Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold
Worth it · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49.
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- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 32 MB DirectX 8-compliant 3D video card with hardware T&L, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
February 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 82 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Arma 3 ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 ($4.99, scores 63).
This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 388 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/19830/tom-clancy-s-rainbow-six-3-goldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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