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Blackhat | 11:25 AM on 04.11.2008 13 comments


Rather than doing a typical game review, I'd like to, if I may, simply rant about Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.

Firstly, the R6 series (not the robots from Star Wars) has always been known for its shitty A.I. Well, shitty isn't the word, massively cheating A.I. It can kill you from 500 metres with a fucking http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg26-e.htm (skorpion), it can one shot you with a pistol while coming around a corner, through a door, because you nudged a wall and made noise. It can tell when you're reloading, when you're moving away from a door, and so on. It also, however, manages to make your teammates absolutely pants-on-head moronic. How hard is it to stand on either side of a door, and shoot anyone who comes through? Apparently, impossibly hard, as I, last night, watched them let six people through. Literally, just waltzing past them. They also will stand there and guard a wall, constantly. if there's a hallway than ends in a stairwell, they will face the wall, looking away from the stairwell.

These problems don't even mention the 'get stuck on a car bumper, making you reload a level' or 'getting stuck on a puddle.' If there's a way the A.I. can break, it will.

Moving past that, the gun selection confuses me somewhat. Rainbow Six is known for having a veritable fucktonne of weaponry. I think Raven Shield had something like 15 Assault Rifles alone. The new one has a fair amount of weapons, yes, but they all feel exactly the same. Now, obviously assault rifles don't differ hugely in how they kill (aim at guy clipping through wall, shoot him, he screams a ten minute dead scream despite your 7.62 NATO round that just pierced his larynx), but they did feel different in past games. Other than look, the Assault Rifles especially, work almost exactly the same.

The A.C.E.S. system is an interesting idea, where you unlock new weapons, the Shield, different gear sets, new camo, etc, by killing people in certain ways. I really like the idea, but at a certain point you have to stop headshotting people in order to advance other areas. So basically it comes to the point where headshots are detrimental to further unlocks, which is a bizarre counter-intuitive way of dealing with it. For example, if you shoot someone through cover, it's an Assault kill. If you headshot them though, it's a Marksman kill. Killing someone who has a shield is an Assault kill.. unless you headshot them. It's just very weird.

Also, there seems to be some problem with the animations at times. For example, the A.I. will occasionally rappel down towards you (usually to their doom). Sometimes, when they do so, they basically teleport down. They just appear at the top, then they're on the ground. It's very bizarre. Enemies will be staring 180 degrees away from you, and the second you move towards them they have turned all the way around and are hitting you. It not only looks bizarre, but can be quite irritating.

When I foolishly tried multiplayer the first time, I ran into an interesting phenomenon. I went to plug in the internet for my free month of Live.. Gold or whatever, and I thought to myself "there's some reason I don't do this. Something that makes me regret going onto Live..." but I couldn't remember what it was. Ten seconds into my first game, a 12 year old boy is screaming at me to "gbbshh tob booshcabe!" He's yelling so loudly the headset barely registers it as sound. It's just static and half vowels. I slowly learned he was complaining about the fact I had a briefcase, and wasn't sprinting for the cap point. Had I my own headset (I couldn't find mine) I would have told him to take the fucking lead, as I wasn't doing it alone. I found him again, later, presumably on the same server. This time I heard the words "FAMAS" (which I was using), "grenades" which everyone was using, and "Headshots" which I was getting a lot of. In the end, I was kicked out of four of the five servers I joined, for reasons that are not entire clear.

I've mentioned my problems with the single player story in other posts, but basically the story is awful, the ending is terrible, and you never care about anyone.

G "Blackhat" E; "Lima, Oscar, Lima!"



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MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
My eyes, they are melting!
Kryptinite's Destructoid Blog
I CAN'T READ ANY OF THIS!!
Blackhat's Destructoid Blog
Is it the colour? I was trying to change it because I can't read it here, hahaha.
BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
So much color!
Blackhat's Destructoid Blog
There, does default black work?
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
God forbid that a gun kills someone
-D-'s Destructoid Blog
The easy answer is, "just play Rainbow Six Vegas 1 again."
brosef's Destructoid Blog
Nice read, I'm suddenly glad I didn't pick this up. The A.I just sounds terrible, and punishing people for headshots is simply terribly under any guise.

Points:
1) Don't play Xbox Live w/o a headset. Your teammates will hate you for it. Your name will quickly change from Blackhat to Asshat.
2) Don't use a signature on Destructoid. It comes off pretentious and you run the risk of being flamed.
3) you need an avatar. might I recommend this?

MechaMonkey's Destructoid Blog
"gbbshh tob booshcabe!"

LOL. Also, another avatar suggestion:


Blackhat's Destructoid Blog
Ok, hopefully this works better. It's default black, so.. yeah. I'm at work and these monitors are godawful at showing it, for some reason.
Blackhat's Destructoid Blog
"Nice read, I'm suddenly glad I didn't pick this up. The A.I just sounds terrible, and punishing people for headshots is simply terribly under any guise.

Points:
1) Don't play Xbox Live w/o a headset. Your teammates will hate you for it. Your name will quickly change from Blackhat to Asshat.
2) Don't use a signature on Destructoid. It comes off pretentious and you run the risk of being flamed.
3) you need an avatar. might I recommend this? "

For whatever reason R6 games always have awful A.I. I'm not sure what portent was given to create this, but it's there.

I realise that not using a headset can suck for others, but these were random pubs with no real rules, and I was often the only one even bothering to use cover. I saw, in three games, one gun that wasn't a shotgun.

The signature I use is generally a joke from whatever I've reviewed, but cheers, suggestion noted.

And finally: I was trying to upload a very similar portrait to the one you showed, but for some reason (again, at work) I can't upload from here. Thanks though!
Kyousuke Nanbu's Destructoid Blog
I had these same issues with RSV2, RSV1 wasn't nearly as bad with all this crap.

I especially hated how they seemed to have some sort of magical line you needed to pass and when you did, MAGICAL SPAWNING TERRORIST HAS APPEARED.

You have died(Spas 12)
Blackhat's Destructoid Blog
Oh jesus, I forgot to mention that part!

In one level, I actually had terrorists spawn on top of my head. No joke, that's literally what happened. They designed the entrance of the enemies so badly I was able to accidentally completely fuck up a level.

Great.


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