Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown™
Skip · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 7.3h 12.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.37/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 547 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Engineered specifically for the PC by Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six returns to deliver the tensest close-quarters battles ever experienced online. In this episode, Rainbow faces independent terrorist threats, tied together by one common element - the Legion virus.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. On the same math Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold ($9.99, scores 73) and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® ($9.99, scores 80) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown™
3 of the 352 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Well....I now know why this game has been sitting in my backlog for so long. About all the good I can say is that the graphics are pretty damn crisp and will give you that mid-oughts nostalgia. The bad? They somehow managed to make an R6 game while making any tactical element useless. Setting up a room clear more often than not ends up with my team dead as they all go one way and get rolled from the other. Other...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Ok, hear me out. This is objectively the game that signed the death of Rainbow Six as a strategic single player series and turned it into a console series, it is awful, the AI is terrible, the plot and story are not even remotely based on the books (unlike Raven Shield which is a direct continuation of the original novel) and honestly the maps just feel hollow with no music, lack of ambience and very few neutral...
"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown" is yet another title from the golden era of Tom Clancy's games, but unlike many other old Rainbow Six titles, it has many flaws and by today's standards feels very clunky to play. It still carries the same realistic art direction as other classic Tom Clancy's games, which is a plus, but it was far from being a perfect game even upon release, and today playing it can bring more...
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Cite this score
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown™ scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15000/tom-clancy-s-rainbow-six-lockdownReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.