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1 star this game is HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 40
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a very good reason for hating this game it flat out sucks. the basic theory is its a tactical shooter in which you hide behind cover. theres hardly anything to hide behind. often you will shoot at enemys only to die in one shot. SEE IF YOU GET HIT ONE TIME YOU DIE! awful design once i went down to an alley on a rope and got killed countless times before my feet hit the floor. horrible game design. a complete waste of 63 dollars. THIS GAME IS HIGWAY ROBBERY. please rent befire you buy.

Why Did I Buy This?!!??!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game if you've played Call of Duty 4!! The graphics & game play blow compared. You will not like it.

Unrealistic and frustrating gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game based on my previous experience with Rainbow Six games for the PC and on the reviews here, but I'm finding this game extremely frustrating. You start out with yourself and two AI helpers (barely enough to mount any sort of tactical operation - I'd say four would be a bare minimum). However your two accomplices are soon taken away from you and you're on your own in a situation that virtually ensures that you'll die - a situation that no small unit commander in his right mind would allow to continue. This happens over and over again. Unlike the old Rainbow Six games this one is highly unrealistic. Not only that, but the save points are so far apart that survival is virtually impossible. The tunnel mission is particularly frustrating as you're alone and with only a pistol and you have to rescue your comrades. Ridiculous!

Rainbow Six: Vegas is a game for the hardcore FPS fan and it seems to me that it's unsuitable for anyone else. I've tried reducing the difficulty as much as possible but the same frustrations occur time and again: I get killed not because I'm bad at FPS games but because the game is set up in such a way that death is virtually guaranteed even when your actions are tactically correct. If this is what this franchise is turning into then this is the last Rainbow Six game that I'll be buying.

Not that great.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like shooting for 10 minutes then searching for what your supposed to do for 45 minutes then this game is for you. Some maps have objectives others don't so you end up spending most of the time just walking around trying to figure out what to do. Also no way to save games except at checkpoints. First run of the game there was a programing error that would not let me advance, without the ability to save the game I had to start all over again.

Compared to 'Splinter Cell Double Agent' This is AWEFULL

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As far as this Vegas & Ghost Recon, these 2 games are Not Even Fun after playing Splinter Cell Double Agent. I bought that first and then got Vega & Ghost Recon. The later two have NO story line compared, the graphics suck compared, and the game play sucks compared. Splinter Cell is a masterpiece in Gaming. Because you dont go around with a big gun or grenade in your hand the entire time. You actually play a role and use your'e body. Very disapointed with the Earlier games. It'll be fun when the next Splinter Cell games come out, they are in their own Genera. Period.

Too many glitches to be worth buying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There is no denying that Rainbow Six is a gorgeous game and I enjoyed playing it. However, it suffers from a number of programming choices and problems that may drive you crazy.

First, there are some basic things about the game that are just odd. Such as you can not run. You can walk, or walk in a crouch, but you can not run. Also, you can not climb anything other than a ladder. Boxes are off limit as are cars. Also, you can not crawl on your belly. And you can not jump. Anyone who has played Metal Gear Solid or SOCOM or Gears of War will miss some of these things. Along those same lines, there are odd inconsistencies about what you can and can not shoot. Some things like TV screens on the wall you can shoot and bottles will blow up. Other things like plants on a desk -- not so much. It is as if they made some things shootable objects and then ran out of time and just painted the rest in.

Second, despite the fact that you are a highly trained military expert carrying enough weaponry to kill a small army, you can not push, move or blow up a tiny wooden saw horse. It is clear that they are there to keep you "on the map" but it really is strange to come to a 5 pound piece of wood and not be able to move or shoot it or blow it up.

Third, and most important, there are several places in the game where you are likely to get stuck and not be able to continue until you search the internet and find out how to deal with a glitch. For example, when you are on the Dam and trying to have your guys program a computer you will get a failure message over and over until you read about how you have to go to a certain spot and kill a bunch of guys in a particular way. Also, in the second to last scene of the game you will try to kill the boss over and over and it will tell you that you failed because of some reason you could not possibly know about in advance.

For all of these reasons, mostly the third, I recommend that you rent this game and not buy it. When the game works well it is a lot of fun.

Definatly not what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is decent. Its fun to play and its definatly pretty cool shooting your way into and out of casinos. I also like the fact that I can customize my character and will expect this from more shooters in the future. Now I will explain why I only gave this game 3 stars. First I had to knock one star off simply for the amount of bugs in the game and the fact that many enimies spawned in rooms that I already cleared. Sometimes simply walking past a certain point magically generates enemies which made me feel the gameplay was too scripted. The more serious issue for me however was the online multiplayer. Everone was talking about how this was a tactical shooter like GRAW, but instead of fighting outdoors you fight through building hallways. THIS GAME IS NOT ANYTHING LIKE GRAW in terms of how the multiplayer is played. This game is an arcade shooter more like Halo than GRAW. In GRAW the objective is to move one area to another and go unseen because one shoot kills. The objective in this game isnt to move through the map without being seen, it is simply to overpower your enemy in a shootout. Its fun, but in GRAW when I killed someone I felt like I had to work and outsmart the person, flank them, or get off a better shot. In this game however I feel somewhat lucky when I get a kill cause we were standing directly in front of each other shooting rambo style and I happened to get a headshot in. There are even times in this game where I will see someone running, hit them directly in their back a couple times, and they just keep running unphased into cover. Shooting them doesnt even knock them back or slow them down, then once in cover they regenerate health. Also I dont like the fact in this game that there arent enough paths that mass shootouts take place. In GRAW, there was so many wide open places I could take shots from. In this game (especially calipso casino multiplayer map), there is really only two hallways where shootouts take place. There are plenty of rooms and hallways in this game, but the maps were designed for the teams to meet in certain areas over and over again. Also, gernades in this game are overpowerful and used wayyyy too much. Seeing gernades flying in and out of rooms was cool the first game, but now its just making me feel like this game is too arcade-ish. Overall this game is fun but flawed, and not what I was looking for. Its NOT a tactical shooter like graw, its an arcade halo-ish shooter, except this game takes place in real world style places with real world style people and guns. Other than that, this game is too much halo rambo gernade fest gaming for me.

great fps

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love all rainbow six gamnes . but this one is set apart. exellent gameplay single and on line .on line playing it seen a little confused at beguinig after 2- minutes plying you get used to it. but lot of fun. this title and graw 2 are the best ever on tactical warfare games. recomended boths

I hate having weapons dissallowed online because I don't waste all of my time playing it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Game play is fun, I enjoyed the regular game and I enjoy playing online. But I LOATHE games that make me spend 50 hours playing them before I can use all the weapons. It doesn't incentivise people to play more, it ticks them off. The uniforms and stuff you earn are incredibly lame too.

Fun but flawed-- in serious need of testing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I hate to be the first to write a non-glowing review of R6Vegas, but I have not had the most stellar experience with it. I have had it for a few weeks now and have tried to give it every chance.. but it still disappoints.

The game has its high points; it is a continuation of a terrific game, Rainbow6 3 for the xbox. R63 was one of the top xbox games in my opinion, on campaign and on multiplayer. The online co-op in particular was excellent; the weapon selection was extensive and well-rounded, and the reaction times of the controller were instantaneous. It was a well-thought out game and very stable. I have not played any of the games between R63BA and R6Vegas, so I cannot comment on other R6 games since then, but my memories of R63 and R63BA for xbox were all very positive.

R6Vegas, on the other hand, is plagued with problems right out of the box. It regularly locks up on me in the middle of single-player or multiplayer modes -- maybe once or twice a day. Voice communication on xbox live frequently cuts out for one or more players. The weapon choices are much more limited than in R63 (where is the fun grenade launcher?). There is no way to skip the annoying introductory cutscenes (especially when restarting from the first level). Many times, on multiplayer co-op, the game drops the entire team underneath the ground where we fall until the game is rebooted. The checkpoints are often maddeningly far apart. I wish that the controller could be customized to allow hotkeying of weapons. In the heat of battle, when you run out of ammo, it takes far too long to bring up the menu system and switch to an alternate weapon. On all of these items, the original R63 for the xbox was far superior.

I get suspicious when I see the "powered by the Unreal engine" logo on startup of the game. It appears that, instead of making or reusing an original game engine of their own, Ubisoft took an existing game engine and rushed it out the door to cash in on a profitable franchise in time for the holiday season. I wonder if the myriad of bugs are due to this. Even boasting this game engine, the game graphics are largely boring and uninteresting. There are no crisp graphics like other recent 360 titles.

All that being said -- it is still an enjoyable game. Single-player mode has an engaging story line and the setting is very interesting. Multiplayer and co-op modes are fun and challenging. The formula that made R63 and R63BA so enjoyable has, to a limited extent, also been successful with R6Vegas.

I hope that there will be a patch that will address all of the bugs and errors that really should have been flushed out BEFORE the game was launched. I ran into all of the bugs I mention above within the first day of playing. It is obvious that the QA process was skipped in order to get the game on the shelves. Had I known the problems that this game has, I certainly would have opted for Gears of War rather than this one. For such a high price tag for these games, I think that we deserve a better product. I hate feeling cheated by a game purchase, and that is exactly how I felt with R6Vegas.

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