laughs, you will have a great time with Prop Hunt mode.
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