Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Xbox 360)

Release Date: 20/03/2008

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Summary

Developer:: Ubi Soft
Publisher:: Ubi Soft

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is the last chance for gamers to rescue America’s sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will impose heart-pounding action from beginning to end. The best are back and this time winner takes all. The highly-anticipated sequel to the recipient of numerous awards, including 2006’s Best First Person Shooter and Best Online Game, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will push the top-selling franchise to new heights with new gameplay features and groundbreaking co-op and multiplayer modes.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Features:

More Multiplayer: The highly acclaimed multiplayer mode in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas has been upgraded for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 to include 13 new maps with more intense face-offs, two new adversarial modes, more rewards, and easier access to matches using the improved and intuitive matchmaking system.
Unprecedented Customisable Experience: Create your own Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 identity that persists through both the single player and multiplayer modes and progresses along with you. Reap the benefits of your Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 single player rewards in multiplayer and vice versa.
Vastly Improved Co-op Mode: Turn single player mode into co-op mode at any time, just by jumping into the game. Now you and a friend can jump into a single player game of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and assist without any change to the story. The single player maps and storyline were created with co-op in mind, meaning every map has multiple entry points and the story is unaffected.
Challenging AI: The AI in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is more challenging than ever. Now, the terrorists are equipped with thermal vision, night vision, and shields – not to mention a multitude of varying tactics – all of which are guaranteed to give you a new playing experience every time you go into battle. As you progress within Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2, you’ll be able to outsmart your enemies by taking advantage of intelligence opportunities, such as thermal scanning.
New Weapons and Armor: Take down the terrorists more effectively using 11 new weapons. New camouflage, clothing and gear allow for the ultimate customisations.
More Vegas: Sin City is back and bigger than before. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 lets players explore all new Vegas hot spots and the gritty back streets creating a visual experience that is as challenging as it is breathtaking.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Review; Author: Mark Scott ; Published: 20/03/2008

EPIC!!!1!

Playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 with a friend who's not into this sort of game in the slightest, he was of the opinion that people who were into such titles would love the game – even going so far as to suggest I get the word 'epic' into my review as many times as possible.

Instead of doing that, I thought I'd get it all out of my system in one paragraph. So here goes...

Epically epic!!

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is epically epic stuff, boasting epic HD visuals, played to an epic musical accompaniment through an epic Tom Clancy antiterrorism story, against the epic backdrop of a sprawlingly epic digital Las Vegas, offering epic-scale firefights and epic levels of realism that Rainbow Six fans and Vegas 1 players will get epic amounts of epic enjoyment from.

Right. That's that out of the way. Now, to explain what all of that actually means...

Epically epic stuff that Rainbow Six fans and Vegas 1 players will get epic amounts of epic enjoyment from.

It is, quite frankly, the approach to gunplay in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 that makes it so impressive, and yet so different from its obvious console competition. Halo 3 is all about massive environments and sandbox unpredictability, Call of Duty 4 is this huge, scripted tour-de-force, but Rainbow Six Vegas 2 requires a far more methodical mindset.

There's no jump button in Rainbow Six Vegas 2. You plod around at slow pace the majority of the time, sprinting in short bursts only over very small distances. And going gung-go gets you very, very dead in rather a hurried fashion.

Pro-american antiterrorist machismo

Instead, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is very much about co-ordinating your team's movements, taking cover, selecting the right weapon for the job, and going from room to courtyard to rooftop, clearing areas in a slow-moving, ever-alert SWAT-style manner. All the time you're paying heed to your mission objectives (disarm bomb, save hostages, etc), and hearing a not-infrequent amount of radio chatter laced with the type of pro-American antiterrorist machismo typical to Tom Clancy's works.

If that's your bag, then my mate's right – you will absolutely love Rainbow Six Vegas 2. The intensity of the title is all-but overwhelming.

Heavier customisation elements, more cinematic storytelling, fully-fledged campaign co-op and enhanced multiplayer.

Of course, plenty will have played the original, and for them that description of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will be largely redundant. For returning players, the real question will be; is Rainbow Six Vegas 2 a worthy sequel to one of 2006's best shooters? … And following that; does it improve the Vegas formula?

To be blunt; it's a very good more-of-the-same; after just 18 months in development, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 can't avoid feeling familiar. That, however, should be no bad thing for the series' fans, who will enjoy the heavier customisation elements, more cinematic storytelling, fully-fledged campaign co-op and enhanced multiplayer suite of Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

In co-op, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is at once a step forward, and a step back, with the number of players actually reduced from four to two. However, that's allowed Ubisoft to optimise Rainbow Six Vegas 2's co-op play, making it a more story-driven, cinematic experience. With player two able to drop in and drop out at will and play as the team's second in command, it's basically the singelplayer mode with an extra person – though it is a shame player two can't give orders if player one gets killed.

Familiar but refined

Rainbow Six Vegas 2's other big evolution is to bring experience points to the campaign mode as well as online multiplayer, letting you buy new weapons and equipment across the various modes and customise your character how you wish. Add in 13 new multiplayer maps, and the ACES system giving you experience points for different actions a little like Halo's medals, and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is sure to keep fans occupied for quite some time.

And in the end, this really is one for fans. Familiar to, but refined over its 2006 forebear, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is another solid tactical edition to Ubisoft's epic series. Oh, shoot – I said it again.

GAME's Verdict

More Rainbow Six Vegas action that fans of the first will find even more enjoyable.
Run button ups the pace of the game considerably.
New customisation and experience points systems make singleplayer even more fulfilling - while co-op and multiplayer are further refined.

More of the same which won't necessarily feel as fresh to Vegas 1 fans, or convert non Rainbow Six players.
Co-op play, while improved and more cinematic, is down from four players to two
Running feels a bit odd at first and will be divisive amongst the hardcore Rainbow Six Vegas community.

Review by: Mark 'Six-Shooter' Scott
Version Tested: Xbox 360
Review Published: 20.03.08

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