History Trivia / RainbowSix

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: With its mysterious removal from the App Store and Google Play, it is no longer possible to obtain Shadow Vanguard.

** The South Korean-made game ''Take-Down - Missions in Korea''. It was suppose to get a worldwide release, but it never happened.

* NamesTheSame: One of the major team members is (Eddie) Price, who is characterized as TheLancer in the novel. Like [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare another, later well-known Price]], he's an ex-SAS operative, now transferred to a multinational anti-terrorist team, with a magnificent mustache (the only member of his team to have one), a penchant for {{smoking|IsCool}} (pipes in this Price's case, versus the latter's preference for cigars) which very few of his teammates share, and almost the exact same voice and accent.

* NoExportForYou: The South Korean-made game ''Take-Down - Missions in Korea''. It was suppose to get a worldwide release, but it never happened.

** Before ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege Siege]]'', there was the unreleased ''Patriots'' with the basic premise being domestic terrorism, making split second decisions on whether that woman in civvies and wielding a gun is a threat or not, and having to make the call on whether a hostage with bombs strapped to him should be shot or risk terrorists using him as a suicide bomber. It even got a special weapon paint scheme in ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' and another trailer showcasing Rainbow being trained in South Korea's head-first fast roping (virtually running down the side of a building) before the game disappeared completely.

** Between the two ''Vegas'' games, every voice actor except Jung Park's (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) was replaced.[[note]]Denis Akiyama, the voice of Kan Akahashi in the first ''Vegas'', is credited for the same character in ''Vegas 2'', despite the character not having any speaking role in the game.[[/note]] Particularly notable in that a lot of the characters in ''Vegas 1'' had distinctive accents that, except for Michael Walter (from Isaac Singleton to Kwasi Songui), the replacement actors [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent did not bother to replicate]].

** Between the two ''Vegas'' games, every voice actor except Jung Park's (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) was replaced.[[note]]Denis Akiyama, the voice of Kan Akahashi in the first ''Vegas'', is credited for the same character in ''Vegas 2'' despite the character not having a speaking role or even any sort of appearance other than a brief namedrop at a point chronologically after he died in the previous game.[[/note]] Particularly notable in that a lot of the characters in ''Vegas 1'' had distinctive accents that, except for Michael Walter (from Isaac Singleton to Kwasi Songui), the replacement actors [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent did not bother to replicate]].
* NamesTheSame: One of the major team members is (Eddie) Price, who is characterized as TheLancer in the novel. Like [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare another, later well-known Price]], he's an ex-SAS operative, now transferred to a multinational anti-terrorist team, with a magnificent mustache (the only member of his team to have one), a penchant for {{smoking|IsCool}} (pipes in this Price's case, versus the later's preference for cigars) which very few of his teammates share, and almost the exact same voice and accent.

* TroubledProduction: The original went through this, mostly due to Red Storm's inexperience with game development[[note]]It was only their second official game - their first being a SoOkayItsAverage Clancy-inspired [=RTS=] game called Politika[[/note]]. This [[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-04-the-agony-and-ecstasy-behind-the-first-rainbow-six retrospective/interview describes the process in pretty vivid detail]].

** The first game in the franchise began life as a tactical shooter based on the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. It was changed to an adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel to give it more appeal to international audiences. Amusingly, the devs later got to basically make the game they originally envisioned; the LicensedGame to ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' puts you in the shoes of the HRT and plays very similarly to ''Rainbow Six''.
** Before ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege Siege]]'', there was the unreleased ''Patriots'' with the basic premise being domestic terrorism, making split second decisions on whether that woman in civvies and wielding a gun is a threat or not, and having to make the call on whether a hostage with bombs strapped to him should be shot or risk terrorists using him as a suicide bomber. It even got a special weapon paint scheme in ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' and showcased Rainbow being trained in South Korea's head first fast roping, virtually running down the side of a building, before the game disappeared completely.