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Operation Black Ice, the inaugural season of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, was released on 2 February 2016. The Operation introduced a new map, a frozen yacht in Canada. It also introduced two Canadian Operators from the "Special Operations Force" Joint Task Force 2, Frost and Buck.
A Starter Edition was released on PC in June 2016, featuring all content offered in the Standard Edition, and included two operators at start for use plus enough Rainbow 6 Credits to purchase up to two more of the player's choice while the rest has to be purchased through either Renown at an increased cost or additional Rainbow 6 Credits.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six follows a secret international counterterrorist organization called "Rainbow" (or "Team Rainbow"; capitalization varies between "Rainbow" and "RAINBOW"). The series is set in the canon Tom Clancy's universe, which is mostly shared with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon .
A spin-off of Rainbow Six Siege (2015), Extraction is a cooperative multiplayer game in which players must work together to combat and defeat a type of parasite-like aliens called the Archæans. The game was released for PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Google Stadia , Windows , Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on January 20, 2022.
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Two spin-off games—Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf, a PlayStation exclusive; and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea, using Rogue Spear's engine—were released in 2002 and 2003 respectively. A sequel, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, was released in 2003.
Rainbow Six was a finalist for Computer Gaming World ' s 1998 "Best Action" award, which ultimately went to Battlezone. The editors wrote that Rainbow Six "deftly mixed strategic planning with nail-biting action as it brought the world of counterterrorist operations to life." [84] PC Gamer US named Rainbow Six the best action game of 1998. [85]
Rainbow Six Vegas changes the series with multiple new features, such as a new health system where the player regenerates health while not taking fire (the player may sometimes be killed instantly, without a chance to regenerate health; this usually happens from grenades, as well as taking close-range fire from very powerful weapons like shotguns, particularly to the head).