Rogue Spear
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Red Storm Entertainment and creator Tom Clancy’s genre-busting game Rainbow Six combined elements of first-person shooters and tactical approach sports meeting and grabbed copious game-of-the-year awards. With those certificate, it was virtually inevitable that the gaming community would be graced with a groundbreaking new–and much improved–sequel. Rogue Spear, the 1999 follow-up to Red Storm’s Rainbow Six follows the ancient adage that if something isn’t significantly flawed, don’t attempt repair. Though Rainbow Six featured some minor bugs and game-play concerns, Red Storm keeps the proven game play intact, but improves the 3-D engine and implements fan supplies, such as increasing sniper support and adding a “peer around parapet” key, to make a near-flawless follow-up.
In Rogue Spear,,players once again take upon yourself command of an elite counter-terrorist group known as RAINBOW and guide them owing to a dynamic campaign filled with nerve-wracking missions, such as rescuing hostages from a museum and infiltrating a hijacked airliner. Like its predecessor, Rogue Spear uses an elaborate premission plotting screen to assign routes and duties to each team member. During the mission, the intensity level and graphical splendor rise exponentially. Rogue Spear eschews typical first-person shooter elements like shape packs and armor potential-ups; the real-world weapons ensure that one whizzing bullet could be the last thing you see. Tense, strategic missions, various multiplayer options, and a mission editor make one of the most engrossing game experiences around. –Doug RadcliffeAmazon.com Product Description
Six is back–and tougher than ever. Due to the team’s fantastic success with defusing major terrorist incidents, the international community has come to depend on RAINBOW as the main force secretly protecting citizens worldwide. Thus, the tale continues in Rogue Spear, with the team’s early missions being affair as usual: a hostage situation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an airplane hijacking. But, the team soon discovers that these crisis situations are in fact related to the nefarious plots of not one, but two antagonists: the Russian Mafia and a Middle Eastern terrorist organization–groups who have, until now, been able to escape the jaws of international justice. Owing to a series of increasingly hard missions, RAINBOW uncovers the terrorists’ deadly master plot, just in the nick of time–to save the world again. Players have new weapons at their disposal as well as sniper specialists to properly take out deadly foes from afar, and with more than four hundred new motion capture moves, terrorists and hostages react even more accurately to you and your team. The frozen breaths of team members can be seen puffing from their mouths in snowy conditions while footprints are left behind. Guide your team with a joystick, add more terrorists with the mission editor, and send your friends a copy of your greatest attack with the cinematic replay feature. All of this and more will make Rogue Spear the greatest action/approach game you’ve ever played. Just remember, if you fail, the game isn’t over–the world is.
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This game is a hardcore, blood-filled incredible action game. You get to shoot people too!! Ooga Booga Booga
Rating: 5 / 5
This game has been one of the best buys of my life! Even if you are so talented that you beat the game on the toughest settiing, Urban Operations comes with it and thats even harder!! My friend down the street owns the game and we play eachother online, sometimes on a team and others opposing.
Rating: 5 / 5
I reflect this is the most entertaining game for a computer that I have ever played. After the first game I played, I was hooked! I just won Rainbow Six and will now take on Rogue Spear. Just buy it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Rogue Spear on the Mac is for the most part awesome but…what hurts it is the feeble online multiplayer support. Graphics are excellent and game play is fun and intense (especially when you know you have three snipers drawing a bead on you). But, to play others online you’re limited to GameRanger that finds online sports meeting for Macs (unless u can get IP#s to play on) where you can find all of 8-10 people ration sports meeting. Ugh. The toughest part of the game is trying to get in on an online game. If you do succeed, it is fun. Not anything beats running around in immense maps with a small band of counter terrorists knowing your enemy could be just around the corner. Fun missions (run owing to bunkers, a hotel, a 747, city streets, winter chalet, subway etc.,) and lots of diversity and approach. But again…not many people ration up mac sports meeting. This is but, probably the bordering we’ll get to Counter Strike or Half-Life on the Mac, as those companies don’t have any plans for a Mac port. Still a excellent buy. Highly recommend.
Rating: 4 / 5
Every few years, the gaming world is shaken by a new arrival that breaks the mold and sets a new standard. The original Rainbow Six (R6) was such a game: a thinking person’s, full immersion CQB shooter, with heavy doses of plotting and secrecy.
How to follow up on that monster hit? Evolution or revolution? RedStorm opted to tweak and probably did the right thing. Rogue Spear is a fan-friendly, incremental improvement on R6. And the fans are loving it for what it is: R6 as it should have been.
Rogue Spear satisfies as both a sequel and a stand-alone game. R6 veterans buy Rogue Spear for “more of the same, but better”: new missions, a few more loadout options, dedicated snipers, and fixes to some gripes.
For newcomers, Rogue Spear rivals prequel R6 as the most realistic, brain-intensive shooter on the market. Truth be told, if you like one game, you should buy the other, too; but play them in the order of release, to appreciate Rogue Spear’s improvements.
What next? RedStorm has a real cash-making franchise on its hands, and on one level, they’d be fools to mess with it. They can doubtless keep cranking out new missions, maps, and tweaks once every year. Not a terrible prospect, but not exactly earth-shaking, either.
On the other hand, one can presume creative expansions that *would* make the Rainbow series more exciting and challenging. The ability to change plans on the glide, during mission execution. Parachute or helicopter insertions. Rock climbing and rappelling. Water-based missions (SEAL/SBS). Fighting against conventional military units. Calling in friendly conventional military units or air strikes for support. Observing the game owing to the terrorists’ eyes. Enemies who converse with each other by radio — making them harder to bolt from the blue. Traitors. Hand to hand combat. Knife fighting. Picking up weapons from fallen enemies. Ambushes, booby traps, and claymores. PDA exchanges during pure secrecy missions, as in Traitors Gate. Spying missions, with eavesdropping gadgets and dialogue. Civilian garb. Car chases and shootouts. Desert missions. Unexpected changes in instructions in the middle of a mission. Contextual, optional AI advice during the plotting phase. Detailed performance critiques from Clark after each mission.
The possibilities are many …
Rating: 4 / 5