Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

 PC
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 175 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 102 out of 175
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 175
  3. Negative: 11 out of 175
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. KarlL
    Feb 2, 2008
    6
    More Cod then Rainbow 6. Its a fun fps, but everything that would made it a rainbow 6 game has been scrapped. No more planning your attack, no picking the best team members for the job, Limited equipment. Standard linear fps level design instead of the small almost sandbox like areas of previous games. The AI is stupid and trys to shoot you through walls. Regenerating health, Strange More Cod then Rainbow 6. Its a fun fps, but everything that would made it a rainbow 6 game has been scrapped. No more planning your attack, no picking the best team members for the job, Limited equipment. Standard linear fps level design instead of the small almost sandbox like areas of previous games. The AI is stupid and trys to shoot you through walls. Regenerating health, Strange system for leaning. Graphics look fairly outdated, Yes it looks (much) worse and runs worse then crysis. That said, as a run of the mill fps its fairly fun. And sometimes it manages to trick you into thinking your being tactical. Wait for it to hit the bargain bins.… Expand
  2. gas
    Dec 1, 2011
    7
    Just bought it with a super nice price around 2 euros, this game is 5 years old now but i have to tell it looks quite good to be honest, and its overall good.
    The game is between a stealth fps and a frag-fest one, im finding it enjoyable, even if personally i don't like 2 aspects of the game, into specific:
    First of all its fully scripted, which means you cant plan in advance so much and    Just bought it with a super nice price around 2 euros, this game is 5 years old now but i have to tell it looks quite good to be honest, and its overall good.
    The game is between a stealth fps and a frag-fest one, im finding it enjoyable, even if personally i don't like 2 aspects of the game, into specific:
    First of all its fully scripted, which means you cant plan in advance so much and cant play very tactical as many enemies just will spawn triggering a specific event and usually there will be situation with tons of them running in a room from no were like a pack of raging bulls.
    Second the fact its not possible to save, there are just checkpoints with auto save.
    Anyway i can tell the engine is very good, the hitbox is precise and satisfying, controls are configurable and they work pretty well, so , the game could have been a lot better imho if it was a bit more tactical but overall its a good game.    … Expand
  3. Octomort
    Apr 11, 2015
    6
    Recently out is the Tom Clancy Bundle which, with 4 other titles, includes Rainbow 6 Vegas. I never got round to this when it first came out. Cant remember why.

    As it is 6 years old no point in talking much about graphics, but they do hold up very well. This is a 1 hit can kill sort of game. Many of the general game play is very good. Hiding and being able to peek and shoot or    Recently out is the Tom Clancy Bundle which, with 4 other titles, includes Rainbow 6 Vegas. I never got round to this when it first came out. Cant remember why.

    As it is 6 years old no point in talking much about graphics, but they do hold up very well.

    This is a 1 hit can kill sort of game.

    Many of the general game play is very good. Hiding and being able to peek and shoot or just hold your weapon round the corner and blind fire, abseiling (rappelling). Carry loads are reasonable but a very limited choice of weapons. The one glaring thing every reasonable PC gamer hates, checkpoint saves, there are no player saves. so loose 7 points automatically for this.

    The enemies are trigger spawned and often simply appear from nowhere so it is impossible to "hunt" as in a true RPG. When they do appear they are not completely stupid and do not just blindly rush. which is a bad side when there is no player save as it restricts initiative. Trial and error, which lets face it is the basis of most shooter/RPG gamer strategies, means doing the whole Bstrd sub-level from scratch if your plan is even slightly off skew.

    Solo play means that unless you want to just sit back and send in your AI team mates, who on the whole are quite well scripted, you are going to spend an entire weekend to complete one section of one level because you will get randomly shot over and over and over and over and well I think you get the drift.

    So Solo game gets a 1. (See no save game would have been an 8, think about that game designers)

    I never play coop or multi but will add 5 as I cant say if it is a good or bad aspect. Although other reviewers do say these aspects are excellent.    … Expand
  4. OlegT.
    Sep 21, 2007
    5
    I think we're witnessing the rise of a new genre in the FPS domain. Half-first-person-action, half-tactical (the latter being the lesser half). So we must judge them without looking back at RS: Rogue Spear and the first Ghost Recon. Sure enough, Vegas cannot be compared to the old classic for its shallowness and Hollywood style action, but sadly even without this comparison this game I think we're witnessing the rise of a new genre in the FPS domain. Half-first-person-action, half-tactical (the latter being the lesser half). So we must judge them without looking back at RS: Rogue Spear and the first Ghost Recon. Sure enough, Vegas cannot be compared to the old classic for its shallowness and Hollywood style action, but sadly even without this comparison this game doesn't impress much. With tactical part amputated and action part half-baked we're left with a bleak and jarringly repetitive gameplay (burst open the door, do all the necessary killing, proceed to the next door, repeat ad infinitum). If this is what the "new genre" brings us I'd rather see it stifled to death in its cradle.… Expand
  5. BallisticBaggins
    Oct 5, 2007
    5
    This game could have been one of the best games ever, but for some reason it isn't. The graphics aren't too good, the singleplayer is ok and the multiplayer is most of the time horrible. This game is nothing like the earlier Rainbow Sixes and is not the great realistic tactical shooter the earlier PC releases were. The gameplay in general is ok, but the plot is even worse than This game could have been one of the best games ever, but for some reason it isn't. The graphics aren't too good, the singleplayer is ok and the multiplayer is most of the time horrible. This game is nothing like the earlier Rainbow Sixes and is not the great realistic tactical shooter the earlier PC releases were. The gameplay in general is ok, but the plot is even worse than in Raven shield. Peeking behind corners is replaced by unrealistic third person camera, which shows everything that happens behind the corners and this encourages camping in the multiplayer. Pistols have unlimited ammount of ammo. It isn't a big problem but it's still unrealistic. Player characters regenerate after beeing damaged, but atleast there is some blur when beeing wounded. Character customization is kinda nice, but compared to Raven shield and other earlier Rainbow six games there is much less weapons and the weapon stats make little sense (for example 5.56mm is often more powerful than 7.62mm NATO. In real life 7.62 NATO has almost twice the ammount of energy than 5.56mm, meaning that it is often more accurate, with longer range and greater damage). Sound suppressors silence the weapon almost completely and without subsonic ammo. Characters also can no longer go prone. While singlplayer still beeing kinda playable, multiplayer screws everything up. The multiplayer suffers from great ammount of different bugs, which in a way or another makes the playing a lot worse experience. One of the bigest and perhaps the most visable bugs is that you can't see your ping or the ping or others, including the servers. Server browser is very very bad and servers can't even have names. These two bugs combined you might rather easily find yourself playing on a korean server with a quite high ping. To addition, the game's netcode is horrible, causing that you have to shoot several meters in advance in order to hit anything (even on a server with a bit smaller ping) and sometimes a bug causes the bullets to actually hit a bit left or right from the sight of the shooter, even if it looks to him that he is hiting in the center of the sights. There are also several sound bugs, graphical bugs and crash bugs. Long story short: This game is a bad port from a console to computer. It is nothing like the Raven shield or others were and if you are thinking about buying it because you liked the earlier games or you like the console version, you should forget it. Singlplayer is ok, but realism has been mostly forgoten and multiplayer has tons of bugs and lots of lag.… Expand
  6. JaredJ
    Feb 14, 2009
    7
    After on-and-off play for ten months I'd finished it and was apauled with the results! I had never been so angry in my life when "To Be Continued" rolled around the screen. My respect for "Rainbow Six" had lowered from a ten to an eight. Only loosers make the "To Be Continued" and this really p***ed me off! Seven for story, graphics, A.I. and voice acting.
  7. TaktL.
    Jan 11, 2007
    6
    The main idea of Rainbow Six was to create a first person-shooter with tactical elements. In my opinion its really sad sad that the developers put the tactic in the background since "Rainbow Six:Lockdown". Vegas try to convince with action and a little tactical part: the control of your teammades. But this is not enough. Sometimes you fight through the levels like in any other The main idea of Rainbow Six was to create a first person-shooter with tactical elements. In my opinion its really sad sad that the developers put the tactic in the background since "Rainbow Six:Lockdown". Vegas try to convince with action and a little tactical part: the control of your teammades. But this is not enough. Sometimes you fight through the levels like in any other first-person-shooter. Of course Vegas is an entertaining game because of the action, but it is nothing outstandig!… Expand
  8. AnuB.
    Jan 18, 2007
    5
    This game gets 10 points for being a technical masterpeice, but loses 5 points because it claims to be more than a shootemup and becasue it relies on a tired old paranoid lowest common denominator plot.
  9. T.Erwin
    Dec 21, 2006
    5
    This game would be better if they had put an honest effort into porting this from the XBOX 360. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. If you plan on playing this in 'Single Player Story Mode' you will be initially very impressed by the eye candy, and eventually wind up disillusioned with everything else. My graphic settings are maxed, and even so, the enemies "pop" onto the This game would be better if they had put an honest effort into porting this from the XBOX 360. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. If you plan on playing this in 'Single Player Story Mode' you will be initially very impressed by the eye candy, and eventually wind up disillusioned with everything else. My graphic settings are maxed, and even so, the enemies "pop" onto the screen when you trigger scripted events. This ruins the immersive quality of the great graphics. The friendly AI does work much better than previous renditions of the game, but they still tend to block your line of fire when following you -- this will sometimes get you killed. The most painfully obvious vestigal appendage however, is the "checkpoint save" feature notorious in console gaming and despised in PC gaming for years. If you buy this game and want to LEAD your team, (rather than simply send them in to do all the fighting for you) plan on playing, and replaying (and replaying and replaying) the same parts of levels over and over again as you are not allowed to save when you want -- only at the aforementioned checkpoints. This essentially ruins the single player game because you spend more time replaying the same levels than you do enjoying the storyline. What's worse, you replay so often that you begin to memorize very quickly where the scripted spawn points of your enemies are. The saving grace for this game is the fact that the multiplayer game modes are quite fun. Both cooperative and competitive modes allow you to enjoy a LAN game with local friends. Because you can set the respawn option to true, you will only respawn at checkpoints if everyone on your team dies in co'op mode. A down side is there are also realatively few weapons in the game. Gone are the M-14, the M-16, the AK-74, and the M-60. While these guns may have been out of place in the story mode, it would have been nice to see them in multiplay. In the end I'd rate the single play version of this game a 2, and the multiplay version of this game an 8. It's a sad testament to how starved the PC gaming industry is for real talent that gamers have to make due with console ports if they want to play cooperatively with friends in a game. Either way, this game is a decent multiplay value. Micasa - As a friendly aside - you might want to look into optimizing your system. I currently run an Athlon 3700+, a Geforce 7800GTX with half the video ram of your card, and 1 Gig of system ram. With this configuration I can run the game at a 1280 X 960 rez with all settings maxed and virtually no lag.… Expand
  10. GRANITsalvo
    Dec 28, 2013
    7
    7/10 because they could have tried a lot harder when porting this game. But I played the hell out of it when I had a 360. And I will play it again now. It took effort to get it running under windows 7.
  11. psylife
    Apr 7, 2016
    7
    This is a rewarding shooter that manages to both nail the pace of the action while offering just enough tactical choice to make the experience both rewarding and engaging. In classic early 2000's Ubisoft/clancy style, the locations are both contemporary, atmospheric and ultimately immersive. The game could have definitely used more contraptions and tactical approaches but the trade offThis is a rewarding shooter that manages to both nail the pace of the action while offering just enough tactical choice to make the experience both rewarding and engaging. In classic early 2000's Ubisoft/clancy style, the locations are both contemporary, atmospheric and ultimately immersive. The game could have definitely used more contraptions and tactical approaches but the trade off means that the action keeps moving forward in a pure 90's SPEED movie style. That said, you can forget about storming a room in pure FPS style, you will learn to be very cautious about your every move; This is an aspect I particularly respect about its design philosophy and what makes it ultimately rewarding. Unfortunately, the game suffers from a seriously bad case of cheap deaths and when paired with the downright atrocious checkpoint system, the experience ends up suffering from it in a significant way. If you can get past that, there is an engaging formula that knows how to satisfy.… Expand
  12. Tomle1202
    Jun 18, 2022
    5
    Underneath Vegas' glamour is a buggy, messy and downright flawed experience.
  13. The_D4RknesS
    Jun 23, 2022
    6
    Only the physics is cool because the game is very monotonous, the maps don't change almost anything
  14. Naked_Snakee
    Apr 7, 2023
    7
    Just text (crutch) to save the game to the list. Such things. Maybe I'll do a review later.

Awards & Rankings

12
#12 Best PC Game of 2006
41
#41 Most Discussed PC Game of 2006
12
#12 Most Shared PC Game of 2006

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. GameSpot
    87
    Rainbow Six is reinvented and reinvigorated for a new age thanks to beautiful visuals and top-notch tactical shooting action.
    Read full review
  2. IGN
    84
    It's a serious system hog and those with older (and even middle-range) systems may have a hell of a time making the game run well and look smooth. Sadly multiplayer has been a big problem for us at this point.
    Read full review
  3. Eurogamer
    70
    It feels like an undecided halfway house between two genres - both of which the PC excels at - and it's incapable of deciding which one it wants to be.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »