Alright, so I finally got around to finishing the RSV2 campaign yesterday with my roommate and I can say I officially regret my purchase of this game. The following is why I do not recommend this game to anyone.

Graphics:

I don’t care how much Ubisoft claims they’ve updated these graphics, they suck compared to something as aesthetically pleasing as Call of Duty 4, BioShock, or even Halo 3. Somehow they look worse than the first game’s. Maybe it’s the fact we played through the story split screen co-op, but I can’t tell you how many times entire textures wouldn’t load.


Game never comes CLOSE to looking this good in split screen. Fucking travesty.

My buddy mentioned over and over how he felt he was playing a Nintendo64 game and it seriously got that bad. Coupled with the rampant slow down, loading screens BEFORE loading screens, and the extra time it took for character textures to load AFTER two load screens… it’s just awfully put together.

Single player runs a little smoother but after playing something like CoD4 that is repeatedly jaw dropping in appearance, RSV2 simply blows dick.

Multiplayer:

I know RSV2’s multiplayer will be different from more recent powerhouses such as CoD4 and Halo 3 by default, but that’s not my beef with it. I like a little tactical online multiplayer as much as the next guy. I just hate how poorly put together the whole thing is.

First off, the matchmaking blows. I don’t care how many times that damn screen comes up telling me it’s finding matches with players of similar skill and good connections but I HIGHLY doubt someone on their third or fourth rank should REALLY be playing with Elite players. You serious, Ubisoft?

On top of the terrible matchmaking, every single time you are forced to quit out of a match (whether it’s ranked which happens EVERY time or from a player match by choice) the game refreshes your searched server list only it somehow FORGETS all of your previous settings (such as only wanting to play Team Deathmatch against at least 6 players) and searches for ALL game types without ANY specifications. Yeah, thanks. Now I have to back all the way out and totally reset everything manually. Smooth, Ubisoft.


Is this the first game or the second? Fuck if I know.

On top of this, they still haven’t done a damn thing about matches with weapon restrictions. Somehow, they thought it was cool to throw in a “ready” button. That’s awesome, I highly support it. However, they don’t enforce it. Hosts can start matches whether anyone is ready or not, let alone everyone being ready. This means that when you hop into a match with weapon restrictions you often get a little message saying your outfitting has been changed, only the host can start the match before you have a chance to even see what the fuck just got changed. Awesome. Thanks.

Not only that, but after you leave such a match the game doesn’t revert your outfitting back to your original settings. It thinks you like these new raped settings and keeps them as your defaults. So one minute you head into a match by accident that doesn’t allow frags or incendiaries, so you’re stuck with flashes and smokes, only to move into one that DOES allow them and you get ‘nade spammed the moment you spawn. Real fun stuff there.

And don’t even tell me to just read the settings of all the matches on the server list. DON’T FUCKING SAY IT. By the time you end up browsing through and finding a match you like the match is often full and you hafta refresh the list anyway and restart the process. Cool.

Bottom line, the multiplayer doesn’t do what it says it does. In my book, that’s a big fucking failure.

Errors:

I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but playing through split screen co-op with my roommate we got an “unreadable disc” read error every hour or two like clockwork (I also have an external fan on my 360 and it was NOT overheated AT ALL, EVER). It has yet to happen to me in single player on my own, but it did happen to me in multiplayer a few times.


You can never rappel with a submachine gun in hand. Ever. False advertising from the start.

The game just locks up at certain loading points and becomes unreadable. Opening the disc tray and reloading it fixes the problem immediately so I HIGHLY DOUBT it’s a truly unreadable disc. WTF Ubisoft? How the hell could you release such a shitty fucking product? Do you not believe in Q&A anymore or something? Thank god you can just patch it, eh?

In Closing:

I’m gonna think long and hard before I ever buy another Ubisoft title and I’m certainly never bothering with another Rainbow Six title. This is the end for me. This is worse than most EA releases I play and that’s saying a lot.

I am truly and utterly disappointed with Ubisoft in every aspect of this entire game’s presentation. Fuck carrying over experience points and that bullshit. It’s a shitty product, don’t kid yourselves.

/Rant

Thank you. I needed that.