• Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Mar 9, 2004
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword Image
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: Command Team RAINBOW, the world's most elite, multinational squad of counter-terrorist operatives, as they track the desperate remnants of a dangerous terrorist organization into exotic regions of the Mediterranean to prevent their agenda of international anarchy and destruction. Athena Sword boasts a host of standout features, including: All-new, eight-mission campaign in locations including Italy, Croatia, and Greece; Eight new Multiplayer levels; Five new multiplayer game modes; Three "classic" missions; Seven additional real-world weapons (for a whopping total of 64); Weapon sound effects from the team that worked on the blockbuster film The Matrix. [Ubi Soft] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. While not the most ambitious add-on we've ever played, Athena Sword packs enough solid, challenging content to appease "Raven Shield" vets. [June 2004, p.72]
  2. If you still find yourself playing "Raven Shield" instead of the newer FPSs though, Athena Sword will only make you fall in love with it all over again. [May 2004, p.107]
  3. It's entertaining in all the right ways, but just like Gates and Price, it's all a bit too predictable.
  4. Although the brain-dead enemy AI remains unchanged, Athena Sword is a worthy expansion.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. JohnR.
    10
    This "Expansion", is one of a kind. No game out there has 64 weapons in it, man thats just crazy...Rainbow Six 3, Athena Sword is 10/10 for my vote people. Collapse
  2. GrahamM.
    9
    A must buy if you have Raven Shield, and i you dont have raven shield, buy it! thats all I have to say.
  3. JasonB.
    5
    Yawn. Another Ubi miss. This shooter stuff is getting boring. Ubi really likes to recycle what they already released a year prior. Not impressive.
  4. OwenH.
    2
    Wow! 64 Weapons! Shame most of them are the same weapon with a different model...

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