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Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 Review

Founder: Tom Clancy
Devolper: UbiSoft Gaming
Name: Rainbow 6 Vegas 2
Platforms: PC, PS3, XBOX 360

Personally I am a huge fan of the Tom Clancy Rainbow 6 Vegas video game for the PS3. However, I was really disappointed with the final cut screen of the first game, and how it left you with a cliff hanger ending. But I guess everything happens for a reason cause the ending had sequel written all over it. And almost two years to the date they have done it with Tom Clancy Rainbow 6 Vegas 2.

Pros

• - Amazing First Person Shooting Action (best I have seen next to MGS4)
• - The new sprint ability really helps speed up game play
• - Evolution to the Console gaming
• - Ground Breaking Graphics and Sound
• - Being able to rank up on single player! Yahoo!

Cons

• - Besides the continuation in the story they really played it safe and stayed with the same style as the first game
• - AI`s sometimes go a little nuts
• - Online play (their working on it)

Gameplay

The new features in the game such as Persistent Elite Creation, or P.E.C. allows players to dress their own characters with a whole new arsenal of weaponry and equipment. And with the addition of the new sprint ability (that was none existent in the first game) makes you one hell of good killing machine. And your going to need it, considering you will be fighting you way through countless amounts of enemies. But hey don’t complain because now when you kill enemies in single player you earn xp, which makes it so much easier to obtain all them new goodies (weapons and equipment).

The story mode now focuses on a much seedier side of Las Vegas then in the last game, with more outdoor combat and more daytime missions. Also, certain mission even have real day to night cycles which is pretty cool. There is also more bullet penetration in the game now, which might turn out to be in your favour or against. The game also has three levels of difficulty (Casual, Normal, and Realism) now instead of just two like in the first.

Another cool feature that they added in this game that they didn’t have in the first is the ACES or Advanced Combat Enchantment and Specialization. This new feature allows player(s) to be rewarded for using certain tactics in the game, in which they are rewarded with new weapons and equipment. ACES is Divided into three categories Marksman, Assault and Close-Quarter Battle or CQB. All of the players kills are organized into one of these three categories.

Marksman points are gained through accuracy and long range shots.

CQB points are gained by successfully combining short range attacks with the use of gadgets.

Assault points are earned by exploiting your enemies defenses such as shooting a shielded opponent or shooting through cover .

Once the player reaches as high enough score in one of the categories he/she is award the new level and unlocks a specific item related to that category.

With the new release of the “Fan Pack” there are now 80 more ACES levels added. Once a player reaches level 20 every new level the player gains he/she is rewarded with 5 000 xp.

Setting

I will try and make this quick and too the point so I don’t give too much away. The setting for the game initially begins in Pic des Pryenees, France, then promptly moves ahead five years to Las Vegas. Where terrorist have seized control and are reeking havoc on the city and installing wide spread panic in both the public and law enforcement agencies. As the plot unfolds, the setting moves away from Las Vegas to other places, such as small town Nevada, which is a total switch from the first game which was primarily focused in Vegas.

Graphics

Vegas 2 really did set the bar higher then ever when it came to graphics department. It’s just mind boggling how real the game is. From the faces, texture, to how the levels load, it’s all extraordinary. Even the minuet detail in the guns are ground breaking.

Sound

If you gave me a gun and let me shoot it when shot in the game I am not sure if I could tell the difference between the two. How they made the games sound so real is besides me. I guess that is another UBISOFT secret.

Ranking

Gameplay 9/10
Graphics 9/10
Sound 9/10

Overall 9/10

Last Thoughts
Just another amazing installment to an already awesome franchise of games, I recommend you all to at least try this game I promise you that you won’t regret it

Reviewed & Written By: Rick Stewin A.K.A Morpheus