Rainbow Six Vegas is a good, not great tactical shooter, and doesn't live up to GRAW's standards

User Rating: 7.8 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas X360
By bond21 | Review Date:
Rainbow Six Vegas, to sum it all up, it's a disappointment. The game is a First person tactical shooter that takes place in Las Vegas. The single player campaign is solid, even if a bit hard at times. You will fight in fictional casinos around Las Vegas killing terrorists to try and stop them from killing tons of people...you know the story. It's a very uninteresting story, even for a Tom Clancy game.

The gameplay is pretty good, even though it can get repetitive. You will find yourself ordering your team mates to clear a room far too often, and your team mates are practically useless. They will clear a room of a limited number of terrorists fine, but any more and they will be wounded, leaving you to kill the terrorists while making sure they don't die at the same time. If one dies you can order your team mate to heal him but if there's just 1 terrorist remaining he will get wounded, leaving you to kill the remaining terrorists and revive your useless team mates. By the way if you want them to kill guys efficiently, don't get your hopes up.

The graphics are good in single player, mediocre in multiplayer. The graphics have been downscaled significantly in multiplayer for god knows what reason, which leads me into my next point. The online multiplayer is a travesty. Don't bother trying to play anyone outside your own country because the game will lag like you've never seen it lag before. I can play Gears, GRAW etc fine in American servers, but Vegas, no way. Even if I wanted to I couldn't play in a yank's server, I get booted for having a bad ping. And that leads me to my next point - the online community is garbage, it's not as bad as Gears of War but it's the second worst community I've ever seen on Live.

The game's single player will keep you entertained, it is very challenging especially realistic difficulty. However the multiplayer is mediocre, it lags, the community is very average, and you will find yourself getting booted from servers for lag, even if you aren't a high rank, you might get booted.

Anyway I would recommend GRAW 2 over this by a long shot, for single player alone. The multiplayer in that game is too clan based and you will get kicked for not knowing the host which is completely ludicrous.

If you are looking for a good single player tactical shooter, you may like Vegas. If you are looking for a good online experience, I would not recommend Vegas or GRAW 2 really, I would suggest a COD game or Gears of War.

Final score - 7.8

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