Games: Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, PS3. Hexfix93’s Review.

March 25th, 2008 by Hexfix93

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Lets start by saying, this has been done before. Innovation here? NOT ONE BIT. In fact, there are frame rate issues in this game. The game controls slow, and sloppy. Character animations are twitchy and jittery and look very un-natural. The character models have been improved over the original rainbow 6 vegas, but the environments are really dull, low res, and static. After playing cod4 all the time, this feels like you are on quaaludes, like someone dosed your drink with ghb, but not enough to knock you out. Lets not forget the massive online problems. Krztov and I, we played the main story in co-op all the way through. But, he would invite me 30 times, and I would get “unable to join game” over and over again. A reboot would sometimes make it work. BUG CITY. DID THEY NOT BETA TEST THIS BEFORE THE RELEASE? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!

Don’t get me wrong though. This game is decent despite its glaring problems. The Duck and Cover system is back, ala Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune style. They added a run button and this helps. I still feel like the controls are slow and sluggish though. Some of the outdoor battles are really nifty. The enemy AI is pretty good and move around and hide a lot. I did have some fun playing this co-op with my friend(when it worked). But I did also play it by myself a bit and found it really boring like this. Controls over the friendly wingmen are the same and make the game so easy to walk through, just have them clear out every room, use the snake cam to tag people behind the door. Kind of makes the game feel really cheap and un-challenging. So I recommend not using the wingmen much if you want the game to actually challenge you.

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I preferred army of two over this. It had more character, the story was told in a much better way as well(not to mention the bromance). The Audio in this games a joke, the ambience was louder than all the dialogue and acting most of the time, so I would miss parts of the story. Didn’t matter, because the story was so bad and predictable I didn’t even care. This doesn’t even feel like a tom clancy game. Usually Tom Clancy’s games have decent stories full of bullshit propaganda that is done well. This was like. WTF is he saying? Of fuck it. One cool thing though, If you have an eye toy, you can map your face on your character. Krztov did this, and it was hilarious. But it too has issues with lighting, he tried to get his grandmother into the game, and it would’t work for some reason.

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4.0 Presentation
Bad acting, Bad story, Bad menus. Bad.

6.8 Visuals
Slow frame rate, buggy animations. Dated look and feel, bland textures.

5.0 Audio
So bad, the audio mixing was done by a 3 year old with Attention Deficit Disorder.

7.0 Game Mechanics
Controls are sluggish. Felt like I was on downers when I played this. But not horrid. Stop and Pop is fun if you have the patients.

2.0 Replay
Single player was about 8 hrs. Because of the online issues of, 1 out of 40 tries getting a single game to connect FORGET MULTI PLAYER.

6.4 Total Score.
(out of 10 / not an average)

Seriously, This was fun when played co-op. Terrorist hunt was ok too. But it wouldn’t not even work 90% of the time. I recommend you rent this. It’s barely worth a rent, and that is only if you really love first person tactical shooters. If not, Stay far far far away from this game. Ubi soft does not even acknowledge a problem with the ps3 version of the game. You can read about the nightmare HERE!. This is a joke. UBISUCK should really learn how to code on the ps3.

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