Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Review

Good Points
Fantastic Arsenal, pretty decent graphics good sound. Some interesting missions. Teammate AI seems fairly good.

Bad Points
I dislike the stealth missions, they don't play well from a first person perspective.

General Comments
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 can be fantastic in places but it is heavily scripted. At times it devolves into trial and error. The graphics are pretty good throughout and the AI of your team is generally good. There are some nice touches like being able to storm a terrorist room from multiple angles and some of the levels are superbly designed (Alcatraz is great) however it seems too short and the scripted responses of the enemy make it easy to complete. The story behind the game is OK but not really that gripping and you will find that due to the similarity of many of the levels you will find a preferred gun making the huge choice of arms almost redundant. There are no levels that really require the Barrett sniper rifle or any of the others which is a shame. Overall a good game but a better mix of level designs would make it better. Additionally there are some really frustrating levels where you have to sneak around without detection, realistic perhaps but not fun really.