Customer Reviews

Rainbow Six Vegas 2
This game takes the shooter to a new level. Allowing you to rank up while playing the missions is great. Why don’t all shooters do this. The new maps are great. I only miss LVU.

Disappointing
Sadly, this game does not live up to the first Vegas at all. Perhaps, if this had come out a year ago, it would have seemed like a great game. But for today’s games, it is just sub-par.

The graphics are improved over Vegas 1, so that is one of the few pluses to the game. The other really good feature is that you can create a character and play as that character in every mode. Truly a cool feature that I hope more games will use. However, the SP mode is fairly boring and visually blah. There are also frame rate issues that crop up on a couple of levels in the SP mode. The way the story is wrapped up felt cheap and made the entire story less meaningful.

But really, most of us got R6V2 for the MP. And that is what makes it most disappointing. Because the MP guts what was great about the first Vegas. The levels are far too small. In the original, it was easy to go 20 minutes on an Attack and Defend. In the newer levels, 5 minutes seems to be the average. Because of the size of the levels, the ‘tactical’ aspect has been lost too. There are very few places to duck down and defend a room from. Instead, you’re mostly either standing and waiting, or running and shooting wildly inaccurate weapons at each other until one of you dies. This is really the biggest letdown for me. I was looking for more of the same in MP and instead, it is not enjoyable at all. Add to that the poor matchmaking and lag and it’s just not a fun experience. It’s not the worst game by any means, but it doesn’t live up to the first Vegas at all.

A single player point of view
Let me start by saying that I primarily played this game as a single player. I do not play online or co-op all that often.

As a single player campaign the game is great. I am playing through on the Realistic setting and it is a good challenge. There have been a few times where I get bogged down in an area and I have to replay it a few times until I get past it, but I enjoy that.

A few new perks to the game include the ability to shoot through cover, sprinting, enhanced AI (more flanking attempts, more aggresive when the terrorists have an advantage), better teammates (they actually can hit something they aim at!, they can throw grenades)and, more grenades (5 instead of 3) to name a few.

The Terrorist Hunt Mode has a few improvements for it as well. You can now bring your teammates with you and the terrorists are a lot more aggressive. On the Kill House board I never had to move from the first room to beat the board, they kept coming to me.

The experience point system is new to the game as well. It is an interesting way to unlock the weapons and gear but the scoring system seems to have a small flaw. There are three categories, Marksmen, CQB and Assault. You can only get points in one category. If you kill someone from distance with a headshot from behind, you will only get credit for one of the feats not all three. That however would be my only complaint about this game. It is a great game and I recommend it to any person that enjoys a FPS.