Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is a video game that consists of 4 releases

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A radical new change for the Rainbow Six series, this sequel drops the player into a fictional version of Las Vegas to stop a terrorist plot.

Overview

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is the fifth installment in the Rainbow Six Franchise, and the beginning of its own Rainbow Six: Vegas Franchise. Rainbow Six: Vegas amps up the action and improves the visuals to make full use the next gen consoles. The Xbox 360 release was on November 21, 2006, and PC followed on December 12, 2006. A PSP version was also released on June 12, 2007, while PS3 fans had to wait until June 26, 2007. This game was published by Ubisoft and developed by Ubisoft Montreal.

Plot

Rainbow team in the helicopter

The story follows Rainbow team leader Logan Keller on a mission accompanied by two squad mates, Gabriel Nowak and Kan Akahashi. The mission is in a Mexican border town called San Joshua del Mosquiera in the year 2010. Rainbow's intelligence officer, Joanna Torres, briefs you on your mission; the objective is to arrest Irena Morales, a terrorist ringleader. As Logan and his squad reaches the landing zone, Logan fast-ropes down first, but the helicopter and the rest of the team is forced to retreat as a rocket-propelled grenade narrowly misses them.

Separated from his squad, Logan fights his way through the terrorist-infested streets and meets up with Gabriel and Kan at an old Spanish church, their alternate landing zone. After infiltrating a train yard and freeing a group of hostages, Rainbow eventually makes their way to a mine where Irena is hiding. After eliminating Irena's guards, one of whom is the infamous Marcelo, they attempt to arrest her; however, Irena triggers a set of hidden explosives, caving in the roof and burying Logan under a pile of rubble. Gabriel and Kan are overwhelmed and captured by the terrorists.

As Logan regains consciousness, he finds most of his equipment missing (including his goggles, primary weapons, and grenades). Alone, and armed only with his handgun and snake cam at first, Logan fights his way through an abandoned factory, eventually escaping with Joanna in Rainbow's helicopter.

Domingo Chavez has a conversation with the new team leader about the incident, instructing him to handle a new crisis in Las Vegas. Logan objects, insisting that he search for his lost squad mates instead; Chavez, however, states that the Las Vegas incident and Irena's activity may be too closely related to be a coincidence.

Upon reaching Las Vegas, Logan is taken outside of the terrorist-controlled Calypso Casino where he meets with his new team: Michael Walters, a British demolitions expert specializing in heavy weapons, and Jung Park, a Korean reconnaissance and electronics expert. The team infiltrates the Calypso Casino, clearing out the terrorists and rescuing a group of hostages from being executed on camera. Once they clear out the Casino, they must rescue Doctor Philip Smythe, a NATO weapons researcher. After a brief gun battle, Rainbow extracts with Doctor Smythe, who tells waiting FBI agents that another weapons researcher, Dr. Williams, has also been captured. Rainbow takes on the case.

Rainbow is taken to the Red Lotus, a Chinese restaurant, in order to rescue reporter Trish Gracy, who was held hostage after an interview went wrong. Once the team clears out the restaurant and rescues Trish, she informs them that the terrorists are using a news van as a communications hub. Rainbow makes their way down Fremont Street and eventually reaches the van. Jung hacks into the system while Logan and Michael fend off a wave of attacking terrorists. Afterwards, Michael places a demolition charge on the van, destroying the hub. The team is then extracted via helicopter and taken to rescue Dr. Williams.

Rainbow is dropped on the Vertigo Spire, a luxury hotel along the likes of the Stratosphere. The team finds and rescues Dr. Williams from the terrorists, and he informs the team of two bombs; a conventional explosive which destroys the top floors of a building across the way, and the other a highly destructive micro-pulse bomb that was placed in the Vertigo, which Michael disarms after the team searches a few floors down from where Dr. Williams was rescued. Rainbow is then extracted to locate Gabriel and Kan.

The team is dispatched to Dante’s Casino, still under construction, and clears the roof. During this roof clearing, a bell in the tower falls, causing tremendous damage and a fire in the lower floors. In Dante's Arcade, the team finds and frees Gabriel, who is extracted despite his insistence that he fights alongside the squad. While searching the construction area, Rainbow finds Kan engaged in a firefight, who is fatally shot in an attempt to warn the team about an ambush before the team can reach him. Dying, Kan reveals that the attack in Las Vegas is a distraction, and Irena's terrorists are planning a far bigger attack. Although Logan and his team attempt to save him, Kan dies in his arms.

The team proceeds to the theater to hack a terrorist server. Irena's target is revealed to be the Nevada Dam (very similar to the Hoover Dam), a hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River. Rainbow then heads to the roof and extracts.

Rainbow descends onto a bridge in front of the dam where an officer informs Logan of the terrorists' bomb on the bridge in the tourist center. The team makes their way to the second story of the bridge where Michael defuses the bomb with three seconds remaining. They then fast-rope via safety cables to the bottom of the dam and enter the dam to save a hostage who informs them that the dam will buckle under the pressure of the lake. He tells them that they can relieve the pressure by using an emergency release valve. Once the dam pressure crisis is resolved, the team proceeds further into the dam and finds that it is a weapons research lab, where Doctors Smythe and Williams inform the team the terrorists have a micro-pulse missile on top of the dam.

Logan presses forward, confronting Irena Morales herself and fatally wounding her. With her last breath, Irena taunts Logan; while she may die, her partner will continue the fight against Rainbow. Finally, the team heads to the top of the dam and plants a charge on the missile to detonate it in mid-air, without triggering the micro-pulse payload.

Logan receives a transmission from Gabriel, who tells him that he is Irena's mole. Furious, Logan rushes to the chopper to see Jo and Brody Lukin, the pilot, kicked out of the helicopter, Brody unconscious. The team must protect Jo and Brody from a small group of terrorists.

As Logan, Michael and Jung rush to their fallen comrades, Gabriel attempts to escape with an enemy pilot. Logan can let Gabriel escape or he can fire a few shots at the helicopter from a mounted machine gun, which eventually causes it to crash. Logan explains the situation, and the team is sent out to find the organization behind Irena's and Gabriel's terrorist activity. When the mission completes, the words "To Be Continued" appear on the screen, implying a sequel. The credits roll while news is broadcast about the situation. A news clip states that a helicopter had crashed in the lake, but indicated that only the pilot, and not Gabriel, was found.

Gameplay

Cover system allows Logan to take cover behind walls

Rainbow Six Vegas changes the series with multiple new features, one of which being a new health system where the player regenerates health when not taking damage. However, the regeneration is slow in comparison to other games; if the player does not move to cover quickly enough, one or two more bullets will lead to death. The player's vision is also greatly impaired while damaged, similar to the health system in Gears of War. Furthermore, a third-person view has been included for moments where players can blind-fire around corners to lay down suppression or covering fire. Other changes include a larger enemy presence and much tougher artificial intelligence, a shift in focus to where kills will be much harder to obtain, a reincarnated aiming system similar to the aiming system of the old Rainbow Six games and Call of Duty, a context-sensitive D-pad based command system for the player's squad and sections of game play where the player will scale buildings and cause environmental damage. This command system was borrowed from another Ubisoft game, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

The developers have also opted to not include any cutscenes, instead telling the story through video feeds played through the heads-up display, similar to Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Most important was the developers' decision to remove the mission planning feature.

Weapon List

Pistols

Mk. 23
USP40
92FS
Gock18
Desert Eagle
Raging Bull

SMG

MP5
MP7A1
UMP45
P90
MP9
MAC11

Assault

SCARC-H CQC
M8
AUGA3
G3KA4
552C
G36C
MTAR21
FAMAS
AK47

LMG

MK46
21E
M249SPW
MG36

Shotguns

M3
SPAS12
870MCS
XM26-LSS

Sniper

PSG1
M40A1
SV-98
Scout Tactical

Multiplayer

Character customization

On the PC version there are no ranks or unlockables on multiplayer. Everyone starts with the same weapon choices and outfitting choices. On multiplayer there are all the same weapons from singleplayer, each of which is customizeable (laser sight, ACOG scope, 6x scope, etc...) There is also an outfitting option in which the player can choose how mobile or how well armored he/she wants to be or a balance between protection and mobility. The heavier protection the player puts on the slower he/she will run and move around corners.

On multiplayer for all consoles, (excluding the PSP version), there is also a choice when creating a server if the host wants it to be normal or realistic mode.

On the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 version there is a ranking system, in which the player starts with a certain amount of weapon and outfit choices, with each rank the player gains more weapons and outfits. There are a total of 16 ranks.

There are currently ten multi player game modes; Survival, Team Survival, Sharpshooter, Team Sharpshooter, Retrieval, Co-op Terrorist Hunt, Attack & Defend, Co-op Campaign, Assassination, and Conquest. Multiplayer mode supports up to sixteen players, when "Dedicated Server" is selected during the match creation process, the host can sacrifice his ability to play and dedicate his connection fully to the other players to improve overall connection performance and reduce lag issues. With the use of the Dedicated Server option, up to sixteen players can compete in one match, excluding the hosts presence. Hosting a match on a Dedicated Server on the Xbox 360 with all sixteen players also unlocks an achievement called "Master of Ceremonies" for the game. Each mode can also be customized on all platforms, by changing options such as the number of respawns each player gets and restricting certain equipment and weapons. There is Dynamic ingame advertising included in the online multiplayer. This is normally advertising films. Three letter prefixes are available for clans and clans can register on gamebattles for clan games.

The game has had multiple patches since its release, each addressing the many bugs and issues in the original release version.

Expansion packs

Player's Pack Red Edition

The pack includes two new game modes. The first is "Assassination" whereby one team has to protect a VIP armed only with a pistol, whilst the other team needs to assassinate him. The second is Conquest . Three new maps were also included: "Doscala Restaurant," "Marshalling Yard," and "Roof." The maps "Killhouse" and "Border Town" have been redesigned and packaged as two new "redux" maps.

The Player's Pack Black Edition

Features five new maps. "Red Lotus", "Wartown" and "Neon Graveyard" are the three newly featured maps. "Streets: Redux" has been redesigned in a similar fashion to the Redux maps found in the Player's Pack Red Edition, and "Presidio" is a map overhauled and upgraded from Rainbow Six 3.

Both the Red and the Black expansion packs were included in the PS3 version and were released for PC.

Xbox 360 Collector's Edition

A Limited Collector's Edition of Rainbow Six: Vegas for the Xbox 360 version was released at the game's launch featuring alternate cover art and a bonus disc. The bonus disc contained a documentary on the making of Rainbow Six: Vegas and a Rainbow Six retrospective, which features information on all Rainbow Six games in the series.

PC System Requirements

As displayed on the back cover of the box

Operating System: Windows XP.
CPU (Processor): Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD equivalent.
System RAM: 1024MB (1GB).
GPU (Video Card): (3D Card) 128MB, Shader model 3 and Direct X 9.0c compatible (see supported list*).
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c.
DVD-ROM Drive: 4x.
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible.
HDD (Hard Disc) space: 7GB free space.

*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release (laptop models of these cards are not supported):

ATI X1600 / X1800 / X1900
Nvidia 6600GT / 6800 / 7300 / 7600 / 7800 / 7900

General Information Edit

Game Name	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
Platform(s)	PSP Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft Entertainment
Developer(s)	Ubisoft Montreal Studios
Genres	Add a new genre Action Shooter First-Person Shooter
Themes	Add a new theme Espionage Modern Military Crime
Original US Release	Nov. 21, 2006 need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	R6V
CERO	CERO: D
ESRB	ESRB: T
PEGI	PEGI: 16+