Plot In 1945, two
Ustaše members escape the
Independent State of Croatia with
Holocaust loot, leaving documents relating to it in a Croatian bank. Sixty years later, in 2005, a group of assailants enter the bank overnight, kill its occupants, and destroy the documents. Meanwhile, Rainbow, led by
John Clark and advised by Kevin Sweeney, responds to a series of
neo-fascist terrorist attacks targeting South American oil interests and European financial institutions. They are soon deployed to intervene in shootouts in the
Cayman Islands between
drug smugglers and the
Cayman Islands Police Force, including one at the mansion of Croatian billionaire Nikola Gospić, who claims the smugglers broke in. Rainbow's suspicions arise after a series of raids and terrorist attacks on locations across South America connected to Gospić and the smugglers, including an unusually violent attack on a
meat-packing facility in
Argentina which Gospić owns a minority stake in, and a raid on an import-export company in
Brazil storing
chemical weapons components. Rainbow finds a link between Gospić and
far-right Argentine presidential candidate Alvaro Gutierrez, who is himself tied to an earlier attack on a
Swiss bank. After killing a British
Neo-Nazi with ties to Gospić and Gutierrez during a hostage situation, and stopping the contamination of meat at the meat-packing facility with
VX, Rainbow deduces Gospić is stockpiling chemical weapons and raids the meat-packing facility and his mansion. Rainbow learns that Gospić is an escaped Ustaše official, one of the two men in the opening cutscene. Dying of
liver cancer, Gospić intends to use his vast wealth to resurrect global
fascism before he dies: by buying South American oil fields and killing swaths of people across the continent, he would spark an economic crisis, then use his oil profits to raise an international fascist movement and form
Greater Croatia under fascist rule. To bring about the crisis, he plans to attack
Festa Junina celebrations in
Rio de Janeiro with
blister gas. Rainbow assaults a garage where Gospić is preparing a
parade float filled with blister gas, killing Gospić and preventing the attack. Gutierrez is promptly arrested, and he admits everything to Clark in interrogation.
Expansions Athena Sword Athena Sword is the first expansion for the PC version of
Raven Shield.
Athena Sword builds upon the original by adding eight new missions, five new
multiplayer maps, three new multiplayer game modes, and seven new weapons.
Athena Sword was developed by
Ubisoft Milan and released on March 9, 2004. A Mac port was released on November 23, 2004.
Athena Sword was packaged with the original game as ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition'' in 2004.
Plot In 2007, a few months after defeating Gospić and imprisoning Gutierrez, Rainbow responds to a series of consecutive terrorist attacks in
Italy. Rainbow learns they possess chemical weapons and that they are followers of Gutierrez; when questioned, Gutierrez promises a "surprise", suggesting his complicity. Rainbow finds an informant in arms dealer Giovanni Bagattini, and rescues him from several attempts on his life. The terrorists raid a warehouse where the
Polizia di Stato have stored their confiscated chemical gas; Rainbow repels them, but finds the terrorists have stolen a barrel, which they intend to use for Gutierrez's "surprise". Rainbow tracks the terrorists to
Athens,
Greece, and prevents them from releasing the gas in an
agora. In the aftermath, Gutierrez is delivered a newspaper reporting the terrorists' defeat; two days later, he hangs himself in his cell.
Iron Wrath Iron Wrath is the second expansion for the PC version of
Raven Shield. It was in production for almost 2 years before
Ubisoft decided to release it as a free download for
FilePlanet subscribers on June 9, 2005. Developed by
Ubisoft Casablanca, this expansion features a 7-mission campaign in which Rainbow neutralizes a terrorist nuclear bomb threat, 3 classic missions, 8 new multiplayer maps, 6 new weapons, and 5 new multiplayer game modes. In October 2008, the CD-key activation server was taken offline, suspending the multiplayer features of
Iron Wrath. This free expansion remains available on the web site
ModDB.
Gold Edition and Complete Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition and
Rainbow Six 3: Complete are compilation sets that both consist of
Raven Shield and
Athena Sword, with
Complete also including
Iron Wrath.
Development ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield'' was developed for Microsoft Windows from around November, 2000 (according to the game's credit screen), to February, 13, 2003, which it was finished as the development neared completion, and through a collaboration between Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment, including Ubisoft's other studio, Montreal and Milan, after their acquisition in August, 30, 2000. The development team consisted around 50 people, who built the game in the latest
Unreal Engine. Tom Clancy had
veto power with every project that bore his name including
Rainbow Six and would demand changes through an intermediary if he found it necessary. ==Console versions==