Hey everyone. It's very late here in the woods. I've been playing my new game tonight. It is the aforementioned Rainbow 6 tactical combat game. The game rocks. It's a solid 4 stars out of 5. I mean, it's not Rage, but what is? The free sample game allows you to do one mission and gives you a little mini-game in which you try to stay alive for one minute in a room full of elite hostiles who want you dead.
The mission they give you is challenging, at least for the elderly. It's like you are John Clark, the character that Clancy created for his books. If you look up Lethal Weapon in the dictionary, you'll be referred to the iconic Mr. Clark. By the way, if you haven't read Clancy's book titled Without Remorse, you have missed a treat. Anyway, in the game, you are commanding an elite team of commandos and are tasked with saving an Ambassador from terrorists. So you go in and try to keep yourself and your team alive. Hint #1. Don't throw a grenade, thinking it is a button for another action. I threw one against a closed door and blew my team to Kingdom Come. Any ego trips about me being like Mr. Clark ended at that moment. I know that young people are saying, "Lame".
It took me numerous attempts and a couple of hours to rescue the Ambassador person and complete the secondary missions. No wonder that real Seal Teams constantly practice a variety of scenarios! It was a lot of fun and engaging enough to hold my attention with ease. I was grateful to Gameloft, both for the freebie and also for making a game that I didn't get irrevocably stuck on. It did take me a while to find the correct stairway that led outside so that my team could save a reporter. It was good that the terrorist leader was so long-winded because I was leading my team in circles on the top two floors of The Residence. I bet my team was secretly saying, "We have to get rid of this loser". I even tried shooting the lock on a door in hopes that it led to a staircase. I finally looked around and found a tactical map, but it was a fiasco.
But hey, the Ambassador had locked himself in a Panic Room, like a vault. We got there, killed a bunch of bad guys and talked His Excellency into coming out. It would have been funny if he had pulled out a gun and shot us.
As I said in the other post, the full version has a whopping 11 missions, which has to be quite a depth of game-play. There are also plenty of high-tech gadgets, like snake cams to slide under a door and see who's inside. You can tag a perpetrator this way so that your guys can punch his ticket when you breach the door. What I mean by tag is that you let your team know that this guy is the priority target. You have silencers that you can screw on your weapons, as well as Flash Bang Grenades which stun the enemy for a brief few seconds. Long enough to 'reason' with them. Ha, ha.
You have communication links with your team, helicopter support and plenty of help. There is the "B" team of Rainbows around just in case, I guess, but you are the man. So, get the free version and make your own choice. I think the game is definitely worth $6.99. I don't know that I'd rather have it than 7 of my cheapies, but there you go. To each his own. I expect that I will buy it. I may wait a few months and get it for a bit cheaper price. As I said that, I heard a sigh of relief from my team. The ones that survived; not the ones that I blew up with a grenade. They can no longer sigh.
From the Rainbow Retreat, I'm CE Wills.
P.S. The on-line multi-player for this should be a blast. I just played alone, except for those unfortunate guys the computer sent to follow me into 'harm's way'.
The mission they give you is challenging, at least for the elderly. It's like you are John Clark, the character that Clancy created for his books. If you look up Lethal Weapon in the dictionary, you'll be referred to the iconic Mr. Clark. By the way, if you haven't read Clancy's book titled Without Remorse, you have missed a treat. Anyway, in the game, you are commanding an elite team of commandos and are tasked with saving an Ambassador from terrorists. So you go in and try to keep yourself and your team alive. Hint #1. Don't throw a grenade, thinking it is a button for another action. I threw one against a closed door and blew my team to Kingdom Come. Any ego trips about me being like Mr. Clark ended at that moment. I know that young people are saying, "Lame".
It took me numerous attempts and a couple of hours to rescue the Ambassador person and complete the secondary missions. No wonder that real Seal Teams constantly practice a variety of scenarios! It was a lot of fun and engaging enough to hold my attention with ease. I was grateful to Gameloft, both for the freebie and also for making a game that I didn't get irrevocably stuck on. It did take me a while to find the correct stairway that led outside so that my team could save a reporter. It was good that the terrorist leader was so long-winded because I was leading my team in circles on the top two floors of The Residence. I bet my team was secretly saying, "We have to get rid of this loser". I even tried shooting the lock on a door in hopes that it led to a staircase. I finally looked around and found a tactical map, but it was a fiasco.
But hey, the Ambassador had locked himself in a Panic Room, like a vault. We got there, killed a bunch of bad guys and talked His Excellency into coming out. It would have been funny if he had pulled out a gun and shot us.
As I said in the other post, the full version has a whopping 11 missions, which has to be quite a depth of game-play. There are also plenty of high-tech gadgets, like snake cams to slide under a door and see who's inside. You can tag a perpetrator this way so that your guys can punch his ticket when you breach the door. What I mean by tag is that you let your team know that this guy is the priority target. You have silencers that you can screw on your weapons, as well as Flash Bang Grenades which stun the enemy for a brief few seconds. Long enough to 'reason' with them. Ha, ha.
You have communication links with your team, helicopter support and plenty of help. There is the "B" team of Rainbows around just in case, I guess, but you are the man. So, get the free version and make your own choice. I think the game is definitely worth $6.99. I don't know that I'd rather have it than 7 of my cheapies, but there you go. To each his own. I expect that I will buy it. I may wait a few months and get it for a bit cheaper price. As I said that, I heard a sigh of relief from my team. The ones that survived; not the ones that I blew up with a grenade. They can no longer sigh.
From the Rainbow Retreat, I'm CE Wills.
P.S. The on-line multi-player for this should be a blast. I just played alone, except for those unfortunate guys the computer sent to follow me into 'harm's way'.
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