Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
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Product Summary
Brand: UBI SoftAudio: English (Unknown)
Release Date: 2006-11-22
Platform: Xbox 360
Model: 15783421
Publisher: UBI Soft
Product features:
- Play as a new leader with a new team - Tactics play a MAJOR role in your team's success, as each member comes equipped with his own skill set -- recon, heavy weapons, demolition, long range attack and electronics
- Experience a new level of squad-based realism, as your teammates offer real-time tactical suggestions like busting through walls or hacking computers
- Use tactical planning to maneuver through multiple mission paths, with high-tech equipment, like snake cams that tag terrorist targets to your teammates, prior to entering a room
- Real-Time immersion - Real-time mission briefings, all in the midst of the most intense combat ever played
- Motion-captured assault and recon techniques, for realistic gameplay animation - Fast roping, rappelling, window entry, blind-cover fire, and more
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Prima Official Game Guide)
- Official Xbox Magazine [with DVD] (1-year)
- Play
Video Game Reviews of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Customer Review: A review for 2009 point of view on this game
Summary: 3 Stars
I just recently purchased the original Rainbow Six Vegas, 3 years after it's initial release, and seeing how most of the top reviews are from '06-'07, I figured it would be a nice change of pace to give this a review from today's point of view.
The price Amazon is currently charging for this game is a knockout steal; much lower than MSRP. At the current pricing, about $9 lower than MSRP, if you're thinking of buying the game, just do it. If your only criteria to owning the game is that it needs a lower price, just get it. If you think it's a game you'll enjoy, at this price it's definitely worth it.
The graphics, compared to games today, look dated. Character models lack detail seen in today's games, but for a game released in '06, this would have looked awesome. Some of the flight sequences while arriving at your destination are amazing. Unfortunately when you're actually on the ground things don't look anywhere near as good. But again, be a little more lenient in your graphical requirements and you should be able to enjoy this game despite the "dated" graphics.
Sound work is very good as well. I'm playing with surround sound and you hear people walking behind you and gun fire sounds as realistic as you game released today. There is some music there, but it's in the background. It never really gets obnoxious or in your face. The only sound effects I find annoying are the one armed bandits in the casinos are always making noise and that, I suppose, is authentic Vegas.
Gameplay is typical first person shooter with a Gears of War style "hide behind an object and blind fire" mechanic. Blind fire in RS: Vegas, however, is aptly named as actually pulling a shot off and killing an enemy in this way is difficult. This mechanic, of course, doesn't seem to be "blind" fire for the computer, as it seems even on the normal difficulty setting enemies can be DEADLY accurate with blind fire, sometimes frustratingly so.
Multiplayer isn't bad either. There are a ton of options available, which includes Co-Op via Live (co-op can be done local split screen as well). My only gripe with playing the co-op story mode is that it lacks the story. You can play through the levels together, but when you would normally be receiving information in the chopper or wherever, there is a prolonged silence. Take the first flight sequence in the helicopter. You have someone in the passenger seat, briefing you on what is going on and what you are getting into. In co-op multiplayer you sit in the chopper with... nothing. The other gripe with co-op multiplayer is if everyone in the party dies, you start at the beginning of the mission. In the beginning this isn't so bad as the missions aren't TOO difficult, but later in the game this can be an exercise in frustration given how the end sections of a mission ratchet up the amount of enemies coming after you.
One big complaint I have is enemy pop up. I will play on-line with my father in co-op, we will completely clear a room and move on... only to occasionally have enemies pop up in the rooms we just cleared, killing us from behind. I've actually witnessed enemies popping into existence. I would prefer a set amount of enemies on a map in standard locations, however Ubisoft opted for random appearance and MOSTLY random location of enemies.
Overall I think that this game for $20, for those who aren't too graphic obsessed with games and enjoy first person shooters, is a decent choice. It wouldn't be my first choice in aging first person shooters (I may give that honor to GRAW 2 instead), but it is a solid choice.
Description of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six: Vegas presents a new team of Rainbow Warriors, as they take to the streets of America. The streets of Las Vegas are chaotic, an escalating terrorist siege in "Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Freemont Street, The Strip, and Casinos. Experience Las Vegas like never before through revolutionary next-generation technology as you work against the clock to keep one of the world's most recognizable cities from utter devastation. Next-generation AI - Encounter deadlier, more skilled enemies who work together as a group to counter every move you make Customize your multiplayer experience - Your character evolves as you play online, unlocking new equipment and achievements as you goAll Games
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