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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

Also known as: Rainbow Six: Vegas [UK]

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The glorious return of the thinking man's shooter

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US
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Sequences like that happen all the time in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas. You'll approach a new environment or new enemy from your old-fashioned, one-man-army FPS perspective and the more realistic, team-based Vegas will knock you right out. Learn to play by its rules, however, and it will reward you with an entirely different, but no less satisfying, way to play a shooter game.

So while you may be used to charging through levels, strafing from side to side and fragging every pixel that blinks at you wrong, doing so in Rainbow Six Vegas will just get you killed repeatedly and frustratingly. Instead, the game retrains your brain to look for cover first and shoot later. Seeking protective objects in the environment to hide behind, duck beneath, press up against or dart between is absolutely crucial to any kind of success. Walls, pillars, chairs, slot machines... practically anything solid and nearby is fair game.

You'll need everything you can find, too, as just a few hits in Rainbow Six Vegas will take you down. And the terrorists? They're both as vulnerable and as adept at taking cover as you are. The results are long, exhausting back-and-forth battles filled with breath-holding silences, nerve-wracking peeks around corners and intermittent, staccato bursts of gunfire. They may not be as fast, but the showdowns here are undeniably more intense and dramatic than in the vast majority of other action games.


 
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

Genre: Action
Release date: Dec 12, 2006
Published by: Ubisoft
Developed by: Ubisoft Montreal
Franchise: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Min system requirements: P4 3.0 GHz or equivalent, 1 GB RAM, 7 GB HD space, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compatible 3D card
Recommended system: P4 3.5 GHz or equivalent, 1 GB RAM, 7 GB HD space, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-compatible 3D card
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
16 player VS
4 player CO-OP
Online
16 player VS
4 player CO-OP
9 AWESOME
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