Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas review for PlayStation 3

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas finally makes it to PlayStation 3 months after its release on the Xbox 360. So has it been worth the wait, and if you've played and loved Rainbow Six Vegas on another platform, should you rush out and buy it for the PlayStation 3? How does it look on the PS3 - is it truly a next-gen game? - and what is the co-op mode like? We have a huge three page review of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas so you can read all about the game on the PlayStation 3, and we'll tell you how we rate it. Check out our Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas review for PlayStation 3 now to find out more. Click here to read the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas review for PlayStation 3!

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas review for PlayStation 3
First impressions can often be misleading, and that’s very much the case with this PS3 version of Ubisoft Montreal’s eight-month-old tactical shooter. While it was never as tasty in the looks department as Tom Clancy’s other two major franchises - the shadowy beauty of Splinter Cell and the explosive detail of GRAW - we certainly don’t remember the 360 game having jaggies. Nor were there noticeable frame rate stutters in particularly frantic moments. Scale the picture back down to 720p and things do improve, but then you’ve got that opening level to go through - a mission to Mexico that’s by turns knuckle-chewingly dull and teethgrittingly frustrating. And while Vegas is one of the most accessible titles within its field, the sky-high difficulty and plodding pace of the opening exchanges will infuriate those with an itchy trigger finger, not to mention anyone raised on the likes of Gears of War.
Get into its ‘duck and cover’ mentality though, and Rainbow Six can worm its way under your skin. As the saying goes, ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’, and it’s once you reach the neon-glazed city itself that things start to pick up. By the time you reach the Calypso Casino, and you’re hiding behind slot machines and gunning ‘tangos’ (Clancy-speak for terrorists) over roulette tables, you’ll be completely hooked. And when you reach the end of Fremont Street you’re in for a gun battle that rivals anything in the more visceral GRAW series. It’s the settings that make Vegas feel genuinely different from its genre rivals - it’s so much more exciting finding cover behind bars and next to arcades in the lurid, fluorescent casinos than crouching amongst a bunch of crates and barrels in a factory or warehouse.

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