You Start off with 20 guys to choose from and it's in your best interest to make sure they don't get capped in the first couple of missions. The team members are effectively your "lives"--if you get killed you take on the role of another soldier--but once everyone's dead you no longer have any men with specific skills to send into battle.
Each character has his own personality traits, and as you work through the game you actually find that you can rely on certain guys to get the job done. The idea is that if a character gets cut down midway through the game, you have some kind of emotional attachment.
In practice it doesn't quite work like that, but if you have a particularly experienced guy who's fast and accurate, it is really annoying when you don't have him to rely on anymore.
It certainly makes things more fun than the usual cannon fodder you find in most action games. Unfortunately, the version we had for this preview didn't have the Al system properly implemented, so we can't comment on whether the soldiers act as dumb as their PC counterparts.
Let's hope nouask a PC gamer about Rainbow Six and they'll recount frustrated stories of soldiers not being able to walk through doorways. Technically this is certainly an impressive achievement for the N64 though. While you wouldn't necessarily expect some of the gameplay elements to be suited to joypad play, it's surprising what a good job the guys at Saffire have done to take it away from a mouse-based environment.
On a purely cosmetic level it has to be said that the graphics engine is very impressive. With a 4-Meg pak slapped into the machine the 3D engine produces some amazing results.
Running around inside the British Houses of Parliament and up the clock tower of Big Ben is particularly impressive with some beautifully drawn textures. It all runs very smoothly too and doesn't resort to excessive fogging in the more expansive levels.
While the PC version offered a comprehensive online multiplayer experience, the N64 version offers something that has to be applauded Sure it has your usual deathmatch play although only for two players but the co-op stuff is what could help make this a game people can really dig.
Sneaking into an enemy base camp with a buddy can be quite an exciting experience--as long as you don't get pissed off and just start shooting at each other with heavy pieces of artillery. It's amazing what they can cram into the Game Boy these days. Whether something is a good idea or not, you have to admire the talent that goes into cramming the major elements of a game like Rainbow Six and making it 2D, 8-Bit and portable.
Somehow Crawfish has managed to capture all of the basic story elements from the first PC game and convey them adequately. Pretty amazing. In fact, it actually manages to cram in more of the strategy elements in than Rebellion's lackluster PlayStation version. Impressive indeed.
The only problem is, the resulting game is nowhere near as fun or as tense as its grown-up 3D brothers and sisters. Part of the fun with the other versions is sneaking around the environments and ducking down so you're not seen.
The transfer to top-down 2D kinda removes this element, and you end up just walking around maps that are too damn big, and not filled with enough bad guys to shoot at.
By removing the uncertainty and the stealth aspects and neglecting to replace them with all-out action, it seems that Red Storm has missed out on something that could've been very absorbing. Unfortunately, it all ends up being rather boring instead. This is an impressive game "on paper," but you'll very quickly tire of it. Graphically it can get hard on the eyes at times too.
You get all the weapons, the gear, the team members, the planning mode and the story. Trouble is, not much survived the miniaturization. Planning is a chore-especially figuring out how to place Go Codes. The game itself fails to capture the tension of the original.
Hostage and teammates often get stuck on walls when following you. This thing's for patient gamers only. This game, on this platform makes zero sense, no matter how you look at it. By taking away the "first-person" POV, you're castrating the realism, atmosphere and tension of the original. Then you give the game a bunch of sophisticated options like organizing squads and equipping agents , and you've automatically alienated the handheld shooting fans. What other demographic are you supposed to be reaching out to?
Not this reviewer. If this was all the PC game was, I can't imagine having ever been interested in it. Who's idea was it to port this to the Game Boy, anyway? There are just some platforms you shouldn't try to port games to. It's just too limited. Rainbow Six needs the kind of immersion afforded by 3D, or needs to be completely adapted to take advantage of the limits of 2D. Being able to play the game fully in coop is a nice bonus.
Adding a second player offers more tactical options, resulting in a deeper experience. It runs very smoothly in both the single- and multiplayer modes, although the graphics are a bit simplistic. N64 Today's reviews focus on whether a game is still enjoyable to play today. Find out more about the review scoring system.
Martin has been running N64 Today since it began in He previously wrote for Nintendo Life and works as a content professional by day. He got the Nintendo 64 as a Christmas present back in and it's been his favourite console ever since. His favourite N64 game is Goemon's Great Adventure.
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