
It is clear that these terrorists are getting help from a higher power when terrorists hijack an airplane, the man behind the terrorist attacks is identified as Samed Vezirzade, a rich and powerful leader of the Oil Mafia in Azerbaijan who hates the west and helps other terrorists in their attacks against it by supplying them with weapons.Īfter Rainbow rescues the plane hostages, an anonymous Russian informant gives them the location of Vezirzade's dacha. The counterterrorism organization, Rainbow, prevents several terrorist attacks, including Egyptian terrorists taking hostages at a museum in New York, Japanese terrorists threatening to blow up a tanker to cause an oil slick that would destroy Japan's power grid, and terrorists threatening to release a toxin into Oman's local water supply.


Terrorism in the region is commonplace as people fight a seemingly endless stream of battles for supplies and other necessities. Rogue Spear focuses on realism, planning, strategy, and teamwork.įollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the economic situation in Russia and the former Eastern Europe falls into chaos. The game pits the counter-terrorist unit, RAINBOW, against global terrorist organizations that in some cases have taken hostages or have armed themselves with weapons of mass destruction.

Rogue Spear is based on the same game engine and features gameplay and presentation similar to that of the original Rainbow Six.
