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Finally!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Finally we have a good tactical shooter on the PS3! And finally they made another god RB6 game, after Lockdown I was worried my favorite game franchise was going down the tubes.

This game is simply amazing. The graphics are realistic and have far better textures than Resistance did. It is a little more jaggy, Ubi forgot to use AA I guess, but that is a very small complaint. The lighting is excellent as well, and framerate is smooth as butter.

That's all good, but the real beauty of this game is the gameplay. Simply amazing, this game has the best use of cover in a videogame ever. It's easy to use but it's deep at the same time. One hit kills add a completely different element to this game as opposed to Resistance. It's not a run and gun game (thank god), you actually have to use some skill. Gameplay is simply amazing.

All my favorite modes from the old Raven Shield and Rogue Spear are back, such as Terrorist Hunt and Survivor. I thought I would hate Sharpshooter mode at first since it had respawns, but it is still very fun and still manages to stay away from a run and gun type of gameplay mode. There is also Attack and Defend mode which is fun, and about 4 others that I haven't tried yet along with the standard team deathmatch and team sharpshooter. This is the game to play for team games like those!

A new addition, for Rainbow 6 anyway, is the ability to play coop missions online or split screen, which is cool, however you don't get any of the cutscenes of dialogue with it, which so far is my only real gripe about the game.

Simply put, this game is amazing and will keep me playing for year sonline. I was still playing Raven Shield up until now!! With 20 maps availiable at launch, and hopefully more to keep coming, this game will easily last just as long. Awesome stuff, buy it!!!

Vegas, baby. VEGAS!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What can be said about Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas for PS3? Well, I've only been playing it for a day, so my first impression would be "this game is pretty freakin' sweet."

I was somewhat confused when a game entitled "Vegas" didn't actually start in Vegas, but that is beside the point. Recently, I spoke to a fellow PS3 owner who lamented his fear of the demise of the multiplayer split-screen game citing that more and more new games can only give you the multiplayer experience through the Playstation Network's online play.

Not to fret, Rainbow Six: Vegas has several play options for you to choose from. Firstly, and most obviously, the game had a single player mode with two levels of difficulty; Normal and Realistic. Two player split screen is also on offer here, which should please fans of this feature that also fear that the option is going the way of the dodo. In addition to Single player and Two player split, you also have the option for two player LAN and two player online via Playstation Network.

How let's get down to the game play. I have never in my life played a Rainbow Six game, so I must be some sort of crack head with a fetish for punishment and frustration, as I started my first ever soiree into the franchise on the difficulty level of, "Realistic". I'm not sure what I assumed "Realistic" was going into it. The following logic never factored into it for me.

If bullet (X) is fired from N (where N is a multitude of NPCs that would like nothing more than to see me dead if only to dance on my digitized remains), and said bullet (N) is successful in traveling from point A (the big bad) to point B (my skull), I will invariably C (see) a big red screen reading "You've been killed." and have to start all over from my nearest check point. Unless of course I can find cover with the speed and precision that is only afforded me once I have memorized all the spawn points and develop a tactic around it (I'll get you Casino Vault level!)

The TAC map helps in avoiding/hunting enemies, but for all the good it does, it is often completely useless if the camera isn't rotated at a very precise angle.

The difficulty I can't fault, I picked it at the outset and it does make the game a challenge, what I will gripe about is the check points. These are either very few and far between or only seem that way as every time I get through a tough bit into an even tougher bit, I have to do everything all over again when I am ultimately killed.

For all my gripes about a self imposed difficulty level being just a bit out of my league: but ultimately rewarding when I eventually accomplish my objective, the game really does ROCK! I am not a big fan of the First Person Shooter genre on the best of days. In fact, I would go as far as saying I HATE the FPS, but the tactical elements (sending your moving targets, erm, I mean "team" around to draw fire allowing for a greater deal of stealth while sneaking around, picking people off one by one. If really does make the game for me.

The team commands are also quite straight forward, though possibly a bit limited for the die hards. The total list of team commands that I have thus been privy to are pretty much: Hang out with me, go over there, come back to me, stand by those doors, kill that one first and that one second, shoot anything, shoot anything that is shooting at you, enter the room with or without throwing in a grenade and shoot everyone with guns.

That is pretty much it, which was a relief as the last tactical shooter I attempted to play and thus failed miserably at, was S.W.A.T., so that is reaching back!

The graphics are pretty good, they didn't blow me away, but they didn't put me off it either. I've seen a bit of stutter on the frame rates during single player, though Online play seemed to run quite well despite taking quite a while to load and log in and such.

All in all a very satisfying and challenging game play experience. It may not make me a lover of the FPS, but it will keep me coming back to it until I've either completed it or thrown it out the window because I was unable to complete it.

This game rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Man this is the best game out right now for the PS3. Its fun and requires you use skill.

It's not so good how I though but still but still being a awesome game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game like any raimbowsix but it does not have the graphical quality that I thought on the console playstation 3... I hope that my opinion helps you to choose good.

To all first time buyers: READ THIS BEFORE YOU PURCHASE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying that I've only had the PS3 for about 3 weeks. The only game I had (until yesterday) was Call of Duty 4. And yes I'm fully aware that R6V is one year older than COD4....

First off, the graphics seem a bit weird. I have my settings at 1080i and the screen looks fuzzy. During gameplay, Some parts of the game are real smooth and nice looking, and other parts are choppy and "pixel-ated" looking. Someone below suggested that you set your PS3 to 720P to take out the choppiness and it helped out alot... but the gameplay feels choppy and slow..

The spawning sucks. Everytime I spawned, I was killed on the spot. It's impossible to move!

Why Can't I run in this game!? In COD4, you can run and get out of places.. but in this game, the gameplay is too slow for me to bear... Ugh!

I wish I played this game before I purchased. I heard alot of great reviews about the game from 360 owners, so I was expecting the same on PS3....

If your a first time buyer (or only played this game on a 360), please do yourself a favor and purchase this game secondhand. I purchased this game at full price without thinking twice.

I'm pretty positive the next rainbow six will blow all FPS out the box, but in the mean time, COD4 craps over anything out there: including GOW and Halo 3.

Ubi Release Flawed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Vegas is a fun game. However, I've rated it one star overall, given that the multiplayer gaming experience is buggy, and all too shortlived given that a sequel is scheduled to be released within 9 months. I anticipate that the sequel will render the current version, and my $69.95 purchase, virtually worthless as everyone migrates to the new version.

Today Ubi announced that Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is targeted to arrive this upcoming March. This is a huge letdown to those of us playing (or considering purchasing) the current edition of Vegas.

Why? Well, for one thing, the current release has substantial bugs that greatly diminish the playing experience. Ubi has been touting a patch for these (looping gun sounds, no multiplayer lobby, etc) since the release this summer. With the announcement of the new Vegas 2, it is becoming clear to me that Ubi is NOT going to patch the current version, but rather is going to pump out a new one and charge all of the current Vegas owners the cost of a new game to get the updates.

Contrast this with some of the other games out there, such as Resistance, which has an established gaming community that has been cemented with great support and new features being released such as maps, etc. Rainbow Six is just one of those games that appears to be outdated after just 9 months, forcing a new purchase.

Anyone considering buying this game may be better off waiting for Vegas 2, as the Vegas online community is diminishing, or purchasing another FPS such as Call of Duty 4.

Worse than Xbox 360 Version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game 2 days ago because I loved the Xbox 360 version which I played around 10 times. It was strange from the beginning because the graphics are blurry, for a moment I thought it was my settings but it wasn't. The PS3 version sad to say is subpar compared to the 360 version. The sound varies, Joanna's voice in the chopper would be too loud while the rest are weak even if you adjust all of them at the same level. The game play still looks good but it doesn't look like you're playing an HD game. I thought my eyes are going but it's really the graphics of the game. I have all 3 systems and loved my PS3 because my 360 is at MS repair center. Now I'm having second thoughts whether to get the PS3 version of Call Of Duty 4.

A nice game.....but.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

OK, my title may be misleading, I DO like this game, and it has some really cool features, easy to use controls, decent graphics (not the best, which kinda annoys me) BUT, the graphics are still good. Enemy intelligence is really good, teamwork is good (which I really like), I like that you can cover behind almost anything (that's cool too)

Just seems like all Tom Clancy games I play or own, could always be better. There's always some attention to detail left out, graphics are not always what they could be, game play...etc etc etc

My gripes with the game are small, but still annoy me.

Here we go:

1) I don't like the fact that there is no health meter, you really have no clue as to your health status. You're hit 2-3 times, and BAM, you're dead. Now, I DO understand that's a bit more realistic, but, it's still nice to know how your health status is.

2) No save points...If you die in action, sometimes you have to start pretty far back, depending on where you were killed in each level.

3) The graphics COULD have been much better (as with ALL Tom Clancy games)...Now, I am a HUGE SOCOM fan....And I can say with 100% certainty that ALL SOCOM series games have graphics that are at least 10 TIMES BETTER than this game, and they are PS2 game system games! I would have assumed that this game, being on the PS3 format, would be much better....I was wrong.

4) This really annoys me: No health packs! What gets me is that you can save your teammates in this game but you can't save yourself??????? That's bogus! This makes absolutely NO SENSE to me!

Other than that, it's a fun game, fun to play, but, if the designers had taken a bit more time to just think things through, this game could have been a true 5-STAR game!

Am I glad I bought the game?

Yeah, I like it enough....It's worth the purchase, but, it could have been a bit better.

Am I very picky about my games?

YES! Because when I spend $50-$60 bucks per game, I would like them to be of the same caliber (OR BETTER) then a SOCOM game, or even "Splinter Cell" games (they're great, too). Overall I think the SOCOM games are the epitome of any military game on any game system. Period!

WHY?

Because SOCOM games pay attention to every detail. Graphics, status meters, overall game play, weapons, looks/feel/realism, you can hide in bushes, adjust a rifle scope, crawl in tall grass, use stealth as an ally (Now THAT'S REALISM!)...It's things like that, that really get my attention. And, should get YOUR ATTENTION (The consumer) as well!

Chris

Game is great, Amazon is awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 65
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had preordered this with Amazon. They chose to ignore their price guarantee and jack the price up by $20. The game is excellent, so don't let it stop you from playing it, just don't buy it here.

My letter to Amazon:
This morning I received an email from Amazon stating that they were raising the price of a pre-order for Rainbow Six: Vegas for Playstation 3. I had originally pre-ordered the game for $39.99 and the price was raised to $59.99. I have read your policy on pre-orders and it is pretty clear to me that it is worded in such a way that you can change the price of items at your whim. The vague wording of the agreement indicates to the consumer that we will be guaranteed the lowest price offered throughout the time of the pre-order. You have not adhered to this.

I realize the lower price was more than likely a mistake, and I can accept that you have to raise the price back up. What troubles me is that you waited a few weeks to do it, not immediately after the mistake was found. So here I am waiting weeks under the assumption you are going to honor your price when I could have pre-ordered with another retailer.

I know this isn't the first email you have received on this subject today, so please spare me the standard form letter that you'll be sending back. After this fiasco, as well as the Xbox 360 fiasco (of which I'm sure you're well acquainted with by now) and some other errors with orders I have had over my many years as a customer, I am really no longer interested in being your customer anymore. Furthermore, I intend to discourage any of my friends and family from using your services from here on out. You used to be a good place working for the consumer, but have since turned into the Walmart of the internet, only interested in the dollar, not the consumer experience. The least you could have done was offer me a $10 discount or something similar, but instead chose to create bad press and lose customers.

If you choose to write back, please do so from an actual person dealing with my actual problem and wanting to rectify the situation. The form letter does nothing but infuriate people.

NIce beautiful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Haters step off this game is tight on ps3 should rate on problems had with amazon i went 2 the store and got mine the one star people anyways i suspect as xbox 360 people they didnt want us getting this game hey you no what it happen lol

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