Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Raven Shield:Command an elite multinational squad of special operatives against hidden terrorist forces. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, the third installment to the wildly popular Rainbow Six series, Team Rainbow faces the hidden global forces of a new and secretive foe.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is a tactical, fps and action game
developed by Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft Montreal
and published by Ubisoft.
Released on September 25th 2008 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 1,944 reviews of which 1,783 were positive and 161 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
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- Supported OS: Originally released for Windows 7, the game can be played on Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS
- Processor: 800 MHz Pentium® III, AMD Athlon™, or equivalent (1.3 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, or equivalent recommended)
- Memory: 128 MB RAM (XP users: 256 MB RAM required)
- Graphics: 32 MB DirectX® 8-compliant 3D video card with hardware T&L
- DirectX Version: DirectX 8.1 or higher (DX9 included)
- Sound: DirectX 8.1-compliant sound card
- Hard Drive: 3 GB minimum hard drive space
- Multiplayer: You must create an account prior to attempting multiplayer, the in-game link to account creation no longer works, please use this URL.
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This game is a perfect example of Tactical CQB, and I’m having so much fun playing it. Even though there are many modern CQB games like Ready or Not, Ground Branch, and Zero Hour, this game is still worth playing. The tactical CQB core is very strong, and I absolutely love it. You can also mod the game to make it look more modern with additional gear, armor, weapons, attachments, and more. Pros : [*] Slow-paced tactical gameplay. This is not a fast-paced tactical shooter. Like I said, this game focuses on realistic CQB training. You can apply real CQB modules here, checking corners, and clearing rooms are essential. Miss a corner and, well… you and your team are dead unless you want to play like a Rambo and rush in shooting everything. [*] Strong realism. Even though this game is old, I’m impressed by how realistic it is. If you get shot in a non-vital area, you can survive, but you’ll limp, move slowly, can’t run, and need a medkit to fully recover. Get shot in a vital area especially the head and you’re instantly dead. [*] Map variety. You can play the campaign or custom maps where you can set the number of tangos. With mods, you get even more modes like bot matches, TDM, VIP escort, and more. [*] Plenty of weapon and gear choices. The game gives you freedom to choose your teammates’ weapons and attachments. The vanilla weapons are a bit outdated, but still fine. You can also bring various gear like heartbeat sensors, thermal binoculars, and more. [*] Orders & gear system. You can give orders to teammates such as breaching doors, clearing rooms, or throwing grenades. The gear system is very fun especially the snake cam, which lets you check a room before breaching by crouching and placing the camera under the door. [*] Teammate classes & squad system. You can choose who to bring on each mission. Want a squad full of snipers or machine gunners? Go for it. You can control up to 3 squads, with 4 members each. [*] Planning phase. For an old game, the planning phase is amazing. It helps you control multiple squads while playing mainly as your main squad. If you don’t want to use it, that’s fine you can still finish the campaign with just one squad. [*] Customizable UI & solid AI. You can customize the UI however you want turn everything off for realism or keep only what you need. Teammate AI performs very well in combat, though they sometimes bug out at doors. Cons : [*] Outdated controls and graphics. By modern standards, both the controls and graphics are very outdated. You’ll need to remap keybinds before playing. If you enjoy old-school graphics, though, this won’t be a problem. [*] Resolution issues. The fixed resolution on the main menu is annoying, but you can change the resolution during missions. [*] Steep learning curve. Since the game focuses heavily on realistic CQB, it can take some time to learn and get comfortable with the mechanics. [*] Enemy AI can be too good. Sometimes the enemy AI is too good. They can spot you from far away and one-shot you if you’re not paying attention, so be careful. [*] Occasionally unreliable squad AI. On some occasions, if you’re unlucky, AI teammates can become a dead weight. Overall, this tactical CQB game is wonderful. Despite its age, with modern mods installed, the game feels much more enjoyable.
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There is a Steam guide with a single-download Community Remaster that modernizes the game into a high quality tactical shooter with all the best community content being played by the dedicated RvS community. It runs out of the box on modern hardware, plays very nicely, and looks pretty, bringing the best of modern shooters while retaining the retro tactical design. However, this review is not for tactical shooter fans. This is for my fellow retro-enthusiasts. If you want the retro experience on modern hardware, you need to put in a little more legwork. PCGamingWiki will be your friend. I'll outline the steps I took in order: There is no need to patch Raven Shield or Athena Sword, both are already up to date in the steam installation. Manually install Iron Wrath, then install OpenRVS. Adjust FOV in OpenRVS.ini to 106, which retains the vanilla vertical FOV but expands the Horizontal FOV for widescreen. Install the missing sounds, and the Optimization Patch. Then, install dgVoodoo2 and adjust settings to your liking, and inject it into your Rainbow Six 3 folder. Unfortunately, using dgVoodoo2 is not optional, you MUST do it. The planning phase, a core gameplay element of Rainbow Six 3, has ENORMOUS input latency if you do not use dgVoodoo2, making the game unplayable. The dgVoodoo2 wrapper will bring the latency down to about 0.5s or so, which is manageable, if irritating. I have found noone who knows of any way to eliminate the latency completely on modern hardware. It is what it is. There is a guide on how to use dgVoodoo2 for this game on Steam, its title advertises greater resolutions (1080p and 4k), but I will go through it here because I recommend different settings for a clean retro experience. Download it from github and extract it anywhere (I extracted it to a "dgVoodoo2" folder I created in Documents). Once you've extracted dgVoodoo2 to a folder, open it and run dgVoodooCpl.exe. When you run dgVoodooCpl.exe, what you are doing is editing dgVoodoo.conf, which you will ultimately move to your Rainbow Six folder with a number of .dll files which, together, will run the game at your preferred settings. So, double click dgVoodooCpl.exe and have a look at your settings options. You do not need to change much! Under the general tab, set the "Adapter to use" to your graphics card and "Full Screen Output" to your display. Under appearance, set Scaling Mode to "Stretched, Keep Aspect Ratio" (this, when combined with unforced resolution, will prevent menus and pre-rendered cutscenes from being distorted). Then, under the DirectX tab, turn up the amount of VRAM for dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card, and turn on "Fast video memory access" (I'm not sure how necessary this step is honestly, but it doesn't hurt). I leave texture filtering and and anti-aliasing "App-driven," meaning it will use the vanilla texture-filtering and anti-aliasing (no AA, maybe light texture filtering but not much). Keeping the resolution unforced ensures correct aspect ratio for menus and cutscenes, which will render in 800x600, while you can set the gameplay resolution using in-game options to whatever you prefer (I set it to 720p--I don't really see a point in going higher on my screen). Turn off the setting at the bottom for the dgVoodoo watermark, and you're done. Click Apply, click OK. To inject this into Rainbow Six 3, first, in your dgVoodoo2 folder, go to \MS\x86 and copy D3D8.dll, D3Dlmm.dll, and DDraw.dll BUT NOT D3D9.dll, and paste them into the "system" folder under Rainbow Six 3 Gold. D3D9.dll will cause problems if you copy it into the folder DON'T copy it. Finally, copy dgVoodoo.conf into the same system folder, and you're good to go. If you want to test if it's working, turn on the dgVoodoo watermark using dgVoodooCpl.exe, overwrite dgVoodoo.conf in the system folder with the new dgVoodoo.conf generated by dgVoodooCpl.exe, and then run the game again. You should see an ugly watermark in the bottom right corner of the screen, confirming you are indeed using dgVoodoo2. YOU ARE ALMOST DONE, BUT THIS NEXT STEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT DO NOT SKIP. At this point, your mouse sensitivity is all messed up. To fix, go to your Rainbow Six 3 Gold\Save\Profiles folder and edit user.ini. Under, [Engine.PlayerInput], set "MouseSmoothingMode=0". Save and close. Do the same to DefUser.ini in the system folder. Now you can adjust mouse sensitivity to your liking using the in-game options menu, so that everything works. If you do not do this, either your aim will be extremely jerky, or menus will have intolerably low mouse sensitivity. Do this, and everything works great! Congratulations! You can now play the best Rainbow Six release. The game is really cool, and is where all the tactical features of the series peaked. Enemies are extremely alert, and one-shot kills are the standard for both terrorists and Rainbow Six operatives. You can plan each mission in detail before executing with up to 3 squads, where you will control the leader of one squad while all others will be controlled by AI (you can switch which squad member you control fluidly throughout the operation). Breach doors, throw tear gas, rescue hostages and defuse bombs--but mostly just get your butt kicked. The game is EXTREMELY hard and will brutalize you, I fully recommend playing on Recruit difficulty for the most enjoyable experience. Maybe you will prefer Lone Wolf Elite gameplay, but to me higher difficulty just incentivizes abusing smoke grenades to keep your squads alive, while lower difficulties open up more gameplay options while still being brutally difficult. The plot is unimportant to the experience, but I also find it charmingly quaint. Released during the post-9/11 era, you might expect it to have Bush-era GWOT themes, but it instead follows an oddball plot in which descendants of escaped Ustasha (Croatian nazis from WWII) living in Argentina are attempting to capture the Venezuelan oil industry to finance the rebuilding of fascism worldwide. Nazis always make for good, easy baddies. At any rate, you probably won't be thinking much about why the terrorists are doing terror when you're planning out your tactical hostage rescues, but hopefully that explains the red armbands for you. The shooting may feel a little clunky at first, and losing your AI controlled squad YET AGAIN because they don't know how to throw a flash bang through a door will make you slam your head against the wall (Pro-Tip: Have them wait for a go code at each door you want to put a flash bang through, and then manually control them to do it yourself; if you let them do it, they'll just mess it up, which is why everyone abuses smoke grenades instead). But, if you persist, it really is an awesome and irreplaceable tactical shooter experience from a different era, and the peak of what Rainbow Six originally set out to do. Check it out!
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Rainbow Six 3 remains the pinnacle tactical experience. With modding (see below) you can add many modern features and content that continue to make this game relevant. Its not only excellent early 00s nostalgia, it is a no-nonsense tactical shooter. Rainbow Six 3 is THE definitive Rainbow Six game, and probably the definitive Tom Clancy game. You will notice that the Tom Clancy brand name becomes watered down shortly after this game's release in 2003. Mods I recommend: RavenShield 2.0: If you want to maintain the game's original content while adding some basic features (ironshights) and some graphical touch-ups, this is the best mod to start with. Supply Drop: Recommended if you've beaten the original campaign and want more content. Jugulator's Mod pack: Look up the Jugulator mod pack on Moddb. This mod pack adds many features, content, and graphical overhauls that keeps this game relevant (includes Supply Drop).
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Looking for my Xbox friends way back in the day, Niaboc, SdotCarter and RagilyD its Booter444
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>Be me >Purchase Game >Start playing >Get to Mountain Watch >Find out enemies can surrender >Start Zip-Tying the terrorist >Terrorist secure >Squadmate shoots him anyway >AI Commits war crimes. Peak 10/10 Game
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold received 1,783 positive votes out of a total of 1,944 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold was developed by Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is not playable on MacOS.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is not playable on Linux.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is a single-player game.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold does not currently offer any DLC.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold does not support Steam Remote Play.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Red Storm Entertainment,
Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher
Ubisoft
Release
25 Sep 2008
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