Developer : Ubisoft Montreal Publisher : Ubisoft Genre : Shooter Release Date : April 15, 2008 ESRB : Mature for Blood, Intense Violence, Strong Language Official Site : http://rainbowsixgame.com
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (RSV2) is the ninth installment in the Rainbow Six series (including expansions). It is a tactical first person shooter video game and the sequel to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was announced by Ubisoft on November 20, 2007. The game was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 18, 2008 in North America and March 20, 2008 in Europe, except in Germany, where the game was delayed. The Microsoft Windows version, however, was delayed until April 15, 2008. It was released in Japan on April 24, 2008 for the Xbox 360 and on May 29, 2008 for the PlayStation 3.
A world-exclusive first-look of the game appeared in the January edition of the Official Xbox Magazine. One of the biggest announcements is that Logan Keller, the lead character from the previous game, has been removed in favor of having the player create his own character to play through the campaign. The player instead assumes the role of "Bishop", a member of the Rainbow squad with a great deal more experience and who is more deeply involved in the story.
The game, billed as "part sequel, part prequel", has events that run both before and concurrently to the story of Logan Keller and continue after where the first game concluded. In addition to the ability to customize a character in multiplayer, the player can now customize Bishop, Vegas 2's new protagonist. In single-player, the developers claim to have vastly improved teammate AI, so that now teammates cover each other as they advance. There are also several new commands, for example, the ability of a teammate to throw a grenade at a specific point.
Minimum System Requirements CPU: 3 GHz Pentium 4 Hyper Threading or AMD Athlon 3000 Operating System: Windows Vista/Windows XP SP2 (only) Memory: 1024MB for Windows XP / 2048MB for Windows Vista Drive Space: 7 GB Graphics Card: 128 MB DirectX Compliant, Shader 3.0 Enabled video card Sound Card: DirectX Compliant sound card DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)
Recommended System Requirements CPU: Intel and AMD processors 3.2 GHz Operating System: Windows Vista/Windows XP SP2 (only) Memory: 2048MB Drive Space: 7 GB Graphics Card: 256 MB DirectX Compliant, Shader 3.0 Enabled video card Sound Card: DirectX Compliant sound card DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)