Rainbow 6 Vegas - October 27, 2006 -

Ashwin | Gaming

I got a chance to play the Rainbow 6 Vegas demo last night. This demo hasn’t been released in the US yet due to some exclusive deal with OXM so you will have to the trick of I talked about here to get your hands on the demo. I already own G.R.A.W and found that gameplay to be fairly tough. The controls are a little tough to get used to and I feared that R6 Vegas would be similar.

I was glad to see that the controls are a whole lot easier. However, learning the tactics of a squad based game and directing your squad mates will take a little bit of time. I’m used to just running around shooting by myself. The game employs some fairly simplistic measures for directing the squad. Moving them from location to location is a simple as pointing to the desired destination and hitting the A button. Can’t get any more simple than that.

Taking cover is very important in this game as not doing so will get your killed very quickly, and thankfully taking cover can be accomplished by a quick pull of the left trigger. If, however, you do expose yourself and are taking shots, you will get a few indications of direction and the fact that you are taking a beating by the whole screen blurring. This is your indication that you should seek cover immediately, once under cover the blurring effect stops.

I didn’t get anywhere near finishing the mission of this demo as I was fumbling around with the controls, it was late in the night and I died too many times. I will continue to try to get better at this and perhaps pick up a used copy of the game when it gets released.

Cheers