Game On: Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)

**jow** · Mar 9th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Let's use this thread to recollect gamertags for people who will be purchasing this game and looking for folks to shoot. I have friends who will be playing, and I'll share their gamertags with you lot if we have interest. I'm hoping to get a few TMH game nights on the RSV2.

So, show of GTs, TMH. Who's getting RSV2?

Vandal NY

**DarkPenfold** · Mar 9th, 2008, 07:59 PM

DarkPenfold
Should be getting my copy on Thurs 20th. How many TMH people are in the UK/EU timezone though?

**Ska Wars** · Mar 9th, 2008, 08:20 PM

SkaWars86

Birthday at the end of the month so plan to treat myself to this probably.

**Shade-of-Grey** · Mar 11th, 2008, 07:00 PM

360!? and you guys call yourself gamers...

i'll be getting it for the PC thanks.

**DarkPenfold** · Mar 11th, 2008, 08:17 PM

Once you adapt to the control method (which is actually perfect for the game), most online games on the 360 are better than their PC brethren. The first R6V and CoD4 are loads better on 360, and Splinter Cell has (IMHO) never really worked on mouse and keyboard.

The main advantages of XBox Live are legion, and include (but are not restricted to):

Persistent friends list across all games and almost foolproof matchmaking/team-up options[/*:m:3g3ek09c]
Virtually hacker-free (no aimbots here)[/*:m:3g3ek09c]
A guarantee that everyone in the game is playing with the same toolset - no 15-action macros employed by the hardcore for an immense unfair advantage, for example[/*:m:3g3ek09c]
"Prefer/Avoid" feature so you can stop Live from putting you in the same matches as people who've clearly played the game far too much and know every exploit and bug, or the prebubescent chattybitches[/*:m:3g3ek09c]
Hardware guarantee - companies don't need to cater for literally millions of graphic/processor/soundcard combos, and can be confident that everyone is using the same 16-button controller and owns a microphone headset[/*:m:3g3ek09c]

There are some titles which don't work on the consoles as well as the PC, such as The Orange Box, but all in all this newspost from Penny Arcade sums up why consoles have become my platform(s) of choice.

**jow** · Mar 11th, 2008, 09:13 PM

^ Word.

**jow** · Mar 23rd, 2008, 03:25 AM

Alright. So. I've been playing this game non stop since Tuesday. It's fucking rad.

DO IT.

**TylerDurden** · Mar 23rd, 2008, 03:51 AM

i was going to buy it for 360 but decided not to. I've sorta lost interest in my Xbox ever since i started building my computer.

I plan on buying it for PC. I heard it's great.

I do agree however that for console this game, and others like it are really good. No hacking, and all that other stuff is pretty cool.

**blackguy32** · Mar 23rd, 2008, 04:16 AM

I would have it if my Xbox 360 hadn't decided to die on me. Im waiting for them to send my box.

**Fenris Wolf** · Mar 23rd, 2008, 04:03 PM

I could never get into the whole R6 franchise. I've tried, by God, but it always seemed slow and the mulitplay was always spotty. That may be because it was being hosted on some kids crappy DSL line and there was no such thing as a dedicated server, and I absolutely despised the server search funtion they had, but still, even when it worked it wasn't that fun. If you can convince me otherwise, I may consider purchase.

Keep in mind, I've played R6, RS, Black Ops, and Raven Shield. That last one I had a few good times in, but mostly it was peek around a corner and die.