When were you introduced to Rainbow Six?

N64Lain · 2017-01-27 17:01:45

Just thought I'd ask this so we can find out how we got into the series.

My brothers played it a lot on Xbox back in the day. They seemed to really enjoy the game. My brother gave me a copy of Rainbow Six 3 for the original Xbox when he gave me all of his games so I was able to try it out. It was really fun albeit really hard and I seemed to enjoy it. Lockdown was the one I tried next, since I used to watch my other brother play it on our living room TV all the time, and it was okay but it didn't feel the same as RS3. Critical Hour was the next one I played, and the first time I got to experience the co-op mode, and it was just as bad as Lockdown.

I then checked out the Rogue Spear community on Voobly. It was fun, but it was filled with clan matches and I was just starting out with Rogue Spear so I didn't do so well. I remember going clutch on one game and got a win for a clan who would then go on to win their clan match, so that made me feel confident. I then played Raven Shield and that was the most fun I've had with an R6 game to date! I really need to start playing it again, especially since the online was fixed.

Let me hear how you guys got into it!

deltasoldier1020 · 2017-01-27 17:50:12

I had a PlayStation Vita back in the day, and I was looking at PS1 games to purchase that I liked. One of the games I saw was the original Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. I looked up videos to see if I would like it, and I saw the first one that popped up. Turns out it was the PC version, but it looked so good. I got my dad to buy the game on eBay for PC. It didn't work on his computer, but it worked on an old computer that I had. It was one of the best games I had ever played. The amount of teamwork, coordination, and realism in there looked cool. That's how I got into the series.

Goat · 2017-01-27 20:13:26

Around the time Roque Spear was released. I remember I started playing the original Rainbow Six when Roque Spear was released.

I really kicked it off with Raven Shield, though. In 2003, my family decided to go online which allowed me to play coop with some friends from school. Awesome times.

Legacy · 2017-01-28 03:49:28

In 1998 I went over to my mothers friends house for dinner. I was bored and the husband of her friend had a PC. I spent hours there playing original Rainbow Six. I was HOOKED ever since. Never forget that night. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I remember it like it was yesterday like a video in my mind. Crazy shit.

And now look I'm creating ALLR6 and trying to bring back the community we all loved and still do.

ALBerT · 2017-01-28 05:07:30

I was 14 or so, got suckered in by the cool front cover of the game!
Never quite found a game that compares to RVS though

Gagei · 2017-01-28 10:08:38

I don't know when exactly I got the original Rainbow Six, but I saw a screen shot of the (back then) upcoming Mission Pack Eagle Watch (from the Space Shuttle Mission) in a gaming magazine. Soon after, I bought the game, and since then every Rainbow Six-Game on the PC (yes, even Lockdown... shame)

pothead · 2017-01-31 15:26:45

...when it was released. i went to public game rooms with friends to play it, cause internet was shit at Serbia at the time...now years later, finding this community,,just great 8o

BlueRagg · 2017-02-01 07:25:08

1998.. the older brother of a friend of mine had a PC and the original R6. Ever since then, i´ve been hooked. Got the Games, the Books.

Favourite Game of all time for me is still Raven Shield! Till this day!

Legacy · 2017-02-01 07:47:13

BlueRagg wrote:

1998.. the older brother of a friend of mine had a PC and the original R6. Ever since then, i´ve been hooked. Got the Games, the Books.
Favourite Game of all time for me is still Raven Shield! Till this day!

Hell yeah man!

Are you on our Discord? www.r6chat.com
Or Steam Group? http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ALLR6/

Conjurer · 2017-02-05 08:34:03

I have been messing around the rainbow series for many years..
But the r63 i started playing online in 04.
i played with Toetags&bodybags for some years... we played tornaments and ladder wars with R63 and battlefield 2.. we had a blast....

Relog · 2017-02-07 13:27:09

My first time playing Rainbow Six was on the PC at my older brother's house back in 1998. Needless to say I was very impressed. The series has stuck with me and I've owned every Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell game on one platform or another all the way up to Siege, Future Soldier and Blacklist.

And now thanks to Recognition I'm enjoying RVS again with friends from all over the world. Thanks dude!

Legacy · 2017-02-07 17:24:25

Relog wrote:

My first time playing Rainbow Six was on the PC at my older brother's house back in 1998. Needless to say I was very impressed. The series has stuck with me and I've owned every Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell game on one platform or another all the way up to Siege, Future Soldier and Blacklist.
And now thanks to Recognition I'm enjoying RVS again with friends from all over the world. Thanks dude!

Word!

Paladin · 2017-02-08 12:07:27

Started playing with the release of Rogue Spear,can"t remember what year that was .Have all versions and add-ons through Vegas 2. My favorites in the series have to be Ravenshield and Rogue Spear.

Trosty · 2017-02-08 19:28:36

Probably when it was first out, way back when. Quickly followed by Athena Sword.

Guardian1790 · 2017-02-26 15:19:16

I remember as a kid, even as a young teen, not really knowing what Rainbow Six was. I saw the boxes in the store, and just sort of glossed over them, in favor of what, I'm not too sure. If I had known what was inside that box, I would have jumped all over it. It was exactly what I was wanting, without knowing it existed. I played the Delta Force games, Soldier of Fortune 2, and a few other shooters, and I really got hooked on America's Army when it first came out. I was broke, and it was free. Joined a clan and everything. It was everything I wanted. A realistic look on combat, with a solid group of guys that worked together tactically and just immersed you in the scenario. Operation Flashpoint, and Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising were also on my play list.

I finally picked up Raven Shield, I think after seeing some trailers for it, and being wowed by this one: Watch on YouTube
I was amazed at how tactical it was, and the story told in those 3 minutes. If that's how the game was going to be, I had to check it out. It was everything I wanted it to be. You got to intricately plan out your hit with your Rainbow assault team, with a cool looking 3d map of the target. You then got to run the assault in any position you wanted. It was great. I didn't really have a lot of friends with gaming PC's, so my experience was limited to single player for the most part, except when I could get online and play adversarial modes, and that was always a blast.

Unfortunately, that was the peak for the Rainbow Six series. Once RS3 ported to consoles, it was the beginning of the end for the tactical shooter. We got Lockdown and Critical Hour, which both sucked, and then the Vegas games, which, while good games, didn't really have the same feel as Raven Shield. The serious tone. If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest it. Well, maybe not now, since it will just sting that much more that they've abandoned all the characters. They'll retire Ding Chavez, but poor Sam Fisher is still climbing up the sides of buildings as he's pushing 60. But hey, he's got some Benjamin Button syndrome or something, since he looks younger in Blacklist than he did in the first game.

To wrap up, seeing all this stuff in a game just wasn't enough for me, so I decided to get into the counter terror field for real. I love the fluidity and dynamics of structure clearing. It requires teamwork, trust, and an absolute knowledge of your skill sets. A well executed room entry is a thing of beauty.

Legacy · 2023-03-07 23:48:57

Guardian1790 wrote:

I remember as a kid, even as a young teen, not really knowing what Rainbow Six was. I saw the boxes in the store, and just sort of glossed over them, in favor of what, I'm not too sure. If I had known what was inside that box, I would have jumped all over it. It was exactly what I was wanting, without knowing it existed. I played the Delta Force games, Soldier of Fortune 2, and a few other shooters, and I really got hooked on America's Army when it first came out. I was broke, and it was free. Joined a clan and everything. It was everything I wanted. A realistic look on combat, with a solid group of guys that worked together tactically and just immersed you in the scenario. Operation Flashpoint, and Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising were also on my play list.
I finally picked up Raven Shield, I think after seeing some trailers for it, and being wowed by this one: Watch on YouTube
I was amazed at how tactical it was, and the story told in those 3 minutes. If that's how the game was going to be, I had to check it out. It was everything I wanted it to be. You got to intricately plan out your hit with your Rainbow assault team, with a cool looking 3d map of the target. You then got to run the assault in any position you wanted. It was great. I didn't really have a lot of friends with gaming PC's, so my experience was limited to single player for the most part, except when I could get online and play adversarial modes, and that was always a blast.
Unfortunately, that was the peak for the Rainbow Six series. Once RS3 ported to consoles, it was the beginning of the end for the tactical shooter. We got Lockdown and Critical Hour, which both sucked, and then the Vegas games, which, while good games, didn't really have the same feel as Raven Shield. The serious tone. If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest it. Well, maybe not now, since it will just sting that much more that they've abandoned all the characters. They'll retire Ding Chavez, but poor Sam Fisher is still climbing up the sides of buildings as he's pushing 60. But hey, he's got some Benjamin Button syndrome or something, since he looks younger in Blacklist than he did in the first game.
To wrap up, seeing all this stuff in a game just wasn't enough for me, so I decided to get into the counter terror field for real. I love the fluidity and dynamics of structure clearing. It requires teamwork, trust, and an absolute knowledge of your skill sets. A well executed room entry is a thing of beauty.

LONG LIVE THE CLASSICS

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