Vegas at its Best

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Submitted by James Munn on July 1, 2007 – 8:40 am10 Comments

Back in April, I gladly downloaded the Red Pack for Rainbow Six on my Xbox 360. Immediately after the download, my copy of Rainbow Six Vegas was never the same. When I would attempt to launch into a multiplayer game it would bring me into the game but only show me a black green with the words, “Game Experience May Change During Online Play.” It changed, all right.

This past week, I took a stab at Rainbow Six Vegas on the PS3 and I’m so very glad I did. If you’re an Xbox 360 Vegas fan boy, I’m sorry to tell you, you’re playing the inferior version of an excellent game.

The devil is in the details with Vegas on the PS3. The game is consistently stable thus far, offline and online. I haven’t experienced any of the familiar audio bugs that plagued my time online with the Xbox 360 version, like gunfire looping indefinitely during a match. Not a hint of any bugs whatsoever on the PS3 version as-of yet

While technically it’s almost identical to the 360 version (the 360 version does look slightly more “crisp” than the PS3 version, however trying to really decipher which one looks better is really more of a personal preference), the major difference here is in the online play. Separation of Ranked and Player games doesn’t exist here, meaning everything you do is ranked. This means that you can invite as many friends as you want to your game, play with your friends online and still gain significant rank for it.

I’ve been dying for that and the PS3 version of Rainbow Six Vegas has made the online experience much, much smoother. This is an occasion when the requirements of the Xbox Live service get in the way instead of improving it.

While I can’t officially review R6V for the PS3 just yet, I will say that I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up. This is the multiplayer experience on the Playstation 3 and shouldn’t be missed by anyone.

zam

“This means that you can invite as many friends as you want to your, play with your friends online and still gain some rank for it.”

You gain rank in Player match on the 360-version as well.
James

“You gain rank in Player match on the 360-version as well.”

Yes, but Player Matches are throttled down in rank compared to the Ranked Matches. Fixed that typo as well.
dumples

“This means that you can invite as many friends as you want to your, play with your friends online and still gain some rank for it.”

Isn’t that rank boosting? I didn’t think that kind of thing would be allowed.
Brandon

The only downside to playing it on the PS3 is that you had to wait a whole 8 months after its initial release to pick it up. I don’t want to buy two copies of the same game.
Matthew Mac

I never had any bugs like that, but if you did it just stands to reason that a game released most of a year after the original would have them fixed.

No player matches kinda highlights the downfalls of the PSN, but it all in how you look at it. Also, it’s better because you found an easy way to boost?
Matthew Mac

Sorry, I meant to compair this instance to VF5, where the visuals look a little better, it runs a little smoother, etc, if previews can be believed.
http://www.endangeredgamer.com el moco

um, whatever fringe benefits the PSN version of RS:V gains get obliterated by the fact that you have to play with that horrible,HORRIBLE Sixaxis controller.

the 360′s controller is much better suited for FPS games…
Bill

I definetly would not say that the sixaxis is horrible for FPS, along your lines of thinking would that mean that no matter what imporvments are made for VF5, it would still suck because you have to use the xbox controller? of course not, the sixaxis is fine. I hate fanboyism, you see an article thats positive for the ps3, and everyone has to find reasons to tear it apart. C’mon, lets get some lives here
Bill

I play R6:Vegas all the time on my 360, I don’t have audio bugs at all. I rarely have lag either. Great game and now that they are giving the black map pack out free and the red back free on Friday the 6th the PS3 version doesn’t have extra content over the 360 with the two map packs. I’d take a 360 controller over the PS3 or dual shock any day. Never have cared for Sony’s controllers.
carl

I like Rainbow Six Vegas on PS3 the best as its free to play online away from MS scalping and when i’m playing it i’m not looking at my console thinking its going to overheat at any moment. On the PS3 I don’t have to wear headphones to drown out a noisy overheating shoddy piece of junk like I did on my now defunct red ringed 360.