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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2

2008

Should you play it?

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 - the sequel to the award-winning next-generation first-person shooter - returns to Sin City. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue America's sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart-pounding action from beginning to end.

What works

  • Strong co-op and teamwork gameplay
  • Extensive character and weapon customization
  • Challenging and tactical combat
  • Engaging terrorist hunt mode
  • Good value for price and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Multiplayer servers shut down limiting online play
  • Some ai and bug issues reported
  • Story considered weak or campy
  • Graphics dated by modern standards
  • Sound loop bug in multiplayer for non-hosts

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold

  • Ready or Not

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

  • Operation: Harsh Doorstop

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

More fantastical

Games that feels like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 but with more imaginative fiction

  • Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012)

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Titanfall® 2

  • Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death

  • After the Fall®

  • Natural Selection 2

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 but with less narrative immersion

  • Insurgency: Sandstorm

  • Counter-Strike: Source

  • Arena Breakout: Infinite

  • Breachers™

  • Black Squad

  • Caliber

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026