Tom Clancy’s games are full of espionage-themed missions, terrorists and close quarter gun battles. The Rainbow Six Vegas series for the XBOX 360 is not excluded, and fans of the first game will surely love the sequel to the XBOX Rainbow Six Vegas 2 game. The story in the first R6V ended on a cliffhanger, and Ubisoft banked on fans’ curiosity to sell the second.
Nothing much has changed in the game play although enemies’ Artificial Intelligence has been slightly increased. Another notable feature is the ACES system that stands for “Advanced Combat Enhancement and Specialization”. Players will be given a great array of weapons depending on the tactics employed to progress through the game, namely Marksman, Assault and CQB (Close Quarter Battle). Translated, this means that if one of your opponents fell by Headshot, you might unlock a spiffy new sniper riffle thanks to the Marksman division as detected by the ACES system.
Regrettably, this game suffered from a barrage of bugs that resulted in tons of complains from loyal fans of the franchise. Lag has been known to occur not only in multiplayer modes but also when one tries to complete the story mode alone. And the biggest let down came in the form of the “Freedom Shall Prevail” achievement. Some players reported that they did not manage to unlock that particular achievement even though they completed the story mode on Realistic difficulty. This was quickly rectified with a timely update from Ubisoft. I am glad that was remedied. Call me a gamer score whore but I could never get over not having 75 points added to the final tally even after finishing the game!
