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Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword

Though its existence has already been revealed (story), Team RAINBOW Returns to Combat with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Athena Sword is the press release officially announcing the first add-on for the latest installment in this tactical shooter series. No release date for the counter-terrorism expansion is offered, but there are some screenshots on Raven Shield - Il Sito Ufficiale Italiano (thanks The Platoon), and here is the list of planned features:

  • All-new, eight-mission campaign in locations including Italy, Croatia, and Greece
  • Eight new Multiplayer levels
  • Five new multiplayer game modes
  • Three "classic" missions
  • Seven additional real-world weapons (for a whopping total of 64)
  • Weapon sound effects from the team that worked on the blockbuster film The Matrix

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10. Re: Eight WHOLE missions? May 14, 2003, 15:58 Creston
 
I think you need to learn how to read. My one biggest gripe with games and their sequels & expansions is that they are too short / have too few levels in them. I readily enjoy the eye candy that some of these games give, and I readily understand that by spending so much time to build all that eyecandy, level designers simply cannot create as many levels as they used to x years ago.

In my opinion, in a game where gameplay is good enough that you don't really have time to look at all that eyecandy anyways (which I think RavenShield definitely falls under, you spend time looking at scenery and a terrorist plugs a 9mm into your skull), I'd rather there is a little less eyecandy, and as a consequence of that three more levels.

Seems simple enough to me, but I don't design levels for a living, so perhaps there is something more to it than that.

Creston


 
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9. Re: Eight WHOLE missions? May 14, 2003, 06:43 indiv
 
I'd rather you just keep them a little simpler, and actually make five or six per year.

I don't know... Judging from your posting history, I think you'd complain if they simplified the maps to put them out faster, too.

 
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8. Eight WHOLE missions? May 13, 2003, 23:48 Creston
 
I think I'm having a heart attack...

Seriously developers, if all this attention you focus on modeling your levels to look as authentic as possible means you can only do one level per year, I'd rather you just keep them a little simpler, and actually make five or six per year. So that, you know, we'd go back to the days when games actually came with 30+ levels, instead of the current day trend of "maybe a dozen or so".

I'm not going to spend any money on an expansion with eight missions... (granted that I ignore multiplayer levels, I generally play single player only.)

Creston

 
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7. Re: 8 May 13, 2003, 22:17 WR417H
 
No dude, its Crimson Dagger.

 
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6. Re: 8 May 13, 2003, 18:53 RightOnCommander
 
first rogue SPEAR, then raven SHIELD and now athena SWORD. where next... rainbow six: purple HELMET - now there's an exp pack

 
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5. Re: 8 May 13, 2003, 16:55 Jedi Master
 
Don't know where you live, but they're usually $20 around here.


The Jedi Master

 
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4. Re: 8 May 13, 2003, 16:50 Karhgath
 
Well, considering RS had about 12 missions and around 8 multi maps, that's a whole new game with 8 + 3 missions and 8 new multi maps, and even 5(!!) new multi modes. Plus the usual weapons, etc. I'd say it's one big expansion worth about the same price as the original.

Now whether or not you consider RS to be priced correctly is another matter entirely =)

Let's hope it's really 8 new missions that doesn't have night/day counterparts...

 
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3. Re: 8 May 13, 2003, 16:35 Bunko
 
Yeah, expansion packs are much too expensive these days, especially when there are free mods out there or great full version games in the bargain bin like Thief and System Shock 2. Expansion packs should be like $10 or $20 not $30 or $40.  
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2. 8 May 13, 2003, 16:33 Weas
 
Gee, a whopping whole 8 missions for 40 bucks or what have you. Um...no.


 
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1. Crap May 13, 2003, 16:00 JAGUART
 
I still haven't finished the Ghost Recon expansion, Thief I & II, RS: Raven Shield, Splinter Cell and now this? dammit.

 
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