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| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (88 reviews)
Sales Rank: 245
Format: Cd
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 52395
UPC: 008888523956
EAN: 0008888523956
ASIN: B000WEQL02
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Explore Vegas hot spots as the environment changes from dusk to bright daylight to dawn | | • | Multiplayer includes 11 smaller maps that force more intense face-offs, 2 adversarial modes, more rewards, and easier access to matches using the improved and intuitive matchmaking system | | • | Create your own identity that stays the same in both single player and multiplayer modes and progresses as you do | | • | Turn single player mode into co-op mode at any time, just by jumping into the game | | • | AI is more challenging than ever |
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 R6V2 October 2, 2008
Great shooter indredibly fun. Although a lot like Rainbow Six veags 1 it still keeps me entertained. Online is fantastic and has a ranking system similiar to COD4. Highly recommend is a heap of fun. If you like COD shooter this is a MUST buy.
 What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas for a reason. September 13, 2008
Ubisoft has managed a rare treat with Rainbow Six Vegas 2; they managed to accurately portray what it's like to go to Las Vegas. Vegas is an interesting city, even if you don't gamble or party it's a fun city to go to just to visit and sightsee. You'll go and have a great time and when you get back, you'll start talking to other people trying to plan a trip back. The thing is if you go back too soon, you realize Vegas isn't all that fantastic. The city hasn't changed, but it's not as good as you remember.
This is Vegas 2. The first Rainbow Six Vegas was a fantastic game with an interesting backdrop of being in Vegas. While the sequel doesn't add anything, the game plays the same and it feels like an expansion of the first game. While not necessarily a bad thing, somehow Vegas 2 just isn't as fun as the first game. If you've played Rainbow Six Vegas, you've played Vegas 2, but now there's new levels. Let me make this simple - graphics, audio, gameplay all the same as R6V.
The biggest addition is the A.C.E.S. (Advanced Combat Enhancement and Specialization) system. In which you are awarded points for the various ways you can kill enemies. What's nice is the A.C.E.S. and rank aren't restricted to multi-player; you can now earn XP and A.C.E.S. in the single player game as well. Now, you can go into multi-player after playing the story and have better weapons and armor unlocked. It also means, you don't have access to the full arsenal of weapons throughout the game, but luckily enough you keep enemy weapons you pick up. It can easily make you change the way you would normally play the game. If a certain weapon you want is opened up at a certain level in the assault A.C.E., you might try to earn those points and change up your own style. It's nice because it can add some variety and almost forces you to experiment with the game play.
The enemy AI is pretty good, they'll try and flank you and take cover when available. The problem is that it's very easy to get stuck at a part and have to re-do it multiple times and if you do you can know exactly where the enemies will be because it doesn't change. For the most part, I have had some encounters that played out differently, but it generally is "cover here, shoot here, that alerts this other guy here, now shoot here", etc., etc.
I really liked Rainbow Six Vegas it was one of my favorite games of 2006 and I thought it was better than a lot of the stuff in '07. Unfortunately, like real Vegas, Vegas 2 is exactly the same, but just not as fun. It did feel more like an expansion than a full-fledged sequel, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.
 Co-op comments September 2, 2008
My neighbor and I enjoy playing co-op split screen first person shooters. We played R6V1 and felt it was very entertaining in its tactical gameplay. R6V2 gave us more of the same. There are few split screen co-op games out there for the XBox 360 but this is one that I would recommend. Not as much fun as Gears of War or Halo 3 but better than some of the others (Army of Two, Kane & Lynch). If you are looking for this type of gameplay (two player, split screen), then I would recommend GoW first, then Halo 3, then the Rainbox Six series. You may want to put R6V1 between GoW and Halo 3, not because it's a better game, but to mix it up a bit and not have two military FPS games in a row.
There are several others coming in Nov 2008 (GoW 2, Saints Row 2), which should add to the fun.
FIVE STARS NO MATTER WHAT. August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alright..... yes..... it feels more like an expansion than a real sequel..
But i still give it five stars.
The enemy respawning thing is awfull...... they give you things like sniper rifles to ..... kill your enemy from far away, as you can do in the ghost recon series, because they populate the map from the beginning of the match, but here, you just have to wait until you arrive to a checkpoint to see eight or ten tangoes popping out of the air in front of you.... no surprise factor at all...... you are the only surprised one.
BUT............ FIVE STARS.
Not so many new weapons, but.......... five stars.
WHERE IS THE M14???????......... but ........ five stars.
No VINTOREZ either..... but.... five stars.
This game, like its predecesors, is the best CQB FPS there is.
If they manage to populate the maps from the begining of the matches with enemies, they will score seriously and gameplay will improve drastically.
FIVE STARS to this game.
Over Too Quickly August 22, 2008
Pretty much everyone who picks up Vegas 2 has completed the original and knows that the ending is just the beginning. Except that it isn't. Instead you step back five years and complete a mission that doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense unless you look very closely at your team. Of course, they don't wear name tags so they have to get wounded for you to confirm their identities. So, you play through the memory scene and pick up the action in Vegas before Vegas 1 actually begins.
The interwoven storyline is one of the best features of the non-technical side of the game. It still seems ridiculous that Rainbow has randomly stashed crates of weapons and ammo throughout Las Vegas and that you seem to carry some sort of universal sound suppressor for every conceivable weapon (except sniper rifles). But realism has never been Rainbow's strong suit.
While the game is harder than the first I did not find it too difficult to complete as a single player. The 'realistic' setting will ensure that you're zapped by a tango sniper any time one is around. Situational awareness is key in Vegas 2. The new scenery is fantastic - especially battling through the backyards of the cookie-cutter houses (reminded me of Phoenix really) and the sign graveyard.
Technically, I had no issues with the game and believe that Ubisoft continues to put out polished work. The controls and layout are easy to work with and customization is pretty easy to figure out.
Overall, the game was a blast to play - although the final scenes took some frustrating replays (have to take my own situational awareness comment to heart). But I have to say that the game seemed quick and was over sooner than I would have liked.
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