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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vegas 2 - More of the Same, 19 Mar 2008
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I've played both the 1st and now the 2nd installments of the RSV series and both are very impressive, tactical and good looking games.
However, the new game RSV2, is pretty much the same as RS1.
graphics are the same, gameplay the same, etc. This is not such as bad thing as when RSV1 came out, it was the best FPS on next gen consoles. But with games like COD4, which RSV2 borrows heavily from (the ranking system, almost identical/ability to shoot through cover/sprinting, etc.) the new game is looking a bit tired and, in my opinion, just not as good a COD4.
The online play for RSV2 is very good. It is a vast progression of vegas 2 with true "jump in" two player co-op, plus extra terrorist hunt missions, 13 new maps and 2 new game types, will have you comming back for more. But, not as addictive as COD4, and with less features.
If you liked the first vegas game, the chances are, you'll love the new one. But if you haven't played the first, it may look a little dated compared to tiles like COD4.
Overall.
Storyline - 4/5
Graphics - 3/5
Gameplay - 5/5
Online - 4/5
Overall - 4/5
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but flawed, and not different enough from RSV1., 8 April 2008
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2 is set before and during the events of the previous game, and has you controlling Bishop. For most of the game you are flanked by Michael and Jung (who you may remember joined you at the Las Vegas strip in the previous game), and an optional second player (yes, this time around, two-player co-op campaign includes the computer-controlled AI like Mike and Jung!), either split-screen or online, using a drop-in, drop-out method.
As before, you can carry two main guns, a pistol, and two special grenades. This time, however, to start with only a small number of these are available to use, and the others can only be unlocked by scoring a high-enough rating to improve skills such as marksmanship, close-quarters battling and explosives (you can get points for things such as head-shots, kills while using ropes, and other special methods). The good thing is that you can improve your player's stats both online and offline, taking your character from the campaign into the terrorist hunts and multiplayer versus modes! Despite this, you can still take the guns of downed enemies, even if you haven't unlocked them for selection in outfitting stations yourself (although they disappear if you don't keep them when you visit such a station).
It's fair to say that, if you liked RSV1 then you'll probably like this, but maybe not quite as much. Whereas RSV1 was really quite well thought-out, there doesn't seem to have been quite the same level of care taken in this newer game.
Some bits slow down to a point where the frame-rate drops and the on-screen movement becomes jerky (even offline). The music and sound effects, as well as many of the yells from the terrorists themselves, have been largely borrowed from the previous game, although there are some new ones. This might seem lazy to some.
The game is much more annoying than before, too. It seems to be more prone to crashing (as I write this the game's only been out for just over a fortnight and it's crashed three times already on my 360). There are also more cheap deaths resulting, partly due to some sloppy design, partly due to the fact that bullets can now penetrate certain cover types, and partly due to you simply not being able to survive as many hits as you could seem to in the previous game. This could lead to some very frustrating deaths, and even the Terrorist Hunts on the lowest difficulty setting will test your gaming skills!
Only two players can play simultaneous co-op, even online (the previous RSV allowed four) -- while you still have two AI cohorts that make up the four, they are controlled only by player one. The thing is, the AI of your two CPU cohorts still gets in a muddle, and seems to be more problematic than it was in RSV1. (Terrorist Hunts still permit up to four players, though, which is good because they are really hard!)
The biggest problem with RSV2 is that it really doesn't add much to what we saw in RSV1 (which is now available on the Classics budget label). Yes, the ability to develop your character offline as well as on is a good idea, and you can now sprint and directly order your CPU-controlled friends to throw a grenade in a specific direction, but apart from that the game still feels like the previous game.
Don't get me wrong, the game's still quite good, but it's just a shame that more was not done to make it stand out, not only from its predecessor, but from other shooters. With Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare doing the rounds online and offline, RSV2 just doesn't quite reach the dizzying heights of success of that game and doesn't look and sound as good either.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazin game , 6 April 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
i thought this game would be the same as all the other fps shooters the enemy wudnt be very intelligent, the graphics wouldnt be very good, the guns wouldnt be realistic, and if you tried to shoot an enemies head close to a wall it would hit the wall and the enemy wud run around throwing grenades and all his buddys would shoot at you but this is not the case with this game. the story is the same as other fps but it has been made so much better the enemie is intelligent they can out smart you without you realising, and they are not afraid of being shot you cant suppress the enemy into to taking cover because they will jus keep shootin until they hit you, i wont tell you how to take them down ill leave it to you to find out, u can shoot an enemys head that is very close to a wall, you can shoot blind round corners, you can hug walls so u can shoot enemys without them or anyone else seein you if you do it right but get it wrong and all hell will break loose, the graphics look excellent even on my standard 14 tv ( goin to get an lcd tv to see what the game can show me) the people look real the scenery looks amazin on some levels you can see the sun risin and it looks like you are lookin through a window, the guns look realistic, and sound real, they fire like real guns, when you first start the game u can select what you want your character to look like i.e face, hair, skin colour, sun glasses, hats, you aslo have the option of selcting what body armour you want i.e arm pads, shoulder pads, leg pads, and armour for ya upper body, you can make your character look how you want in every way. when you start a mission you can select your primary weapon, a secondary weapon, and one type of pistol, you can select a primary explosive, i.e grenades, incendary,c4, breach charge, flashbang, smoke then you can select a secondary explosive, you have lots of stuff to put in your arsenal to kick the enemy back into shape, you can also do coop missions and u r probably thinkin yer they are rely short and not many ppl to shoot at well you are very wrong the missions are full size they are the sameas single player mission and there are loads of ppl to shoot at i play all fps wiith mates and my little brother and when we finshed the level he had shot 41 enemies and i had shot 39 that is an enormour amount of enemies to shoot at on one level from the first mission the game gets better and better the more you play it the better you will get and so will the enemie they are not in the same place twice
Buy the game you wont be disappointed
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