Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

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82 18 March 2008

Shooter Strategy Tactical Action Warfare

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 18 March 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 11.6 hrs to finish.

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What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2008. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story opens in 2005, as the counter-terrorist operative Bishop leads fellow Rainbow agents Logan Keller and Gabriel Nowak through a tense hostage rescue in the Pyrénées, a mission complicated by Nowak's impulsiveness. Five years later, Bishop takes command of Bravo Team, made up of Mike Walter and Jung Park, and is sent to the Las Vegas area after the National Security Agency uncovers a dangerous plot. Two smugglers, the brothers Miguel and Alvarez Cabreros, are suspected of moving chemical weapons out of Mexico and into the city. As Bishop's team races to intercept the weapons, they are drawn into a spiraling crisis of hostage situations and hidden bombs, forcing them to hunt the…

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is the 39th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. It arrived a year after Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. The next entry was Tom Clancy's EndWar in 2008. Its critic score of 82 is 12 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 158 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 11.6 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 3 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3000 (3.5 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3500 recommended), 1 GB of RAM and 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled video card (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB.

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What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 launched on 18 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 — frequently asked questions

When did Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 come out?

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 was released on 18 March 2008 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2?

At minimum, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 needs 3 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3000 (3.5 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3500 recommended), 1 GB of RAM, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled video card (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*) graphics, 7 GB free of storage.

How long does it take to beat Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2?

The main story of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 takes around 11.6 hrs, or 3.3 hrs for 100% completion.

How many GB is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2?

The PC version needs about 7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("7 GB free"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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