![]() Many good times were had playing this one online. It took the vast outdoor snipe-fests of Ghost Recon and brought the one-shot, one-kill tense gameplay into close indoor quarters. Speaking of Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six 3 followed a year later in the Fall of 2003 and became the biggest hit Xbox Live had seen yet – and the reason you renewed your annual Xbox Live Gold subscription. (Side note: November 2002 was a huge month for Tom Clancy video games, as Splinter Cell also released that same month for the original Xbox.) ![]() I remember jumping into the team-based matches and, thanks to everyone having a high-speed connection and a microphone, every game was filled with strangers eager to cooperate and share tactics. It was a pretty straight port of the PC’s popular tactical first-person shooter, but it played great on Xbox Live. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, though, was my favorite of the first wave of Xbox Live multiplayer games. It got your Xbox Live Gold subscription off to a good start. MechAssault was a day-one launch game for Xbox Live on November 15, 2002, and boy was it fun! It stripped the simulation bits out of MechWarrior and left it with the pure fast-action, and the result made for some really unique, frantic multiplayer. ![]() I will always associate my most positive memories of Xbox Live Gold with a small handful of games: MechAssault, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six 3, Links 2004, Halo 2, and 1 vs. Couple that with every Xbox Live kit being bundled with a chat headset and, very quickly, $50 per year for the service didn’t seem so bad. Xbox Live bet (wisely) on the future, allowing only high-speed connections into Xbox’s walled garden, thus ensuring a smooth experience for everyone. As a result, some players had a leg up thanks to their high-speed connection, and others were stuck on dial-up 56k modems. Eventually I had a high-speed Internet connection via a cable modem, but the transition didn’t happen at the same time for everyone. ![]()
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