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Blood: GamerDad saw blood spatter everywhere as he dispatched enemies. Mild Language: Surprising people with automatic weapons causes them to use swear words - this game is no exception. Violence: Regardless of your other objectives, killing people is at the top of the list. This is how I see things playing out: when Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas was in early development they had planned on making a PSP version and had come up with a proof-of-concept for the cover system using the limited control set but then abandoned the game. Unfortunately marketing never heard that and kept telling people it was coming. Meanwhile another developer was trying to sell the publisher a generic 3rd person shooter with stealth elements in a generic near-urban current day setting . Faced with the prospect of not delivering anything at all, they had an idea - tack on the cover system and some cutscenes to the generic shooter game and release it as a 'PSP exclusive' version. Or at least that is how the game feels - the only time you will think you are in Vegas is during the cutscenes, and the only special thing about the game is the cover system ... which has already been done better on the PSP is games such as Syphon Filter Dark Mirror. Those looking for the tactical action of the PC and console version will be sorely disappointed, because the game is simply a tag-team FPS. You work up to a certain point with one character, then the other one takes over. Enemies are sparse and not very bright - you are told to stick to cover, but with the lack of enemy intelligence there is no need to even bother! Technically the game is acceptable - there are some loading issues, but general load times, graphics, sounds and voice acting are all serviceable. It is the core gameplay that is the problem: quite simply this game has no reason to exist in a world where playing Syphon Filter Dark Mirror or SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2 is a possibility.  
The vast majority of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas is very violent and intense and has more in common with other T-rated games like Call of Duty than more tactically oriented games like SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2, and once the cutscenes are also quite brutal and very intense. The focus of the game is going from place to place and killing everything that moves - which removes any of the tactical decision making or the console version and any of the 'restrain rather than kill' respect for life found in the SOCOM games. Add in the typical multiplayer concerns in a shooter like this and you have a game for older kids and teens. The lack of online multiplayer keeps the game at a 14+ GamerDad Age Seal - as anyone using the abusive, mysogonistic, racist diatribes found too many online shooters would have to be in the same room to play the ad-hoc multiplayer modes.
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