Ubisoft shares these new images of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 in preparation on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. It is developed by the montreal studios of the company and will be launched March 11, 2008 in Europe to mark the 10th anniversary of the Rainbow Six franchise.
Loakum @Driftwood Awesome! I’m loving it! It does show a much crisper picture and the frame rate looks good! I was playing Stella Blade and Dragonball Soarkling Blast! :) (5 Days ago)
Driftwood @Loakum: enjoy, the one Sony sent us will be there on launch day. Coverage will follow asap. (1 Week ago)
Loakum *takes a large sip of victorious grape juice* ok….my PS5 pro arrived early! So much winning! :) (1 Week ago)
Driftwood @reneyvane: non ils l'ont publié le 1er octobre et je crois que tu l'avais déjà linkée. ;) (4 Weeks ago)
CraCra Y a un souci sur les forums ? (7 Weeks ago)
nostradamus very few with religious beliefs are naive or zealots, but for sure don't find amusing their beliefs being thrown in for clout. maybe STFU with that discourse? (10 Weeks ago)
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I mean his dialect was rediculously stapled on, but it did get better later on in the game.
Just a cheap way to make more money with the same game with different maps.
But even though, you all know we are still going to buy this game when it comes out... They surely did go the cheap route and just update the current code to look a little, and I mean a little better. But the game (rainbowsix: vegas on 360 the one right before this) was so good, that I and I'm sure you too will just be picking it up when it comes out.
Not really happy that they choose this route, but if this is what it takes to get the game out this year then ok I'll take it, I don't care. I much rather it now, then 2 years from now.
I mean who really expects Gears 2 to be more different to Gears 1 than this is to Vegas 1? The difference being we get to wait longer for it and it still looks - in context - marginally better.
Some argue Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent are rubbish, but I reckon they're both pretty cool and different takes on Splinter Cell, and meanwhile Montreal have been able to concentrate on Chaos Theory and Conviction respectively. You still wait just as long for the *real* sequel, it's just that you get something from another team to play in between. Sure it's an "expansion" pack in a sense, and Chaos Theory WAS originally called Splinter Cell 2, but since punters went HUUUUUUH!!!??? when Pandora was coming out and WASN'T 2, they shifted the numbers around.
So yeah, I really prefer it this way.
Looks very cartoony and too soft. The graphics need some edge and grit to them.
I mean who really expects Gears 2 to be more different to Gears 1 than this is to Vegas 1? The difference being we get to wait longer for it and it still looks - in context - marginally better.
Some argue Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent are rubbish, but I reckon they're both pretty cool and different takes on Splinter Cell, and meanwhile Montreal have been able to concentrate on Chaos Theory and Conviction respectively. You still wait just as long for the *real* sequel, it's just that you get something from another team to play in between. Sure it's an "expansion" pack in a sense, and Chaos Theory WAS originally called Splinter Cell 2, but since punters went HUUUUUUH!!!??? when Pandora was coming out and WASN'T 2, they shifted the numbers around.
So yeah, I really prefer it this way.
I don't know why so many of you whine about gameplay when there are SO few games that actually innovate these days, and no, most Wii games aren't innovative at all either.
"...if it's just more of [one of my favourite shooters ever], then count me out!
Pandora Tomorrow was great. It had new moves and new ideas, new settings and character development that Ubi took to heart in the development of Chaos Theory. Sure, we could've removed that game from the equation and waited forever for the real Splinter Cell 2, but let's not pretend Chaos Theory was an update over 1 deserving having 3 years of expectations riding on it. That's how you end up with Halo 2!
Maybe it devalues the franchise for you Lebato but I'd go so far as to say I'm a huge Sam Fisher fan because he's not had to go away, then be hyped to the heavens before each entry. The games have been consistently great, with every other being a major jump in terms of gameplay and style. Shanghai has offered the dirtier more rambo like campaigns and Montreal the more industrial/spy-ish endeavours.
One thing I truly hate these days is the spacing of games brought on by consumer habits and hype machines, but this has always kept Sam out of that.
I mean who really expects Gears 2 to be more different to Gears 1 than this is to Vegas 1? The difference being we get to wait longer for it and it still looks - in context - marginally better.
Some argue Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent are rubbish, but I reckon they're both pretty cool and different takes on Splinter Cell, and meanwhile Montreal have been able to concentrate on Chaos Theory and Conviction respectively. You still wait just as long for the *real* sequel, it's just that you get something from another team to play in between. Sure it's an "expansion" pack in a sense, and Chaos Theory WAS originally called Splinter Cell 2, but since punters went HUUUUUUH!!!??? when Pandora was coming out and WASN'T 2, they shifted the numbers around.
So yeah, I really prefer it this way.
You won't get the fancy "next gen" graphics of the 360/PS3 version, but you will get the story (which is much more fleshed out) and the game as the original team envisioned it, and you will get the Chaos Theory engine (a modified U2E) pushed as hard as last-gen hardware can carry it - which shows quite a nice graphical improvement over Chaos Theory.
Anyway, I realize that most fans of the series are not aware of this, and as a true fan of the series, you owe it to yourself to play Double Agent the way it was meant to be played. The game experience is a completely different experience with there being so much more told to the story than was told on 360/PS3. Even the double agent spy mechanic is different and works better at creating tension for the player in attempting to appease both "masters" in the game. Heck, even the online modes are completely different from the 360/PS3 versions. And the best part is (for 360 owners at least), that the added story elements in the last-gen version of Double Agent, are supposed to seamlessly segway into the story for Conviction, making the last-gen version, the perfect turning point in the series it was meant to be. Having played both versions of the game, the 360/PS3 version programmed by the Shanghai team, seems a disjointed mess . . . dazed, confused and adrift, kinda like a little child, separated from it's parents and lost in a big mall.
Anyway, I just thought fans who were unaware the games were two different games entirely and they were missing out, should know. And with the game being backward compatible on your system of choice, finding a copy and playing it to get the full Splinter Cell experience, should not be too much of a problem.
BTW. The new R6V looks like crud (as far as improvements on the engine are concerned). But I loved the first one so much, I'll be picking this one up anyway. The only question is, whether to get it on day and date of release, or to get it sometime later? I guess that is going to depend on what other games there are to play at the time. I know with GTA4 looking more and more like early March, that I won't be playing any other game on the planet until I have had my fill of the new Liberty City.