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TopicThe Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
KCF0107
01/30/21 1:05:29 AM
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#68 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360, 2008)


I had actually never played a Rainbow Six game prior to Vegas 2, not even the first Vegas. I greatly enjoyed other games in the Tom Clancy line like the Ghost Recons (the first with its expansions just missed out on the Top 100) and Splinter Cells, but my favorite is Vegas 2.

I can't speak to its single player or online, but goddamn is this one of my favorite co-op experiences that I've had. It has a lot in common with your typical FPS game, which I love but realize I am in the vast minority there, but there is an emphasis on outsmarting and outflanking your enemies before you set foot in the room, and they often gave you a variety of ways of approaching each impending firefight. Sometimes that means rappelling through windows, but more often than not, it is breach and clear. These are mostly optional, but who the hell would turn down a chance to using a snake cam, setting a door for a lethal explosion, or rig it to use a flashbang or smoke grenade and just lay waste to everyone? My best friend and I took every opportunity to breach and clear that we saw. It never stops feeling amazing. In co-op you also had two AI team members, and there were quite a few options in terms of orders you can give them. They never felt useless and were an actual asset to our cause.

Outside of the campaign, they had this awesome mode called Terrorist Hunt where you play without AI companions and are tasked with defeating a set amount of enemies lurking around within a small space. There are very few video game experiences that were as nerve-wracking and heart-pumping as playing this mode on realistic difficulty. It was probably super cheap, I don't know, I just knew that in order to succeed, our teammwork had to be impeccable, and we had to quickly analyze the map and adapt to any sitauation. There were well over a hundred failures, but we eventually got through them all. There are few moments in my gaming life that I have been more proud of than when I went through all the Terrorist Hunts on realistic solo.

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