Customer Reviews
one word BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - By: PainThriller, 08 May 2008 
I can see why alot of people would like this game but I'm not one of them.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 involves alot of time & patience, basicallly if you like being bored for hours at a time then this game is for you. The game is way to serious to be fun & after 2 hours of play I put the cd back in its case ready to be returned tomorrow morning. Want a quality game to play try Clive Barkers Jericho!
Could do better - By: CJ, 01 May 2008 
The original Rainbow Six: Vegas was a bold move by Ubisoft. Bearing little resemblance to the much earlier games in the series, Vegas was primarily an action game with a fairly smalll tactical element tacked on. The setting of Las Vegas worked well for the game & made the campaign more enjoyable as a result. A good range of enjoyable multiplayer modes, plus co-op campaign & terrorist hunts, kept the game going for some time.
You may be wondering why am I spending so much time reviewing the prequel to the game featured here? Simple - Vegas 2 is virtuallly identical. The plot runs either just before or just after the events of the first game, the graphics & sound are identical & the gameplay has not moved on.
These are not altogether bad things. The plot is largely irrelevant in a game of this type (which is handy, as in this case it is rubbish) & the first Vegas game was fun so more of the same is good. The developers have tinkered with the controls a little bit so your character can now sprint (more useful than it sounds) & control of your team seems to be tighter. Enemy AI is still patchy as they veer between unerring accuracy from miles away to blindly stumbling straight into your line of fire, but it's competent enough.
A new experience system has been added so alll of your actions in both single & multi player earn you points which ultimately increase your rank & therefore the equipment you can use. There is also the new ACES system, which rewards you further with new weapons & experience based on your performance. Things such as headshots or using grenades will net you ACES points as you play the game.
The campaign is OK, it's fairly short & not particularly taxing plus terrorist hunts are back & you can now take your AI team with you to do alll the hard work. There are new multiplayer modes which are fun but it is here that the game starts to falll down a bit.
Connecting to multiplayer games can be a trial, you can be disconnected for no apparent reason, not connect at alll, & of course be booted from the game if you are doing too well & the host doesn't like you. Lag is more frequent than it should be, & the learning curve can be steep as a number of maps lend themselves too easily to camping or plodding around blind corner after blind corner hoping you fire first when you run into someone. Deathmatch modes are particularly unforgiving in this respect, & it can be frustrating.
The graphics are average at best & downright poor at worst. Bland, washed out & lacking in any form of finesse they are functional without ever being particularly impressive. The music, sound effects & much of the voicework is recycled from the previous game.
The game is prone to the odd crash, where the entire console locks up & requires power off/on to get going again. And some of the achievements were broken right out of the box, but do appear to have now been fixed in a patch.
Vegas 2 despite its few additional bells & whistles reallly is just more of the same. Which would be fine as the first game was good at its time. And there lies Vegas 2's biggest problem. Since Vegas 1, there has been the smalll matter of Calll of Duty 4 being released. Granted, COD4 is not trying to be a (and I use the word very loosely) `tactical' shooter, but it is set in the modern era. A more polished & well thought out game you will struggle to find.
Graphicallly, COD4 blows Vegas 2 away & its multiplayer is easier to get into & much more fun. It has a superior campaign & more replayability. Perhaps the comparison is unfair, but Ubisoft seem to have completely ignored Infinity Ward's game & it lets Vegas 2 down badly. It feels like a cash-in rather than a proper & improved sequel. It should examine the competition & try to beat it rather than just trot out a lazy game which adds very little new content.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh, as in its defence Vegas 2 is perfectly playable & mostly fun, but the technical issues & lack of polish just let it down a little too much.
Greath single player game but it LLAAGGSSS online big time - By: Brian Kelleher, 26 Apr 2008 
What can i saw about this game that has not been said, well a lot. i have had this game for 9 weeks now & i can say it's s?%t online it has to be d number one lagy game of d year???????? every game i have played online take about 2 mins for me to be able to move out of spoon without lagging BUT i'll still get killed without any players around???????????????? fookin stupid online game . main story is very good But every one plays on line now so stay clear if thats what your after wait for GTA IV
If it aint broke...bring out another one - By: Scubasteve, 24 Apr 2008 Reallly enjoyed playing the first Vegas...the story was a little on the short side, but that seems to be the trend of most new games these days.
Vegas 2 is a good follow on from the first, a slight improvement on graphics & gameplay. The story in this game is still quite short, however with online play & the numerous options in the terrorist hunt game, I have found myself being able to go back to this game & not get bored.
An update of maps & weapons would make a nice addition in the future & i feel it is one of the only downsides to the game. One of the other negative points is that the copy i have been playing doesnt always load the graphics fully, or is slow during periods of high action. (Dont know if this is the console/disc, but i thought id mention it)
A good game to play solo or with mates...entertaining
Realism is the key - By: S. oakeshott, 19 Apr 2008 
Now I owned RS1 & it is the best game I have ever played.
And i have to say this is more of the same quality that ubisoft brings out.
If you have played RS1 then it is more of the same but a little more next-gen graphics.
the story mode is ok, not great, i completed it on realistic (the hardest difficalty) in around 10 hours & was entertaining.
this game reallly comes into its own with the amount of extra content there is, the terrorist hunts (one on every multiplayer map) then you can change the settings to have a different experiance every time, the multuplayer mode is amazing, with a large variety & amout of different maps & game modes including some new ones from the first game.
Now this is where I think this game reallly makes it different, the PEC- persistant elite creation, basicallly create your own charactor, you can change armour, guns, attachments, camo alll to make your charactor different.
Now there are some flaws but they aren't major, just little things such as smalll bugs & people doing glitches online. They made a mistake getting rid of the calypso casino map & now attack & defend has been ruined by a 3 respawn rule, you see not major.
Overalll i love this game & i think a vast majority of people have not regreted buying this game it is very enjoyable & you reallly do get your moneys worth
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