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Rainbow Six 3 (Mobile) -Gameloft (2004) -played on a Sanyo 8200
Summary: Team Rainbow targets the greed of suicide bombers.
Next to Splinter Cell, the Rainbow Six games are some of the most popular from the Tom Clancy world of games. Gameloft has transformed a first-person shooter with a strong multiplayer aspect into a top-down cursor driven single-player affair. And it works. In a way, Rainbow Six 3 on the phone is almost like a real time strategy game, minus the resource management. Instead of being in control of one of the soldiers and tell others what to do, you use a cursor. The mighty cursor informs your men when to move, attack, open doors, disarm explosives, throe grenades, knife terrorists, pull off successful head-shots, and rescue hostages. There is plenty to do in the game, but most of it centers on the freeing of hostages and disarming of bombs.
All the enemies seem to follow the Metal Gear genome soldier intelligence, complete with the sleeping “ZZZZZ” over some of their heads. Your men must be in their direct line of sight if they are to be spotted. This makes many of the terrorist’s knife stabbings a bit easy, but the difficulty does rise as you progress into the game. The final stage is especially tough because I felt like I couldn’t move the cursor fast enough. All the enemies look the same with few variations between them. The most entertaining, and most dangerous, are the suicide bombers. They run at you at full speed and will explode when they get close enough to your men. Before this happens though, you need to tell your men to shoot the terrorist and send him into a satisfying man explosion.
What mainly hurts this game is the slowdown. If too much action starts happening the game will become slow and choppy. Since you’re not actually controlling the men its not as bad as it could be, but it still impedes any button commands you may need to do in heat of battle. I usually only encountered this in the last level. My men constantly died in the final level because of this. The game is also lacking in good sound. The few sound effects are pretty sad and there is a little musical number at the title screen. Despite the slowdown in the final stage, Rainbow Six 3 on the phone works very well. Each stage will most likely take a couple of tries before you’ll pull it off successfully enough where you’ll want to continue the story so you definitely get a good amount of time out of the game.
-Shawn
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My Thoughts:
You start with a
two-man squad. More men can be found during the course of the missions, hiding
in closets or just hanging out in a random hallway. Keeping your men alive is
paramount because if they die, they are dead for the rest of the game. Although,
sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Storming into an area
with guns blazing is a good way to get your men killed. You must first plan what
to do and sneak in. You will be more successful when using stealth to kill off
each terrorist one by one with a knife. You also need to make sure there are
none around when you are disarming a bomb or rescuing some pompous rich guy that
your commander says is important because doing these two things take a little
time. If you are interrupted during the count down of the rescue meter, you’ll
have to start over once you’ve taken care of the enemy. 
The graphics are
decent enough. The sprites of the soldiers and terrorists aren’t very detailed
since they are so small and the locales do their job of representing what they
are supposed to be. On their quest to disarm bombs, your team will travel to the
snowy Alpine Village, an exotic island estate, and a dreary shipyard. The
biggest little detail would be the blood that squirts when a terrorist is
disposed of. Having not played any of the console versions of the game I
couldn’t tell you what made it into the mobile version and what was sacrificed
other than the first person perspective or what is even similar in the two
versions. 
Score: