Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-03-20
• Platform: Xbox 360

Manufacturer's Description

Head back to the streets of Sin City in an explosive, all-new adventure. Team Rainbow is back and it's your last chance to put an end to the deadly terrorist threat in Las Vegas.

The Rainbow Six Vegas 2 story runs in parallel to R6-Vegas. You are Bishop, one of Rainbow's top commanders, working with Logan Keller. You must lead your team into the unknown to end the terrorist threat led by Alvarez Cabrero and close the book on Vegas terrorist threat once for all.

Customer Reviews

one word BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 and patience, basically 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 and 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
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 small tactical element tacked on. The setting of Las Vegas worked well for the game and made the campaign more enjoyable as a result. A good range of enjoyable multiplayer modes, plus co-op campaign and 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 virtually identical. The plot runs either just before or just after the events of the first game, the graphics & sound are identical and 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) and 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) and 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 all of your actions in both single and multi player earn you points which ultimately increase your rank and therefore the equipment you can use. There is also the new ACES system, which rewards you further with new weapons and 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 and not particularly taxing plus terrorist hunts are back and you can now take your AI team with you to do all the hard work. There are new multiplayer modes which are fun but it is here that the game starts to fall down a bit.

Connecting to multiplayer games can be a trial, you can be disconnected for no apparent reason, not connect at all, and of course be booted from the game if you are doing too well and the host doesn't like you. Lag is more frequent than it should be, and 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, and it can be frustrating.

The graphics are average at best and downright poor at worst. Bland, washed out and lacking in any form of finesse they are functional without ever being particularly impressive. The music, sound effects and much of the voicework is recycled from the previous game.

The game is prone to the odd crash, where the entire console locks up and 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 and whistles really 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 small matter of Call 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 and well thought out game you will struggle to find.

Graphically, COD4 blows Vegas 2 away and its multiplayer is easier to get into and much more fun. It has a superior campaign and more replayability. Perhaps the comparison is unfair, but Ubisoft seem to have completely ignored Infinity Ward's game and it lets Vegas 2 down badly. It feels like a cash-in rather than a proper and improved sequel. It should examine the competition and 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 and mostly fun, but the technical issues and lack of polish just let it down a little too much.

Greath single player game but it LLAAGGSSS online big time
What can i saw about this game that has not been said, well a lot. i have had this game for 9 weeks now and 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