ShylockSimmonz's Review of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Doesn't Add A Ton Over Vegas But Still A Solid Shooter

User Rating: 8 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 PC

By shylocksimmonz | Review Date: May 21, 2022

Vegas 2 didn’t really add a ton to the experience that Vegas brought but it also didn’t make things worse. It still had the same core experience which, given that I enjoyed that, meant I had a lot of fun with the sequel. A lot of what was added was cosmetic. You can now customize your character’s armour; clothing; gender; and face alongside your weapons. I didn’t really care about any of this but I’m sure someone may have so it’s not a bad thing to add. Sadly some of the issues I had with Vegas were still there like poor team AI and the game defaulting your fire rate to auto when reloading a save. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the last battle because it was you going up against a helicopter; and waves of enemies without any help from your team for no reason. Your character literally tells them to stand back so he can go solo even though the game is a team based game. I may rag on the AI but I at least like to use them to draw fire from me and as bait. Also without giving any spoilers I will say that there really should have been at least an additional cut scene between the second last level and the last one as I have a lot of questions about the story such as what the enemies were doing there and where your team came from. This may seem all negative but it really isn’t meant to be. The game still has very good shooting and sound effects. It also does a good job of exploring side stories of what was happening before and during your game play in Vegas. The graphics are pretty much the exact same as in Vegas even though improvements could have been made.

I played Vegas 2 on Linux using Proton. It never crashed. It did have some issues but I’m unsure if it was with the game or with Proton. Basically when the game first launches the intro logos and screens were all really tiny and in the top left hand corner of the screen. This wasn’t a resolution issue as when I set the resolution to 1080P it still happened. There was also an issue where the game when launched wouldn’t be given priority and I would have to manually click the game in the taskbar to make it take priority and span my screen. There were also some times where it never got to the main screen. There wasn’t any errors or crashes, just nothing. Ironically this happened when the game didn’t start minimized. If it started minimized like I mentioned earlier I knew it would get to the main screen fine. Once the game could actually be played I noticed no bugs or glitches. Again, I’m uncertain if these issues had to do with Proton or if Windows users experienced them as well. The game had four AA settings; a v-sync toggle; and four other graphics options. The game auto saved at checkpoints. Most of the time whey were decently spaced but a manual save system would have been preferred. Alt-Tab worked. You can’t change the difficulty mid mission but you can change it if you choose to load the scene from the beginning which means you may lose some progress depending where in the scene you are. Being able to change on the fly would have been a better option. The game ran great with much of the time it running at 144 FPS or close to it. Even when there were drops it was still well over 100 FPS.

Game Engine: Unreal 3

Disk Space Used: 6.73 GB

Game version Played: 1.03.101(336)

Game Settings Used: all highest; blur off; 4x AA; 1920x1080

GPU Usage: 34-90 %

VRAM Usage: 1186-1284 MB

CPU Usage: 11-26 %

RAM Usage: 4.4-5.1 GB

Frame Rate: 117-144 FPS

If you enjoyed Rainbow Six Vegas then you’ll probably enjoy Vegas 2. It has a lot of the same positives even if it still has a few of the negatives as well. The story is overall good and adds to the overall Vegas story arc even if it could have been a bit tighter near the end. I paid $2.81 CAD for Vegas 2 on Steam and paid $49.99 CAD for it when it came out at launch. In any case it is easily worth it’s current price tag of 9.99 CAD. I finished the story mode in six hours and thirty one minutes on normal difficulty.

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