Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

aka: Black Ops, Rainbow 6
Moby ID: 962

Trivia

German version

In the German version, all blood effects were removed and killed enemies disappear almost instantly.

Novel

There is a Rainbow Six book by Tom Clancy that tells a much more detailed version of the game's story. The game has many more missions than the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. Red Storm decided they want to do a tactical shooter, while Tom Clancy said his next book will be about terrorism and counter-terrorist outfit. It's only natural to have them work on the same backgrounds.

The book only has about about half-dozen missions undertaken (the bank, the "schloss", Europark, military base, Australia, and Brazil) by Team Rainbow. The game has much more than that, along with some very different plots.

Online servers

The game's online servers (which were hosted on MSN Gaming Zone) were shut down on 19 June 2006 in the wake of MSN Games' shift from "CD-ROM matchmaking service" to casual online games.

Slogan

Rainbow Six's slogan is "Play as if 5.7 billion lives depended on it."

Awards

  • Computer Gaming World
    • June 2001 (Issue #203) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
  • PC Gamer
    • April 2000 - #6 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
    • October 2001 - #9 in the "Top 50 Games of All Time" list
    • April 2005 - #22 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list

Information also contributed by casimps1, Entorphane, Kasey Chang and PCGamer77

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Trivia contributed by Derrick 'Knight' Steele, Patrick Bregger, Plok.