I'll always think of this when I play R:6V2, and sigh a little.

I remember playing this LAN wise with 4 friends, and I yelled out loud a LOT of times with the 'around the corner'.

After the initial Wow phase wore off, I would create 4 teams, me alone and the other 3 would be bots, it was cool to make them stop, throw flashbangs to clear rooms and not even take action, just orchestrate the efforts.

great read!!!

Loved this game. First heard about it in PC Gamer and read the novel around the same time -- it's still, imho, one of Clancy's best. I recall playing Rogue Spear non-stop in Lone Wolf mode. That was fun like crazy since my 56k modem wasn't up to any multiplayer with a respectable ping. Really one of the first games I bought when I got back into PC gaming big time; has it really been that long?

I remember downloading the demo as soon as it was available; it took a while at 56k. I had friends over and they kept laughing about the name, calling the game Butterfly 6. And then we played that demo over and over all night long. There was truly nothing else like it.

I have such fond memories from the Rainbow 6 games. I loved them. My favorite thing to do was try and create a battle plan and then have the AI characters carry out that plan without any support from myself. This was also the first game that I joined a clan for.

When the game was brought to the Xbox, I cried a little inside once I realized that it was no longer R6, but instead a mix of R6 and Gears. No longer 1 hit kills. Running and gunning were kind of encouraged. You no longer had to be extremely careful about every action you made. Its still a good game in its own right, but it isn't R6.

I remember that level. You had to kill Bill Hendrickson in his motorcade, did you not?

I absolutely loved the Rainbow 6 games, but I never did beat any of the early ones. I went back to play the first R6 again recently, thinking this time I would finally see the end movie, and remembered why I had given up before. I wonder how many keyboards have been sacrificed to the rage that the single player in that game generates. The AI is pretty content to stick with the tactic of attacking the enemy bullets with their heads.

I played the entire original Mechwarrior series, every one of them from Crescent Hawks Inception (on a Com64) right through Microsoft taking over and adding titles such as Black Knight and added Clan Packs.

The game play had an incredible range of strategic game play that was not eased but added to throughout the course of the Mechwarrior series. A game where every button on your keyboard did something nasty.

Rainbow Six was exactly the same. The pre-game map and team/weapon selection was incredible. I spent hours planning entrances into buildings, the hijacked passenger plane mission comes to mind, and I loved every minute of it. Calling on Alpha through Charlie squads to your way points was incredible to watch. I think that if if the NPC AI of that game would have been close to todays standards it would have been at least incredibly effective.

When Chrome Hounds came out for the 360 I was excited at first but sadly disappointed. I realized eventually that it wasn't that the terrain was different or even that the Mechs were that different. It was the level of ease of play. I actually liked the complicated nature of the game. I think Rainbow Six and Mechwarrior share a lot in common. Perhaps the evolved gamer they targeted wanted a bit more control than the current gamer marketed after today.

I remember the days - Roger Wilco at the time was innovative. I mean, voice chat in game! Crazy! I started a clan, the Desert Rat Clan - We were pretty darn good too. It would be the last time i was ever in a "hardcore" clan. Had they the money and prizes like they have today with professional gaming back then, I probably would have gone into that, with R6 as my springboard (yeah, we were THAT good). I also was in a pretty serious clan (not my own) for Rouge Spear, and I miss it, because R6 just isn't the same on console. Don't get me wrong, I think the SP is better, but the MP leaves a lot to be desired in the skill department, IMHO.

*sigh*

We need to revive Raven Shield on the PC.

I didn't play the original Rainbow Six but finishing Rogue Spear was a very satisfying experience for me. The game was hard and without an option to save death was REALLY annoying. Instant failure of the mission upon the death of a hostage didn't exactly make it easier. It is one of the games I was very proud of when I finished it. I still am, actually.

I even read the Tom Clancy book. It's great. Not his best work (Executive Orders is his best) but a good read.

I loved this game, spent many nights at uni doing cooperative LAN play.

Maybe it was just me, buy I could never be bothered with the planning before the single-player missions. The interface was way too complicated to bother with.

I was so bad at this game. I have no idea how I beat it. The only memory I have of the game anymore is the end of some level and having to breach a room and head shot the terrorist hiding behind the hostage he would kill the second he's aware of my presence. So many reloads.

That too is on GameTap, though I wonder if multiplayer is functional.

"Let's see here, who have we got? A Norwegian that's good for nothing but placing door charges? Welcome to fodder team, er, I mean gold team!"

I just remembered how my computer could barely run this when it first came out. Frames per second were under ten unless I looked down or pulled up the fullscreen map. The result was me running round with my gun pointing down a lot. In hindsight this probably would have looked more professional in third person.