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Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear |
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22/06/01 (7 review reads) |
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Advantages: gameplay, graphics, sound
Disadvantages: AI
Rogue spear is one of the latest offerings from Red Storm, Tom Clancy's software house, and is a sequel to the very popular Rainbow Six. Set in the near future, terrorism is on the rise and it is the job of you and your team to go in and persuade them with a few bursts of gunfire so that they may prefer to consider a new occupation.
In Rogue Spear, You take control of an elite anti-terrorist squad in the not too distant future. The levels are extremely varied and challenging. During the course of your many missions you will find your team flung into various climates and terrains as well as onto (and into) planes, ships, chemical plants, military bases and even huge and convincingly realistic nuclear reactor plants.
The game is based over 16 missions and consists mainly of 'kill the terrorists' or 'save the hostages', although there are a couple of 'sneak around without being spotted' missions. Also included in the game are a number of training missions which will allow you to get to grips with the game without killing all your operatives and are well worth spending a bit of time having a look round.
Your team can equip itself with the cutting edge of military hardware, all of which behaves exactly as you would expect.There is a vast arsenal of weaponry in Rogue Spear. New shotguns, really, really big sniper rifles, and the most useful piece of equipment ever...rubber bullets. Heck, you even get C4 this time. Some of the weapons, like the Barret sniper rifle, are sweet. Others, like the Dragunov and Skorpion just suck ...But there's definitely a gun for every player in this version. There are new sidearms, a vast array of sniper weaponry (some with multiple levels of zoom for when you need that extra precise shot.), and now smoke grenades.
The graphics and sound are absolutely first class all the way and greatly enhance the atmosphere and tension. Particularly effective is the constant radio chatter
between the "teams" which your group is divided up into for each mission.
One mission takes place in the ruins of Kosovo and this level is an absolute delight to play. The cobbled streets wind around in a very convincing manner and time really seems to have been spent to create as realistic a gaming environment as possible. The first time you play this level, one of your teams will be picked off one at a time in a seemingly deserted street. When you finally work out just who shot you, you are really going to be impressed.
Rogue Spear has three difficulty levels which helps to add some longevity to the game also. "Veteran" (The 2nd level) level is so different from the easiest level that you do not really feel like you are repeating yourself and perhaps the game's strongest point is that you never know what to expect. Terrorists are not always where you found them last time (In fact, they usually aren't!)
So it is pretty nice game and I think you should try it.
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