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Lead a Rainbow counter-terrorist squad through Las Vegas missions, using cover, team commands, customizable gear, and careful room clearing.
Released 16 Apr 2008
Direct Squad Breaches
Survive Terrorist Hunts
Customize Your Operator
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.
Developed by Ubisoft Montreal · Published by Ubisoft
In the campaign, you lead a Rainbow counter-terrorist squad through missions tied to an escalating terrorist threat in Las Vegas. Briefings and objectives set up each operation, where you advance through locations such as hotels, casinos, and city streets.
Combat rewards a measured approach: take cover, breach rooms, direct teammates to attack targets, and use intel and tactical movement to handle armed opponents. Enemy equipment can include shields and night or thermal vision, making careful positioning important.
You can customize your operator’s appearance and equipment, and develop your soldier as you progress. Alongside the campaign, the game offers cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, including Terrorist Hunt, where players work together to clear enemy-filled maps.
Players frequently praise the deliberate, cover-based squad combat and the tension of clearing rooms under pressure. Terrorist Hunt and cooperative play are recurring favorites, with some players also valuing the challenge, replayability, and operator customization. Several reviews note that the experience feels dated or takes extra setup to play on modern PCs.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player, cooperative play, and versus multiplayer. The campaign supports 2-player co-op. Terrorist Hunt supports up to 4 players co-op and can also be played solo with AI. PvP versus modes are present, but the exact player cap is not confirmed by the provided information. Official online services are widely reported as discontinued or unreliable, while LAN play still works and is commonly used through VPN/virtual LAN tools. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Community workarounds and tools are used to restore multiplayer via LAN tunneling or virtual LAN, including Hamachi, Radmin, ZeroTier, GameRanger, NordVPN Meshnet, and Networked Vegas 2. Some reviews also mention mods that fix multiplayer audio bugs, and one review mentions a mod to raise co-op player limits, but that is not otherwise corroborated. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 78/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |