Thursday, October 29, 2009

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

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Your team stalks terror for a living. Now terror is stalking you. You've got cutting-edge weaponry and peerless military training. They've got a man-made virus, capable of killing millions. You have the world's best operatives. They have one of your men hostage. The chips are stacked.

Overview

In the PS2 and XBOX versions of the game, the gameplay is simulated through a visor and as the players health becomes low, cracks will appear in the visor and will limit the players view. New gadgets are also available The original heartbeat sensor has been redesigned and the PS2 has an exclusive motion sensor gadget and the Xbox version has collapsible turrets.

Rainbow Six: Lockdown was the first game in the series to vastly change from mainly realism to become very arcadey in comparison. It was still fairly popular, but resented by many previous Rainbow Six fans, so much so many nicknamed it "Rainbow Six: Letdown".

Graphics

Rainbow Six: Lockdown was the first game in the franchise to feature normal mapping, and specular lighting. Also physics objects.

Gameplay

The gameplay in lockdown ditched the classic Rainbow Six, tactical gameplay and as a result, it made it more of a generic first person shooter.

The player controls Ding Chavez and leads a single squad through all of the missions. The player can issue orders to the squad, such as room clearing commands. The games combat is a lot more forgiving then the other games due to being able to take many shots before dying, enemies can also take many shots before dying. Health is unable to be restored.

Characters

Major General John Terrance Clark

Colonel Alistair Stanley

Team Rainbow

  • Team Leader - Domingo "Ding" Chavez
  • Sniper - Dieter Weber
  • Eddie Price
  • Louis Loiselle
  • Renee Raymond
  • Ayana Yacoby
  • Roger McAllen
  • Jamal Murad
  • Pak Suo-Won
  • Annika Lofquist

Story

Lockdown takes place in the year 2009 and follows the counter terrorist group known as "Rainbow". In the game Rainbow is put up against the terrorist organization known as The Global Liberation Front. This terrorist group has a stolen virus known as "The Legion Virus". The virus has a mortality rate of 100% and rainbow must stop the terrorist organization from using this virus on the world.

Equipment

In the PS2 and XBOX versions of the game, the gameplay is simulated through a visor and as the players health becomes low, cracks will appear in the visor and will limit the players view. New gadgets are also available The original heartbeat sensor has been redesigned and the PS2 has an exclusive motion sensor gadget and the Xbox version has collapsible turrets.

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