4/5 ★ – MrBenjaminBerry's review of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Date Completed: October 14th 2020 Ownership Status: Owned System: Xbox One X Rating: 8/10 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas holds up to this day and is a fantastic game. I’ve played many of the Tom Clancy games, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, HAWX, Splinter Cell and many others, but I never actually got around to Rainbow Six Vegas until now. This is a great game that still holds up very well. I actually wish they would remaster this game on the next gen consoles because with ray tracing and HDR the Vegas setting would look amazing. The game controls are a bit outdated; it has the click right thumbstick to aim down sights, that takes some getting used to but other than that it controls very well. The way you command and tell your squad what to do is incredibly easy and impressive for a game from 2006. The story is good, but really, we’re here for the firefights in the Vegas hotels and on the strip. Going through the casino floors and getting into shootouts is incredibly fun. Some sections took me quite a long time to get through because of the difficulty, but that was more a me not using the tactical map as well as I should. Once I relied on that for enemy positions the most difficult firefight only took a couple more tries to get it down. I did encounter an unusually high number of bugs, including a very unfortunately timed on during the very last level before credits rolled, one of my teammates was stuck all the way across the map, I recognized this and went to run my player into him so he would get unstuck, but when I did that, he respawned to where the final scene was happening. This resulted in the conversation between my character and the others happening, but I could only hear my character’s lines because I was so far away. So, I had to go to YouTube to hear how it actually played out. I still had a really fun time playing this game and can’t wait to dive into the 2nd one. About the reviewer: I have been gaming my entire life and most of that time was spent never completing the games I was playing. I’m now married with 3 kids and am for some reason just now (at the most inconvenient time to do so in my life) on a mission to go through all games I have ever owned, played, and/or wanted to play to complete as many as possible! One week I might be playing the latest and greatest and the next I might be playing a game 20 years old that I just haven’t gotten around to yet. My goal is to have a review written for each of them, but these will be reviews personal to my experience at the time that I played them and might be written a very long time after I have played them. Some will be long thoughtful pieces while others may be only a couple sentences long as I need to be spending my little amount of free time gaming, but I still want to document my thoughts.