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Dummed Down, with full length commercials

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 31 / 46
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First. The lure of the Game Console market has completely corrupted yet another great series. This game is no longer filled with the detail and complexity that is common to PC Games, but it has been dummed down for the console crowd. You no longer plan your assualts, select your team, outfit your team as you see fit. It is now a Playstation shoot and scoot type game. Those here that gush over how great it is obviously don't play PC games normally and I'm willing to bet prefer to play console games.
Second. 2142 was bad enough with it's billboard ads in the game, but UBI soft has gone a step further. Now if you shoot the right bottle you get a full minute commercial. A COMMERCIAL IN THE GAME. According to the littature of their advertising department, it's a "TREAT". Yeah that's what I want a tv commercial in my game. I say don't buy this game. Send a message to all game manufacturers that we wont pay for commercials, and we won't buy console games that have been back programmed for the PC!

Not Rainbow Six. Not even Tom Clancy.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for a realistic highly technical tactical shooter, keep walking. This plays ok as a 21st century Doom with paramilitary skin, but as a Rainbow Six game it just doesn't even qualify. All these media "reviewers" that loved the game so much apparently can't differentiate the two.

What this game gets right:
- Better AI than Raven Shield
- That is all

What this game gets wrong:
- Regenerating WHAT? You can eat way too many bullets and still live through this game.
- Single player Terrorist Hunt mode is just that. SINGLE PLAYER. No option for AI backup. Good thing you have that regenerating health, because these tangos come from both sides, and you don't have anyone to cover your back. Good luck, space marine.
- The much vaunted 3rd person corner-looking/spraying deal is hopelessly disorienting. See that guy coming around the corner? He's going to kill you while you're trying to realign your aim when you get back to 1st person view.
- Mission plan? What mission plan?
- The arsenal is paltry with weapons specs simplified so as not to confuse your infant daughter. I can't believe Tom Clancy let Red Storm/Ubi put his name on this. At least he's getting paid.

In short, this game would be much better if they simply patched Raven Shield to accomodate the newer AI system. And after all the positive press this game got, I don't see how we can expect the real Rainbow Six to come back ever. Sigh.

Please check your Specs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Here are the specs you NEED to know.
If you don't have EVERY spec up to date,
THE GAME WILL NOT RUN!

P4 3.0 GHz processor
1GB RAM
128MB DX9.0c video card (256 reccommended) (nothing prior to ATI X1600 series or GeForce 6600GT)
Sound card with DX9.0c with Dolby Digital Live
HD space 7GB!

I'll say it again. If you don't even have the minimum requirements, the game WILL NOT EVEN START.

UBI soft is not being helpful on the support page. From what people have told me, even with the minimum requirements, they have not liked the game due to "no save" feature, the story mode and lack of real difference in weapons. (this is from word of mouth, not my own review) They said nothing about any commercial issues but I will ask.

Someday, I will buy a better gaming rig and will be able to play it. Someday. I can play Oblivion and Dark messiah witth very little lag. I don't see why this should be so much more advanced.

Unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: June 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Please note that this game will not run unless you have a top of the line video card. It would not work with a Nvidia GeForce 6200 card.

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.

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.

VeganMalcontent Pretty Much Summed it Up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of the Ravenshield/Athena Sword era of Rainbow Six, you were no doubt as traumatized as I by the 'Lockdown' fiasco. Unfortunately, this rendition of Rainbow Six doesn't fair much better. Yes, the graphics are much better, and yes, the AI is too. However, that's about the only things in the plus column for this blatant and shameless grab at PC gamers' wallets by Ubisoft. It's just a bland, canned port from a console game.

This game 'misses' with things like a reduced arsenal (there were significantly more guns in Ravenshield), painfully scripted events, an EXTREMELY shallow difficulty range (you can only choose from 'Normal' and 'Realistic', and even on Realistic you can recover from near life-ending injuries in about 30 seconds). The gun specs are also, well, cheezy. There's very little to differentiate them from one-another, and they do not have any technical info listed like you might expect to see in a 'serious' modern combat game (i.e. muzzle velocities, weapon history, etc.)

Due to the lack of a real spectrum of difficulty settings, if you play this game solo you will spend 70% of your time replaying parts of the game you've already played because you'll frequently get killed by a head shot right before a checkpoint...and then have to replay the past 10 minutes of the game over, and over, and over again. The game chooses when it saves, and you get no input on the matter. There isn't even a quicksave, so plan on replaying the same stuff. This type of 'save feature' was barely tolerated in gaming 10 years ago. Why Ubi thought that this would be acceptable in a modern game is absolutely beyond comprehension.

To add insult to injury, the duck-and-cover concept of hiding behind walls and spraying fire at your enemy doesn't get it done. It's a great concept, but if you try to apply it you frequently get disoriented as Vegan mentioned. The AI is good enough to capitalize on your player's temporary paralysis when this happens and they kill you. You get used to the awkward mechanics of this feature over time, but it never is as intuitive as Ubi would have you believe.

The one thing that Ubi can pull from this burning wreckage is the enemy AI. It's actually very good. Enemies attempt flanking maneuvers, and they can be suppressed very realistically with suppression-type weapons while you send your team (other players or AI teammates) around to flank.

If we're lucky, Ubi will return to the winning Ravenshield/Athena Sword formula, incorporate this game's improved AI, work the glaring kinks out of the duck-and-cover feature and, most importantly, grasp the notion that a player should be allowed to save when he or she wants to. Replaying the same painfully boring levels should never be a subsitute for poor game design! Two stars.

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.

Weird

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, i never really got to play the game on my computer because my computer has Windows Vista, and the game requires it not to have Windows Vista. And it also required other stuff that i had to buy in order to play the game. But my friend has it and and i was o.k. But, if you really like violence a lot, the this is a game to purchase.

Should Be Called Rainblow Sux Mexico

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a fan of the Rainbow Six series, and this game falls way short. If you want this game, get the 360 version. Its a direct port from the 360, but its very disappointing on the pc.

Gameplay: You play forever in the streets of Mexico. This game should be called Mexico, because you play the first 2 hours there. Controls are basically the same as other games, but there is no jumping. What were they thinking. You can't jump over stuff, without being pressed against it first. This really took away from gameplay for me.

Graphics: Vegas on the 360 is very impressive, but on the pc its not. It sux even with with my 8600GTS overclocked. There is no AA option, and the game looks very dark. After you get in Vegas it looks better, but all the Mexico stuff just doesn't look good.

Don't bother getting this game because its not worth the $$$. Get one of the older ones instead. Ubisoft laid an egg with this 360 port.

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