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User Rating: 9 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 X360
I purchased this game today and really didnt like the first one. Everyone knew all the maps and was impossible to gain xp very fast. This version of R6 takes place in Vegas again, yet there really isnt much new with the story line. If you bought this for the story you got the wrong game anyway. Where this game really shines is the Multiplayer. You gain xp by completing missions and killing terrorists. The single player and multiplayer points carry over from each other and apply to universal kits and unlocks. This was lacking in the first game and really levels the playing field right off the bat. The graphics are a little better this go around and you will see sharper image quality with all the new locales. The character textures are more rich as well and are far better this go round. The enemy A.I. could teach A.I. team side a thing or two about melting faces though. Guns are great and feel right so far. Everyone online pretty much uses the incindiary grenades to rack up kills, however the skills required to counteract this are easily honed in a couple of terrorist hunts and team deathmatch. All in all the game really does require a great deal of skill and practice. This is the game that Ghost Recon tried to be and comes off as one of the best combat simulators out there. This is not Call of Duty 4. This is the hardcore version if you must compare the two. If you like Call of Duty 4, stick to that, if you like improvements to Rainbow 6 pick this up.
