Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six ( video game ) - wikipedia Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six ( video game ) This article is about the first game in the Rainbow Six video game series. For the series, see Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six. For the novel with the same name, see Rainbow Six ( novel ). This article 's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article 's talk page. ( October 2014 ) Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six Developer ( s ) Red Storm Entertainment Publisher ( s ) Red Storm Entertainment Designer ( s ) Brian Upton Composer ( s ) Bill Brown Series Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six Platform ( s ) Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Mac OS, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, PlayStation Network Release August 21, 1998 Windows NA : August 21, 1998 EU : October 1998 Nintendo 64 NA : November 17, 1999 EU : December 1999 PlayStation NA : November 23, 1999 EU : November 1999 Mac OS NA : December 8, 1999 Game Boy Color NA : April 3, 2000 EU : November 10, 2000 Dreamcast NA : May 9, 2000 EU : February 2, 2001 PlayStation Network PAL : June 5, 2008 NA : May 21, 2009 Genre ( s ) Tactical shooter Mode ( s ) Single - player, multiplayer Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six is a tactical shooter video game and the first in the Rainbow Six series. It was developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment for the PC. It was ported to Mac OS, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Dreamcast and Game Boy Color. An expansion pack, Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six Mission Pack : Eagle Watch, was released on January 31, 1999. Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Plot 3 Development 4 Release 4.1 Eagle Watch 5 Reception 6 References 7 External links Gameplay Rainbow Six is a tactical shooter, which focuses more on stealth and tactics than on sheer firepower, exploring the lethality of a single bullet. To add to the realism, all in - game characters, terrorists, hostages and Rainbow operatives, can be wounded or dispatched in just fractions of a second with only one or two bullets. Tools such as thicker body armor, automatic rifles, and grenades have little value before the player grows accustomed to the gameplay. Before each mission is a planning stage, during which the player is given a briefing, and then chooses the operatives to be involved in the mission, their weapons, equipment and uniform / camouflage. During this step, the player pre-established orders and waypoints. The planning stage determined elements such as the path the AI - controlled squads would follow during the mission, as well as where they will deploy devices such as flashbangs or door breaching charges. Successful missions often last just minutes, but may require dozens of repetitions and planning changes ( many more for beginners ). During gameplay, the player controls only one team member directly, and can see stats for that member and all units on the Heads - Up Display. Teams not under player control follow the orders given to them in the planning stage. The player can take control of any living operative at will, making them the leader. The game forms a campaign that is a series of scenarios, with the plot being advanced in the mission briefing of each scenario. Any casualties that occur during a mission are permanent, so the deceased can not be used in future missions. Consequently, many players replay missions that are technically successful merely to reduce the number of casualties. Online multiplayer gaming was popular on the Mplayer.com and Zone.com services and for a time featured a thriving competitive clan based community with numerous independent ladder style leagues. Unlike the other versions, the PlayStation version actually showed the gun being held in the player 's hands. Plot Rainbow Six is set in the year 1999 and 2000. Rainbow is a newly created multinational counter-terrorism unit, composed of elite soldiers from NATO countries, formed to address the growing problem of international terrorism. The organization 's director is John Clark, and the team leader is Ding Chavez. The term `` Rainbow Six '' refers to the director of the organization, John Clark. Soon after its inauguration, Rainbow finds itself responding to a series of seemingly unrelated terrorist attacks by the Phoenix Group, a radical eco-terrorist organization. Throughout its investigation, Rainbow is assisted and advised by John Brightling, chairman of the powerful biotechnology corporation Horizon Inc. However, Rainbow eventually learns that the Phoenix Group is actually a front for Horizon Inc itself. Brightling 's company is developing a highly contagious strain of the Ebola virus called `` Brahma '', adapted from a strain killing Central African cattle ( called `` Ebola Shiva '' in the novel ) with the ability to kill every human being on the planet. In order to protect `` mother nature '', John Brightling is planning to kill most of the human race, sparing only Brightling 's chosen few, who will re-emerge and rebuild the planet into a scientific and environmentally - friendly utopia. To achieve this goal, he has used the scattered terrorist attacks to create fear of terrorism, which he then exploited in order to get a security contract for his own private security firm at the Olympic Games. Brightling 's plan is for his `` security personnel '' to unleash the virus at the games, spreading it to all the countries of the world. Rainbow succeeds in preventing the release of the virus at the Olympics, alold Brightling and his collaborators retreat to their Horizon Ark facility in the Brazilian jungle, from which they had originally planned to weather out the global holocaust. Rainbow infiltrates the facility, killing all of Brightling 's collaborators and capturing Brightling himself. Development Red Storm Entertainment ( founded by author Tom Clancy ) had originally planned to do a special operations game featuring first - person action, and a team of operators rescuing hostages and taking out terrorists. Their first concept was modeled after the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Later they decided to make the concept more international, as HRT would only operate in the United States, and renamed it `` Black Ops '' and incorporated operators from all over the world. It was then they found that Clancy was writing a book about terrorism and a special team to combat it, so they rewrote some of the missions to fit within the book plot and Clancy shared his research with the game development team. The book was Rainbow Six so the game was renamed Rainbow Six. However, by the time they finished the game, the book was not yet finished. Thus, the plot of the game does not completely match the plot of the book. Release This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( October 2014 ) Eagle Watch Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six Mission Pack : Eagle Watch was released on January 31, 1999 as an expansion pack to the original game. It adds five new missions, four new operatives, three new weapons and new multiplayer modes. The new missions take place in the year 2001 and are a series of scenarios unrelated to each other or the original game. The expansion was packaged with the original game as Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six Gold Pack Edition in 1999. Reception Reception Aggregate scores Aggregator Score GameRankings ( PC ) 81.81 % ( N64 ) 73.71 % ( DC ) 72.28 % ( GBC ) 53.83 % ( PS ) 48.07 % Metacritic ( PC ) 85 / 100 Review scores Publication Score AllGame ( Mac & N64 ) ( PS & GBC ) EGM ( N64 ) 7.62 / 10 ( DC ) 7.33 / 10 ( PS ) 3.8 / 10 Game Informer ( N64 ) 8 / 10 ( PS ) 6.75 / 10 GamePro ( PS ) Game Revolution A − GameSpot ( DC ) 8.1 / 10 ( PC ) 8 / 10 ( GBC ) 7.4 / 10 ( N64 ) 7.1 / 10 ( PS ) 3.7 / 10 GameSpy 3.5 / 10 IGN ( PC ) 9.4 / 10 ( N64 ) 8.5 / 10 ( DC ) 8 / 10 ( GBC ) 5 / 10 ( PS ) 3.8 / 10 Nintendo Power ( N64 ) 7.9 / 10 ( GBC ) 6.9 / 10 OPM ( US ) PC Gamer ( US ) 93 % The Cincinnati Enquirer This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( October 2014 ) In the United States, Rainbow Six 's Windows release sold 218,183 copies during 1998. These sales accounted for $8.86 million in revenue that year. The computer version 's Gold Edition release sold another 321,340 copies in the United States during 1999, and was the country 's 12th best - selling computer game that year. According to Gamasutra, Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six : Rogue Spear together sold 450,000 copies `` during the first half of the 2001 / 2002 fiscal year ''. Rainbow Six was met with mostly positive reviews on PC. However, the console versions received average to negative response upon release. GameRankings gave it a score of 81.81 % for the PC version ; 73.71 % for the Nintendo 64 version ; 72.28 % for the Dreamcast version ; 53.83 % for the Game Boy Color version ; and 48.07 % for the PlayStation version. Metacritic gave only the PC version a score of 85 out of 100. GameSpot described the PC version as `` actually a pretty good game, albeit very hard and extremely frustrating '', and its `` audio cues, background sounds, and other various noises are also represented very well ; the immersive feeling of Rainbow Six is perhaps one of the best seen in a game. '' In 1998, CNN working in partnership with Games.Net named Tom Clancy 's Rainbow Six as one of the `` Top 25 game downloads of 1998 ''.. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Rainbow Six for its 1998 `` Action Game of the Year '' award, although the game lost to Half - Life. Rainbow Six was a finalist for Computer Gaming World 's 1998 `` Best Action '' award, which ultimately went to Battlezone. The editors wrote that Rainbow Six `` deftly mixed strategic planning with nail - biting action as it brought the world of counterterrorist operations to life. '' PC Gamer US named Rainbow Six the best action game of 1998. References Jump up ^ `` Postmortem : Redstorm 's Rainbow Six ''. 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Question: when did the first rainbow six come out
Answer: August 21, 1998