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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
Overall: This is the perfect online game for anyone who loves first person shooters but can't find the realism that would take a game to the next level. I am the kind of gamer that likes to be able to pop some guy in the head or shoot someone clean in the chest a couple of times and see them drop. That is exactly this game. No running and jumping around firing wildly like in games like Halo or Wolfenstein. This game is not easy to pick up and play. From speaking to friends on xbox live it seems to take an average of 20 hours online to really make yourself dangerous. Gameplay: gameplay is varied. There are times you are leaning out from behind a box waiting and times you are running and gunning. The online coop play is amazing, but I spend most of my time in team survival with a little sharpshooter (unlimited respawns, every man for himself, timed game for most kills)
Graphics: graphics are amazing. They spared no expense when it comes to scenery and level design. The graphics are great where they need to be and toned down where it will really save bandwith. You aren't going to see the amazing detail of the master chief when you look at the player next to you, and people don't move as smooth as in some other games, but that is only because the framerate for some actions of the characters is taken down to save online bandwith.
Basically, the graphics are amazing as they should be and functional as they can be
Audio: It's as simple as this: You won't find another game with the same realistic sound as RSix3. Everything from footsteps, to grenades, to gunfire all sound like you are there. Add surround sound and it's so real is scary. The details in the sound effects are off the charts. If a grenade is thrown in the basement and you are outside it sounds muffled. You can actually find tangos on any map just by listening for them. 5.0 isn't a high enough rating for the sound
Suggestions: Online play is great, but there are some glaring issues that have come about lately.
First, and most importantly to most gamers who have been playing this line of game ever since the original rainbow 6, is that this game does not include kit restrictions like ghost recon or any of the previous Tom Clancy games. The only options you have are to turn on or take off grenade launchers and thermal vision. This game includes a .50 caliber sniper rifle that is so powerful and has such a high rate of fire that you can basically run around and blast your way through entire teams before they can even get a shot off. The weapon is unrealistic and annoying. In fact, it is so powerful that if you hit a man in the foot or hand it will instantly kill them. There are weapons that take 2 head shots to kill. That weapon is the only poorly designed thing in this game and the host of the match should be able to set whether to use them or not. Beyond the .50 cal debate, there are times that people want to play pistol matches or only use certain weapons to make it interesting, but it happens, without fail, that someone will run out with a pistol and someone else will pull their M16 off their back and just mow them down. Having kit restrictions like every other Tom Clancy game would improve online gameplay 10 fold. It would have to be total control to be effective. You would have to be able to limit or restrict all together any weapon or device (or amount ex. how many grenades or how much ammo) including assault rifles, sniper rifles, shotguns, pistols, grenades, remote charges, claymore mines, etc. The option to only make certain weapons available for use would really spice things up to the next level and make this game even more entertaining online.
Next, the stats do not report correctly all the time. You are also more likely to see "server error" than your stats when you click on statistics. once you are there, you have a snowball's chance in hell of getting to your weekly or monthly stats. Another problem that comes up from time to time is that the game will only report your deaths and not your kills or vice versa. This game is all about your kill to death ratio seeing as the ELO point system means nothing to anyone and if you are playing for a couple hours on the same server and rack up a bunch of kills and then you check and only your deaths report it can be very frustrating.
The voice communication is great, but there are many people who I can't hear and they can't hear me. I thought that was a one time problem, but there are guys I play with on almost a daily basis that I can't hear, they are not on my mute list, and they can't hear me even though other people in the room can hear them normally.
Clipping is a huge concern. There are maps, especially garage, where there are well known locations where you can lean 'through' a wall and shoot at the people on the other side even though they cannot see or shoot you. I didn't like this when I first heard that you could see through, now that I have experienced great sessions go to crap because of a guy wiping out entire teams through the wall over and over I hate it.
Leaning invincibility - in this game you can lean or peak out from behind objects to get a better view. That is great, but just about every day I get to the point where I have my rifle zoomed in on a guy that is leaning out from behind a box and hitting me where I can't hit him even though his head is in plain sight and easily targetable. This seems to be a deep programing error. I say this because if you walk up behind a guy that is leaning and put your gun to the back of his head and lay 21 bullets into him he won't even get a scratch even though you are standing where you can see his whole body. It is obviously designed where when you lean it mathmatically lowers your probability of being hit. It is obvious online that people have found this out because you will see people standing in the open leaning to one side and killing people because his chances of being hit while leaning are greatly decreased. I would love to see a patch that makes the visible leaning head just as much a viable target as it would be when not leaning. Also, make it so that leaning in the open doesn't make you semi-invincible.
Friends list problems (might be xbox live as a whole) - recently there were some lengthy problems where you couldn't see some friends who were online. I was on the phone with a friend of mine who was playing, but didn't show up as online on my friends list. Also, people in your game couldn't be seen as online. They were being listed as offline. This is a MAJOR problem seeing as 90% of the fun of this game comes from finding good hosts and good people to play with online. Without working friend lists this game isn't even half as good. This comes in combination with the horrible stat reporting. If you try to optimatch, find a game, and attempt to join, you are most likely going to see, "stats will not be reported for this game do to an error" Now if you cancel out and go back in a bunch of times, eventually you won't get the message. The problem is that every time you cancel you have to refresh the list of games and wait 30 seconds for the new list of the same games to come up and try again. It doesn't sound like a big deal if it only happens once and you get to go back into the same room before it fills up, but often times the games fill so fast that you can't get in. Also, repeat this process 15 or 20 times and see how much fun your having. If the friend lists are down and you want your stats to report you are in for a fun waiting game that could last up to a half hour.
Overall Score: 10.0 / 10
