Rainbow Six Critical Hour announced

Ubisoft's squad-based shooter series gets repackaged with classic, new missions for PlayStation 2, Xbox.
Tom Clancy, well known for being a prolific political and military thriller writer, is quickly making a name for himself as one of gaming's most prolific minds. The author has lent his name and expertise to three of Ubisoft's most popular franchises--Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell.
The latest addition to one of the Tom Clancy series is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Critical Hour for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, just announced by Ubisoft. Critical Hour brings several of the squad-based shooter's past moments together with new material for a defining Rainbow Six experience.
Eight single-player maps, chosen by fans, will be reworked with current technology and appear alongside a brand new seven-mission single-player campaign. There will also be 18 multiplayer levels for online play.
To promote realism, the gameplay has been slowed down to encourage a more strategic approach to counter-terrorism, and several factors, including injury status and body position, effect weapon accuracy. More than 20 weapons and high-tech gadgets are included in the game, and the maps will take gamers to Idaho, Mexico City, Siberia, and more.

INTRODUCTION TO TEAM RAINBOW

Team Rainbow is a multinational task force comprised of counterterrorism experts from around the globe. Equipped with state-of-the-art weapons, Team Rainbow is deployed during terrorist crises. When all other attempts have failed, Rainbow is brought in to save the lives of innocent people. They do not negotiate with terror. They destroy it.

Rainbow began as an idea shared by John Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez. Clark, a former Navy SEAL and CIA operative, met Ding during a covert operation in Colombia. During the operation, Chavez was rescued by Clark. After that mission, Ding joined the Central Intelligence Agency. Clark and Ding developed a mentor-student relationship over the course of several missions together

Rainbow was created in 1999. Ding Chavez was made a Team Leader, and they began recruiting counter-terrorism operatives immediately. Experts in close-quarters combat, demolitions, electronics, surveillances, and reconnaisance were recruited. Snipers, hackers, soldiers, policemen, and contractors were all brought to Hereford, England. There, Rainbow shares its headquarters with the British Special Air Service.

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