Why I buy this one ?
- All-new single player campaign with 8 missions that span the Mediterranean world
- Safeguard the world order in 5 new multiplayer maps
- Seven new real-world guns, for a massive total of 64 weapons to choose from -- a shooter fan's dream come true
- Incredible new multiplayer modes - Adversarial Terrorist Hunt, Adversarial Scattered Hunt, and Capture the Enemy

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What our customer's say!

"Rainbow Six is in trouble", I love the Rainbow Six Series. I'm in the military, have graduated from both Anti-Terror and Team Tactics schools. The Rainbow Six Series is an excellent series. The Tactics needed to play the game are almost identical to those used in real Close Quarters Combat scenarios.
That being said. WOW IS THIS ADD ON BUGGY! I played Raven Shield with no noticable problems, but when I added the Athena Sword Patch, all hell broke loose. Suddenly my computer began locking up, The sound would crash, and overall just a host of problems with the add on. My computer is used almost exclusively for gaming, and the Athena Sword patch was the only thing that had changed from when I played Raven Shield, so that is why I hold it responsible. I think Reading the reviews here supports my theory.
The maps looked very good, especialy for Online Play, but the glitches in the game became so frustrating that I have yet to play them all. Evidently you can download fixes, but if I have to patch a game more than once, just to make it work, then I have no interest in playing it. Skip this game and wait for the next one. Hopefully they'll get it right. I'm going to give them one more chance before I give up on UBI Soft.
I also didnt' appriciate them installing thier hokey website shortcut on and software on my computer. (Yes, I realize that it's easy to remove, and if I payed closer attention I could have prevented it from being installed, but come on.)
Rainbow Six Series is a great series, but I fear that it may go the way of Mech Warrior. Skip this game.

"Great new maps", My buddy and I love the new maps that come with the Athena Sword expansion pack. We hook up on a LAN and play terrorist hunt for points. We play on a 6 min timer and see who can get the most guys. After we finish with all the maps the guy with the highest terrorist kill count wins. I've read some complaints about the game from people who feel they pack is short on missions. Since I only play it multiplayer, the large selection of maps is great. The AI is also better. The Tangos on this one actually hunt you down. They also lay down, which makes think they are dead. We have been playing this game since it came out and still enjoy it. The expansion pack made it even better. Tango Down!

"Miles too easy", Yes I a big fan of the Rainbow 6 series, so I waited in anticipation to play this game. Well I was able to complete it in less than one day the 8 new missions, that was to have my team wiped out once or twice and then completing the level without so much as a scratch. Graphics, Sounds were fantastic, but this add on is miles to easy. Folks save your money and forget this offering.

"It Rocks!", Ive been playing since the original and Raven sheild rocks! Athena Sword adds to the already best online Counter-Terro game.
The awsome muiltiplayer + new levels, guns, and game modes makes this game on the top of my list

"Read this before you buy this game.", This game has major problems if you're buying it for your PC. Ubi.com has many patches you can download but after 2 weeks the game still won't run on my PC which meets all the criteria it asks for. Before buying check www.ubi.com message boards to see all the problems people are having with this game. I have the other Rainbow Six games and haven't had any problem with them.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"bad games", A very poor effort to say the least, made even more pathetic by the fact that paid employees were obviously instructed to come here & write fake reviews over a month before it was even released... Going on the merit of that, I imagine some of the more current five star reviews are also fake.

"Wait until the price drops to buy", Despite the rave reviews by UbiSoft employees posing as customers, Athena Sword, like Raven Shield, is substandard and buggy.

UbiSoft has a tendency to buy companies with hit titles, and then have their own development teams produce lower quality sequels, hoping to make sales on the strength of the original games' reputations. Ever since UbiSoft bought Red Storm Entertainment and started producing the Rainbow Six games themselves the gameplay has changed for the worse, the story lines have become increasingly contrived and obviously written with more concern for political correctness than realism, and the bugs have been out of control.

There have been over a dozen patches released for Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield since it's release, and Athena Sword has even more bugs. I have never owned a game which required so many patches.

The online play is nowhere near as good as Rogue Spear (although better than Counter Strike, if you prefer realistic tactical shooters to the run-and-gun arcade style games) and the single player campaigns aren't challenging enough to provide more than a few hours of entertainment.

If you've already bought Raven Shield and are considering buying Athena Sword, my suggestion would be to wait until the price drops, which is closer to it's actual worth. In the meanwhile, there are plenty of better designed user-made levels for single player and multiplayer play available for free download all over the internet if you're looking for more content for Raven Shield.

Here are a couple of the problems and bugs found so far:

While prone with the M240G Heavy Machine Gun, there is no animation of the belt being fed through the receiver

While using an Athena Sword weapon the hand and arm models in first person view have holes in the geometry

The SM4 CQB Machine Gun points around a 15º angle up

All of the Athena Sword weapons have the same firing sound with small tweeking, and not the awesome new sounds Ubi promised

The G3A3 and the G3KA4 appear to be identical to the player except for color

There are areas where textures which are supposed to be Flagged as false backdrop are not, and the skybox does not show through like it is supposed to

"Great Expansion", I dont know why so many people are hating on UBI so much. I have played Raven Shield for over 2 months now. I have no complaint with it at all. The campaigns are very cool. The multiplayer is unbeleveable. There is always a server and i rarely get lag. The gameplay is smooth. The only complaint i have is the freedom the game allows. Many player use the freedom to "tweak" the game is their favor. For instance players can "Bind" keys which mean I could shoot and automaticly crouch. This gets cheap. Also there are some hacks that find their way through punkbuster. A lot of people use a hack so that no matter how they are moving or positioned their reticule does not move. Perfect Aim. Punkbuster though does do a good job with the majority of hacks. I would recommend this game to anyone. But I warn any Unreal fans this game is VERY realistic. 1-2 shot kills. You have to be tactical and precise. You cant jus run into the open and expect to live for 30 seconds. If you liked any of the previous Rainbow 6s or like the genre get this game.

"Buggy with No Support", Raven Shield is fun. Dealing with all the bugs, lies and crappy patches is not. This expansion is too expensive and promises no bug fixes. I am waiting for about two weeks after the release to buy or not. I suggest you do the same.
I have played since the demo and Ubi has the worse support you could ever imagine. We had 3 months of silence from them. They then released a patch to include a wallhack. They company is terrible and they release patches that add bugs, without fixing them. Theres terrible trigger lag which they simply gave a cosmetic fix too. Sometime your gun fires 1-2 seconds after you push the trigger.
Wait and See!!

"Raven Shield is a serious shooter behold", Ok after reading these reviews its quite obvious that the writers have barely played Raven Shield. I've been playing for about 3 or 4 months and I have no complaints but all praise. This game truly does make you work and practice hard to earn kills. Which ups the satisfaction when a kill is achieved. All I play is online so I don't have much to say about single play except the enemies are smart as hell. But the online play is great. Sure there's bugs but not serious bugs but very minor ones that UBI has done a good job of removing. All I have to say is this is the best tactical FPS shooter out right now. Just play and you will get hooked. Guaranteed.