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Rainbow Six Vegas
Published by: UbiSoft |
Rainbow Six Vegas - Game Review (PC)
By George Petrisor
Published: March 7, 2007
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Rainbow Six Vegas features a wide variety of enemies. The AI is intelligent, knows how to take you down, but they are vulnerable and this is why they will try, same as you, to take advantage of the environment. If there are crates, barrels or obstacles in the room, they will use them and will make your job harder. I found myself sometimes pinned down, with my team injured because we were surrounded and we couldn't fight back as the enemies were using cover fire while advancing to our positions. Sometimes I even got killed in the back because a enemy hided behind a small room that I forgot to check. All this will make your advancing very hard, with long, exhausting battles filled with breath-holding silences, peeks around corners and intermittent, staccato bursts of gunfire. The action is sometimes so intense and so dramatic that will make you take a break before continuing the game.
The equipment
Because you are part of an elite commando unit, you have access to some pretty interesting gear which most old Splinter Cell players are already familiar with. You have thermal and night vision goggles, grenades ranging from flashbang to frag grenades, and 33 guns in 6 main sections. You can choose pistols (useful when you are in rappel), short machine guns (close range, high accuracy), long machines guns (when needed a lot of ammo between reloads), shotguns (high damage, short range) or assault guns (medium in all aspects - my favorite being SCARC-H CQC with a 6x scope). For snipers, you can choose between 4 weapons like SV-98 or Scout Tactical.
Together or against each other? That is the question ...
The Rainbow Six Vegas multiplayer features a lot of options. You can play the single-player campaign cooperatively, both in story mode and in terrorist hunt mode, which puts you and your buddies against a bunch of randomly placed terrorists on existing or specially created maps. You can team up with up to three people to play the campaign which is intriguing since in the original version your team has only three people in. If you play on the realistic difficulty, the job is tough enough so you really must use effective team tactics to complete some of the harder missions, and there's something very cool about being able to make a strategy with your buddies while in the middle of a fight. But there is a setback: the game doesn't knows how to advance to the next map automatically, you will have to do it manually or to set up the server to know what map you want to play next. Anyway, it's fun to play with people instead of your Rainbow Six teammates.
Aside from the campaign, there are more competitive modes available to the online players (up to 16 people can play on a map). Capture the flag mode has been named retrieval and consists in collecting barrels and bringing them to your base. The team collecting a number of barrels wins. This mode features respawns so if you die you are back in the game to help your team. The multiplayer action is just as intense as the single-player game, especially since you can use the same cover tactics that you used in the campaign. Our only major issue with the PC version is that there's a known and nasty bug that causes the entire game to crash if you attempt to search for a game using the default settings. You have to narrow down your search parameters to avoid crashing the game. Also, the PC version lacks the built-in voice support found in the Xbox 360 version, so it's harder to communicate with your teammates in the middle of an intense firefight.
Technical stuff
Rainbow Six Vegas features some excellent graphics and the PC version looks just as good as the Xbox 360 version (some say it's slightly better in some places). Like all good looking games, your framerate depends heavily on your hardware and you will need a powerful computer to run the game at high detail with fast frame rates. The details are amazing, it's almost photo-realistic. Your teammates, the gear, the environment is modeled superbly and it makes you take a good look at your team and their gear if the bullets weren't flying near your head. We have Las Vegas as settings but it's all fictional, there's no real casino simulated in the game. You have slot machines, Elvis songs and a John Wayne action.
Regarding the sound, the voice actings varies from excellent to average. Your main character and your teammates have excellent voices while the bad guys are yelling various tactics between them but done in an average manner. You will hear you team screaming for help when wounded, asking for cover fire when swapping magazines and such. The weapon sounds are pretty authentic, though at this point every realistic shooter has the same level of effects.
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