First Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Impressions

EpSoNiight · 02-24-2008

http://www.themarriedgamers.net/?p=199

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At the Ubisoft booth at WonderCon, the Frag Doll girls are promoting Rainbow 6: Vegas 2. With controls in hand, the first thing that I noticed was that it seems to move much smoother than even Rainbow 6: Vegas does. Gone is the jerkiness that seemed to plague its sister game. The graphics seem to be crisp. The only game mode that was available for play was terrorist hunt via system link with three other players. In addition, you know have three lives in terrorist hunt. The AI did seem to be smarter than it was in the original Vegas and they were coming at you from all different areas and not just in front of you. There are some objects that are destructible and ones that you are also able to shoot through.
Looking closer at the different elements of the game, the character creator was able to show that the female character now actually looks like a female body and not just a female head upon the male body, as was done on Rainbow 6: Vegas. During terrorist hunt you can either go it alone in “Lone Wolf” or team up via system link or Xbox Live. There is a player performance ranking that is similar to Rainbow 6: Black Arrow where your kill to death ratio is calculated for all to see. In Rainbow 6: Vegas if you joined into the game that was already going, you had to sit and watch the action and wait for the next round. Now in Vegas 2, you have the ability to join into the game at any point.
Did you always hate how slowly you moved from place to play in Vegas? In Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, you can now dash. However, there is a bit of a disadvantage, as you are “dashing” there is no way to “dash” and shoot. In order to “dash” you need to press the left bumper button. There also seems to be some sort of promotional tie-in, where you need to enter in a code from Comcast’s website. Could it be a gamerpic? Maybe some unlockable weapons? We will have to wait and see what this code will get the gamers.
Here is the list of maps that was seen while playing terrorist hunt:
Kill House - Redone from Rainbow 6: Vegas
Villa
Trainyard - Redone from Rainbow 6: Vegas
Three Kingdom’s Casino
Oil Refinery
Convention Center
Import/Export - Redone from Rainbow 6: Black Arrow
Vegas Junkyard
Murdertown
CQB Training
Theater
Presido - Redone from Rainbow 6: Black Arrow
More information to come as it becomes available.

Glad to see some older maps coming back, was sorta hoping for Calypso personnaly but kill house was great aswell

Azeron · 02-24-2008

Wait, themarriedgamers? A friend of mine does their podcast, I'll have to ask him about this.

VoRLiN · 02-24-2008

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SheiK · 02-24-2008

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Azeron · 02-24-2008

Why in the world would they bring back trainyard though? Terrible map, though it might be allright for some of the new objective modes.

Blu · 02-25-2008

: ( R.I.P Casino Vault

Azeron · 02-25-2008

They really should just give us all of the old maps again, they're allready built in UnrealEd after all, add a bit of polish and they're good to go. They'll probably end up charging us for them. :/