Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Rogue Spear ROM

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear is a 1999 tactical first-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment. It is the second installment in the Rainbow Six series and the last entry published by Red Storm before its acquisition by Ubisoft in 2000. The game’s plot follows the international counterterrorist organization Rainbow as they investigate the potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by terrorists.

Rogue Spear is based on the same game engine and features gameplay and presentation similar to that of the original Rainbow Six. Rogue Spear focuses on realism, planning, strategy and teamwork. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear was released for Microsoft Windows on August 31, 1999, with versions for the Mac OS (2000), Dreamcast (2000), PlayStation (2001), and Game Boy Advance (2002) released later. A PlayStation 2 port was also announced at the time, but it was later canceled. Rogue Spear’s engine was later used for the 2003 South Korea-only spinoff Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea.

In 2001, Rainbow, a secret international counterterrorist organization led by John Clark, handles a spike in international terrorist attacks, including a hostage situation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, an attempted tanker bombing in the Sea of Japan, an aircraft hijacking in Brussels, the attempted deployment of a nerve agent in Oman’s water supply, the capture of NATO officials in Kosovo, and a Neo-Nazi group’s takeover of a television studio in London.

Elsewhere, the former Eastern Bloc has fallen into economic and political disarray since the dissolution of the Soviet Union a decade prior, with conflict and terrorism increasing as money and necessities become scarce. The Russian mafia takes advantage of the turmoil, buying surplus military equipment from the impoverished Russian Armed Forces.