Rainbow Six Vegas 2 silencer trailer

By Robert Purchese Published 12 March, 2008

She's making too much noise.

Silencers are brilliant; you're not a professional killer until you have one, as everyone knows. They make that lovely little sound too. We asked around the office and "zzp", "thwp", and "chk" were our best silencer impersonations. No vowels. Too noisy.

These crafty little screw-on attachments are very handy in Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It makes sense that taking on a building full of hostile targets becomes much easier when you can catch them off guard by using a stealthy approach rather than a crash, bang, and wallop one. This is expertly demonstrated in our exclusive Silencer Gameplay Eurogamer TV trailer.

According to game designer Steven Masters, "The silencer is one of the most important gun attachments in the game.

"Throughout certain missions your intelligence officer will recommend infiltration tactics and using the silencer to take out enemies," he explains. "This strategy will prevent other enemies from being alerted and will allow you and your team to navigate more freely."

The slowly, slowly approach will often open up new ways to tackle a situation. "The level design was created with multiple entries and different tactics in mind to support this type of gameplay," apparently. But before you go attaching the silencer for every situation, Masters wants you to remember that the trade-off is less damage when shooting enemies or penetrable or breakable objects.

Silencers, or noise suppressors as clever people call them, work by allowing the rapidly expanding gases from firing a bullet to be briefly diverted or trapped inside a series of hollow chambers. Hollywood has misrepresented them and only the best silencers can reduce the noise of pistols or submachine guns to a loud clacking noise, much like you will hear in the exclusive trailer.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is due out on PS3 and 360 from 20th March, with the PC version set to arrive a little later on 17th April. Look out for our review ever so soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • syphaa #1 4 years ago

    Thanks Ubi for explaining what a Silencer is used for! :]

  • TagemandBagem #2 4 years ago

    "Silencers, or noise suppressors as clever people call them"
    also thanks for sparing me having to explain there is no such thing as a silencer. Hollywood, pfffft!

    So this game better be at an expansion price otherwise they're taking the piss.

  • syphaa #3 4 years ago

    £50 for some new silencers [which were actually in the first installment coming to think of it] and the ability to now run...w00t

  • MightyMouse #4 4 years ago

    Educational! Ah it reminds me of age of empires 2, now there was a game subtly working towards giving the player greater understanding of history.

  • Eraysor #5 4 years ago

    EG, we don't need a new main article about every single Vegas 2 trailer.

  • Decap #6 4 years ago

    So with a silencer on, the pistol wont be that effective.. eh and I thought one of the "catches" in rainbow sixes was realism..

    Liked the first one, this one seems way too similar to go back again. Like we dont have enough generic shooters out there, R6 could really go back to the "one shot one kill" style. :|
    This should be a downloadable addon rather than a full-priced game. D:

  • gallow #7 4 years ago

    A silencer won't do anything unless you are using sub-sonic rounds.