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[EverydayBeast]

Giant fan of rainbow six, since I was a kid playing coop on the N64.

I have never played the first Vegas somehow, everyone told me to skip it for 2 and I see why and we’ll dive in below.

Strong enough score.

In 2006, 7, you were either playing gears of war or call of duty 2, 3, and 4 360 had just launch but Vegas took over peoples consoles for a moment with its new cover system mechanics, online play, command over your squad mates it’s agreed that Vegas was a step in the right different for the franchise and shooters in general.



Playing Vegas for the first time in 2025 I never been more disappointed in frame rate or graphics with a shooter, there’s some sort of bad camera shaking whenever a grenade pops, or multiple enemies crowd the screen.

Playing at 45 a time, for 5 days, I finally beat the campaign. The online servers on PS3 are offline, I really wish I played it at launch.

+ Positive, location, casino, theater.
+ Cover system.
- Chaos on screen, moments of poor frame rate, graphics haven’t aged well.
- Online servers dead.

2006 seems like a lifetime ago, it was a special time for gaming and shooters and no shooter today and touch those shooters…

What did GAF think of the original Rainbow Six Vegas? There’s a sense of siege carrying all the momentum today and if that’s your taste fine, I look forward more to ghost recon, splinter cell and hopefully one day Vegas 3 goddamn that would be a treat.

 

[Artistic]

Was a great FPS for it's time, in some ways... better than Siege.

 

[N0S]

Where are the XSX threads

 

[EverydayBeast]

Where are the XSX threads

You can’t rush perfection.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Was a great FPS for its time, in some ways... better than Siege.

Siege lol “it’s more tactical” yeah but loses the freedom to move around, no campaign, no terrorist hunt and it’s a lot of character bullshit.

 

[jmiller180]

Great game! Shame the second one didn't take off in the same way, but by then it was competing with Halo 3, Gears, and COD4. GRAW was excellent for its time too, but I missed out on peak online as I only had the PC version (which was a completely different game).

 

[rofif]

This was a fucking game for men. Loved it so much even though it was dropping like to 5 fps on my 8800gts back then

 

[EverydayBeast]

Great game! Shame the second one didn't take off in the same way, but by then it was competing with Halo 3, Gears, and COD4. GRAW was excellent for its time too, but I missed out on peak online as I only had the PC version (which was a completely different game).

Vegas 2 impresses me even now, an xp ranking system, terrorist hunt, coop campaign on memorable levels like vila and theater, the series is desperate for Vegas 3.

 

[John Marston]

Good times playing terro hunt on the highest difficulty with the shield & pistol and shitting my pants

 

[Chuck Berry]

This game was hard as shit playing solo, but still super fun

 

[Ceadeus]

This and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was THE shit to play on 360 . Believe it or not, godamn, Ubisoft used to be good

 

[Stephen Curry]

For some reason playing Terrorist Hunt on Calypso Casino specifically is like a core memory of the 360 era for me.

Really wish they would remake these. Or just make a real Tom Clancy game again I guess.

 

[Unknown?]

This and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was THE shit to play on 360 . Believe it or not, godamn, Ubisoft used to be good

Even Activision and EA used to be good. EA 16bit era was fire.

 

[SeanyQuest]

I didn’t play 1 but I got 2 my freshman year of high school. I miss the server browser for matchmaking.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Loved the first game back then. The sequel not so much, iirc it was more geared towards multi-player stuff.

Got the first one for cheap not long ago, can't wait to revisit it.