Play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Online

Summary

The Game Boy Color version of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, often just called "Rainbow Six" on the handheld, is a stripped‑down reinterpretation of the PC classic. Crawfish Interactive crammed sixteen missions into the tiny cartridge, swapping the original 3‑D engine for a 2.5‑D top‑down view that feels more like a tactical board game than a shooter. Because of the hardware limits, crossfire was dropped, enemy AI became less responsive, and the pacing slowed, turning what was once a high‑stakes planning exercise into a more repetitive grind. Critics praised the sheer ambition of trying to fit a full‑blown tactical experience onto a Game Boy, but the mixed scores—around 54 % on GameRankings and middling 5/10 from IGN—reflected frustrations with the simplified combat and loss of the original’s risk‑heavy mechanics.

Storyline

In 1999, a post‑Cold War surge in terrorism prompts the world’s elite special‑forces, police tactical units, and intelligence agencies to unite under the covert international counter‑terrorist organization Rainbow, led by John Clark.

The sequel, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six for the Game Boy Color, picks up in 2000 as Rainbow confronts a series of attacks tied to the eco‑terrorist Phoenix Group. The operation is aided by Horizon Inc. chairman John Brightling, presidential science adviser Anne Lang, and Horizon biologist Catherine Winston, who is rescued after a strike in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A raid on a Phoenix compound in Idaho uncovers illegal human experiments, revealing Phoenix as a front for Brightling’s plan to unleash a man‑made Ebola strain called “Brahma” at the Sydney Olympics. Rainbow thwarts the release, captures Lang and Global Security leader William Hendrickson, and then assaults Brightling’s Amazon‑based Horizon Ark, neutralizing his collaborators and taking Brightling into custody.