Up until now, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six games have been noticeably absent from the App Store. Honestly, that's a little surprising since the franchise has had games made for just about every platform. Now, however, Gameloft (which has a well-deserved reputation for quality shooters) has released Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard for the iPhone. Like a lot of Gameloft titles, the game offers a pretty solid play experience… though it does contain a few issues that detract from the overall.
Few companies have been able to pull off multiplayer gameplay on the iPhone as well as Gameloft. Few companies are also as perfectly poised to get involved in Tom Clancy's popular Ubisoft squad shooter series as Gameloft (both Ubi and Gameloft are owned by the Guillemot brothers). When you look at all the pieces, it just makes sense: Gameloft is the only developer who could make Rainbow Six on the iPhone work.