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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)

That Rev Chap — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:35:00 +0000

The face mapping worked! I asked my wife and she said the result looks reasonably like me. Shame it appears to have made me bald – my hairline isn’t that far back! And my right eye appears to be completely out of focus, but I’m wearing a visor over them now. It’s certainly a much better result than the one I got from the original Vegas game, where I looked like a cross between a panda and an Oompa Loompa.

The game, though? Well, it’s marvellous, it really is. The enemy placement is clever, the levels allow for different approaches to encounters and the shooting works properly. Your AI teammates aren’t the cleverest of chaps, but can be very helpful. Essential, even.

And I love, love, love the way you’re constantly getting experiencing points in different categories. Seeing bonus points pop up for good kills makes everything feel more rewarding, even when you’re redoing the same section of the game for the fourth time. I very much approve.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:57:00 +0000

Spent half an hour trying to scan my face in. Failed. And why, every time I took a picture of me facing to the left, did it flip it round so I was facing right? Is it meant to do that? Help!

Anyway, after giving up I tried the first mission, which was all sorts of fun, but I died a lot. Not Demon’s Souls amounts of death, but more than I’d expect on what amounts to a tutorial level.

Rainbow Six Vegas (360)

That Rev Chap — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:44:00 +0000

More of the single player this evening. Shot my way through some Mexican tunnels and finally arrived in Vegas, rather later than I expected given the title of the game. Some great firefights along the way.

I want to know where they found all these terrorists. There are bloody hundreds of them running around.

Rainbow Six Vegas (360)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:52:00 +0000

Lots of multiplayer today. No single player at all.

Started off with a nice group of people playing deathmatch type games. Didn’t do too well, but got some experience points.

Followed that up with some co-op terrorist hunts with a really nice group of players, who welcomed me and let me play despite my newbieness. They even sent an invite when I crashed out at one point and came back online. I actually started being quite useful by the end of the session. Not top of the class, but not sitting in the corner with a pointy hat. We were playing on Realistic with no respawns so we died a lot, but we did win a couple of times, which got me a promotion to Private First Class and unlocked a nice helmet for me to wear.

It’s really, really, really good.

Rainbow Six Vegas (360)

That Rev Chap — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:43:00 +0000

Started single player. A bit hard and I got annoyed when a team mate died in a mine shaft, so I quit.

Jumped into a game of Survival on Live, got told my character’s face was ugly and was then killed very dead, so I quit.

Rainbow Six Vegas (360)

That Rev Chap — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:47:00 +0000

I haven’t actually played this yet, but I ddi just boot it up and map my face on to my character using the Xbox Live Vision camera. Took a few attempts and I’ve ended up with something reminiscient of me, but with a very orange face and huge, sad, black-ringed eyes. If I ever mate with a panda I’ll know what the children will look like, anyway.

It’s really quite spooky and I spent a while staring at this face before turning off the console.

Rainbow Six: Vegas Demo (360)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:17:00 +0000

Another demo which looks nice, but which is incredibly bloody hard. I gave up on it last night. The loud noises where hurting my head.