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Therefore, there's plenty of incentive to use cover.The main problem with the game is that it feels very "dumbed down". As a total experience, Vegas 2 is a mediocre game made worse by its connection to a once-great franchise. Vegas is a simplification of that; the game is more about being a shooter than being "tactical", and you only have two teammates, who are given orders at the same time. Basically, there's just not that much fun to be had unless you like doing terrorist hunts over and over and over again to grind for levels.The graphics are good, but not incredible, and aren't enough to redeem the game by itself. A more action-oriented take on the classic Rainbow Six series, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is a decent game in its own right, but will be a disappointment to fans of the classic series.
The maps are boring and ugly, and are generally uninspired as a whole. The first-person shooter interface works decently; the character handles well, but also sort of slowly, like you'd expect a real person to. As mentioned, the guns and unlockable costume parts aren't particularly great. 6/10. As mentioned, the game is a shooter first and tactical second. The guns don't handle particularly impressively and the unlockable costume parts for your character - earned through gaining levels by killing enemies - don't look particularly good.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is a tactical first-person shooter that theoretically uses intelligent choices and SWAT-style maneuvers in its gameplay. The main focus of the game is the Cover System; by holding the right mouse button near a wall, your character presses against that wall, and can either fire blindly out without exposing him/herself or can "pop out" to shoot more accurately. Essentially, despite the huge level cap (besides the basic experience category, there are 3 sub-categories of experience with different unlockables that are earned by doing specific actions) the game runs out of steam early on, as if to say "this is basically all there is". It's derived from the original Rainbow Six series, wherein the player would command one member of a team of up to 6 or so officers, who could be split into teams and given specific orders as labeled on a tactical map. In addition, the reduction in cooperative modes hits hard; the single-player campaign has been reduced from 4 to 2 players, and the only 4-player mode available is the simple Terrorist Hunt (basically "kill all enemies"). There is some "auto-healing" if you are hit but get to cover, but generally 2 or 3 bullets will put you out of commission.
It's clear that the game's been simplified for consoles, and is really more of an action game than any sort of strategic game. The system works fairly well and naturally, and is fairly decent for a cover shooter especially because of the game's harsh health system.
Games should be fun and a little hard, not hard to the point of pure luck. Good graphics, lots of action, an ending that is impossible without a lot of luck or cheating. In real life, they would be suicide. Some of the fights are totally un-realistic. After trying to finish for the 25th time, I wiped the game from my hard drive. Will never play again.
other than the fact that the pc version is obviously just an offspring of the console game, its challenging and fun, the ai gets repetative and sometimes doesn't initalize, so you have sitting targets.if they'd put more time into gameplay it would be a good game, get it on console if you have the chance. its pretty obvious who the developers are advertising to now and days. Its a good game for a console tactical shooter, i origionaly had this for xbox360, and it was fun, challenging and the graphics seemed great. I got it for pc, thinking it would be that much better, but its the exact same game, graphics and control system as console.
This is one of those games that I just don't like all that much, even though I really want to. Checkpoints are few and far between. Some of the places you see are fictional, but overall, if you know Vegas, you will see a lot of familiar stuff. Once you are on the ground and enter Casinos, I guess it doesn't matter too much where you are and the Vegas flair doesn't help too much as you fight your way down the hallways).What I don't like about this game is that it uses a checkpoint save system.
Double-Argh.It looks to me like the game is relatively short (which is OK with me) and they are just drawing it out with this frustrating and outdated mechanic (which is not OK with me). You may play for 20 minutes just to get killed by a single shot to the head and have to start over at the start of a mission. And the game crashes at times. In the end, I have to say that this means that I a more frustrated than entertained by this game. I have had situations where the game crashed right after 20 minutes of unsaved play. The setting of the game is great, and Las Vegas is presented in a great way.
Argh. Shame. (Although mostly when you fly overhead in a helicopter. And even as checkpoint systems go, this is among the worst.
I just don't get it anymore. Totally maddening. OK, now thats off my chest.Rainbow 6 Vegas is really a nice game. There is NO SAVE SYSTEM., which means that you have to play the same scene 100 times over and over again until you figure out the tiny mystery that happens right BEFORE the next checkpoint.
There is no running, nor jumping.A couple of times I had to start an entire checkpoint over because I got stuck somewhere and simply could not get out. Too bad really, as if there were just a simple quicksave system, it would have been much more tolerable.The weapons reload method is somewhat novel, but generally dumb. Its agonizingly slow sometimes. This of course happens in lots of games, but as there is no Jump function, when you get stuck, you get totally stuck.All in all, I did like the game in general. Also, the walking speed is painfully slow as well. Studios and gaming companies spend years and millions building these games, and they can't even put in a stinkin save system.
There are huge supply crates all over and you walk up, the game kind of pauses, and you reload. But I'll wait for the sequel to be in the bargain bin before I waste any more money on a weak console port.As many others have said, the lack of PC specific development for this game ruined it, as many other games have been ruined (Halo 2 comes to mind, as do dozens of others). Pretty good gameplay, really good story in general, amazing scenery in the Las Vegas parts of the game, and in general, reasonably fun to play, albeit its somewhat short.Now its almost completely ruined by consolitis. Some scenes, I wasted days on, over and over again.
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