Monday, March 24, 2008

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Whats the Deal??

Well it seems Ubisoft real likes to take amazing games and 1-up them and thats just what the did for Vegas2. On the outside nothing has really changed other than an extra layer of polish and some new locales. But if you see all the technical things that have improved you will see that this is a step for the better. First thing is the introduction of a sprint button. This makes moving from place to place a lot quicker and will save your but from grenades and turrets. The second thing they did is A.C.E.S. don't tell me what it stands for but it is kind of simmilar to the challenges in Call of Duty 4. There are three cattagories Marksman, C.Q.B (close quater stuff) and Assult. For eash one there is a few things you can do with diffrent ammounts of reward. For example in Marksman getting a head shot is +1 to your marksman. Shooting a terrorrist or enemy from a long distance is plus three. After you get enough in one catagorey you will unlock guns and get XP boosts. But there are only 20 levels so if you grind by yourselv in T-hunts you will get them up pretty quick. They also added respans in terrorrist hunts which is much needed and the amount of respans go on the set difficulty. Aswelll you can set player matches to be joinable so you dont have to wait 20 minutes for the match to end you can just jump in and play. In story mode there are two great additions. The first is the excelent voice command for your squad. When you say infiltrate they know what you say compared to Vegas 1 ("Go" "Holding Posision" "No GO" "Following".) The second is in story mode if you host a public or private co-op story match you play like in normal story with your squad but if you get stck you can invite a friend to help you. They just jump right in and help you. And player one keeps the squad and the story stays the same (no loss of dialouge.) But there are some problems too. For one the game dosent look amazing. And it does suffer some framerate slow downs. But overall it is really fun and you can play it for hours. If you liked Vegas one your sure to love this next mission for the Rainbow Squad.

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