One of the largest shooters to debut in 2008 was Rainbow Six Vegas 2, but the hype aside, there were many ways that this sequel failed to live up to all that it promised. To clarify to all of you who love shooters out there, and especially to all other fans of the Rainbow Six franchise: I love Rainbow Six Vegas – I am big time fan of all of the games in the Clancy series and have been playing them since they first made their way to the consoles of yesteryear on the Nintendo 64. But, when you take an awesome game like Rainbow Six Vegas and you screw up a lot of it with a rushed and shoddy sequel, you are going to hear me whine about it. So, without any more waiting, here are my gripes and my likes.
The Improvements
First of all I would like to take note of some of the improvements that they made with this sequel, which they admitted during several different interviews with the popular gaming magazines that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was more like an expansion pack than a sequel, but on to the improvements. Read more
The world of online video games and the reviews of such have grown in considerable leaps and bounds ever since the internet gave to us such resources. These days you need merely log on to a plethora of handy sites that specialize in featuring video games reviews, in-depth looks and the all too sought after inside scoops featuring video walk-throughs, gamer opinions and lots of stuffing for your noodle. In a world where the Gestapo that is the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) rules the pack and makes or breaks even the best of the violent video games with their AO (adults only), or M (mature) ratings—you can never know what a typical gamer will say about such productions in their online video games reviews.
Where to start here…because the roots of this uninventive piece of garbage straggle all the way back to nearly the year 2000, when EA Sports was awarded the exclusive NFL license, one that essentially allowed for them to monopolize the video game market for all NFL games, and no other video game company was allowed to created any game bearing the NFL logos, teams, or players – Only EA Sports. Thanks NFL for ruining all fair competition in the video game market as it relates to football. So here is the real scoop on this tragedy.
So many games, so little time to burn out your thumbs and acquire a case of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) playing them. But if you are like me, and your wrists are more worn out than a ninety year old carpenter, then you already know that there are ample amounts of great games that were released for the Xbox 360 during 2008. Of course, it would be far too lengthy for me to ever truly list them and yap about all of them for you in this blog. So I have been forced to boil it down to what I believe are the top three Xbox 360 games of 2008.
Grand Theft Auto IV: This game truly takes the wholly cake and the icing too for the best damn game ever to be created. You play a cunning and illegal Russian immigrant who must forge his way through the unforgiving alleyways of New York City, dubbed Liberty City for this game. You can pretty much do everything.
There are so many different ways that they could go about improving the Xbox 360 gaming console, that it is not even funny. And while I wish that I could say that most of the problems that have occurred on the console have been because of rushed production, or common oversights, these are not the culprits. Rather, the monopoly that is Microsoft has once again proven why the masses are benevolently opposed to the ‘Gates’ philosophy on software and hardware. That being: use the masses as your guinea pig and when your lousy software or hardware malfunctions do nothing to fix it until you release another more costly version that they can use, which has its own fare share of bugs. Kind of like the Windows Vista shuddery.
