Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

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A radical new change for the Rainbow Six series, this sequel drops the player into a fictional version of Las Vegas to stop a terrorist plot.

Overview

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (RSV) is the 6 installment in the acclaimed Rainbow Six series. Rainbow Six Vegas was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft on November 21, 2006. The game focuses on the counterterrorist unit Rainbow Six who have been send to Las Vegas, Nevada to stop terrorist from blowing up casinos and eventually detonating a bomb on the Nevada Dam. RSV was the first Rainbow Six and Xbox 360 game to be featured in the Major League Gaming tournament. CPU (Processor): Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD equivalent. Pistols
The game itself was well received earning many awards which praised it for its tactical gameplay, innovative AI and sharp graphics. Ubisoft has also stated that as of March 31, 2007, it sold over 1.7 million copies.

Plot

Rainbow team in the helicopter

The story follows Rainbow team leader Logan Keller on a mission accompanied by two squad mates, Gabriel Nowak and Kan Akahashi. The mission is in a Mexican border town called San Joshua del Mosquiera in the year 2010. Rainbow's intelligence officer, Joanna Torres, briefs you on your mission; the objective is to arrest Irena Morales, a terrorist ringleader. As Logan and his squad reaches the landing zone, Logan fast-ropes down first, but the helicopter and the rest of the team is forced to retreat as a rocket-propelled grenade narrowly misses them. [The previous paragraph has been modified from its original source, but still closely resembles the original. Further edits would be helpful.]

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Gameplay

Cover system allows Logan to take cover behind walls

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Weapon List

Pistol
Mk. 23
USP40
92FS
Glock 18
Desert Eagle
Raging Bull

SMG

MP5
MP7A1
UMP45
P90
MP9
MAC11

Assault

SCARC-H CQC
M8
AUGA3
G3KA4
552C
G36C
MTAR21
FAMAS
AK47

LMG

MK46
21E
M249SPW
MG36

Shotguns

M3
SPAS12
870MCS
XM26-LSS

Sniper

PSG1
M40A1
SV-98
Scout Tactical

Multiplayer

Character customization

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Expansion packs

Player's Pack Red Edition

The pack includes two new game modes. The first is "Assassination" whereby one team has to protect a VIP armed only with a pistol, whilst the other team needs to assassinate him. The second is Conquest . Three new maps were also included: "Doscala Restaurant," "Marshalling Yard," and "Roof." The maps "Killhouse" and "Border Town" have been redesigned and packaged as two new "redux" maps.

The Player's Pack Black Edition

Features five new maps. "Red Lotus", "Wartown" and "Neon Graveyard" are the three newly featured maps. "Streets: Redux" has been redesigned in a similar fashion to the Redux maps found in the Player's Pack Red Edition, and "Presidio" is a map overhauled and upgraded from Rainbow Six 3.

Both the Red and the Black expansion packs were included in the PS3 version and were released for PC.

Xbox 360 Collector's Edition

A Limited Collector's Edition of the Xbox 360 version has been released. It contains a making-of documentary and a series retrospective. It also features another box art.

PC System Requirements

As displayed on the back cover of the box

• Operating System: Windows XP
• System RAM: 1024MB (1GB).
• GPU (Video Card): (3D Card) 128MB, Shader model 3 and Direct X 9.0c compatible (see supported list*).
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c.
• DVD-ROM Drive: 4x.
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible.
• HDD (Hard Disc) space: 7GB free space.

*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release (laptop models of these cards are not supported) :

• ATI X1600 / X1800 / X1900
• Nvidia 6600GT / 6800 / 7300 / 7600 / 7800 / 7900

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