The cover system functions identically to Vegas, and is still critical to your success.Īll that said, the game is no slouch when it comes to action.
The game is very adept at having enemies come from odd firing angles, which means that a lack of proper intelligence gathering will quickly lead to your demise. While skill is important, the game rewards patience and planning, with a healthy dose of adaptability required. If you rush in with all guns blazing, prepare to be soundly beaten six ways from Sunday by the opposition. The core focus of the gameplay is virtually unchanged from R6:Vegas. Enabling you to do this in the single player part of the game is very much empowering the gamer, and that’s something I can get behind. However, owing to our bandwidth and lag problems, getting that experienced wasn’t the easiest thing to do. I’m very glad that this has been changed, since you need the experience to access the really cool weapons and armour. The new weapons you gain access to will be based on the playing style you favour, again giving you a large measure of customization without bludgeoning you over the head with it. Basically, it awards you points based on the methodology you use to progress through the levels: headshots earn points for the Marksman category, while using explosive does the same for the Assault category, and so forth. However, you can now earn experience and essentially level up your character even in single player, addressing the multiplayer-only restriction for this feature in the previous game with a system called ACES. Much like the previous game, you earn and unlock new customization options – arms, armour and clothing, basically – as you rack up the kills during the game.
I tried it with the Xbox Live Vision camera, so I’m unsure if it will work with any webcam.
The GameFace option even returns, where you can have your virtual likeness imprinted upon the hero of the story if you own a webcam. The end result is that you get to see a very much individualized character from the very first level, even if the customization options are restricted at first. This time around, you have a lot more freedom over how your character will look, since you’re able to apply the customization options that were previously restricted to multiplayer to the single player parts of the game. Vegas 2 takes place in the same timeframe as the first game, and deals with the same terrorist event, although from a different perspective. However, evolving established concepts as opposed to necessarily a bad thing, as the sublime Call of Duty 4 has shown. However, Vegas 2 is very much evolutionary – refining and polishing its’ game mechanics to near perfection- as opposed to the revolutionary leaps introduced in R6:Vegas. In both these regards, Vegas 2 succeeds admirably, building on the success of the superb first release. By adding in an element of planning and improvisation, you immediately need to judge the game by its ability to be fun both cerebrally, while also being enjoyable within the traditional framework of the shooter genre. The reason I’m telling what should be patently obvious to anyone who’s been into gaming in the past few years, is quite simple: tactical shooters have to be measure by a somewhat different yardstick. Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 falls squarely into the latter category. Shooters can generally be divided into two categories: traditional run-and-gun fragfests on the one hand, with your slower paced, team-based tactical shooter on the other.
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