Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials (Windows)
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials Windows Front Cover

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Published by

Red Storm Entertainment, Inc.

Developed by

Magic Lantern, Red Storm Entertainment, Inc., Zombie Inc.

Released

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1st-person, 3rd-person (Other)

Gameplay

Shooter

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Licensed, Regional Differences

Critic Score

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3.8

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Description

Tom Clancy reveals the world of covert ops in his latest Rainbow Six creation: Covert Ops Essentials. This is an encyclopedia of Covert Ops, from weapons and tactics to previous incidents and interview with anti-terrorism experts. Also includes "Officer Candidate School" to test your knowledge, as well as three special Rogue Spear levels (Rogue Spear NOT required) to see how you implement what you learned.

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Screenshots

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials Windows The mission briefing

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials Windows The 'Ready Room'. From here the player accesses all the training material in the game. The shadows will show the player's progress through the game but there's nothing there yet.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials Windows This screen shows that after the briefing the player is given 'intel' or background information. This then leads to the planning phase where the player can manually plan or take the default

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials Windows The mission selection screen

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Alternate Titles

"彩虹六号之隐秘行动" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

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User Reviews

Redefines the word "Essential"	Terrence Bosky (5463)
Cool, but...	Bryan White (2)	unrated

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Critic Reviews

GameZone	Oct 16, 2000	9 out of 10	90
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 2000		80
PC Games (Germany)	Nov, 2000	71 out of 100	71
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 2000	67 out of 100	67
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	6.2 out of 10	62
Gameplay (Benelux)	Dec 29, 2000	61 out of 100	61
GameSpy	Oct 10, 2000	60 out of 100	60
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Oct 14, 2000		50
ComputerGamers.com	Jan 01, 2001	50 out of 100	50
Power Unlimited	Feb, 2001	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

German version

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

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Related Web Sites

Bill Brown - Music Composer (Listen to streaming and downloadable MP3 music tracks from this title at the composer's official site. )
Planet Rainbow Six (For all things Rainbow Six.)

Kasey Chang (4617) added Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials (Windows) on Dec 08, 2000