Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game): Difference between revisions

* [[Genre Shift]]: Starting with ''Lockdown''.

* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]]: Mostly averted, terrorists can show up with ANY weapons. Subverted in Vegas, very rarely you will see terrorists with AK weapons, and if you notice, the Alpha Team operatives in the first Vegas 2 mission have AK-47s.

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Elite difficulty. The games are already [[Nintendo Hard]] on Veteran, but this level is murder.

** The original games are complete murder. Armor, weapons, and tactics do ''not'' count - only reflexes do - any your enemies can snipe you as soon as they see you looking at them through your scope.

* [[Just in Time]]: Subverted horribly in ''Vegas 2'' - you arrive just in time to {{spoiler|futilely bang on the door of the arena and listen to the people you were supposed to save scream in terror as they are being gassed.}}

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Gabriel Nowak in the "Five Years Ago" prologue mission of ''Rainbow Six Vegas: 2''. He makes numerous tactical mistakes due to his gung-ho attitude, gets a hostage negotiator killed, and is generally regarded as the team screw-up by everyone else. Even for the FNG, one wonders how someone who managed to get into Team Rainbow could be so unprofessional, given that the backstory suggests they only take the top alumni from special forces groups like the SAS or Navy SEALs. Maybe he's secretly Bishop's kid or something. In which case Bishop should have gotten the boot for the nepotism to have put Rainbow at risk with Nowak, instead of {{spoiler|becoming deputy director of Rainbow after killing Nowak}}.

* [[The Mafiya]]: Maxim Kutkin in ''Rogue Spear''.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nowak is a Polish surname derived from the word for "new", and was a nickname for people new to a profession or village. {{spoiler|It's not surprising Gabe turned out the way he did, considering his name essentially means "n00b".}}

* [[Multinational Team]]: The whole point of Rainbow.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: [[One-Hit Kill]] (even with the heaviest armor you can get) gameplay combined with the inability to save mid-mission resulted in very high game difficulty. Additionally, characters killed during a mission were gone forever and would be replaced on the team roster by generic [[Red Shirt|Redshirts]] with much lower stats, while injured team members had decreased stats.

** The ''Vegas'' series, while easier than the original games, is still very difficult, especially if you try to Rambo your way through. Even with heavy armor you die after taking only 2 or 3 assault rifle hits, so use of cover is ''extremely'' important. For reference, on Normal difficulty you can survive about as much damage as you can on [[Harder Than Hard|Veteran]] difficulty in ''[[Call of Duty]] [[Modern Warfare]]''.

* [[No Delays for the Wicked]]: To a ludicrous degree. Not only do the terrorists manage to round up hundreds of fighters, train them, deploy them to the US secretly, and attack several casinos all at once, ''that's just the decoy mission.''