Rogue Spear Mission Pack: Urban Operations

Urban Operations features two new minicampaigns with five missions each. One campaign consists of brand-new missions; objectives include a battle within a Hong Kong hotel and liberating a subway station in London. There's no story line to connect the missions, though they remain exciting and as enjoyable as those in the original game.

The second campaign converts five missions from Rainbow Six, including Amazon, Bio Lab, and Skyscraper. Sampling the old missions in the enhanced graphics engine is fun, but if you're already conquered Rainbow Six the addition of converted missions might feel like an empty rehash.

Urban Operations adds the ability to customize and alter mission goals of Rogue Spear and Urban Operations campaign missions. Additionally, there's a new mission goal mode, Defend, where players defend a particular section of the map from advancing terrorists. Versatile new machine guns add to Rogue Spear's arsenal, and eight new multiplayer maps give online players more locations for cooperative and deathmatch play. --Doug Radcliffe

Pros:

• Customizable missions offer a new experience in familiar territory
• Eight new multiplayer maps enhance Rogue Spear's online component
• New weapons to master in both single and multiplayer modes

• Half the campaign missions are simply converted from Rainbow Six
• New campaign missions lack cohesion

It's your wits, nerves, and training versus a barrage of cold-blooded, grenade-throwing terrorists--on their turf.

What is there not to like about this game? Well, when you beat the addictive 5 missions, you can go to the new Custom Mission and set the terrorist level to 50 max, which is non-stop action when you order frags to ambush about 10 terrorists. This game also gives you "Underwater Habitat" to destroy 50 terrorists, with the wildlife in the deep bottom sea, in the submarine! Sounds like it too!

Not to mention, you also have 3 new weapons--two of which are machine guns and a sniper rifle--I highly recommend that rifle above all others--precise accuracy and it is silent.

Like I said, more action=more fun. If you think Rogue Spear is addictive, wait until Urban Operations; you'll playing this game forever! I play it all the time so get this game now!


Great Expansion to a Great Game   October 10, 2002
My first encounter with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series was the Rogue Spear demo. It was, at the time, the best game I'd ever played, and I found myself playing and replaying the demo mission -- rescuing hostages in the museum of art -- again and again till I knew where every terrorist, civilian and doorway was and could get them out with my eyes closed. In fact, I think I did a couple of times :) .
A couple of months later I decided to finally get myself the full game. I got the Platinum Pack edition, with the Urban Operations expansion pack included. I didn't know much about it at the time, but it turned out to be a great surprise. It comes with ten missions. Five are all new, and a bit tougher than the standard Rogue Spear ones. The other five are Classic missions from the original Rainbow Six, and are maybe a bit easier. There are also a few new weapons and some other little improvements.
The biggest and most exciting thing about Urban Ops, though, (or UO as I have come to call it), is the new Mod system. It gives you a convenient way to install modifications made by fellow players, available for free download on the Internet. Some of these mods are of professional quality and will have you playing the game for years.
While UO is a fantastic single-player game, it really stands out in multiplayer -- which is why it's still so popular online, even with new games with much better graphics coming out by the dozen.
In short, this expansion is easily worth the [money] it costs. I mean, would you rather go out and watch a couple of movies or buy something that'll keep you awake till 1 AM every day for the next three years?


Good FPS, but......   August 5, 2002
This game is definitely a great upgrade from Rogue Spear, there's no arguing that. I mean, this game is very realistic down to the enemies panicking and running away, like real ones might. Then why 4 stars? Because if only I could figure out those callsigns. Even with the guide book I got, I still am clueless and there by resort to completing the missions with one man and no set floor plan. If they had made it simpler, then maybe there would be 5 stars in its future.

But, I'm not going to waste this time complaining. Besides thatm this game has realistic gun fire, muzzle flashes, enemy reactions, rate-of-fire of every gun, accuracy of each one and my god the list goes on..... This game is very much worth the money and should be bought by any die hard FPS player.


good game but...   June 13, 2002
this game is really good but the only down side is the price. it's a rip off. i got the rogue spear platinum pack for $[money] and it came with rogue spear, mission pack urban ops, and the rogue spear(also featuring the urban ops) strategy guide. all of this for only $[money], even if u do have regular rogue spear, still buy it and give it to a friend or if u lose ur copy just keep it for safe keeping, or sell it. but i repeat, buy the platinum pack.


Good Job Redstorm   January 14, 2002
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This is like Roguespear II... It has some really good levels, I dont even know where to begin on this. This is the add on to get for rogue spear. Just Trust me, if you liked rogue spear, you will love this one. Its a good game, and you will love the mod compatibiblty.