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Rainbow Six Vegas - Game Review (PC)
By George Petrisor
Published: March 7, 2007
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The city of fortune, the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas is where the latest Rainbow Six installment takes place. The first Rainbow Six was released by Red Storm Entertainment in 1998 but the game was so successful that several expansion packs and add-ons followed. Because of the popularity of the game, Red Storm was later acquired by Ubisoft, who currently develops and publishes its games.Ubisoft released Rainbow Six Vegas for both PC and XBOX 360. Unlike GRAW, where the stories were different, here we have the same game. The PC version was ported from XBOX360 but don't worry because Ubi has done a really good job.
Sin City, the city with 36.7 million men, women and children visitors each year, will soon be a place where terrorists will rule and it's up to Rainbow Six team to solve the situation. You will play as the leader of a three-men squad named Logan Keller. You and your team will have to see what is causing problems and save the day. The story is very interesting and you won't find the real plot until the end of the game.
A bond named team
What is so excellent in Vegas is that now you can really feel that you are part of an intense situation where the bad guys are waiting for you to make a mistake and you are history. To survive this game you will have to use any cover you can find between you and the enemies and to try to maximize your killing because they surely will. Cars, crates, doors, concrete slabs, and pretty much anything else that can stop a bullet is a life savior. As I said, Ubi ported the PC version from XBOX 360 but they done it so great that you can do anything with the mouse and the keyboard. For example you can hide behind the cover, you can embrace the walls to become harder to hit, you can even peep around the corner to see what's the situation or even provide cover fire for your teammates until they reach a safer position or they can take out the bad guys. To move your teammates you will simply point the crosshair where you want them and press space. They will move there and wait for further orders or if left on their own they will try to act the best they can. With the Alt key you can tell them to hold position or to follow you.
Rules of Engagement
Because each situation demands an appropriate solution, sometimes you will have to tell your teammates exactly what to do. For instance, a hostage rescue operation can't be handled as a fight in the bar. You will have to tell your teammates to infiltrate (to respond to fire only and not shoot on sight), you must use a snake camera on the door at the room you are about to enter to see what the situation is and think the best strategy. To ease your job, Ubi allows you to mark two targets which your team will try to eliminate first. This is very useful because this way you will make sure that the ones that are pointing the gun to the hostages are the first to go down. By using rules of engagement wisely you will save time by focusing on the situation at hand and not trying to keep your team alive.
Staying alive
If you will approach Vegas like any other shooter, where you try to frag everything on sight, you will be dead most of the times. Why? Because the AI is quite intelligent and most of the times the AI players will be better positioned than you. To overcome them you must play as an elite soldier, try to evaluate your options, take cover (anything you can find to hide behind, duck beneath or anything capable of stopping a bullet or hide you from the enemies is crucial to your success) and use fire wisely to have a chance to survive. Rainbow Six Vegas is not about making the most frags but staying alive and completing your objectives by any means. The game features a checkpoint system which means that you won't be able to save during you game. The checkpoints are placed quite well and before each major fight you will have a check point. The major battles are well scripted, with enemies coming in rappel from above, with snipers from the rooftop, enemies throwing grenades at you, making your job really hard. If one or both teammates are being injured you will be able to save them by injecting a magic serum but if you are injured the game takes you back to the last visited checkpoint.
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