Sad day for the Gaming World!

[OzDragon]

R.I.P Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy brought us some of my favorite games as well! Rainbow Six was my first and fav!

Tom Clancy, bestselling thriller author, dies at age 66

Tom Clancy, who also lent his name to the Splinter Cell video game franchise, topped the bestseller list with 16 of his novels.

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66.

Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death.

Clancy arrived on bestseller lists in 1984 with The Hunt for Red October. He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.

A string of other bestsellers soon followed, including Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears and Without Remorse.

Clancy had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalogue. Several of his books were later made into movies, with the latest, based on desk-jockey CIA hero Jack Ryan, set for release later this year.

His 17th novel, Command Authority, is due out that same month from G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Born in Baltimore on April 12, 1947, to a mailman and his wife, Clancy entered Loyola College as a physics major, but switched to English as a sophomore, saying later that he wasn’t smart enough for the rigours of science.

Ironically, his novels carried stiff doses of scientific data and military detail.

After graduation in 1969, he married his wife Wanda and joined her family’s insurance business, all the while scribbling down ideas for a novel.

In 1979, Clancy began Patriot Games, in which he invented his hero, CIA agent Jack Ryan. In 1982, he put it aside and started The Hunt for Red October, basing it on a real incident in November 1979, in which a Soviet missile frigate called the Storozhevoy attempted to defect.

In real life, the ship didn’t make it, but in Clancy’s book, the defection is a success.

By a stroke of luck, U.S. president Ronald Reagan got Red October as a Christmas gift and quipped at a dinner that he was losing sleep because he couldn’t put the book down — a statement Clancy later said helped put him on the New York Times bestseller list.

It led to a string of hits, both on the page and in Hollywood blockbusters. He even ventured into video games with the bestselling Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent. The latest Splinter Cell installment, Blacklist, came out this past summer.

“He was a consummate author, creating the modern-day thriller, and was one of the most visionary storytellers of our time,” Penguin Group (USA)’s executive David Shanks said in a statement Wednesday.

Clancy continued to play off — and sometimes almost anticipate — world events, as in the pre-9-11 paranoid thriller Debt of Honor, in which a jumbo jet destroys the U.S. Capitol during a joint meeting of Congress.

The latest Jack Ryan movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Pine, is set for release in the U.S. on Christmas Day. Keira Knightley plays Jack Ryan’s wife and Kevin Costner plays his mentor at the CIA.

Clancy resided in rural Calvert County, Md., and in 1993 he joined a group of investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos who bought the Baltimore Orioles from businessman Eli Jacobs.

Clancy also attempted to bring a NFL team to Baltimore in 1993, but he later dropped out of the effort.

Tom Clancy will be missed in the gaming world as well as the novel and movie industry!

[Dani Oliver]

I was just rifling through my old CD's the other day and came across Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6. Damn... he was too young.

[Kevin Kennedy]

ouch... I enjoyed the challenge of his(you know what I mean) older games...

[OzDragon]

I still have most of his game dating back to Rainbow Six.. Found this List of games and I still have most of them.. Well at lest the ones for PC, Xbox, Xbox360 & PS3

Games

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  Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots
  
  2013 The newest addition to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series. Patriots looks to take the series in a more cinematic direction.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 4 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
  
  August 20, 2013 The latest installment in the Splinter Cell franchise. It is being handled by Ubisoft's new Toronto studio headed by Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
  
  May 22, 2012 Future Soldier is the latest in Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series of tactical shooters, taking place in the near future and utilizing technologies that, while not existing in the real world, have been utilized by videogames for decades.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 2 more

• 
  Splinter Cell Trilogy
  
  September 23, 2011 A HD collection of the first three Splinter Cell games. It is part of Sony's HD Collection series of games.
  
  • PS3
  • PS3N

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
  
  March 22, 2011 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is a turn based strategy game with strong role-playing elements. It is one of the western-developed launch titles for the Nintendo 3DS.
  
  • 3DS
  • 3DSE

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
  
  November 16, 2010 Two soldiers fight their way through the streets of a futuristic Northern Europe in this on rails, third person shooter from Ubisoft.
  
  • WII

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Predator
  
  November 16, 2010 Ghost Recon's first PSP-exclusive game.
  
  • PSP

• 
  Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2
  
  Q3 2010 Take to the skies in this Clancy-infused flight combat game.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
  
  April 2010 Splinter Cell: Conviction is the fifth installment in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell franchise. Sam Fisher breaks apart from the Third Echelon in order to find the people responsible for the death of his daughter, only to find that not everything is what it seems.
  
  • MAC
  • X360
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
  
  March 3, 2009 Tom Clancy's HAWX put the player in a variety of aircraft and their goal is to defend various countries from foreign attack
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's EndWar
  
  November 4, 2008 Tom Clancy's Endwar is a real time strategy game in which the three major superpowers of the world ignite and engage in World War III.
  
  • PSP
  • X360
  • + 4 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
  
  March 18, 2008 The sequel to Rainbow Six: Vegas returns with a brand new story of terrorist attacks and the Rainbow squad's attempt to stop them.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
  
  March 6, 2007 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 puts the player back into the action as a member of the Ghost squad as they try to stop prevent the Mexican Civil war from spilling over into the USA
  
  • PSP
  • X360
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
  
  November 20, 2006 A reboot of sorts for the Rainbow Six series, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas drops the player into a fictional version of Las Vegas to stop a terrorist plot.
  
  • PSP
  • X360
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
  
  October 17, 2006 One of two versions of Splinter Cell: Double Agent. While both generally follow the same story, the two have vital differences in gameplay and overall structure.
  
  • PS2
  • GC
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
  
  October 17, 2006 Splinter Cell: Double Agent puts a new spin on the series, placing Sam Fisher undercover in a terrorist group, where moral decisions affect gameplay.
  
  • X360
  • PS3
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Essentials
  
  March 21, 2006 Sam Fisher's first foray onto the PSP made by the same makers of the console versions.
  
  • PSP

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour
  
  March 13, 2006 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour is the fifth game in the Rainbow Six series. This entry is intended to take the series back to its tactical roots, which had been striped by the previous game to make the series appeal to the mass market.
  
  • XBOX

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
  
  March 9, 2006 The Ghost Recon team must enter Mexico City and prevent a coup d'état led by rebel Mexican forces.
  
  • PSP
  • PS2
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown
  
  September 6, 2005 "Your team stalks terror for a living. Now terror is stalking you. You've got cutting-edge weaponry and peerless military training. They've got a man-made virus, capable of killing millions. You have the world's best operatives. They have one of your men hostage. The chips are stacked."
  
  • PS2
  • GC
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow
  
  August 5, 2004 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow is the successful expansion to Rainbow Six 3. Multiplayer updates like "Retrieval" mode and split screen co-operative play help distinguish Black Arrow from its predecessors.
  
  • XBOX

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike
  
  August 2, 2005 The Ghosts are sent into Kazakhstan to capture Rahil. While in process of destroying any resistance. Part three of the Ghost Recon 2 "trilogy".
  
  • XBOX

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath
  
  June 9, 2005 Iron is the second expansion pack for the popular PC title Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
  
  March 23, 2005 The third outing for Sam Fisher finds him battling against terrorists who want to take control of the world using a simple algorithmic code.
  
  • PS2
  • GC
  • + 6 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 - 2007: First Contact
  
  November 16, 2004 Sequel to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon; part one of the Ghost Recon 2 "trilogy".
  
  • PS2
  • GC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 - 2011: Final Assault
  
  November 26, 2004 Part two of the Ghost Recon 2 trilogy. Takes place four years after the Gamecube/PS2 Ghost Recon 2.
  
  • XBOX

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
  
  March 17, 2004
  
  • PS2
  • NGE

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
  
  March 23, 2004 Ubisoft Shanghai brings the first sequel to the highly acclaimed videogame Splinter Cell, adding a brand new multiplayer component and new maneuvers such as the SWAT turn.
  
  • GBA
  • PS2
  • + 4 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword
  
  December 3, 2003 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword is an expansion pack for Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. It adds a new storyline of missions, alongside a multitude of new maps.
  
  • MAC
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Mission-Pack
  
  September 16, 2004 This package adds three extra-missions to the first original game in the series.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
  
  March 14, 2003 You are freedom's answer to fear. You stalk terror wherever it hides. These deeds you do so others may live. Hunt down terrorist cells worldwide from London to the Cayman Islands.
  
  • MAC
  • PS2
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
  
  November 17, 2002 First entry in the Splinter Cell series. You are Sam Fisher, a highly-trained covert operative working for a division of the NSA known as Third Echelon. As Sam, you must infiltrate heavily guarded areas in order to combat the threat of terrorism.
  
  • GBA
  • MAC
  • + 6 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
  
  September 25, 2002 Deep in the heart of Cuba, The Ghosts battle a new enemy.
  
  • XBOX
  • PC

• 
  The Sum of All Fears
  
  December 2003 Tactical military shooter based on the film of the same title, which is based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
  
  • GBA
  • PS2
  • + 2 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege
  
  March 27, 2002 The Ghost are sent back into action to spearhead a land invasion of Eritrea.
  
  • MAC
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
  
  November 13, 2001 They are the tip of the spear. They strike... swiftly, silently, and invisibly. They call themselves... "The Ghosts."
  
  • MAC
  • PS2
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear - Black Thorn
  
  November 1, 2001 Terror has a new target...You.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down: Missions in Korea
  
  June 20, 2001 A Tom Clancy game that takes place in South Korea. RAINBOW is tasked with getting rid of terrorists in the area.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials
  
  September 28, 2000 Learn how to bring real-life special forces tactics to your RAINBOW SIX missions.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Mission Pack - Urban Operations
  
  2001 It's up to your reflexes, wits, nerves and training versus a barrage of cold-blooded, well armed terrorists...on their turf.
  
  • PC

• 
  Shadow Watch
  
  April 13, 2000Turn-based squad tactics with a hint of board games and a comic-book style.
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
  
  2001 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear is a tactical first-person shooter computer game developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft. It is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Rainbow Six game based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name.
  
  • GBA
  • MAC
  • + 3 more

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch
  
  1998
  
  • MAC
  • DC
  • + 2 more

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  Tom Clancy's Ruthless.com
  
  November 30, 1999 Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is a business simulation game released on November 30, 1998. It's Red Storm Entertainment 2nd Game After Tom Clancy's Politika
  
  • PC

• 
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
  
  1998 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six puts the player in charge of an elite international team of counter terrorist operatives in a title that emphasizes planning, stealth, and tactics.
  
  • MAC
  • PS1
  • + 4 more

[Dani Oliver]

Wow... seeing them all like this really puts it into perspective. Amazing. Thanks for sharing this Oz.

[OzDragon]

There was still more I only went back as far as I had! I started at Rainbow Six! he was a great man he influenced the gaming world in a way that is unrivaled IMO.