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Addicting, Complete, And Playable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 67 / 70
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Combine the popular "Dynasty Mode" and customization options of sports games with the great take-cover functions of Gears of War, and the weaponry and tactical realism of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and you have Rainbow Six: Vegas, probably the most complete shooter to date.
Let me jump to the custom character section right off: this is SICK. Using your Xbox Vision Camera, you can create an uncanny shaved head version of yourself to use in the game, and online. You can then customize your weapons, rated on accuracy, range, and damage, as well as your shoulder, chest, arm and leg armor, which force you to choose between mobility and protection. You can shoose to have a super-zooming rifle scope on your pistol or rifle, or a laser sight, or more. All prettied and ready to go?
Playing any number of games, either in single player or online or multi-player will earn you experience points and medals. The more points you receive, the higher your rank (you start off as a Private Second Class), allowing you access to even more customizable items.
To the gameplay: intuitive and useful, RS: Vegas doesn't throw in any useless controls. You can single click to put a silencer on your weapon, switch to night or thermal vision, or invert yourself upside down on a rapelling rope. You can look inside rooms with a snake cam before you enter, fire blindly around a corner, or detonate explosives from a distance.
The AI is superb; you can run the same mission three times in a row and never have the "enemies" in the same areas, or in the same amounts. If you faced four guys in the opening building the first time around, you might face two guys, with the other two sneaking around to flank you on your second try.
Adopting the Gears of War health system, where you take non-permanent damage that instead impairs your condition and requires taking cover to heal, works wonders for this game...you can't just bum rush enemies guns ablaze, because they're bound to cap you with a headshot.
It's a great game for the more patient sort, and might take some adjusting by those recently spoiled on Halo 2 or Gears of War, in terms of aggressive play. My only complaint (as one spoiled by the latter) is the lack of a run button to cover open ground, but hey, it forces me to take better cover.
Highly recommended, especially for the online co-op option.

One Of The Best On 360

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game not only draws you in with it's incredible graphics and gameplay, but the story is actually something involving. This game is very intense, but controls beautifully under pressure; Some Ghost Recon-type elements have been added to your movement, such as being able to seek cover and fire from around corners. Commanding your team has never been easier, and they actually help you more this time around; The enemies are smart and numerous, making some levels last as long as almost 2 hours to get through; But most of all it's REALLY FUN!! It is nice to see this console finally produce a game that hits all the right marks. I was overly impressed with this game...Plus I love all the shiny colors!! Ubisoft got this one right all the way around! And in case I haven't stressed this enough--the graphics are amazing, even on a non-HDTV.

Fantastic Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's hard to really describe how much fun I've had with this game. The graphics are supberb, the sounds also amazing. Grenades sound real and powerful, as does shotguns, etc. Especially with a solid surround sound system.

I've almost completed the campaign and have done most of the T-Hunt Missions. Both are very fun to play, and I LOVE the fact that you can do both co-op with a friend ON THE SAME SCREEN. Many other games force you to play co-op type missions online or don't offer them at all. But, RB6 also offers the co-op features online, as well as a wide array of VS modes to keep things interesting.

The only small complaint I have with the multiplayer is that only two players can play on one console, you have to set up a system link to be able to get 4 buddies in on the game.

Nonetheless still tremendously fun, and I like the "call of duty" style health system that is implemented (can take several hits but will need to duck for cover and then you'll regain health and be able to go back to business), whereas I remember the old school RB6 games it seemed like it was always one or two hits and that's all.

But they do have a "realistic" difficulty setting you can choose which I havent played with too much but I'm sure thats likely a more frustrating option.

I can't wait till the next Ghost Recon game comes out I believe in march, I'm hoping it is every bit as great as this game turned out to be!

Great multiplayer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series of games have seen a whole lot of change over the years. The series started out as a slow, tactical, shooter with a heavy emphasis on planning. When the series made its jump to the Xbox with Rainbow Six 3, the game dropped the planning stage to attempt to appeal to a broader audience, while still retaining a tactical shooter feel. The game was extremely successful, becoming one of the most played games on Xbox Live. But after a well received expansion, the developers took a sharp turn and moved the franchise into arcade shooter territory. The majority of the fans were disappointed, and the game was a critical failure. But don't worry Rainbow fans, Ubisoft has indeed learned from their mistakes. Vegas is the most intense and tactical Rainbow Six game, making it easily the best in the series.

Rainbow Six: Vegas takes place in Las Vegas as you probably have guessed. Most of the story unfolds while you are playing the game, either in helicopter briefings while you are flying to your next target or while you are on foot from an audio and video feed in the top left of your screen. This is a pretty nice change from the text briefings before missions that Rainbow Six players are used to. Without giving too much of the plot away, terrorists have attacked various casinos in the city, taking some hostages and planting bombs. You play as Logan Keller, a team leader for a group of highly skilled soldiers, and it is your job to go from casino to casino and take care of business. If this all sounds familiar, that's because it is. We have all heard this same basic story dozens of times in other games and Hollywood action movies. But while the storyline isn't exactly original, it is good enough to keep you at least mildly interested. What really matters is the gameplay, and that is where the game truly shines.

If you have ever played Gears of War, your might be surprised how similar the two games play. They were in development around the same time, so it's hard to say if any copying was going on, but both games have a heavy emphasis on cover, requiring you to use anything you can hind behind to stay alive. However, the cover system in Vegas works quite a bit better then it does in Gears. You have a lot more control when it comes to moving around cover and shooting out. Also, the cover seems more important in Vegas then it did in Gears, mostly because you can take much fewer shots in Vegas before going down.

Another element both games have in common is a squad of teammates that you fight along with. Controlling the team works similar to other games in the series. You can still tell your squad where to move, whether to hold fire or shoot on sight, to stack up behind doors before throwing in a grenade and storming in as well as all of the other commands you could give in the previous games. However, there are a few additions. For example, you now have a snake cam that allows you to peak under doors. Using this device, you can then give your team priority targets in the next room, to make sure they take down the most important enemies first when they enter. Your teammates also have some pretty good AI. They know how to take cover and engage enemies, meaning you really don't have to worry about them that much. They also do a great job taking down terrorists, making them very useful.

Besides commanding your squad, the game has other features that allow for some complex tactics. Many of the rooms have multiple entry points. Using the snake cam you can scout out the room before determining how you want to enter it. You can even use two entrances at once, by having your team stack up outside one door while you go to another. Then you can order your squad to barge in guns blazing at the same time you enter from another door. You also have the option to do some repelling during some points of the game, which adds another entrance, the windows, to a room.

Your large selection of weapons also allows you to take in some tactical considerations. Vegas features a ton of assault rifles, machine guns, shotguns, and pretty much any type of gun you can think of. Each of the weapons offers some level of customization. Pistols can have things like extended magazines or laser sights, while rifles can be fitted with different types of scopes depending on what is needed. Once you have selected your guns, you can choose from items like explosive grenades, C4, breaching charges, flash grenades, and more.

With the cover system, team controls, multiple entry points, and a large selection of weapons, Rainbow Six: Vegas offers a lot of choice when it comes to tactics.

But the single player campaign is only half of what the game has to offer. Rainbow Six: Vegas has a fully featured and expansive multiplayer option, which easily makes it the best on-line shooter on the Xbox 360. The core of the multiplayer experience is what the developers call the P.E.C., or "Persistent Elite Creation". When you first start out, you create your own character and have a limited access to different types of gear like body armor and weapons. After every match, your character gains experience, allowing you to go up in rank and gain access to more items. It's a neat feature that rewards you for playing, yet doesn't make the game feel unfair for new players that don't have access to all of the items. Different armor makes you choose between mobility and protection, while other weapons may be more powerful but are harder to control.

There is a good selection of game modes to choose from that range from objective driven modes like attack and defend, to more standard offerings like solo and team deathmatch. The levels are varied and well designed for the most part. Though some, such as the Calypso Casino level, were clearly designed with attack and defend in mind and can be slightly unbalanced in other game modes like team deathmatch due to one team having a better spawn point. But if you are not into competitive gaming against other players, Vegas offers cooperative gameplay over live for the entire single player campaign with up to three other players. Or you can play "terrorist hunt" which is a mode that puts you and your friends in a level with a bunch of randomly placed terrorists that you need to take out.

Overall, Rainbow Six Vegas is a great game with a lot of value. The single player is challenging and offers a lot of depth, and the multiplayer packs in a lot of features. You could easily find yourself playing this game until the next Rainbow Six game comes out. It is not often that developers try to reinvent such a successful series, but Ubisoft gave it another shot and ended up creating the best Rainbow Six game so far.

Hopefully a new beginning for the FPS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

R6V has to be, the best FPS i have ever played. There are so many shooter games out right now that are just so unrealistic. "Run n Gun", its just not fun to me. I remember when i bought gears of war i thought it was amazing and hoped so much that a FPS would soon come out with this same type of realism that is being, if you are out in the open of gunfire for 5 senconds, your dead, take cover. Then, i decide to try out R6V. Blew my expectations away. The "take cover" plot is pretty much just like GoW. the differnce being, you are in first person when running, but when going for cover, you take a 3rd person view, enhancing your sight of the vision around you. The AI is the best I have seen in a game so far. Get this, your squadmates actually help you out! Sometimes they kill the terroists before i even see them! Also, when you restart a checkpoint, dont try and outsmart the game and go to the same spot to kill the bad guy, 99% of the time everyone has moved somewhere different. If you get killed because you were flanked, it doesnt gaurentee you that you'll get flanked agian. I love how you can install different items on any of your weapons. Silencers, 6x Zoom, Scopes, etc. A great variety of weapons also. Oh yeah, and of course, the graphics are absolutly beautiful. I thought it was funny how all the cars in the game are Dodge,"like, dodge..get it? dodge the bullet...that was the first thing i thought ha".

So if you have a xbox 360, (or any system up to date..this is out for ps3 right?) and you like shooters but wish it would feel more real. BUY THIS!

and hopefully, this is a new beginning for the FPS

Fun but flawed-- in serious need of testing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I hate to be the first to write a non-glowing review of R6Vegas, but I have not had the most stellar experience with it. I have had it for a few weeks now and have tried to give it every chance.. but it still disappoints.

The game has its high points; it is a continuation of a terrific game, Rainbow6 3 for the xbox. R63 was one of the top xbox games in my opinion, on campaign and on multiplayer. The online co-op in particular was excellent; the weapon selection was extensive and well-rounded, and the reaction times of the controller were instantaneous. It was a well-thought out game and very stable. I have not played any of the games between R63BA and R6Vegas, so I cannot comment on other R6 games since then, but my memories of R63 and R63BA for xbox were all very positive.

R6Vegas, on the other hand, is plagued with problems right out of the box. It regularly locks up on me in the middle of single-player or multiplayer modes -- maybe once or twice a day. Voice communication on xbox live frequently cuts out for one or more players. The weapon choices are much more limited than in R63 (where is the fun grenade launcher?). There is no way to skip the annoying introductory cutscenes (especially when restarting from the first level). Many times, on multiplayer co-op, the game drops the entire team underneath the ground where we fall until the game is rebooted. The checkpoints are often maddeningly far apart. I wish that the controller could be customized to allow hotkeying of weapons. In the heat of battle, when you run out of ammo, it takes far too long to bring up the menu system and switch to an alternate weapon. On all of these items, the original R63 for the xbox was far superior.

I get suspicious when I see the "powered by the Unreal engine" logo on startup of the game. It appears that, instead of making or reusing an original game engine of their own, Ubisoft took an existing game engine and rushed it out the door to cash in on a profitable franchise in time for the holiday season. I wonder if the myriad of bugs are due to this. Even boasting this game engine, the game graphics are largely boring and uninteresting. There are no crisp graphics like other recent 360 titles.

All that being said -- it is still an enjoyable game. Single-player mode has an engaging story line and the setting is very interesting. Multiplayer and co-op modes are fun and challenging. The formula that made R63 and R63BA so enjoyable has, to a limited extent, also been successful with R6Vegas.

I hope that there will be a patch that will address all of the bugs and errors that really should have been flushed out BEFORE the game was launched. I ran into all of the bugs I mention above within the first day of playing. It is obvious that the QA process was skipped in order to get the game on the shelves. Had I known the problems that this game has, I certainly would have opted for Gears of War rather than this one. For such a high price tag for these games, I think that we deserve a better product. I hate feeling cheated by a game purchase, and that is exactly how I felt with R6Vegas.

Realism on a differant level

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, after the first few Rainbow 6 games I found the franchise mediocre at best. I am a large fan of tactical shooters and this is one of the best I have ever played. This is the first game to truely capture the use of cover in a firefight. I love the fact that the game makes you move from one position of cover to the next. The level of detail in the maps is also astounding as (like real life) there is so much junk everywhere that the enemy can literally be anywhere. My only complaint so far is the lack of a lean ability and the ability to switch from a right handed grip to a left handed grip ala Splinter Cell. Great game for tactical shooter fans and honestly the best game I've played for the 360 this far.

The Thinking Man's First-Person-Shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have never been a fan of the FPS genre. However, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter caught my attention when the Xbox 360 was launched. The Squad-based asspect of the game added an element of strategy to the game that was sufficient to keep me engaged. Rainbow Six Vegas is even better. The room-clearing/dynamic-entry scenarios are very exciting and there is nothing quite like planning and executing a flawless dynamic entry and room-clearing operation. The planning required to play this game well is almost enough to warrant the creation of a new genre.

I also found this game to be intense. You often have to hold very exposed positions and the luxury of picking off tangos at extended range has been supplanted with gutsy close-quarters action. There were times that I actually got dry-mouth and felt the adrenaline in my system when I was forced to sneak up and and take out terrorists at close-range with my shotgun. The gameplay is riveting, and at times it is so intense that I am too nervous to have fun. The tension is proof that Ubisoft has hit the mark of emulating the combat experience. And that is exactly what this game is designed to do. Combat can never be truly simulated, but Rainbow Six Vegas will get you closer than anything else.

Your AI squad-mates function beautifully. They find cover and they function autonomously most of the time. But when you use them effectively, they are unbelievable. In fact, it's almost more fun to follow them around and watch them do all of the fighting.

I highly recommend this game to fans of strategy games who may not be inclined to pick up a First-Person-Shooter. This title is well worth the money.

Open and Clear...room on your shelf for Rainbow Six: Vegas!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What do you think of a game that is better than every other game (well, maybe Gears of War is an exception) on the Xbox 360? Are enemies dumb like all others in the Rainbow Series? How are the Graphics? Is the gameplay more of the same? Are the controls difficult? What about Multiplayer? To sum up all these questions, the answer is the one you hope to hear (in order): no, awesome, no, no, amazing. Where to start?

Your foes are extremely intellegent. They flank you, communicate, and use cover very well. It's really scary to think that your safe behind a concrete pillar when all of a sudden a frag grenade, or even worse, an incendiary, lands right next to your sorry self with your enemy's fingerprints on it. They do a lot of the oh-gee-thanks favor of hurling grenades your way. They are incredibly accurate. A chill always runs down your spine when you realize a tango with a shotgun flanks you and pulls the trigger one inch from your now-messed-up face.

The graphics are amazing. The lighting is truly dazzeling, and reminds me of all the glittering lights of Vegas. The blood effects are very amazing and detailed. When you shoot your for in the stomach, blood splats onto the wall, and there's a wound on him. The circle of blood expands, with tiny drops running down his shirt, while falling with beautiful ragdoll physics. The characters themselves are a wonder to look at, with rinkles on clothes and high-tech gear everywhere.

The gameplay is very intense. You think up a plan. If you go in and one thing goes wrong, boom. Your head is bleeding right now. No worries, the checkpoint system is always there, right before major encounters. Besides, I don't mind killing the same tango 10 times in a row. It never gets boring. The scripted events really get you thinking. The command system is intuitive and easy to use. Additionally, there's a high replay value, since there's usually multiple paths, even to one room. Also, the achievements are varied, and you should get about 150 points just by blowing through the game, which lasted about 8-10 hours for me. Realistic difficulty-a lot longer and intense, and, well, more realistic.

The controls are very easy to use. The command system is easy to use. It's easy to shoot the terrorist on the other side of that door. What more to say?

No words can explain multiplayer. That's a good thing. Multiplayer is even more intense than single-player. Not only that, but you can do co-op modes on single player levels, either the story again or terrorist hunt, where you hunt terrorist through the level until they are all killed or you are all killed. You get you regular survival, team survival, retrieval (like capture the flag), deathmatch, and team deathmatch. But you also get attack and defend, wherre one team either tries to capture intel and bring it to the extraction point, defuse a bomb, or rescue hostages, all while they race against time and the defenders. Two new modes are coming out soon, assassination and territory, the former where you have to kill one team's "VIP" (hostage that has been rescued) while they try to get him to safety, and the latter being a mode where you capture zones. Many achievements are spread over multiplayer. Your sure to get at least 50 gamerscore just by playing. The maps are all fun, and there's a lot of them, with five more coming soon. Lastly, there's PEC (Persistent Elite Creation). You gain experience points by playing games, whether or not you win (you get more by winning, of course). These experience points get you ranked up eventually, unlocking new gear to dress up your guy (and make him look cool) and more guns to outfit your guy with, so he becomes more lethal.

I can't believe what you're missing out on if you don't have this game. This is THE BEST game I have ever played. So go out and pick this up from store shelves today!

Rainbow Six back on track again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Rainbow has always held a soft spot in my heart for great squad based games and incredible multiplayer. This game is possibly the best shooter I have ever played. I have FEAR, all Splinter Cell's, Ghost Recon's, Rainbow's, Gears of War, what have you... This is the BEST. Eveything explodes with realism, enemies are tight, the sound is incredible, the graphics are amazing, and the fire fights are like NOTHING you have ever experienced. HONEST. FPS's are my favorite. And this is the best. Buy it and enjoy it.

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