Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
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Developer(s) Red Storm Entertainment
Ubisoft Milan
Publisher(s) Red Storm Entertainment
Composer(s) Bill Brown
Series Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Platforms Windows, Dreamcast, Mac OS, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)
August 31, 1999
  • Windows
      Dreamcast
        Mac OS
          PlayStation
            Game Boy Advance
            Genre(s) Tactical shooter
            Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

            Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear is a tactical first-person shooter computer game developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment. It is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Rainbow Six game based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name.

            Rogue Spear is based on the same game engine and features gameplay and presentation similar to that of the original Rainbow Six. The game pits the counter-terrorist unit, RAINBOW, against global terrorist organizations that in some cases have taken hostages or have armed themselves with weapons of mass destruction. Rogue Spear focuses on realism, planning, strategy, and teamwork. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear was released for the PC on August 31, 1999, with versions for the Mac OS (2000), Dreamcast (2000), PlayStation (2001) and Game Boy Advance (2002) released later. A PlayStation 2 port was also announced at the time, but it was later canceled.

            Plot

            Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the economic situation in Russia and the former Eastern Europe falls into chaos. Terrorism in the region is commonplace as people fight a seemingly endless stream of battles for supplies and other necessities. In this power vacuum though a dangerous a situation arises: the Russian mafia has begun buying up surplus military equipment with the assistance of current members of the Russian Army. During one such arms deal Rainbow forces raid the meeting grounds and recover weapons grade plutonium, tracing the missile material to an Arctic naval base. As it turns out, one boss in the Oil Mafia has been supplying arms and intel to various small-time terrorist groups whose international attacks RAINBOW has had to deal with: A hostage situation at the Met in New York City, the attempted bombing of an tanker in the Sea Of Japan, an airline hijacking in Brussels, and the neofascist takeover of a London TV station. But after the hijacking, an anonymous informant who has seen that this terror campaign has gone too far supplies information to RAINBOW on who's behind the attacks and where his men will strike next.

            A subsequent investigation reveals that the plutonium deals are part of a plan between a Russian organized crime boss named Maxim Kutkin and Azeri arms dealer Samed Vezirzade. These two men intend to use the plutonium purchased from the military to create suitcase sized nuclear weapons through the use of abandoned Russian military facilities, then distribute these weapons to terrorists on the black market. To prevent any instance of nuclear terrorism, RAINBOW mobilizes against both parties, raiding the nuclear weapons production facility and intercepting two separate meetings between the mob and potential buyers with the aid of a dissident group of the Russian mob.

            In the final two missions RAINBOW zeros in Vezirzade's base of operations, raiding his fortress and killing him after an attempt to bring him in alive fails. In the aftermath of Vezirzade's death, Kutkin realizes that the overall plan to manufacture and sell nuclear weapons has failed, and seeks vengeance for the collapse of the arms deals. With the assistance of a small number of men loyal to him, Kutkin seizes control of a commercial nuclear power plant and threatens to shut off the cooling system for the reactors, which would result in a nuclear meltdown. To prevent a potential repeat of the Chernobyl disaster, RAINBOW forces storm the plant and manage to recapture the facility intact.

            In the final debriefing, Kutkin is confirmed to have been killed in the raid. His mansion in Russia is acquired by the "Russian Godfather", whose assistance had been vital during RAINBOW's operations(it turns out he was the anonymous informant, and Kutkin was his own insane son-in-law). After arriving at the mansion, the Russian Godfather makes a short speech which is picked up by surveillance bugs planted during an earlier RAINBOW intelligence operation. The godfather then shoots the bug, preventing any further monitoring of the mafia from the mansion.

            The term "Rogue Spear" was invented by Clancy and refers to the possession of nuclear weapons by a non-state entity, equivalent to the official terminology Pinnacle-Empty Quiver.

            Multiplayer

            Rogue Spear’s online multiplayer consists of two modes: cooperative and adversarial. In cooperative mode, individuals team up with other players to complete missions against the computer AI in formats similar to the single-player missions. Adversarial mode pits players against one another with Survival, a mode similar to Deathmatch, and Team Survival, similar to Team Deathmatch garnering the vast majority of play. Rogue Spear does not support dedicated servers, with games being limited to sixteen players per server. An active competitive scene has surrounded the game, with players forming clans and participating in ladder play.

            Add-ons

            Urban Operations

            Rogue Spear Mission Pack: Urban Operations, released on April 4, 2000, was the first expansion for Rogue Spear. It was developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment. It added eight new maps and five classic Rainbow Six maps from the original game, as well as three new weapons.

            Urban Operations was re-released by KAMA Digital Entertainment in South Korea - this new edition included two exclusive missions and two new weapons.

            Mod system

            With the release of Urban Operations, a built-in mod system was added to manage user-made "mods" or modifications. Previous releases of the Rainbow Six series did not have this system, and using a mod required overwriting existing game content. With the mod system, mods could be used without overwriting, as they were installed into a separate folder within the installation and could be turned on or off. When a mod was activated, its content would take priority over the default game content. This allowed the addition and/or customization of all game content, allowing new operatives, weapons, maps, missions, etc. to be added.

            Red Storm also released "unsupported" plugins for 3D Studio MAX and Photoshop, to aid in the creation of new content. This enhanced the popularity and replay value of the series for some time, as hundreds of modding teams within a large modding community released new mods constantly. Police and military organizations also sought the customizable game engine for training purposes, due to the realism of planning and mission strategy.

            Because of these effects, a mod management system was later added to Red Storm's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series as well, although it was somewhat more restrictive.

            Covert Ops Essentials

            Rainbow Six: Covert Ops is a stand-alone expansion pack of Rogue Spear. The training simulator was developed by Magic Lantern Playware, six of the levels were done by Zombie Studios and three of the levels were done by Red Storm Entertainment. It was published by Red Storm Entertainment. It was released on September 28, 2000. It included nine new missions, because the product was primarily developed as an educational program on real life counter-terrorism history and tactics.

            The training simulator developed by Magic Lantern Playware was actually a Computer Based Training program. "Recruits" would create a profile, and then read educational materials such as actual military Field Manuals, view video interviews from anti-terrorist experts, take multiple-choice tests to progress in rank, and see live-fire demonstrations of the weapons included in the game. For the live-fire videos, Sergeant Anthony Levatino (now Deputy Chief) from the Santa Ana, California Police Department was contracted to provide content expertise for the educational material and for the on-camera demonstrations. Having access to all the weapons included in the game, and being a SWAT Team Leader/Sniper and SWAT Academy instructor, Sergeant Levatino provided brief weapon introductions and live-fire demonstrations.

            Black Thorn

            Rogue Spear: Black Thorn was developed by Red Storm Entertainment, published by Ubisoft, and released as a stand-alone add-on on December 15, 2001. Black Thorn featured nine new single-player maps.[1] Six new multiplayer maps, 10 new weapons, and a new multiplayer variation on the "Lone Wolf" game type in which one player takes on everyone else; the winner of the round then becomes the new "Lone Wolf".

            Reception

            Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
            Aggregate scores
            Aggregator Score
            GameRankings (PC) 85.97%[2]
            (GBA) 75.77%[3]
            (DC) 72.62%[4]
            (PS) 60.07%[5]
            Metacritic (GBA) 76/100[6]
            (DC) 75/100[7]
            Review scores
            Publication Score
            AllGame 4/5 stars[8][9]
            (PS) 2.5/5 stars[10]
            Eurogamer 8/10[11][12]
            Game Informer (GBA) 7.75/10[13]
            (DC) 7/10[14]
            GamePro (PC) 4.5/5 stars[15]
            (GBA) 3.5/5 stars[16]
            Game Revolution (PC) A−[17]
            (DC) C−[18]
            GameSpot (PC) 8/10[19]
            (DC) 7.6/10[20]
            (GBA) 7/10[21]
            (PS) 6.4/10[22]
            GameSpy (PC) 96%[23]
            (GBA) 79%[24]
            (DC) 7.5/10[25]
            GameZone (DC) 9.5/10[26]
            (PC) 7.4/10[27]
            IGN (PC) 9.2/10[28]
            (GBA) 8.4/10[29]
            (DC) 7.8/10[30]
            (PS) 4.5/10[31]
            Nintendo Power 4.3/5[32]
            OPM (US) 2.5/5 stars[33]
            PC Gamer (US) 90%[34]

            Rogue Spear was met with positive to mixed reception upon release. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 85.97% for the PC version;[2] 75.77% and 76 out of 100 for the Game Boy Advance version;[3][6] 72.62% and 75 out of 100 for the Dreamcast version;[4][7] and 60.07% for the PlayStation version.[5]

            Black Thorn

            Black Thorn
            Aggregate scores
            Aggregator Score
            GameRankings 71.92%[35]
            Metacritic 67/100[36]
            Review scores
            Publication Score
            Eurogamer 7/10[37]
            GameSpot 6.9/10[38]
            GameSpy 68%[39]
            IGN 7/10[40]
            PC Gamer (US) 73%[41]

            Expansion packs of the PC version received lower scores than the original release.[citation needed] The most recent was Black Thorn, which currently has a score of 71.92% on GameRankings,[35] and 67 out of 100 on Metacritic.[36]

            References

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