Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Experience Las Vegas like never before – through…
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is a shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 22 November 2006 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5.1 hrs to finish.
What Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas is a shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2006. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in “Sin City” threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip, and casinos.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth 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 is the 37th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 in 2007. Its critic score of 86 is 16 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.
How it was received
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 162 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.1 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 Athlon 3500 recommended), 1 GB (2 GB recommended) of RAM and 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled video card (256MB 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.
What it launched against
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas launched on 22 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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