Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #442 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-03-20
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

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

Better than the first
Bad points:
1. The map (a useful tool for locating enemies) has moved from L2 to Select so its difficult to keep your finger on it whilst doing other things
2. Much easier than the first so you dont feel like your achieving anything but then you can bump it up to the highest difficulty

Good points:
1. Everything that was good about the first one
2. You can edit your character, changing his/her face, clothes and fitting him/her with different types of armor
3. Experience points are needed to unlock weapons (a bigger selection this time), clothes and armor. XP points make you feel like your working for something and will make you replay again on harder difficulties
4. You can sprint in this one
5. Easier to see enemies so you can take out a whole room without being seen
6. Graphics have improved from the first game

Call of Duty 4 is the best war game, hands down.
I bought this as I grew tired of playing COD4 and I gotta say the 9/10 reviews it bragged about on it's commercials seem a little unjustified to me.
Call of Duty 4 has so much more depth, realism and overall more fun than this game. The online play there is the best of any war game ever, period. The online play here kinda looks like a cheap knock-off and is not half as fun. The graphics are passable but nothing after you have got used to COD4 standards, in my opinion only GTA IV and Uncharted come near to Modern Warfare for graphics. The cool edge this game has is definitely the charater customization option, which allows you to create your own soldier and watch him grow by unlocking things in single/multi/online player games. That is a really cool angle.
But that's not enough to save the whole god damn game when the competition is now so good. I didn't really rate it and have only played it three times since purchase.

Good fun, if your not too pedantic
I bought Vegas 2 after playing the first instalment, just in case there was a story. There was; but both give no details or depth of intrigue and just serve really to define your targets, and to justify leaving the chopper at the start of each mission.

A lot of reviews compare this game to COD4, or at least recommend buying that game instead. To this i would'nt argue, as COD4 is the benchmark for FPS on the PS3 and is superior in look and feel as well as in storyline and single-player/online play are both amazing.

What sets Vegas 2 apart for me is the following; Firstly the tactical element. A player needs to dodge between cover, press againt it and change perspective to avoid being pwnd, and also to be able to get off a shot without being hit. I like this approach, as it feels more edgy whilst playing. The friendly ai is ok, but frequently annoying, and mainly best for flanking attacks into multiple doored rooms, supressing fire and pretty much absorbing ememy bullets. Team commands are pretty simple and if you use the team well, they can be an asset. Good fun on the whole.
Much of the surrounding environment in-game is destructable such as doors, tables, slot machines, windows etc, which looks cool in a firefight. Breaking stuff is always fun.
Targeting seems to be well executed, as enemy armour realistically protects different body parts, depending on where you shoot.
Characters are fully custonisable in Vegas 2, from weapons (primary, secondar, sidearm) and equipment (grenades, flash etc), to armour (body, arms, shoulders, legs), and undergarmments (head, face, torso, legs), and even different camoflague combinations for each component are availible. I like that kind of thing.
Vegas 2 also benefits from many COD4-type alterations; sprint button, fire penetration through cover, character class advancement, unlockable weapons/armour/clothes/camo patterns. Its good that some of the flaws of the first game have been rectified, and qualities in other games can be recognised and utilised.
Also if you dont want to keep playing trough the story to nail some bad guys, you can use 'training' modes, assaulting various complexes alone or with teammates on various difficulties, which is fun as a 'quickplay' option.

I would recommend buying or at least playing Vegas 2 as much as i'd recommend COD4, as although its not as much of a groundbreaking game and has a poor story, it has many redeeming features and is great fun to play through.