The tactical shooter that popularized the cover system on consoles. The cooperative campaign is the highlight. Aged but foundational, still appreciated as a landmark multiplayer game that shaped the genre on PS3.
Tactical TPS by Ubisoft Montreal transposing Rainbow Six into a terrorism-stricken Las Vegas. Published by Ubisoft, released in June 2007 in Europe, Korea, North America and Japan. Logan Keller Rainbow Six squad leader deployed to Las Vegas to neutralize a terrorist plot taking over Strip casinos, over twelve missions crossing iconic Strip casinos including Vertigo and Dante's, tactical TPS gameplay mixing cover-based shooting, infiltration and three-agent squad commanding, Snake Cam mechanic to observe under doors before breach and clear, over fifteen signature weapons including MP5 and Five-seveN with interchangeable scopes, online multiplayer mode for up to sixteen players in Terro Hunt and Adversarial teams, English voice-over with military voices.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Vegas review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
The art direction plays out in the gesture of taking cover. Pressed against a wall, the hero shifts to third person, and the screen frames at once his back, the room's angle and the possible line of fire. The snake cam slid under doors offers a distorted fisheye view where targets are marked before the assault. The game builds its image around the blind corner, the sheltering wall and the closed room still unknown.
The game's sound is that of a team at work. The brief orders given to teammates, their laconic confirmations over the radio, the whispered countdown before the simultaneous entry by door and window: this spoken liturgy replaces music during the infiltration. The score only rises on contact, then withdraws as soon as the room is secured. You play by the ear of voices, in a professional near-silence.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Difficult"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾9,6 GB📅26/06/2007
Published by Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Vegas (PS3) price, value & rarity
The Korean run of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, released on a market with narrow physical distribution, markedly rarer than the Western and Japanese editions. This localized release interests collectors of the thinly documented Korean outings of a worldwide tactical FPS. Its desirability rests above all on this geographic scarcity.
Better with friends
A tactical shooter where co-op and planning trump reflex, each assault prepped as a team before tipping into action. Mutual aid is essential: covering angles, syncing the entry and communicating averts a bloodbath and brings a craftsman's satisfaction. The original online leans on uncertain servers, but the shared tactical spirit keeps a rare tension and intelligence.
Is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Vegas still worth playing in 2026?
Rainbow Six Vegas marked the history of the tactical shooter by popularising on console a fluid cover system, placed in service of a thoughtful approach to the assault. Planning your entries, managing your team and neutralising threats methodically delivers a strategic tension still appreciable. The co-op campaign remains its strong point, tailored for two-player. The title has aged technically and its AI shows its age, while the online servers have emptied. But as a founder of the genre on the machine, and for its solo and co-op, it keeps a definite interest for the fan of measured, tactical shooters.
