Rainbow's intelligence officer, Joanna Torres, briefs Logan on his mission the objective is to arrest Irena Morales, a terrorist ringleader. The mission is in a Mexican border town called San Joshua del Mosquiera in the year 2010. The story follows Rainbow team leader Logan Keller on a mission accompanied by two squad mates, Gabriel Nowak and Kan Akahashi. Other such abilities include the breaching and entering of a room as players mark specific targets for squad-mates to target and eliminate when players give the order to breach and enter into the area. The game also features a context sensitive command system whereby players may instruct the other members of the player's squad using the D-pad or alternatively using a headset in the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 release of the game.įinally a specific sections within a level the player may elect to rappel up or down a building or wall or fast-rope down into an area.
Other key changes include a reincarnated aiming system similar to that found in the previous games in the series. The game deviates from previous games in the franchise by making several alterations to the core gameplay such as the introduction of a regenerating health system and an increase in the enemy presence and AI. At any open corner or chest-high wall, the player can choose to enter into a cover state at which point the camera will then move into a third person perspective, thus allowing the player to pop out and fire at enemies or blind-fire at targets. Rainbow Six Vegas is a first person shooter that incorporates a third-person cover mechanic into the combat. The game also became the first Rainbow Six and Xbox 360 game to be featured in the Major League Gaming tournament premiering in the opening event of the 2007 season in Charlotte, North Carolina and rather fittingly had its last showing at the closing event of the same season in Las Vegas, Nevada. The game itself was well received earning many awards which praised it for its tactical gameplay, innovative AI and sharp graphics and on March 31st 2007 Ubisoft announced that the game had sold over 1.7 million copies. 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.
The game was later release on the PC in December of the same year, to the PlayStation Portable on June 17th 2007 and finally to the PlayStation 3 on June 26th 2007. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal Studios and published by Ubisoft on Novemon the Xbox 360. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed Rainbow Six franchise.