Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold

The appeal of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold is planning before the breach: choose a squad and its gear, plot routes, then lead the operation yourself. At its current tracked low of ≈ $1.80 from GAMIVO, it makes sense for players specifically seeking a tactical solo campaign. Its 91% from 1,930 reviews offer a compact view of player responses. At $9.99 from GAMIVO, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold suits a budget set aside for tactical solo missions; its player rating is 91% from 1,930 reviews.

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91%Steam Reviews1.9K reviews

Released: Sep 25, 2008

Tactical · FPS · Action · Simulation · Strategy

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01About Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold

Plan an operation for a multinational special-operations squad: choose team members and equipment, map out an approach, then lead the assault in first person. You can command one squad or coordinate three through radio orders, clearing rooms, rescuing hostages and defusing bombs. Steam player rating: 91% from 1,930 reviews. Release date: September 25, 2008.

Credits

Composer

Bill Brown

Developer

Red Storm Entertainment · Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher

Ubisoft

Steam player reviews

91%positiveVery Positive1,930 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$2.492023-10-05 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20

02Before you buy

Tactical solo missions

The Steam PC version offers a single-player campaign. Choose team members, outfit them with weapons and gear, then plan the assault on a map.

Online play

Online features are no longer supported, and multiplayer and co-op modes are no longer accessible.

03Frequently asked questions

What does a mission involve?

Select a team and equipment, plot an assault plan on the map, then lead the operation in first person.

Can I play online or co-op?

No. The description says online features are no longer supported and multiplayer and co-op are no longer accessible.

Where do missions take place?

The campaign visits places including England, Norway, the Caribbean and Rio de Janeiro; Athena Sword adds Mediterranean settings.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

02/04/2015

Dear potential player or veteran R6:3 player: Here is a new way to play Terrorist Hunt mode, in case you get bored. Step 1: Take your team to your favorite room or area of the map, and take cover. Step 2: Are you ready? Good. Now press ~ to open the console, and type 'callterro'. Step 3: Smile. Every terrorist on the map is now rushing to your location :D Step 4: Don't die. Note: Not all terrorists come out of the woodwork. You might have to go out and hunt down the last couple. This doesn't work so well (at all) on the shipyard map for some reason. All in all, some maps work better than others with this little experiment.Show moreShow less

41.7 hours at review141 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

10/09/2017

This is a fantastic game I've sunk a ton of hours into. One of the best RS games. However, this is another classic release in which Steam has failed. Here's what is wrong: - Does not create proper shortcuts for Athena Sword. - Does not install sounds correctly for Athena Sword (there is a work around). - There is no Iron Wrath expansion, and in order to install it, it's a pain in the A-S-S. (note: easiest way to do this, is to copy all the files from your installed CD version or download the IW files already unpacked from someone's install) - There are no default planning files for Athena Sword or Iron Wrath. - It is definitely buggier than the disc version, probably in a large part due to the Steam overlay. (update: after I turned off the steam overlay most crashing stopped) - Intro movies do not play for Athena Sword or Iron Wrath, and I haven't discovered a way to use or edit existing shorcuts to work with Steam version. Here's what is right: - No DRM - You can install the Raven Shield 2.0 mod OR the online muliplayer patch, but not both simultanously. I'm giving it a luke warm recommendation if you get it cheap. My intention is to just use this version for MP, since most people who play this online use this version. Of course, you can patch the CD version as well, which works great. But all the fixes and tweaks for MP are usually focused around the Steam version. By using the Steam version, you can share in the pain.Show moreShow less

11.9 hours at review282 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

08/31/2021

I hate siegeShow moreShow less

4.3 hours at review124 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

04/16/2024

You Buy a Game from Ubisoft. You Play the Game, which is from Ubisoft. And one Day, Ubisoft will decide, you had enough of this Game and will remove it for you from your Library and close down its Servers, so you cant play your bought Game anymore. The Server part is one thing, but the removing from Library is on a whole new Level. That is literally theft. Ubisoft removes your bought Games from your Library without compensation. Dont believe me? Look up their Game, or might say the now forever lost Game, "The Crew". I cannot recommend buying from a Publisher which steals from Players. No matter the Quality of the Game.Show moreShow less

18.4 hours at review36 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

05/25/2016

If you love this game, but have windows 10... Just follow these steps: Fixed created by: FcUK_A Stutter Fix 1)Disable Raven Shield VSYNC 2)Run the game with one core I know that those solutions have already been posted, but I realized that you have to do BOTH of them for the game to actually always work. So here is detailed info on how to do those 2 things: 1) Go to your RavenShield/System/ folder and open ravenshield.ini Search for the vsync in the text file, and you will find an entry "UseVSync=True". Change it to "UseVSync=False". (Use ctrl+F to found UseVSync(...). Save and close the file. Go to your ATI/NVIDIA Control Panel and make sure that the vertical synchronization or vertical refresh is to the option OFF or Application Specific. That's the first part of fixing it. 2) You can do it with 2 ways: Either disable one core by Alt-Tabbing out when the game is open, going to the Task Manager, going to the Processes, right-clicking to the ravenshield.exe from the list and selecting "set affinty", and deselecting CPU 0. or the recommended way so you don't have to do this each time you start the game: Go to your raven shield folder (not the system), and create a text file there. Open with notepad and paste this: cd system start /affinity 01 ravenshield.exe and save the file as "fixedstart.bat" or whatever .bat Now by double clicking on this file will start the game single-core. You can create a shortcut for this to your desktop for easy launching. OBS: Sometimes the game will bug your mouse, just restart the game or your computer. OBS 2: If you are a little boring to found all enemies, press ' (the buttom bellow the ESC) and write "route" god - makes you invencible ghost - you can fly walk - disable flight mode godhostage 1 - invencibility for hostages godteam - you team never dies neutralizeterro - neutralize all terrorists rescuehostage - rescue all hostages (obviously) disarmbombs - disarme all bombs tsurrender - all terrorists surrender on sight fullammo - gaves you full ammo (obviously again) Have fun!Show moreShow less

3.2 hours at review87 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

11/04/2020

You need some really thick nostalgia goggles to enjoy this game. Enemy AI cheats and it's not unusual at all to instantly get killed when you peak around a corner, increasing the difficulty just makes it easier for the AI to cheat faster as this just increases their reflexes to open fire when they spot you which is a very poor design choice for a tactical shooter as it makes them more twitchy instead of having them flex their thinking power more to use more complex tactics to try and get the upper hand on you. Increasing the reflexes of your enemies works in a fast paced arcadey twitch shooter but not in slow paced tactical one. Especially when the speeds they can fire and get a kill on you are that of aimbotting levels. To make matters worse, your squad mates are total dumbasses and you have to baby sit them alot. I've seen them do really stupid things like not returning fire while waiting for a go code and taking a smoke grenade out only to proceed to the next waypoint with it equipped rather than throw it to get cover. The permadeath of your squad mates means you'll be doing alot of baby sitting if you want everyone to make it out of a mission alive. Recoil for your guns is greatly exaggerated too, yes you shouldn't full auto in most cases but compared to other realistic shooters this one greatly exaggerates the recoil of a gun. Use full auto with an M4 in this then do the same thing in a game like Insurgency 2014 to see just how greatly exaggerated the recoil in raven shield is. The planning mode is cool, has alot of depth and would go on to inspire games like frozen synapse and doorkickers which i gotta give this game credit for, but when you go to execute on the plan and play as an operator in field is where it falls flat on its face. If you want a cqb shooter where you lead a squad of AI team mates get the SWAT 4 gold edition and download the SEF BTLA mod, as that's how a cqb focused tactical shooter is done right. If you're not a fan of how it's got strict rules of engagement in place and you want to lead a squad and just shoot bad guys then play hidden and dangerous 2. Either way both of these are exceptional tactical shooters. AI, especially in a tactical shooter is what makes or breaks it and in Raven Shield's case its the latter, mods may improve the game but at the end of the day, a polished turd is still a turd.Show moreShow less

154.2 hours at review14 people found this helpful

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