Rainbow Six: Vegas Preview
IGN has put up a preview of the upcoming PS3 game, Rainbow Six: Vegas. All you gamblers out there who’ve been put on a spending leash might like to check out the Vegas strip scenery is game, which looks pretty cool.
Personally I was going to pass on this game in favour of GRAW2 for the PS3, once it finally gets released. But then when reading this preview, a couple words popped out at me.
Can you guess what they are? I know Gary could. 
Here’s the quote from IGN:
The bulk of the game has remained the same, though Ubisoft has taken the extra development time to add in a handful of new content and features. Some of those things are related to the online play which we unfortunately can’t talk about just yet (soon though), but there are a few new elements to the singleplayer and co-op modes.
Co-op modes? For some reason, I was unaware that this game has a co-op mode. Does anybody know anything about it? Can you go through the whole campaign in co-op mode, or is it some sickly little offspring, like that in Splinter Cell: Double Agent?
Anybody?
June 6th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Xbox version (which is very fun and challenging) has XBL Co-op.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:21 am
The IGN preview mentions split-screen, which is what I’m interested in.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Co-op was downright bizare when it came to the story but great fun otherwise. I enjoyed co-op more than single player. Planing out how to clear a room with a buddy or how to clear an area was great. I’ll wait to see what kind of ratings it gets.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Sound’s like they can’t talk about the PS3 extras till the game is released.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Does not portend well. The last time this happened (Splinter Cell) it was because the product was bad, and they didn’t want advance reviews saying so.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:16 am
They already touched on the port though, just slightly less boom effects, didn’t mention load times. But hopefully they don’t suck as bad as the Splinter Cell port.
They should look at Oblivion, at least Bethesda knows how to make a PS3 port better on load times, draw distance and textures then the 360 version.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am
One reader on the IGN comments suggested maybe an online integration with Xbox. That would be sweet, imo! You could play co-op with your buddy who has it on his 360. It would certainly make the online playing field HUGE.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:53 am
using the new eyetoy you can map your whole body into the game rather than just your face…
June 7th, 2007 at 8:35 am
I couldn’t get pass the graphics being turned down on the PS3 version…. it looks awful…
I’m back to the 360 version, guess I’ll have to buy the xbox 360 version of the game, which is sad because after playing the demo on XBL I feel in love with the game but waited to get the PS3 version.
Thinking for some strange reason that it would look and play more amazing on my PS3, wow was I surprised to see that video only to feel like crying. Once again just like F.E.A.R and awful port of a really amazing PC game, I would once again see a Port of an Xbox 360 version of a game that would play worst on my PS3… (just like fear when they say we can’t talk about a part of a game right now, it means that part of the game is all messed up and will suck when it’s finally released. Otherwise why cover it up.)
Man this sucks, it’s hard to be a Sony fan with game companies messing up the whole gaming experience with these awful ports.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:51 am
I didn’t think it looked that bad….
June 7th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Didn’t seem to bad to me. I guess IGN lied to everyone when in that preview they called it identical. Either that or your reading too much into those shots. Should at least wait till the game is released for actually reviews. I want to heard about the additions. Which is what they can’t talked about. And being a preview and not a review it’s not like they are hiding their work like Fear.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:38 am
BTW, I’m not saying your wrong. I’ve had less then 5 minutes with the 360 version and don’t really plan on getting the PS3 version. So I’m not a good judge of the comparison.
Also, I like how they worded that. Identical, except boom and filters lol. I never got into the whole ‘identical, but’ explanations.
Anyways since we’re this close just wait for real reviews. this was only a preview. We’re only a few weeks away and if this follows Ubisofts other efforts you should know the day it’s reviewed.
Off topic but kinda funny, Firefox tried to spell check Ubisoft with the suggestion of Microsoft as a replacement
June 9th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Henning, you said the game didn’t look that bad. It shouldn’t look any less than the 360 version. It does. It may not look that bad but when why should anyone pay full price for a lesser version of a game? And how is it that this game doesn’t look at least as good as the 360 version after all those delays? There’s no excuse for this. Ubisoft gave us a crap port and I for one will not be buying this game.