Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Play as a new leader with a new team - Tactics play a MAJOR role in your team's success, as each member comes equipped with his own skill set -- recon, heavy weapons, demolition, long range attack and electronics
• Experience a new level of squad-based realism, as your teammates offer real-time tactical suggestions like busting through walls or hacking computers
• Use tactical planning to maneuver through multiple mission paths, with high-tech equipment, like snake cams that tag terrorist targets to your teammates, prior to entering a room
• Real-Time immersion - Real-time mission briefings, all in the midst of the most intense combat ever played
• Motion-captured assault and recon techniques, for realistic gameplay animation - Fast roping, rappelling, window entry, blind-cover fire, and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000KFZ1Z4
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: November 28, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,871 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Standard

Your mission is straight forward... infiltrate theobservatory and protect the hostages should negotiations fail.Product InformationSin City is about to get a wake-up call.  The entertainment capital of theworld.  Thousands of unsuspecting tourists visit each day.  Thousandsmore call it home.  But on this day something has gone terriblywrong.  The Strip has become a battleground.  Fremont Street is nolonger safe.  And casinos are being blown up one by one.  Test yourskills online using a customizable persona that evolves as you play. Maneuver through multiple-path Vegas environments while utilizing high-techequipment like the snake cam.  Test your skills online using custom. Master assault and recon techniques like fast-roping rappelling window entryblind-cover fire and more.  On this day Rainbow Six is the city's lasthope.  2005 - The terrorist threat to Vegas is still five years away but theseeds of deceit are soon to be planted. And you unknowingly are about to playa central role.You are Bishop leader of Rainbow’s elite Bravo Team. You’ve been orderedto a desolate observatory where a hostage stand-off is underway. Your mission isstraightforward: infiltrate the observatory and protect the hostages shouldnegotiations fail. But you’re experienced enough to know that things have afunny way of not going as planned...2010 / Las Vegas Nevada - The tragic events at the observatory are now amemory but the terrorist threat in Sin City is very real. While Logan Keller isin pursuit of Irina Morales in Mexico Six has ordered your team to Vegas.There terrorist mastermind Alvarez Cabrero is hatching a scheme to bring SinCity to its knees - and it’s up to your team alone to stop him from turningVegas into a devastated inferno.Return to Sin City for the last time in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and put an end tothe terrorist threat. There you’ll unravel a web of betrayal that will takeyou be

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Grand fun, but missing important and classic R6 elements!, May 13, 2007

By 

Leif Sheppard (United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (DVD-ROM)

Red Storm has helmed the Rainbow Six franchise since it's inception in the late nineties, now with Ubisoft taking the reins they've both raised the bar and lowered it drastically in certain aspects.

First of all, the gameplay is vastly improved from previous titles. The horribly lame "lean" option has been upgraded to a complex cornering system. Now you can hug the wall, find the enemy from relative cover, and swing around a corner with your weapon at the ready - like a true tactical operative. The shooting, strafing, movement is all top-notch as one would expect from an R6 title.

However, the planning and team aspects of the game have been reduced or in some cases deleted. In previous titles you could command a team of up to eight operatives and then systematically plan your assault by assigning waypoints and goals utilizing a map layout of the mission.

Now your team never consists of more than three members (including yourself) and you cannot plan your mission out. At all.

It's a bit silly, isn't it? The last thing the supposedly most elite tactial unit on Earth would do is send in only three men Rambo-style. Granted, your missions are vaguely planned out by the developers, but I assure you it's not nearly as much fun as doing it yourself.

Another major disappoinment longtime players will notice is a severe lack of mission variety. In previous titles you would find yourself at a millionaire's contemporary summer villa one day, at a snowy European village another, a meat packing plant in South America the next, and still later end up at an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean. Now the game primarily focuses on only one location - Las Vegas. Though there are a couple others (the first missions in Mexico, the dam outside of Vegas) but still you'll find yourself wishing for a bit more variety.

Naturally, I and anyone else should expect this from a title that clearly bills itself as "Rainbow Six: VEGAS" - yet it's still a broad and unwanted change from previous titles.

Also, a note on the replayability of the title. With the last few R6 games we were presented with a terrorist hunt option, which allowed us to play a single customized mission. You could choose to have a hostage situation to diffuse or just straight terrorist killing, then you could choose your map (from a few multiplayer ones and whatever single-player maps you had completed) and plan out your team assault. You could also choose to do the "Lone Wolf" option, which just send yourself in with no team to eliminate the terrorists.

Now, with this title, you're reduced to a strictly lone wolf mode. No team, no plans, and your character insanely doesn't even opt for a helmet by default. It's still fun, sure, but the severe lack of options once again limits it.

While this is an outstanding game and certainly worthy of your time and money - they missed a few key components. Hopefully with the next title Ubisoft will combine both the strictly tactical methods of Red Storm's titles with their more "Metal Gear Solid" run-and-gun style.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars VeganMalcontent Pretty Much Summed it Up, December 21, 2006

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Just "Mincemeat" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (DVD-ROM)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply awesome, January 2, 2008

By 

Edward V. Hawk (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (DVD-ROM)

I notice not to many favorable reviews of this game, which I find rather odd. I am a fan of the Rainbow Six series, but I appreciate the fact that this game is a bit simplified (read: less tedious) from those previous versions.

I like the fact that you can outfit yourself with what you need/prefer, and the fact that your squad mates are actually pretty darned good. In the Vegas area, you have two with you mos to the time, one with a standard assault rifle/sub-machine gun combo, and the other with a light machine gun/sub combo. Both guys are equipped with smoke, flash, and frag grenades, as well as breaching charges.

As far as the graphics... awesome. Possibly the poor reviews for the graphics of this game are people with no DX9 support, or lower end systems, but the graphics in this game are top notch. You will need something fairly serious to run the game, but mine runs just fine on an AMD 3800X2 w/1GB DDR2 and a mid level 8600GT graphics card. The higher the better, as I can't turn everything on full without some frame rate droppage. If you plan on playing this online, and not getting owned, you'd need something faster than what I have.

Gameplay: straight forward, which I appreciate. I found at times on previous versions, the mission planning sessions to be a bit long in the tooth, especially when I just wanted to 'get to it already'. With this, you can. Your guys use cover wisely, and you can stage them at entry points to help you flank the enemy. The weapons sound FANTASTIC. Turn up the volume and let it rip... some of the most satisfying sounds in any tactical shooter I have heard. This includes reloading, and the way guns sound and operate with a suppressor on. Much quieter, but also much less damage and range. Guys with body armor are noticeably harder to take down, and the terrorist on the 'realistic' setting are very tough.

You'll need to plan your entry points, where your guys will need to be to cover you, and vice versa. As someone else mentioned, you will die, a lot. If you plan well, you won't. Use your squad mates effectively, learn to count on them, and you'll do fine. Don't assume the terrorist will miss, because while they might miss once, they won't miss the second time.

Things that would be nice: A mission editor. That is really the only thing I can find missing...

Conclusion: This game is very immersive. Fans of tactical shooters in general should be happy with this one. If you're looking to plan for 30 minutes before just making it happen, if you like the micro-management of the previous Rainbow Six series, you may not like this. But if you want a challenging environment, with great graphics and even better audio (seriously, it's SICK), I'd go for this one, hands down.

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