Get ready to dish out some more orders to your squad as we have a look at another one of the classic games in the Rainbow Six series.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Lockdown (2005) Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, PCBy now, Rainbow Six was one of the premier shooter franchises and for this installment, things to a bit more of an action heavy kind of feel. Once again you play as Rainbow team. In the year 2009, you have been tasked with putting a stop to a terrorist organization called Global Liberation Front who have a virus called Legion that they want to unleash.
The console versions of the game were certainly more action based. Added into the console versions were these sniper sections which had a real shooter gallery kind of feel as you had to pick off various targets. Interestingly these sniper sections were not in the PC game. While Rainbow Six Lockdown still featured many of the tactical elements from past games. Action certainly seemed to be the direction that Ubisoft wanted to take the series in.
This more action heavy game resulted in mixed reviews, especially for the PC version as many fans felt this was a dumbed down version of what they had come to love.
Both the PlayStation 2 and Xbox would get their own exclusive online mode with the PlayStation 2 having Rivalry and the Xbox having a mode called Persistent Elite Creation which was actually a huge deal and something many people got into. The GameCube version did not support online play, but it did have an exclusive 2 player co-op mode.
This is not one of the more popular games in the series and you could argue that the response it got made Ubisoft take a long hard look at the series.
I am a huge Call Of Duty fan and I have said numerous times that Call Of Duty WWII is one of the best games in years. I have talked about underrated Call Of Duty games before here on the site. However today I want to talk about the Call Of Duty games that disappointed me. To be fair, the majority of the games in this series are fantastic so I only have two games that I feel were not as good as I would have liked.
Call Of Duty Black Ops Declassified (PlayStation Vita)
I think the PlayStation Vita was a criminally underrated system and the fact that it had two analog sticks meant that we could get an FPS game on the go that played just like the home consoles. Sadly what we got was a very half assed Call Of Duty game that felt like it was rushed out in order to be released in time for Christmas. The campaign (if you could call it that) could be beaten in about an hour and the game was very buggy. I feel that with a little more development time, Call Of Duty Black Ops Declassified could have been awesome and the start of a PlayStation Vita series of games, but due to the terrible response and the fact the Vita did not exactly sell like hot cakes, it was the only COD game we got.
Call Of Duty Ghosts (PlayStation 4)
I passed on the Xbox 360 version of Call Of Duty Ghosts in order to wait for the PlayStation 4 version and I do not know what I was expecting, but Call Of Duty Ghosts kind of fell flat with me. I have some buddies who love this game, but when I first got it, I jumped into the campaign first, which was a mistake as the campaign is one of the most boring in the series. To be fair the multiplayer is fun, but that campaign left a real sour taste in my mouth and by the time I was done with that, I decided that I had enough of Call Of Duty Ghosts. I really should go back and give this a second chance.
These are the only two Call Of Duty games that have disappointed me and to be fair, Ghosts is not a bad game at all. Are there any COD games that you feel have been disappointing? I would love to hear about it in the comments down below.
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