Rainbow Six Vegas 2 unveiled

By Robert Purchese Published 21 November, 2007

Out next March.

Ubisoft has whipped the wrappers off of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, the next and sixth instalment in its tactical shooting series.

It's due out here next March on PC, PS3 and 360, and not a lot appears to have changed. The Montreal studio who made the first will be developing it, and offering more in the way of co-operative, tactical and online options than before.

Elsewhere there will obviously be a new campaign to get stuck into as well as more fancy graphics to ooh and ah at.

"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas took the gaming world by storm in 2006 thanks to its technological advances and gameplay innovations," said Yves Guillemot, smiling boss of Ubisoft.

"We are convinced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will remain a pioneer in the highly competitive first person shooter genre, bringing more of what Rainbow Six fans love to the table."

As Yves helpfully mentioned, Rainbow Six Vegas came out last year and was actually very good - a welcome return to form said Kristan in our review.

Hopefully this time Ubisoft can brush up on a few of its production values and make the story a little more engrossing. If it does, this could be one to remember for years.

Pop over to our Rainbow Six Vegas 2 gallery to eyeball the very first screenshot. Did you know author Tom Clancy also co-owns a Major League Baseball team, too?

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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 (36) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Fairlane #1 4 years ago

    I loved last years version. This one im really looking forward to. Don't even think any real-life settings shooter this year eclipsed it!

  • The-Bodybuilder #2 4 years ago

    Seemed a bit quick. Rather like GRAW2, which was just an expansion made into a sequel.

  • smoothpete #3 4 years ago

    "Don't even think any real-life settings shooter this year eclipsed it!"

    Oh come on, you know CoD4 is in a league above :)

    I'll be interested to see if R6:V2 actually has an ending sequence or not, Ubi let me down with the last one

  • The_Inquisitor #4 4 years ago

    The best game of last year, if the play-time I've devoted to it is anything to go by. It's flaws are becoming more noticable though with every new FPS released so I'll be over the moon if they can delivery.

  • JYM60 #5 4 years ago

    Clancy and ubiport can kiss my arse.

  • LHH #6 4 years ago

    I hope they put in a "jump" button.command. For some reason I find shooters without a jump button to be lacking something...

    (yeah, a jump button..)

  • IAmBatman #7 4 years ago

    > Oh come on, you know CoD4 is in a league above :)

    In prodcution values and spectacle I'd agree, but in the raw shooting gameplay Vegas is better.

  • Darren #8 4 years ago

    I enjoyed Rainbow Six Vegas on the 360... for a while anyway but got bored of it part way through so I never completed it. Only played it online one too. Nothing wrong with it as such, just I get bored of mindless shooting quickly (hence my lack of interest in online modes) unless there's a cracking story to entice me. Still have to complete Halo 3 (on Heroic), Call of Duty 3 (on Regular) and 4 (Regular), although with the first two I'm very close to the end...

  • kissthestick #9 4 years ago

    how much does Clancy get off these games?

    does he have any input at all? 0_o

  • GamesConnoisseur #10 4 years ago

    I agree that RS:V has something going for it, sure COD4 may get GOTY and acknowleged as anexcellent all round production value. Replayability is good on both but RS:V have the extra..

    'dammit should have known to use THAT cover before trying to put hot leads on that one ugly mofo, who instead took advantage of my exposure whilst taking care of his doomed bitch'

    Excuse the language, but that kind of replayabilty is fun working out how to shoot and not to be too exposed to bullets coming your way. I always played RS:V on realistic setting.

  • Squig #11 4 years ago

    Woohoo! I just completed R6V the other day, cant wait for this one!

  • Squire #12 4 years ago

    Loved this game, glad to hear there's a sequel on the way. A bit strange that they're setting it in Vegas again though.

  • Darren #13 4 years ago

    @Squire - Setting it Vegas again means that they don't have to redo all the graphics. ;)

  • Talha #14 4 years ago

    I really enjoyed Vegas - in fact I was still playing it when I got my hands on Crysis and COD4.

    Game over.

    But that's not to say that Vegas was lacking in any respect. In fact the firefights are as good if not better than those two. Crysis has a funny way of making every other game look pale by comparison. But it will be good to fall back on once those two are out!

  • Runtime #15 4 years ago

    Great news. Loved RB6:Vegas.

  • reality_cheque #16 4 years ago

    Bah, I've still not got around to even STARTING the last one yet :(

  • SteveB #17 4 years ago

    Surprisingly one of my favourite 360 games (much preferred it to GOW which came out around the same time). A bit disappointed though that it’s set in Vegas again, I was expecting a totally new location.

  • dudefella #18 4 years ago

    Loved Vegas, I'm all over this when it comes out!

  • Dukkha #19 4 years ago

    Yes, one of my favourite co-op games of all times. Played it on the 360, and are now playing through it once more with some friends on PC.
    Hopefully they will have 4 person split-screen co-op on the 360 this time.

  • neosalad #20 4 years ago

    I can hardly wait, the first RS:Vegas game was one of the best 360 games to date!
    certainly one of the best multiplayer games... nothing else comes close... apart from COD4 now, though it plays quite differently.



  • Royal Fool #21 4 years ago

    kissthestick: He may have had a role with the first game (having written the novel it's based on), but anything after that seems questionable. He hasn't been credited with any game in the series since Rogue Spear.

  • Triggerhappytel #22 4 years ago

    Hmmm - another full price expansion pack from Ubisoft. They are as bad as (worse than?!) EA for this sort of shit these days.

  • rashes #23 4 years ago

    Cool. Can't wait for this. Its a very differnt buzz to COD4... all indoors and covering hallways/doors and setting explosives...
    More tactical than COD but then COD is pure chaotic fun!

  • rashes #24 4 years ago

    @Triggerhappytel

    They are probably just giving the people what they want!

  • gallow #25 4 years ago

    I really enjoyed the last game on the pc but I hope they remove the bloom effects as it made the game look like it was being viewed through a window smeared in vaseline. Oh and they improve the textures on the pc as some of textures looked like they were from HL1 (see the cars in the car park near the end of the game).
    Edited by 1 at 21/11/07 @ 11:16

  • bioreit #26 4 years ago

    Have yet to get past level 3 of the first one - the whole co-op system was a joke, whereby it's not only completely separate from the normal single-player story, but is actually completely unlocked right from the get-go. Really has put me off going through it, as one of the main reasons I wanted it was to blast through the story with a couple of mates :-(

    On the other hand, I do now have a Live Vision, so I can start putting *ahem* amusing faces on my avatar...

    If R6V2 has hop-in, hop-out story-based co-op, I'm sold. If not, I'll just stick with my copy of the uncompleted original, thanks.

  • kangarootoo #27 4 years ago

    The first version of Vegas was ace. Co-op was a bundle of fun, and for shoot and cover mechanics nothing else has touched it. Roll on the sequel says I.

  • kangarootoo #28 4 years ago

    @bioreit

    Did the co-op implementation really grate that much? Lets be honest, the story blew chunks so its absence was hardly a major blow was it? I just enjoyed playing through the levels. That street level (2nd one I think) was fantastic.

    Give it another go is my suggestion :)

  • bioreit #29 4 years ago

    @ kangarootoo

    I just don't have enough time to go through the missions twice or thrice, to be honest, so if I could combine completing the game with cutscenes and Achievements, etc, with co-op, then I'd be a happy bunny.

  • Fairlane #30 4 years ago

    I hope I get to shoot up The Montecito - ohhh wait.........

  • kangarootoo #31 4 years ago

    @bioreit

    Point taken. I played through the sp campaign before trying co-op, to "get it out of the way" so to speak. Same with Halo 3 though for that matter, as not all my friends were at the same stage in the game.

  • bioreit #32 4 years ago

    @ kangarootoo

    That's my problem with Halo 3 - my friends have either completed it (but without Live - damn Uni networks), or barely started, so are loathe to join me at my halfway point. Which is one of the reasons why I haven't got too far in it.

    I just have far too many games to complete at the moment - I've promised myself that if I finish the campaign of Halo 3, I can get CoD4 and if I complete the storyline of R6V, I'll get Mass Effect.

    And if I can find that last agility orb in Crackdown, I'm buying Assassin's Creed and Bioshock (because it's such a bitch to go from 499 to 500, it's worth two games at LEAST!)

    And if I get at least all silver in PGR3, I'll get PGR4.

    And if I finish HL2, I'll get Kane and Lynch, with Episode 1 and 2 completion getting me Stranglehold.


    Money really isn't the problem for me and games - it's just bloody time! And that's without my Wii - which I'm starting to doubt will EVER arrive. Bloody Carphone Warehouse and bloody City Link.

  • patchbox360 #33 4 years ago

    "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas took the gaming world by storm in 2006 thanks to its technological advances and gameplay innovations," said Yves Guillemot, smiling boss of Ubisoft.


    that game had the worse entry tactical positions ever e.g. moving upwards through a hotel were you can be shot from any level and angle - weak

    some of dumbest ideas e.g. defending a guy from 15+ gunmen with automatic rifles trying to hack into a computer on stage in the middle of a auditorium - rubbish

    bring back the people who made rainbow six on xbox - that game made tactical sense

    got the that off my chest - feeling better now - its only a game

  • Sorb #34 4 years ago

    This game better not end with another To Be Continued!!

  • bioreit #35 4 years ago

    @ patchbox360

    But Yves' comments all begin to make perfect sense when you realise he is talking about American tactics, whereby just shooting at the enemy counts as a wonderful bonus.

  • dog #36 4 years ago

    absolutely loved the co-op in vegas... as kangarootoo said the duck n cover mechanics were superb... simple and intuitive (and having a seperate key for grenade so makes sense)....

    my only complaint with the original (and it was a major problem) was the unreasonable computer specs for playing it.... i've 4 computers in my office and we loved playing the co-op... except with 2 of the machines it was virtually unplayable... even with all settings on the lowest and the ini files tweaked to the max it ran like a dog on mushrooms.... these were computers which were only slightly old with 6 series nvidia cards, gig of ram and 2.8 - 3ghz processors... by no means cutting edge machines but more than capable of handling similar games...

    i felt they had simply been a lazy console port with little effort put into optimisation...

    don't want to sound really down on the game though as it was by far the most fun i've had in a 4 player MP game for a very long time... really can't wait for the sequal but dear god please spend some time optimising the thing...