More Than You Want to Know About Rainbow Six When choosing a video game there are many things you should consider. Style of game play, quality of story line, and versatility are a few of the most important aspects of a game. It will be exactly these qualities that prove Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six to be a game of superior quality. First we will look at the style of game play. Game play styles include action, adventure, role-playing, and many others. Rainbow Six is a first-person-shooter. This is a style of play in which the player has a first-person view and the point of the game is to shoot a lot. Of course one would have to like this style in the first place in order to like this game. Assuming you do, Rainbow Six excels in this category. In order to be a good first-person-shooter a game needs to be easily controllable. Rainbow Six allows the player to define each control to the key they desire. This affords the player the ability to fit the controls to their liking rather than struggle to learn the default controls. Also, a good game needs a variety of well-balanced weapons. Rainbow Six has five primary weapons, five secondary weapons and the option to take some flashbangs and frag-grenades. The choice of this many weapons gives the player a good variety to choose from. Because it has near perfect scores in both control and balance it is obvious that the style of game play contributes to the evidence that it is a game of superior quality. Next we must examine the quality of the story line. The complexity of the story line is one important ingredient. This game was based on the novel Rainbow Six written by Tom Clancy. Tom Clancy’s creativity provides in a highly complex story line. The complexity of the story is not the only factor in its quality. How well the story line is integrated into the game play is also a factor. Full integration of the story and game play is exceedingly difficult for a first-p...
