Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six®

On a machine running a current OS and graphics card the GOG version requires some adaptation like running in compatibility mode and may need additional files to resolve graphics issues for which the GOG forum and GOG customer support pages offer useful advice. It is worth the effort to go trough these extra steps in order to enjoy a game that was revolutionary on release, paving the way for the squad based tactical shooter genre. Although the graphics are not to todays standards and later iterations in the series made controls less clunky the game mechanics and atmosphere of the original Rainbow Six make up for these deficiencies. Although listed as a shooter this classification is a bit misleading as many players will spend hours crafting an assault plan that may then be resolved in just minutes of short sharp action involving a handful of single shots or bursts of automatic fire. The satisfaction one gets after creating and executing a plan that results in a faultless mission success, often after less successful attempts, is as great as it was back in 1998 when I first played the game. The GOG release suffers from missing files that impact on two missions in the game. Although this can be remedied by owners of the original disks it would be more customer friendly for GOG to make a patch available that installs these files in the appropriate folders in order to offer the opportunity to all players to succeed in the impacted missions.

Doesn't work on Windows 7. Do not buy.

All I get is a black screen than have it going back to desktop. Please fix this issue and I'll chnage the rating of the review.

Tom Clancys Rainbow 6 is a great game(except for two short stealth missions) when it works. There is a multitude of technical problems. First, the graphics there are areas where my modern graphics card with the most recent Nvidia driver has issues properly displaying transparency on windows vines and fences. So then I switched the game to software renderer that causes immediate crashes and is not fixable by using the Rainbow6devicepicker.exe(which essentially does nothing) the settings are stored in the registry when running as a normal user HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ and when as an admin. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six\ so you can fix the graphics bug by using dgvoodo 2. which might cause a bit more instability. Dgvoodoo also fixed a bug where there was no transparency on my laptop where the crosshair and the fence are both black squares. then you can play the game but wait there are at least two levels where the hostages which you must rescue do not spawn in so you must modify the config file for the mission to allow you to beat it with fewer hostages. Dgvoodoo does not cause this I removed dgvoodoo after this to test it and it had the same missing hostage. After fixing these issues, I played through the game and had lots of fun. My Recommendation: Wait for this release to be fixed for modern windows. The game is great but it has too many problems to recommend if you are not willing to spend the time to fix the game yourself. It also does not include Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch which would provide a complete experience.

Great game, holds up a lot better than I expected. A lot of the planning features in this game just don't exist anymore in tactical shooters. Please, please add the Eagle Watch expansion! It can't be that much more effort.