Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a classic Clancy-style story where you lead an elite multinational task force battling international terrorism in highly realistic settings. Game play is organized around a series of missions in which you must plan and exectue precise assaults on terrorist installations. As your mission advances, you will uncover a larger and more sinister conspiracy, where the fate of the world hangs in the balance. And unlike other games, if you make a mistake, you're gone - because in the real world, one shot counts.

To carry out a mission, the player plays "Six" the leader of the team, and must assemble a crack team from a pool of skilled specialists and plan the poperation using an overhead three-dimensional model of the target area. Once satisfied with their strategy, the player can lead the assault using a first- or third-person (you can toggle between the two) three-dimensional view. The game will be played by single players with artificial intelligence controlling friendly and enemy troops, or by multiplay players across the internet in both collaborative and head-to-head modes.

Each mission consist of two distinct phases: the plannign phase and the action phase. In the plannign phase, the player receives a briefing and is given all available intelligence regarding the missions. THe player then seletcts tappropriate team members, equips them, and plans the misssion.

Rainbow Six creates the of both strategy and actio game play. The action play is team oriented - prefect for Internet play. With 20 playable characters and 17 different missions in real world locations, the variety of gameplay is extensive.

So carefully selete your team and even more carefully, conceive your plan. Because it's time to go save the world. One mission at a time.