Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
June 10, 2006
The Rainbow Six game franchise gets its name from the Tom Clancy novel of the same name; both the game and the book detail the deeds of an elite outside counter-terrorism unit codenamed Rainbow (“ Six” is tactical lingo for “ leader”). Rainbow Six initiated a genre known as “ squad-based tactical combat,” and eschews fast pacing and foreign weapons in favor of organized gameplay and realistic combat – a single slug can take down a mark. In Raven Shield , the third game in the…