Rainbow Six: Athena Sword Preview

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EDBIS.com scores with a nice preview of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Athena Sword, which is an expansion pack for Raven Shield. Here's a snip:



As you may know the Rainbow team fought against a terrorist cell under the command of a villain called Gutierrez in Raven Shield and ultimately succeeded in putting him behind bars. But now it turns out that somehow he is still able to control what’s left of his organisation from prison. This wouldn’t be so bad if there wasn’t one chemical weapon still under his control. This is enough for the Rainbow guys to step up once again and take care of this evil once and for all. The mission goes by the codename Athena Sword, and takes you through different locations in Southern Europe (the developers wanted the locations to differ from those in Raven Shield). This includes Monte Carlo, Dubrovnik in Croatia and of course Milan, where the division of Ubi Soft responsible for this expansion is settled.

This little campaign adds 8 missions, but Athena Sword also tries to improve the missions already in Raven Shield by adding a Countdown mode. Like the name implies this adds the option to the game to play any mission with a time limit. Most people might think it’s hard enough without, but the most fanatical players are sure to like this. Athena Sword also adds three popular maps from older Rainbow Six games, remade for the Unreal engine. These maps are “Steel Wind” from the first Rainbow Six, “Sargasso Fade” from Rogue Spear and “Virgin Moon” from Urban Operations.



There's much more to read, and some very juicy screenshots to enjoy, so pop on over and soak it all in.