Rainbow Six Lone Wolf - PlayStation 1 - PS1

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf for PlayStation 1

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf for PlayStation 1 sends Ding Chavez alone to Norway to investigate an arms-smuggling case. The tactical first-person shooter begins with a message from a convicted terrorist. You read the briefing and additional intelligence, choose weapons and study the map before selecting an insertion point. Since you operate without teammates, you must check every route yourself. A different entrance can change a confrontation and gives you another starting position when searching for your objective.

During a mission, you follow the current on-screen objective and monitor ammunition and health. You can walk, run and crouch, and your movement affects accuracy. Standing still briefly makes the crosshair shrink; crouching helps you aim carefully sooner. Equipment selection includes a primary weapon, a second weapon and two slots for additional items. A silenced pistol and grenades therefore offer different ways to respond to a threat.

This is a separate single-player game, without team selection or split-screen. You enable night vision through the pause menu when needed. After completing a mission, you can choose Save Game in the debriefing to store your progress on a PlayStation memory card. This requires one free block. Saving after an assignment should not be confused with automatically resuming in the middle of a failed infiltration.

Region and language

Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.

Manual

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.

The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.

The history of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf appeared in 2002 as a separate Rainbow Six game for the original PlayStation. Rebellion developed this release, having previously brought the first Rainbow Six to the same console. Ubisoft was the publisher. The subtitle refers to sending Ding Chavez into the field without other operatives. The game therefore built on the series' intelligence and equipment screens, but omitted assembling and controlling a team.

The story centres on an operation in Norway involving illegal arms trafficking into Russia. The original manual again gives John Clark and the intelligence sources central roles in briefings. Its credits name Alex Moore as designer and lead artist, and Morgan Parry as lead programmer. This documentation establishes it as its own Rebellion production, rather than a new name for the PlayStation release of Rogue Spear, which was developed by Saffire.

Its release period is also notable: PlayStation 2 was already on the market while the older console still received new releases. Within that catalogue, Lone Wolf chose a self-contained campaign centred on one character. The focus remained gathering intelligence, choosing an entrance and shooting cautiously. Its separate storyline and solo role make it a different step in Rainbow Six's early console years from the larger team operations and local matches of the preceding Rogue Spear.

Similar games for PlayStation 1

The first Rainbow Six shares briefing, equipment selection and the importance of a good insertion point with Lone Wolf. However, you select a group of operatives and can switch between them during an assignment. Lone Wolf lets you control only Ding Chavez. Both are single-player games on PlayStation 1, but in the first game a poor decision also affects the available personnel for later operations, not just your current infiltration.

Like Lone Wolf, Rogue Spear combines planning with carrying out an operation through an operative's eyes. There, you assemble a team and can also compete with two players on a split screen. Lone Wolf has neither team selection nor a local opponent, following Ding Chavez alone. If you mainly want to read intelligence and then determine a route yourself, the family resemblance remains recognisable despite that smaller deployment.

Metal Gear Solid shares solo infiltration and careful handling of sightlines with Lone Wolf. Solid Snake is usually followed by an external camera and obtains new weapons and equipment along the way. Lone Wolf shows action through Chavez's eyes and lets you choose equipment beforehand. Both ask you to read a location before acting, but Metal Gear Solid interweaves those actions more closely with extended conversations and individual major adversaries.

Like Lone Wolf, Syphon Filter follows an operative fighting terrorists who must use his weapons deliberately. You see Gabe Logan externally and use movements such as rolling and climbing to determine his route. Lone Wolf keeps you in first person and begins each operation with intelligence, equipment and a map. Both mix caution with firefights, but organise preparation and your view of the surroundings differently.

Disruptor shares the first-person perspective and separate assignments with Lone Wolf. Alongside firearms, the science-fiction shooter gives you psionic powers against alien and mutated enemies. Lone Wolf stays with military equipment and a counterterrorist operation in Norway. In both games, you watch your health and available resources, but preparation through intelligence sources and a chosen insertion point occupies a much more prominent place in Lone Wolf than in Disruptor.