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Best game I have played since Far Cry.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This isn't in the vein of some of the previous Rainbow Six offerings in the sense that it eliminates some of the tactical elements - though anything would be an improvement over Rainbow Six Lockdown. However, that aside this is a terrific experience. This has quickly become the staple game for our LAN parties and is really the best thing that I have played since Far Cry. I picked this up in the bargain bin thinking that it would have little chance of running on my 3 year old 2.8Ghz pentium. I was wrong. It works with all of the graphics options up full, and with patch 1.5 I can play it with full widescreen support as well. The single player campaign rocks, it runs perfectly fine on Vista, and the multiplayer with its 600MB map pack makes for days of Lan gaming on either Co-op, Terrorist hunt or any of its new game types added in patch 1.5. A must buy for PC shooter fans.

Best Since Raven Shield

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many of you won't believe it, but this is the best Rainbow Six in the series. I was totally disappointed by Lockdown, and had similar expectations for Vegas. But I was mistaken. In Vegas they've simplified the game and also added new gameplay features that ratchet up the excitement. Instead of peaking around corners with Q or E, you can now 'take cover' by hitting the right mouse button. This switches to a 3rd-person view of yourself against a wall or under a barrier, while still allowing you to aim. When ready to fire you move in the direction needed and your 3rd person self ducks out to shoot. It's hard to describe, but it's fantastic. You can also set up your scope, take cover, and pop-up into scope view to take a shot. The graphics are fantastic, especially on your character, Logan, and you can understand the requirement for Shader 3.

I'm giving this 5 stars instead of 4 since it is so much better than Lockdown and deserves a look from anyone who had fun in the past playing Rainbow Six.

My only complaints would be that on the PC it doesn't seem possible to have more than one profile (my son and I take turns making progress). Switching 'Q' from "peek out" in previous versions to "throw grenade" is a great convenience, but I was a little surprised when I went to take a peek around a corner and instead dropped a grenade on myself and my guys!

All in all, I've found this game a lot of fun, better than GRAW 1. (I haven't tried GRAW 2 yet).

Bang for buck

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, voice, storyline, and fun.
4 months later, I still play it from time to time and it's still fun.

Move'em out! Time to shoot them bad boys in Vegas!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

=== The Good Stuff ===

+ Take cover and shoot gameplay: Much like Gears of War, you take cover and take down your enemies in bursts. Makes it feel like Time Crisis, except, you get to choose where to take cover.

+ Easy management: Managing your teammates is very simple in this game. Everything is managed real time in a very very simple manner - where as the older Rainbow Six series, you used to have to plan the whole tactic beforehand.

+ Lots of weapons: A pretty good amount of weapons to choose from to take down those mean old Vegas punks.

=== The Bad Stuff ===

- Voice are corny: The voice actors and actresses could use improvement in this game. There were some good moments, but for majority of the moments, you'll be like: "uhh... did he really needed to say that?"

- Short game: The ending is a cliffhanger. Blowing through this game isn't very difficult - unless you play the hardest difficulty.

=== The Final Words ===

This is definitely one for the full on action shooter fans out there. This game will entertain ya!

TO BE CONTINUED

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

No Ending. Thanks Ubisoft. To Be Continued. Weak! The graphics are great and the weapons are fun. The AI is weak and your team says the same things over and over again. Annoying. The levels are straight forward and bland. Dantes Inferno is the worst level and they saved it for the end of the Vegas levels. This game could have been 5 stars with better AI, a lot more sayings from team mates, more civilians running away and maybe some good one liners, and an ENDING! TO BE CONTINUED ... what a rip.

A great game, but overall lacks something.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a great tactical Shooter, you have found it. The use of the squad has much improved from any Rainbow Six game previous. The enemy AI has also improved dramatically from the last R6 game. Also if you really wany a challenge, take up the hardest difficulty in the single player campagin. It stretched my skills to the max. Overall this game is amazing. If you like shooters, you will enjoy this game.

good game - does have some cons

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow Six Vegas is no doubt a good game. It is very well put together - good levels, good tactics, good overall design. The following are lists of the pros and cons:

Pros
1.)Tactics
2.)Level design
3.)Missions
4.)Story
5.)The views from the tops of buildings down onto the city of Las Vegas are very nice, and include accurate models of landmarks.
6.)Equipment/gun assortment

Cons
1.)You can't jump. This takes away a major part of realism.
2.)By defult, you are "running". Well, that is a walk speed, and the walk speed is so slow, that you might as well not even have the control.
3.)Even though there are generally two routes or more to take to get to an objective, I personally still felt like I was on a strictly set path. This takes away the exploration freedom that you get in a game like Crysis or even a little in Call of Duty 4. The "set path" feeling really ticked me off because I wanted to go explore Vegas after seeing all of those beautiful views!

Even though those things were taken away, I still had quite a bit of fun playing Rainbow Six Vegas. I would recommend it to the gamer who likes tactical missions and leading squads, but if you like to wander around the maps, explore, and you like to feel total realism such as jumping and running, this is not the game for you.

Waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A reviewer pointed out that this game was designed for console gaming and does not meet the usual complexity of games intended for the PC. I fully agree with that. Different than the older R6 games such as Rogue Spear, etc, you don't plan out your course anymore. You basically just shoot your way through, even stealth mean little in this game. The addition of the cover system completely defeats the need for stealth. You can run into a bunch of enemy, back up behind cover safely and just peek and shoot. The Halo like health system also made the game much easier. No longer will you be gimped for the rest of the level if you take a few hits. And you can take a lot more hits and recover fully again. So this completely destroys the R6 feel. And why not, R6 Vegas was not even created by the same people that did the previous R6 series.

So as said above, compared to previous R6 games, Vegas has completely lost the element of stealth, strategy, and difficulty. This does not mean it has more action, no. The game plays at an amazingly slow pace. For one you cannot even sprint or prone. You can walk, run or crouch you way through the game. Throwing away what made R6 series awesome, the new developers decided to retain one lame thing about R6 and made it 10 times worse. While the health system makes it so you can fully recover from anything, you still can't be out cover for long. That does not mean stealth is important. The enemies can know you are there, and most time they will just shoot at your direction. And here's when that annoying thing come in - if you go out of cover for too long, say, 3 seconds, you are gonna get killed - that's the only thing that feels like an R6 game... What this means is that you have to be behind cover constantly, at every turn and every corner, you will want to use the Cover action to stick your back against a wall or a crate or something. This makes the already slow-paced gameplay even slower. It pins players down to the same routine over and over: Run; Cover; Peek; Shoot; Reload...Repeat as need.

The game does offer different locations, but the above described cover system absolutely ruins any scenery differences the levels have. For the most part you will find your character facing toward you. You will stare at him in the face, and then the wall/crate/whatever behind him, and then a tiny part of the screen is devoted to whatever else that is going on. For the times when you actually do get to see the different settings, it is not at all great. For one the graphics suck. Vegas takes about 40 seconds on my computer to just start up - just going into the main menu screen, which I do not understand why. COD4 takes less than 1 second. There are further loading times after you select single player missions or multiplayer. And for all that loading, the game does not look impressive...at all. You can tell they tried to add a lot of colors, lightning effects and such. But the whole thing just doesn't look real. Your characters look like they are drawn by crayons, or watercolor painting or whatever. They just look washed out. Not tunning the graphics settings to the highest level can Vegas come even close to reaching the Photo-realism that COD4 can do by just having a medium video setting.

Of course, the two games run on very different graphic engines, but that doesn't give Vegas an excuse to suck so much on so many levels. It does not only lack action. It lacks difficulty, lack strategy, lacks stealth, and loses all of the Rainbow Six feel that its predessors have. The game takes about 10 hours to finish. But after a while you wonder why you are still playing it, and you realize that the only reason you wanted to beat it was because you paid 20 bucks for it. Face it, there wasn't a real story at all. The characters had no personality, and the voice acting sucked as well. You don't really learn anything about the character you control. COD4's 4 hour of the single player campaign told more about Soap and Cpt. Price, Gaz and Jackson, and delivers a whole lot of wows and woes than Vegas ever could dream of.

Now, the single player mode, as said, sucks. Unfortunately, the multiplayer part does not redeem itself either. The graphics look even worse online, and the whole system is not well designed. The cover system makes the servers plagued with campers, and with the developers trying to make this game as inaction oriented as possible, you just don't get the kind of gun fight fun you get in other games.

Seriously, the people who praised this game do not know what they are talking about. The only reason I took time to write this is because I don't want any more innocent people waste money on this game. It maybe a mediocre game on a console with its peek-a-shoot formula, but its shallowness and simplicity and lack of any narrative content whatsoever makes Vegas the worst PC game 2007 has seen. Rainbow Six: Vegas does not live to half the expectations that one would have for what used be a great and unique series on the PC. Now it's just a pile of cow poop.

Terrible graphics and performance

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was kind of stunned when I first started playing the game. Everything looked dull and flat. FEAR and GRAW look 10X better and a lot smoother.
I was getting very low framerates with my 8800GTX, Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.2Ghz and 2 Gb of RAM.
Graphics are nasty along with performance. Poor coding I guess.

This game will be AWESOME!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

depise the fact that this game has been delayed again trust me guys it was a smart move cuz if it came out on may 22nd. Who knows if it will be good or bad and since it got delayed again and im sure they are working on it to make it really great so the reviewers can say this is a great game and not give it a lame score like on those previous titles. I am very patient. This game will rule when it comes to stores on june 13th!!! Can't Wait!!!!

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