Demanding, Yet Satisfying
With that said, this game is quite fun. My original intention was to blast it in a review, but I gave it a few more hours and really started to enjoy it. The game starts in Mexico (not as enjoyable) and moves to Las Vegas (blew my mind!). So, my recommendation is not to jump the gun when evaluating R6:Vegas. From a gameplay perspective, I found R6:Vegas to be much more like Splinter Cell with AI teammates than what I can recall of previous R6 titles. This doesn't make it bad, but it's a 'word of warning', so to speak, to all you hardcore R6'ers out there. The comments in some reviews about the game being unrealistic are fortunately just flat out wrong. If you set the difficulty to 'realistic' you WILL die in one or two shots, and even on the standard difficulty setting you will die in one hit if a baddie hits you on the dome. All things considered, let's just say that I recently bought a brand new rig to play these 'next-gen' games, and I have spent the majority of my time by far playing this one (over Oblivion, Company Of Heros, etc.). The only thing I'm at all concerned about is the length of the single-player game, but that's just because I don't want it to end. A really good game.