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Great, but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There isn't too much replay value. If you're not a die-hard first-person shooter fan, then you won't get too much pleasure out of the game. It's a little difficult to get used to the "right joystick aiming" and it has a bit of a learning curve. You can modify the sensitivity and reverse the default aim directions (i.e. moving the joystick up makes the screen move up by default, but you can reverse it).

After you beat it, the missions that are unlocked are fun for some time, but you can only enjoy killing terrorists for so long. If the online play doesn't appeal to you, then you should probably wait until the price drops or borrow it from a friend. The graphics aren't amazing like Ninja Gaiden Sigma (1080i vs. 1080p), but the gameplay does get you hooked once you pass the frustration stage.

From a Tom Clancy Fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My thoughts:

Friendly AI works astonishingly well, almost too well. Sometimes I set my men to clear a room and before I can squeeze my own player through the doorway they've shot down three guys and rescued a hostage.

Realism: Picking up enemy weapons seems dumb to me. An actual specialist would never do this unless forced to by lack of ammunition. Highly trained counterterrorism specialists aren't ones to go "Hey cool, look at this neat gun...I'll use this!" They use what they're trained to use. Slight distraction to me.

Autosave: Great feature, I think it helps to add a bit of tension to the game where you take more precaution and act more sensibly. It still doesn't go as far as Ghost Recon originally did with the whole tension feeling though.

Graphics: Character models are awesome. Lighting is great. The thermal goggles are amazing and realistic. But I will admit that when there's just a bunch of gunfire in a level that isn't completely filled with polygon rich slot machines, I get this feeling that I'm playing Black on my PS2.

I also took this to a friend's house and played it on his 27" tube tv. Bad idea. The words on the screen are almost impossible to read and it just doesn't do the game justice.

Comments: I'm really mad at Ubi Soft for taking the $$$ and filling the streets of Sin City with absolutely nothing but Dodge vehicles. It's pretty lame to wander around the streets and think, "Hmmm, everyone here must really love brand new Dodge cars, trucks, SUVs, cop cars, utility vans." Heck, the helicopters probably have a Ram Logo on the front or something. Just removes the player from a sense of realism...realism that Tom Clancy games are generally famous for.

Even so, I still love this game.

rainbow six vegas

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. It was one of the first games I bought with my newly purchased PS3 and let me tell you that it didn't disappoint. The storyline keeps you on your toes, and there is nothing better than a good ol' first person shooter. I highly recommend this game to anyone who owns a PS3 or is planning on buying one. It is one of the strongest games out on the market as of right now.

Eh... Its ok

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased this game today from Gamestop. I've played it on the 360 and it was alright. I enjoy squad based shooters, but not this one. Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but only for the people that like squad based shooters, I'm not a big fan of em. The graphics don't blow my mind, they look good, but not amazing like Ninja Gaiden or even Resistance: Fall of Man, If you have the money, I HIGHLY Recommend getting one of those 2 if you don't already own them.

Phenomenal tatical shooter both on and offline

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Tom Clancy's Rainbow six Vegas offers the player a great game in terms of story, action, and mutiplayer play. The main story takes place as you, a Rainbow operative, trying to fend off terrorists who have taken over parts of Las Vagas. You move from place to place, tyring to neutralize terrorists and trying to keep yoursef alive. If you have ever been to Las Vegas, you may recognize parts of the city. The action is superb all around. the firefights are intense, and the player will always be breaking a sweat sometime. Your AI controlled team is certainly able to take orders and fight well, so your never having to worry about useless partners. The weapons and locales of the game are great and are never too far-fetched to believe. The online capability is without a doubt the most fun part of the game. There are over 10 different modes of play, over 20 maps, and an infinite amount of fun to be had. The only problem with the online feature is that it doesn't allow the player to view a server list. Trying to find a match with your friends is harder than it should be. However, making friends who can invite you to games is always the best option. You, as the player, can rank up form a lowly private, to a battle-hardened elite, and you can unlock weapons, outifts, armor, and various miscellaneous items for your online persona.

Tom lancy's Rainbow Six delivers everthing and more. You'll be glad you bought it and the fun will never stop after that. If you like going online a lot, make sure you have an ethernet cable and, if you want it, a headset so you can talk to your teamates during online play.

Such a bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I will never understand what makes some games a hit and other games not. Frankly I find nothing redeeming whatsoever about this completely vanilla shooter.

The game opens with absolutely no fanfare. There's a brief movie and then you are dumped unceremoniously into your first mission. Where does this mission occur? Well, the game is called 'Rainbow Six: Vegas'. All the screenshots and promotional materials show you running around in Vegas shooting terrorists among slot machines and poker tables. So, naturally, the game opens ... in a helicopter over Mexico. The entire first campaign occurs in Mexico.

Unlike Ghost Recon, this game's version of Mexico is absolutely horrendous. Both have no civilian population and seem incredibly empty. But R6:V suffers from many other problems. The texturing looks like a game from 2000. There is no detail in the environment, everything looks blocky and over-wide. Framerate issues abound (both on 360 and PS3). Basically everything just looks muddy and fake and cheap.

And the gameplay is simply atrocious. There is literally no explanation as to what you are doing, where you are going, or how you're to get there. You are sometimes given a destination (which appears as a white, low-res indicator on your minimalist HUD). But then the indicator will vanish, seemingly at random.

The levels are cloyingly linear with the designers resorting to the most tired and lame tricks to keep you on a path - including stairways that are blocked with knee-high obstructions that you can for some reason not climb over - making it difficult to get lost for long. But the muddiness and lack of detail make it confusing as to where you're going versus where you have been. Getting to where you need to be invariably results from stumbling around a bunch of same-looking corridors until an event triggers.

The shooting is bland and uninspired. Aiming with the controller is a chore. The AI is quite possibly the stupidest I have ever seen in a video game - at one point in the first, incredibly long level set in Mexico you are stripped of your assault rifle (but mysteriously not your handgun) and forced to go after a target, fighting bad guys with shotguns. All you have to do is pop out, wait for the enemy to shoot at you point-blank and miss, then kill them and take their shotgun. Over and over and over.

The bad aiming controls are 'enhanced' with the classic trick of having the reticle turn red over a target, but this makes the game even easier. Just move the pointer around while behind cover until it turns red, pop up, and bang.

Like every other shooter in the world this game forces you to use cover. But the cover mechanism is buggy and difficult, with the character snapping on and off walls at just the wrong time, a buggy and spotty corner peek system, and camera issues that result in you staring point-blank at a wall while an enemy plugs you.

I imagine you eventually get to Vegas but I've never managed to stick it out through the entire Mexico campaign. It's just excruciating. If the demo is any indication, though, the Vegas levels aren't any better.

This game is just a muddle of bits pulled from other, better games. GRAW isn't amazing (it quickly got repetitive and the static enemy placements lame) but it blows this below-mediocre title out of the water. The designers try to shore up the game's weaknesses by ripping off elements from other titles, like the 'snake cam' from SWAT/Splinter Cell, door stacking/breaching from SWAT, firing from cover like pretty much every other shooter, etc. But it just ends up a mess of half-baked ideas half-implemented.

Bad scripting cannot replace good A.I.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game has many good aspects, particularly gameplay dynamics. The controls are effective and intuitive (good cover system) and the graphics are OK. For some reason, though, the game insists on preferring 1080i over 720P even though this creates a hazy pixellated mess out of otherwise first-rate graphics; be sure to disable 1080i/P on your PS3 before playing this title.
The storyline is OK but the gameplay is plagued with horrendous scripting and ridiculous spawning (i.e., a terrorist "appears" behind you in a sealed room and pops one in the back of your head). This makes for an increasingly frustrating experience as the levels become more difficult. It seems as though the only difference between difficulty levels lies in the number of goons that rope down to your vicinity when you walk half way through the rooms.

Overall, too many flaws to save from bargain bin status

GREAT ONLINE COMMUNTY AND AWSOME GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAMES IS JUST PLAIN GREAT. NOW IVE BEATEN THE CAMPAIGN BUT I DID IT CO-OP WITH MY COUSINS ONLINE AD WERE ALL LIKE THE BEST SO TO ME IT WAS TO ESAY AND I ALSO BEAT IT WITH 360 AND IT COMES DOWN TO PREFERENCE ITS WHETHER YOU WANT THE CLASSIC FEEL OF A PLAYSTATION CONTROLLER OR THE XBOX CONTROLER WITH VIBRATION I DONT CARE ITS WHATEVER SYSTE CLOSER TO ME BUT I DO PLAY THE PS3 VERSION MORE BEING THAT WHEN MY XBOX LIVE SUBSCRIPTION RAN OUT I RANKE TO HIGH ON THE PS3 VERSION AND IM ALMOST AN ELITE WHICH IS THE HIGHEST RANKING.

CAMPAIGN 8.5( COULD BE MORE CHALLENGING OR LONGER)
ONLINE.. 9.7/ ITS THE SECOND BEST(RESISTANCE IS THE ALSTIME BEST GAME)

AS FOR PEOPLE READING THIS THAT PLAY ONLINE AND PLAY ATTACK O DEFEND OR TEAM SHARPSHOOTER IN THE CASINO

XBOX LIV ACCOUNT- FRANK GUTTA (JUST LIKE THAT WITH ONE SPACE AND ALL CAPS)
PSN- FRANK GUTTA (SAME AS 360 ACOUNT)
TO LET YOU KNOW NOW YOU WILL GET PWNED BY MY DESERT EAGLE AKA THE DEAGLE
AND MY MP5 OR MP7 OR MY AUTOMATIC SHOTTY " AIM FOR THE HEAD WHEN YOU SEE ' EM GO GET EM"

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the single player is fun and looks great. multiplayer is also a lot of fun, very happy that i have this game and will no doubt be getting a lot out of it for months to come.

Just a great first person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game. Someone mentioned jagged lines? I have no idea. It runs in 1080p, (upscaled from 1080i probably) and graphics are so nice, cinematic. You can see very clear step up from Xbox (not 360). Game play did not changed that much at all, but it is definitely more challenging than previous version.

I like this game more than Halo. It is realistic, not sci-fi, it makes you use your strategic skills.

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