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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.

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.

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.

Let's fire Las Vegas up!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, great story line, lots and lots of action, great combat system, and actually your teammates are not that stupid!
The game it's great, it gives you a lot of options to approach your missions, from stealth to rock and roll.
Certainly awaiting the second release

Simply awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I notice not to many favorable reviews of this game, which I find rather odd. I am a fan of the Rainbow Six series, but I appreciate the fact that this game is a bit simplified (read: less tedious) from those previous versions.

I like the fact that you can outfit yourself with what you need/prefer, and the fact that your squad mates are actually pretty darned good. In the Vegas area, you have two with you mos to the time, one with a standard assault rifle/sub-machine gun combo, and the other with a light machine gun/sub combo. Both guys are equipped with smoke, flash, and frag grenades, as well as breaching charges.

As far as the graphics... awesome. Possibly the poor reviews for the graphics of this game are people with no DX9 support, or lower end systems, but the graphics in this game are top notch. You will need something fairly serious to run the game, but mine runs just fine on an AMD 3800X2 w/1GB DDR2 and a mid level 8600GT graphics card. The higher the better, as I can't turn everything on full without some frame rate droppage. If you plan on playing this online, and not getting owned, you'd need something faster than what I have.

Gameplay: straight forward, which I appreciate. I found at times on previous versions, the mission planning sessions to be a bit long in the tooth, especially when I just wanted to 'get to it already'. With this, you can. Your guys use cover wisely, and you can stage them at entry points to help you flank the enemy. The weapons sound FANTASTIC. Turn up the volume and let it rip... some of the most satisfying sounds in any tactical shooter I have heard. This includes reloading, and the way guns sound and operate with a suppressor on. Much quieter, but also much less damage and range. Guys with body armor are noticeably harder to take down, and the terrorist on the 'realistic' setting are very tough.

You'll need to plan your entry points, where your guys will need to be to cover you, and vice versa. As someone else mentioned, you will die, a lot. If you plan well, you won't. Use your squad mates effectively, learn to count on them, and you'll do fine. Don't assume the terrorist will miss, because while they might miss once, they won't miss the second time.

Things that would be nice: A mission editor. That is really the only thing I can find missing...

Conclusion: This game is very immersive. Fans of tactical shooters in general should be happy with this one. If you're looking to plan for 30 minutes before just making it happen, if you like the micro-management of the previous Rainbow Six series, you may not like this. But if you want a challenging environment, with great graphics and even better audio (seriously, it's SICK), I'd go for this one, hands down.

Best Game Played, Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know, I cannot believe some of the bad reviews I read for this game. Sure, the game will be slow if you don't have the right system requirements. If you do have the right system requirements, the game is unbelievably fascinating. I'm not much of a gamer in the sense that I don't buy a playstation or stuff for playing games. I just play it on PC. Look at the recommended system requirements and buy the game based on that, I'm sure you will be more than impressed.

Usually, I do not like shooting games. But, Rainbow was an exception to that. I am a huge Rainbow fan and pretty much have all Rainbow Six games. I tell you, this game has reached a new level. With every new Rainbow game, the graphics has undergone major improvement.

"Major" would be an underestimated word to describe the graphics and technology improvements in Rainbow Six Vegas. I seriously cannot believe the graphics in this game. I'm totally amazed at what can be accomplished these days in the computer visual designs. This game has everything to keep it going. The music is exhilirating and suits the action perfectly. You feel as though you're actually in those places as you're going through. This kind of experience was never there in the previous Rainbow games. At least not to the extent I'm talking about...Well, you just gotta play it to understand what I'm saying. This game is just terrific.

The new characters were a good idea at this point. The story is also EXCELLENT. However, I do hope that they keep the four or five new characters they have introduced for the next several rainbow games. Any new and immediate changes would be a bad idea. Just like they left the characters pretty much unchanged in the first few games, they should do so with the next few games and wait for the right moment to change characters.

I can keep going on and on about this game...the point is that you cannot give a bad review for a game, just because it didn't work in your PC. I have a 512 video card (shared memory is not good at all, get a real video card like Nvidia or ATI Radeon). The game worked perfectly. There was some slowing down in a few scenes. But, no major issues. By the way, the game cover says "Windows XP Only." That's not true. It's Windows XP and higher. I do have Vista and the game works perfectly in it.

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.

Amazon drops the ball.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, I never received the correct item that I requested. Who ever the shipper was, they must not have been able to read--since they sent the wrong item TWICE. I would rate both Amazon and the shipper in a very negative light. After the second incorrect mailing, Amazon said that they would just refund me. What a total waste of time. Hopefully they will not use the same company that "filled" my order.

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!

Great graphics, but too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been a diehard R6 player since the very first release of Rainbow Six, so I've seen it develop from a very rigid FPS to something of an atrocity/Xbox 360 reject.

First, Vegas's single player storyline is way too short. Second, the gameplay isn't very realistic nor is it tactical. The game kept crashing to the desktop whenever I used the snake cam. I ended up just storming through doors to keep the game running. The weapon choices were interesting but they left out the basic M4/M16 rifle. The light machine guns and sniper rifles were quite useless. The entire story-mode revolves around CQB to medium range engagements. I just equipped myself with a 552 + ACOG and a M9 + reflex sight and that was pretty much all I needed.

What's the deal with having only 2 R6 operatives as backup throughout the entire story?

The game play interface is also very clunky and unintuitive. It seems designed/catered towards console gamers with the unrealistic "cover" mode. There's also no prone mode, rolling, or sprint feature.

They have incorrectly modeled some of the weapons, yet again. I would expect nothing short of tactical perfection out of anything carrying Tom Clancy's name, however Rainbow Six 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas have incorrectly modeled the FN P90. In Vegas, they modeled it so at least the player in the first perspective view would not see the shell casings being ejected. If you use the take cover key while shooting the P90, you can obviously see the shells being ejected to the right of the weapon. This happens in both Vegas and R6 Three. The real P90 ejects the shells straight down behind the trigger hand due to the design of the weapon.

In addition to the P90 quirk, there are numerous errors throughout the arsenal. The SCAR-H only has a 20rd magazine capacity as it fires the larger 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (same dimensions .308 Winchester). The P90 is also modeled to have 3 round burst while it does not have such an option in the real world. One can argue that this is a video game, but if you want tactical realism then it should have accurate modeling to simulate the real weapons. Otherwise, they might as well use weapons from Unreal Tournament III since it is a video game.

The bottom line is that Vegas has departed from a tactical FPS and there are quite a few bugs. If the single player game were longer and more detailed, I would have given it 4 stars overall.

In addition, Joanna's character is VERY annoying and should not have been included in the game.

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