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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Action

Shooter

Simulator

Tactical

A tactical shooter with realistic properties, it adapts various features absent in previous installments of the franchise such as the ability to see one's weapon while in first-person view, many new weapons and upgrades, as well as a redesigned multiplayer.

4.0

External Ratings

51 ratings
Release Date:

18 Mar, 2003

Last Updated:

14 Jun, 2026

About this game

A tactical shooter with realistic properties, it adapts various features absent in previous installments of the franchise such as the ability to see one's weapon while in first-person view, many new weapons and upgrades, as well as a redesigned multiplayer.

Storyline

In 1945, as two members of the Nazi-sponsored Ustashe regime in Croatia manage to escape the country with huge amounts of Holocaust-era loot just before Allied troops move into the capital. Sixty years later, in 2005, elite multinational counter-terrorism task-force Rainbow finds itself investigating a series of attacks by Neo-Fascist terrorists against South American oil interests and European financial institutions.

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platform

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac

release date

Release Date:

18 Mar, 2003

mode

Modes:

Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

theme

Themes:

Action

genre

Genres:

Shooter, Simulator, Tactical

perspective

Player Perspectives:

First person

IGDB Rating

4.0 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.0

User Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

48

User Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

80%

Rating %

Critics Rating

4.0 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.0

Critics Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

51

Critics Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

80%

Critics Rating %

Main Developers

Ubisoft Montreal

Red Storm Entertainment

Supporting Developers

-

Publishers

Ubisoft Entertainment

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