Rainbow Six
Counter-terrorism video game
Rainbow Six is a 1998 Tom Clancy novel about an elite multinational counter-terrorism unit, which spawned a long-running series of tactical shooter video games.
The games emphasize strategic planning and team coordination over run-and-gun action: We're playing Rainbow Six tonight.
In gaming contexts, often shortened to R6 or Siege (for Rainbow Six Siege, the most popular installment).
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- tacticalStrategically planned
- operatorOne who works machinery
- hostageCaptive held as security
- breachBreaking of agreement
breach and clear · Ubisoft · counterterrorism · special forces · Tom Clancy · multiplayer · team deathmatch · SWAT · flashbang · defuse · rappel · drone · thermite · assault · extraction · elite · squad · bomb
- Tom ClancyJack Ryan, Splinter Cell
- war gameswargaming, wargame, war games, combat simulations, Age of Empires
- French GamesUbisoft, Assassin's Creed, Rayman, Far Cry, Just Dance
Rainbow Sixarcade shooter
Coin-operated shooting game
Quake · run-and-gun · Duke Nukem · Halo · Call of Duty
Rainbow SixRambo
Recklessly aggressive lone fighter
one-man army · button masher · spray and pray · Contra · Wolfenstein
Rainbow SixSplatoon
Ink-based shooter game
Fortnite · Team Fortress 2 · Destiny · Halo
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