Sensors take a lot of the tension out of the game. You can sometimes even pick off single enemies in a room by leaning around the wall, and other enemies in the same room will have no visible reaction. But much of the time you can be making a complete ruckus in the next room, and all you'll experience is the doofus in the next room saying "I heard something!" and doing nothing about it. Once in a while you'll see enemies responding intelligently to nearby noise, leaving their rooms to come after you or changing positions to take better cover. Enemy AI in Lockdown is similarly inconsistent. But every now and then they can display a frustrating lack of skill in marksmanship, taking forever to shoot exposed enemies standing mere feet away. For the most part, your artificial intelligence teammates are proficient at doing this and protecting themselves in more open areas. If you have the requisite equipment, you can breach locked doors with explosives and/or toss in grenades to make the clearing process safer and easier. You'll approach many locked doors in the game, at which points you can order your three squadmates to stack up by the door, open it, and clear it. You'll engage in typical Special Forces operations like terrorist hunts and hostage rescues, but in the end, this all just means you'll wander your way through various buildings, exterminating dozens upon dozens of bad guys.Īs in previous Rainbow Six games, room clearing is one of the core aspects of gameplay in Lockdown. Lockdown's campaign will take you through 14 missions (16 on the PS2 and GC), spread out all over the world. The game begins with the theft of an illegally produced deadly artificial virus that can wipe out large civilian populations in mere minutes. Backing you up are familiar faces like Eddie Price, sniper Dieter Weber, and the lecherous Louis Loiselle. In Lockdown, you're once again put in the shoes of Domingo "Ding" Chavez as you lead small fireteams of highly trained commandoes on dangerous black-ops missions. Though Lockdown is still a worthwhile shooter, its overall feel may leave longtime fans wondering if the developers have finally strayed too far from the game's roots. With the newest iteration, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, the series lurches deeper into the arcade realm.
For the most part, the changes have left the franchise no worse for the wear, growing the popularity of the games while still maintaining some hardcore tactical roots. While longtime PC players know the original Rainbow Six games as ultrahardcore tactical shooters, the series' transition to consoles has eased the formula, making it more accessible.
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