Rainbow Six Vegas
If you’re the gamer type who once in a while enjoys a little shooter on your PC then you’ve certainly heard of Rainbow Six. This well-known Ubisoft series adds up another title - Rainbow Six Vegas. The PC version? I don’t know, we’ll wait and see. But I have to mention the mobile version(See here the official website). Why? Because it’s pretty good IMHO and has a thing or two to offer. Hold tight for this review, ’cause it’s a preview as well: - we are among the first mobile gaming website to make this(though IGN was there first, and Gameloft presents it as well). Yes, you guessed, the game is brand new, it came out just in time for Christmas, and our review comes along with insider infos.
In case you haven’t played any of the games in the series, or the words “tactical 3D shooter” don’t impress you much then you have to know this is about a special forces squad (yes, you get to control several characters at the same time – so no more frustration when losing your main character and have to restart the game). It doesn’t mean though that you’ll go through the stage firing at everything that moves. You could use this tactic to finish a stage, maybe, but it surely won’t help you much as you progress through the game.
And here is a thing that feels like a breath of fresh air: in this game the word “tactical” has a real meaning; how does tactics fit in here? You have several choices, and you can play each of them, according to the circumstances.
Ok, ok, let’s go back a little. As the title suggests, the action is in Las Vegas, where the owner of a big casino and his daughter are kidnapped. So the need to deploy a special unit rises. Your every move is watched by the media, so when all your team is down at least you’ll see this on TV as well 
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The fight will be mostly indoors, but this means you’ll have several ways to surprise the terrorists (a flash bang to neutralize them for a while, a grenade to silence them for good). A cool gadget is the special camera which allows you to see behind the closed doors so you can plan your next move. The tactics part has no similarity to chess 
. Sometimes, terrorists are likely to kill a hostage, so you’ll have to stab them silently with the knife - trust me, it’s pretty cool. In some later stages the pace gets so alert you won’t even be able to enjoy the view – which looks great by the way, with lots of details - including terrorists behind hidden walls :P. Bombs will detonate if you waste time - this adds up to the fun, you’ll have a great feeling about yourself once all the bombs will be disarmed and the terrorists annihilated.
The thing I like most is the sniper mode in several stages. Here you have a scope and you have to kill terrorists in order to rescue hostages. And I have to mention here that it is very well made, in terms of graphics and gameplay. Nothing compares with a good old sniped headshot (Counterstrike anyone :P?)
Even if it has only a few hours of gameplay, the adrenaline it offers and the sniper mode which gets unlocked in the menu after the first time it’s played will makes up for it. So, did you put it on your whish list?
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you were fast with this one; congrats