Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a classic Clancy-style story where you lead an elite multinational task force battling international terrorism in highly realistic settings. Game play is organized around a series of missions in which you must plan and execute precise assaults on terrorist installations. As your mission advances, you will uncover a larger and more sinister conspiracy, where the fate of the world hangs in the balance. And unlike other games, if you make a mistake, you're gone - because in the real world, one shot counts.

To carry out a mission, the player plays "Six," the leader of the team, and must assemble a crack team from a pool of skilled specialists and plan the operation using an overhead three-dimensional model of the target area. Once satisfied with their strategy, the player then leads the assault using a first- or third-person (you can toggle between the two) three-dimensional view. The game will be playable by single players with artificial intelligence controlling friendly and enemy troops, or by multiple players across the internet in both collaborative and head-to-head modes.

Each mission consists of two distinct phases: the planning phase and the action phase. In the planning phase, the player receives a briefing and is given all available intelligence regarding the missions. The player then selects appropriate team members, equips them, and plans the mission.

Rainbow Six creates the best of both strategy and action game play. The action play is team oriented - perfect for Internet play. With 20 playable characters and 17 different missions in real world locations, the variety of gameplay is extensive.

So carefully select your team and even more carefully, conceive your plan. Because it's time to go save the world. One mission at a time.

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The most revolutionary action/strategy game of its kind. Nothing comes closer to offering an exciting combination of strategy, team-building, realistic three-dimensional graphics and true-to-life special forces action. The ultimate goal is to save yourself and the world from deadly terrorists. You must successfully complete 17 unique missions. If you die, the game isn't over. The World is.

*Play up to 16 players online with Real-Time voice.

Move carefully: one shot kills!

Experience 17 immersive & totally unique locations.

Execute the mission in 1st & 3rd person.*

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Back of Box (Canada/U.S.)

Play as if 5.7 billion lives depended on it. "Rainbow Six will stand out - nay tower above - the other games this year...I have never seen more intense, realistic action in a computer game."

• William Trotter, Senior Writer, PC Gamer

**Assemble your team from an international pool of 20 special operatives.

Select authentic gear and weapons for each team member.

Play your attack using a blueprint map and 3D view.

True-to-life special forces action. Infiltrate seized buildings. Disarm explosives. Rescue hostages. "Best Action Game of E3 1998 - Bound to be one of the best games of 1998."

• The Perfect Game

"Best of E3 1998 Pick - The immersion factor looks to be close to perfect."

• www.combatsim.com

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Inside Flaps (Canada/U.S.)

The hit PC game comes to the N64 with improved gameplay and graphics. "Rainbow Six" is a new type of first person shooter that brings ultra realism and a strategic planning mode to the player.

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Saffire website - N64

In a big break from first-person tradition, Rainbow Six privileges stealth and realism over high body-counts.

The debut N64 game from North Carolina publisher Red Storm Entertainment comprises 12 stealthy stages. Developer Saffire picked the 10 choicest missions from the PC version of the game, including Congo and Australia, and added two missions from the best-selling Eagle Watch expansion pack.

Members of Rainbow Six, an all-star antitierrorist team, hail from Spain, U.S., Israel, Australia and elsewhere in the first world. Their basic job is to clean up high-profile riffraff wherever they may strike, from Congo and South America and the good old U.S. of A.

As its fearless leader, the cryptically monikered "Six," you must hand-pick the pros you need for each high-pressure mission. Put safety first, because dead team members will be of no use in later missions. In a welcome change from the every-man-for-himself mentality of most shooters, players can partner to complete especially grueling missions. However, plans for a deathmatch mode were jettisoned as contrary to the Pak's emphasis on teamwork.

Saffire has forged an impressive resume in both whirlwind suspense (James Bond 007 for Game Boy) and glossy N64 action (Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.). The bustling Utah codeshop rewrote the Rainbow Six PC game engine from the ground up to take advantage of the N64's unique strengths. While movement and targeting are excellent, a bit of awkwardness results from the fact that Saffire had to map some of complex controls to the Control Pad.

Make no mistake: this is a demanding, strategically oriented game. Saffire did as good a job as could be expected with the menu system, but mastering the plethora of choices and options will take time.

Rainbow Six gives you a choice of eight sidearms plus silenced versions of most, seven camouflage outfits, and special kits for lockpicking, demolition and electronics work. In this one-hit-and-you're-out game, there are no quick-fix medical kits.

Rainbow Six boasts an exceptionally dramatic sound track. Footfalls are a bit too loud, but the bad guys never seem to notice.

One of the biggest brand names in American letters, Tom Clancy specializes in 800-page doorstops groaning with globetrotting suspense and incredibly detailed descriptions of high-tech weaponry, ruthless Pentagon careerism and international skullduggery. His first N64 game will appeal to spy and adventure fans alike.

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www.nintendo.com – Nintendo 64

Rainbow Six bringt Ihnen die ultrarealistische Intensität, sie sonst nur echte Agenten von Sondereinsatztruppen erleben. Treten Sie einer multinationalen Spezialeinheit bei, die im Auftrag der Regierungen in aller Welt eine Gruppe tödlicher Terroristen bekämpft. Stellen Sie Ihr Team aus einem Kader von Spezialisten zusammen. Wählen Sie authentische Ausrüstung und Waffen aus, und dringen Sie in besetzte Gebäuse ein, um Geiseln zu befreien. Die explosive, realistische Action von Rainbow Six und die perfekt ausgefeilte Taktik bieten Ihnen ein unvergeßliches Spielerlebnis.

• Bahnbrechende Kombination von Strategie und ultraspannendem Gameplay
• Unglaubliche 3D-Grafiken in 12 einzigartigen Spielumgebungen
• Wählen Sie bis zu vier Agenten zur Ausführung Ihrer Einsätze
• 2-Spieler-Action für kooperatives Spielen
• Erweitertes N64 Controller Pak zum Speichern Ihrer Daten
• Erweitert für 4 MB Expansion Pak
• Unterstützt Rumble Pak

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Back of Box - Nintendo 64 (German)

Rainbow Six is as close as it gets to the intensity of real-life tactical operations. You'll join an elite multi-national strike force hired by the world's governments to stop a group of deadly terrorists. Draw your team from a pool of specialists. Select authentic gear and weapons and infiltrate seized buildings to rescue hostages.

Rainbow Six's explosive real-world action is coupled with spine-tingling tactics to create a gaming experience you won't soon forget. * Breakthrough combination of strategy and stealth-like gameplay * Incredible 3D graphics in 12 unique mission settings * Use up to four operatives to executive assaults * 2 player action for cooperative play * Enhanced N64 Controller Pak to save data * Enhanced for 4 MB Expansion Pak * Rumble Pak support

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Back of Box - N64 (UK)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

coming soon!

**ENTWICKLE DEINE STRATEGIE

ERFÜLLE DEINE MISSION

RETTE DIE WELT**

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Print advertisement - PC Player 11/1998

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

FEATURES

• die ultimative Kombination aus Strategie und 3D-Action

• die Story und Charaktere basieren auf dem neuesten Tom Clancy Bestseller

• 16 einzigartige Missionen in unterschiedlichen Einsatzgebieten

• 20 spielbare Charaktere mit persönlichen Eigenschaftswerten

• Multiplayer-Unterstützung mit verschiedenen Spielmodi per Netzwerk oder Internet

• unterstützt 3D-Grafikkarten via Direct 3D

AWARDS/PRESSESTIMMEN

PC Player 80%: „Man hat wirklich das Gefühl, Mitglied eines Antiterror-Kommandos zu sein.“

PC Games 86%: „Rainbow Six fasziniert von der ersten Minute an durch die ausgewogene Mischung aus Strategie- und Actionelementen.“

PC Joker 83%: „Hut bzw. Helm ab vor einer derart realistischen Verknüpfung von Vorbereitungsstrategie und Action.“

PC Action 82%; Multiplayer 89%:

„Rainbow Six bietet alles was, ich von einem anspruchsvollen 3D-Shooter erwarte.“

Gamesmania Award of Excellence 8.5/10:

„Für anspruchsvolle Actionfreunde, Taktiker und Simulationsfans gleichermaßen ist Rainbow Six das Spiel des Monats.“

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Print advertisement - PC Player 12/1998