Feb 28 2008
Viva Las Vegas…
So the last few nights have seen me killing terrorists online with Mike and Piet playing Rainbow Six: Las Vegas. This has required my purchase of a budget bluetooth to allow me to communicate with people (and not at long distance telephone rates).
While not quite the intense experience that COD4 is the game allows cooperative play, which I’ve enjoyed a lot more than Piet and I running back and forth taking turns killing each other.
So far the only issues have been my almost complete unfamiliarity with the controls and some minor communications issues which have meant that in the game with all three of us only Mike could hear both Piet and I, who could not (or barely) hear each other.
[I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank Mike for some in-game tutoring, and Lisa for her patience as I ignore everything else in my pursuit of terrorist splattered mayhem]
You may want to “Note” some of the funnier comments made during game play.
Mike had me rolling on the floor for most of the games.
Another great game! The bridge map is a great one, so is kill house. My only issue is with the weapon choices, too many “space guns” but yet no M4 or M14.
enjoy it’s a great game and keep an eye out for new maps. Kill House 2 is a tough one!
Is there a Reno 911 variant?
<b.Piet: The first night I played Mike I had no comms, so I could hear him and could only really reply by shooting once for yes and twice for no.
As you can imagine during a “stealth” kinda mission this does draw somewhat more attention than would otherwise be considered optimal.
-GRIN-
Mike managed to keep up a monologue that had me chortling for most of the game, and required me to phone him at least twice to let him know it was entertaining both Lisa and I.
Red: Agreed. I always prefer to use toys that I actually own in these games, but aside from that and the “concealment IS cover” aspect of the game (compared to COD4s ballistic penetration stuff) it does kick a little posterior.
<b.Thomas: If you’d seen my performance the other night (including falling off a roof, mistaking a terrorist for my partner and getting dead fast) and heard Mikes commentary you’d have thought it WAS Reno 911.
-GRIN-
Sent you an email about some online gaming….
My favourite “Erik is dead again.” lines:
“Erik, you went and let some guy shoot all over your face again.”
“Silenced rifles don’t supress. ticticticticitic isn’t very intimidating.”
“Now you went and let some guy take you from behind…”
Your header off the roof had me laughing harder than I can recall in a long time.
As for the no M4 or M14 problem: It’s the result of some licensing battle between Ubisoft and Colt, Armalite, Springfield or one of those companies. The result is they couldn’t get the M4, and didn’t want to call it “The Carbine” like they did in Ghost Recon.