As they say the Death of a series
Trying to ignore the other reviewer's I went ahead and bought the full version of the game, I waited for about 20 mins for the game to install and was met by Starforce I got through no problem and loaded up the first mission.
As I was playing the first mission I noticed that the whole series took a nose dive towards failure as I proceeded to play the other missions I just told myself this isn't worth my time and quickly uninstalled it and sent it back.
I'm not going to write my trademark long reviews to rant about this game (simply there's to much to rant about) I'll just give you Pros and Cons
Pro:
Nice graphics
Nice Interface
Ability to customize weapons
You can now take multiple hits
Action is pretty good
Cons:
No tactical assessment involved
No tactics involved (it's just run and gun)
Your teammates are idiots (they throw themselves to the enemy, block doorways, make stupid and odd errors)
Missions are way to repetitive (Kill this and capture that)
Storyline is extremely poor
Graphics are piss poor (this is 2006 not 2002 or 03)
Way to arcadey
The weapons are all the same meaning you can take anything you want, there are no penalties no recoil what so ever.
Maps are too confusing (especially the prison raid)
Action is mostly dull and not exciting
Enemies just reappear out of no where
Weapon sounds are poor (in fact they sound like popguns)
Realism rating has hit an all time low with Rainbow Six.
As you can see the Cons outweigh the Pros,
Ubisoft has just killed an excellent series; to say this game is great or moderate is an overstatement to say this game sucks is correct.
I love Ubi games but right now they've pretty much blew it with this game. Maybe they can pick up the pieces of R6 Las Vegas or maybe not.
Maybe GRAW will be a hit maybe it won't (as with Lockdown it too has been delayed twice, developers have also stated where delaying it to improve graphics and gameplay the same damn thing they said about Lockdown).
Overall do not get this game; it's just a poor CS rip-off. If you like games where you just run around and shoot something then be my guest, if you were a hardcore R6 fan like I was then this game will make you sick.