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.
GenreFirst-Person Shooters
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Ubisoft Montreal | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Reviews xbox360
acegamez.co.uk review
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gamechronicles.com review
One thing we have always said in our hours of co-op play is that when Ubisoft gets it right (Rainbow Six 3, Black Arrow, and Vegas), all they have to do is drop a dozen missions on a disc, keep everything else the same, and we will buy it. Don’t try to reimagine the series (Lockdown, Critical hour). But when Ubisoft announced that it would be buffering up the co-op experience with the release Rainbow Six Vegas 2, we couldn’t have been happier. For four guys who are constantly worried that co-op is on its way out of favor, to hear that it was getting extra attention was music to our ears – that is, until we heard the bad news.
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1up.com review
Hardcore players will no doubt spend more hours online than off, and this is where you’ll find the meat of the improvements. The most obvious are the three new modes. Team Leader is a blend of team deathmatch and extraction gameplay (kinda like Counter Strike’s VIP mode), but where team respawns are affected by the presence of the assigned leader as he tries to get to the extraction point. As long as he’s healthy, troops can return to the field, but once he’s gone the opposing side can systematically pick off the whole team. Total Conoh quest is a revised (and notably more frustrating) version of Vegas’ Conquest mode where teams aim to capture and hold three satellite transmitters for 30 seconds. And Demolition is a new Attack and Defend mode where one team has to pick up a bomb and successfully detonate it inside a target site, while the other must find the bomb and defuse it. These new modes join the deathmatch, extraction, and hostage rescue games that Rainbow Six fans are no doubt familiar with.
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gametap.com review
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gamer.nl review
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totallygn.com review
Overall, if you were a fan of the first Rainbow Six Vegas, then you should enjoy Rainbow Six Vegas 2. There is nothing groundbreaking here however Ubisoft did improve on what was already there. The storyline follows the first game pretty well and closes everything off neatly as you finish the campaign. If you weren�t a fan of the original Rainbow Six Vegas then you probably won�t like this title either as it is more of the same. However for gamers who are fans of this series you should have a lot of fun going through the game�s various modes and trying to unlock everything in the game.
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gamezone.com review
The interesting new change to the series – introduced back in Rainbow Six Lockdown’s online multiplayer mode – is the persistent character upgrading P.E.C. feature that allows you to continue to customize your character. Shooting enemies or performing a team-based task earns you skill points for the game’s ACES (Advanced Combat Enhancements and Specialization) feature you can use to improve your Marksman, Close Quarters and Assault skills. Earning more skill points upgrades your character’s abilities to make more accurate long-distance shots or even break through tough defenses.
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msxbox-world.com review
The ACES system is an interesting feature and like the gaining of XP runs throughout the entire game. There’s additional weapons to unlock in game and depending on how you play determines how quickly you’ll unlock certain weapons. There are three categories (Marksman, CQC and Assault) in which you score points based on the type of kills you perform. So for example performing long range kills will net you Marksman Points, which in turn will grant you marksman based weapons such as additional sniper rifles. The system works well and adds an almost RPG flavor to proceedings as level up icons flash up on the screen from time to time.
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gamingexcellence.com review
in what is becoming a disappointing trend, the PlayStation version comes with a lengthy install process that took nearly half hour before the first level was loaded and playable. First, I needed to download an update for my console, then the game needed to make an installation on the hard drive, then I needed to download an update for the game itself. Curiously, this entire process didn’t make the load times any better than those found on the X360 version.
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cheatcc.com review
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consolemonster.com review
RSV2 has now been given a well needed boost of speed with ‘Tactical Running.’ In many games today in the first-person genre you will run from start to finish, Ubisoft wanted to break away from the masses and implement a feature that you won’t use all the time, only to escape and evade enemy bullets or run across open territory or maybe just to catch up with your mates after providing sniper cover.
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game-boyz.com review
The story of Rainbow Vegas 2 has you playing as Bishop, a new customizable character to the Rainbow squad. The original game had you playing as Logan Keller, but by playing as Bishop this time around allows for the plot to take you all over the place, both in time and location. You will find that the story not only runs parallel with the original Vegas but it also gives you a conclusion to the cliffhanger of the original too. The missions you play are in such locations as the French Alps, Nevada Desert and various locations in Vegas such as a Chinese themed Casino, a Vegas show theatre or the Vegas Convention Center itself to name a few. There are some twists and turns to be had, and the story wraps up a lot of questions from the first game. Those who dive into Vegas 2 without any knowledge of the first one maybe a bit lost. I think the story could have benefitted from some sort of summary of the events from the first game. This would not have been beneficial to people who didn’t play the first, but it could has also jogged the memory of people who played the first one up as it has been 16 months since the release of that game. Regardless of if you can follow the story or not what is evident is that Vegas is once again under attack and it is up to you and your fellow operatives to save Sin City.
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gamespot.com review
Just like in the previous game, you play through each stage with your two not-so-trusty sidekicks. They’re like roulette wheels in the way they oscillate between deadly efficacy and utter helplessness, though the odds are actually stacked in favor of them doing the right thing. Their normally smart, super-effective behavior actually makes it even more striking when they get stuck behind the occasional box. The campaign isn’t very long, but it has its share of awesome firefights and is a good way to warm up for the online play.
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game-over.com review
On the topic of multiplayer, this is where the most disappointing aspect of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 lies: it only supports two-player co-op through the story mode. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that the second player can drop in and out of the story at any moment, and that the story is presented in a seamless fashion without losing any key scenes of dialogue, something the original Vegas failed to do, but even the developers know you need more than two operatives to counter the terrorists because they still provide you with two additional AI squadmates. This in itself is a problem because only the host can order the AI squadmates around. It might have worked better if each player had an AI squadmate assigned to him to command but as it stands, the guest player has to have a lot of patience while the host micromanages the team. It’s just not an ideal situation.
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dailygame.net review
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ign.com review
November of 2006 was a great month for Xbox 360 gamers. Two of the system’s finest titles to date hit the streets right before the holidays and players were beside themselves with how to budget their time in between the two. Should I spend time leveling up my character in the multiplayer of Rainbow Six Vegas or should I bring the fight to the Locusts as Marcus Fenix in Gears of War? For most the longstanding answer was the neon colored world of Vegas rather than the destroyed beauty of the other Unreal Engine 3 powered gem.
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gameshark.com review
While in cover the camera takes on a third-person vantage point, and players can simply blind fire by holding the right trigger and pointing the camera in a vague direction. For more precise shooting players can swing out around the side of the cover either while standing or crouched, or over the top if the cover is low enough. Much of the game is spent using this mechanic, letting the player conceal as much of their body as they can while trading fire with the enemy.
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gamers.at review
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