Recent reviews by Eagleeye

1) If you're looking for a realistic flight sim with realistic radar controls, flight controls, combat, takeoff, landings, and views... this is not for you.
-- 1.a) 3rd person view is just fricking arcade BS.
-- 1.b) Having a crapton of missiles that don't correspond to any sort of hardpoints on your aircraft = stupid.
-- 1.c) Your weaponry is not at all accurately representative of real-world weaponry... (e.g. there doesn't seem to be any sort of differentiation between AIM-9 Sidewinder variants, AIM-120 variants, etc.. .
-- 1.d) When I finally figured out how to lock on to and fire missiles at the enemy, i fired FOUR AT ONCE at a group of 4 aircraft, and killed all 4 of them.., and still had 12 missiles left... on an F-16... where you're only ever going to have like 8 AA missiles.

2) Obvious pandering to a female lead is obvious.
-- The opening story of the girl pilot... my god... gag me with a progressive "let's make sure to be inclusive and politically correct" spoon.

3) If you're into arcade-ish gameplay... feel free to grab this and play it...

BUT... If you're looking for a game where you can... oh, I dunno... do a preflight loadout, managing the various inventories you have... planning fuel use for a mission, setting up mission waypoints, deciding on the flight and element members, etc... where you can do full startup and roll-out procedures, from taxiing to take-off... all the way to landing, taxiing, and shut-down procedures... Where you have to manage your radar modes, using true-to-life radar management... where you have to set your scan pattern, interpret the results, actually do true-to-life radar locks with your AAMRAMs, etc... where you hear the Sidewinder's tone through your headset when it has a solid lock, etc... Well, get Falcon 4.0 on steam, because it's better than this game in the realism department, even if the graphics are still from the 1990s and are thus pretty dated... it's still better at achieving realism than this game.

ALL this game has to offer is astounding graphics.

OH YEAH... 4) Grinding out new aircraft is okay if it's a Free-2-Play game. I get that. But to pay for this game then have to grind to get new aircraft? Having some aircraft as additional DLC purchases? Screw that.

A very nice remake of the old DOS classic "Red Storm Rising" from the 90s.

Not at all what I thought it would be. It's not realistic, and it doesn't seem intended to be. It's more like a puzzle/skill game than a realistic simulation of Air Traffic Control.

I have tried playing this game twice. I hated it the first time, and years later I just tried it all over again, just to see if maybe my opinion would change. It didn't.

The game is unwieldy with its UI.
The characters are universally grotesque looking...
The entire world is dusty, dirty, awful looking... it's all just gross.

I'm sure the story is great.

I hate the combat system.

Uninstalled yet again.

I have been playing Civ games since the original. Civ2 was great. Civ 3 was pretty damn good. Civ 4 was bleh. Civ 5 was better than 4, but still never really captured the feel of Civ2.

This version is the worst of all.

This game is far too cartoony, with far too much in the way of glitzy aesthetic crap, and not enough in the way of gameplay.

Even on a "quick" game, the pace was very very slow. There's too much information being presented at all times, and too many different tracks to follow between science, "civics", envoys, etc... it's unnecessarily complex, while not really tying it all together.

The 3D graphics are worthless, and the 2D view is cluttered and difficult to follow.

This version is worthless, and does a disservice to the franchise.

I had played the original Rainbow 6, as well as Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear, both when they were brand new games back in the late 90s. The appeal to those games, and indeed the appeal of the entire franchise, was the tactical planning involved in the single player missions. The story that progressed from mission to mission, in both games, kept the player involved, and feeling as if they were unpeeling an onion-like storyline that kept getting deeper and deeper, as the missions got harder and harder.

This legacy is nowhere to be found in Rainbow 6 Siege. There is no tactical planning. There are no friendly AI "operators" that you can command. No squads, no overview, no story, no plot. This is just another shooter game, made on the back of a once-great franchise, for the purpose of selling DLC by making unlockables that are so difficult to grind, people are more inclined to shell out a few bucks to just buy the in-game currency...

... but for what? Why would you want to buy anything in-game? It doesn't help you advance through a compelling storyline, where the unlockable items might be required to complete any specific mission. It only helps you to use different (although not often "better", as each operator is a "YMMV" type of thing) equipment that's nifty to play with. (e.g.: Riot shields and mounted light machine guns)

Then there's the hacks. My second multiplayer match, I had a guy say "watch these hax", and he proceeded to just run around and headshot all 5 of the opposing team without aiming.

And througout it all, I have yet to be able to participate in voice chat during multiplayer... a problem that is evidently very widespread, long-standing, and still unresolved.

I bought this game for $15 via Steam. Because of this, unlockable things are far more of a "grind". That's fine. I feel like I saved myself the additional $45... because those unlockable things aren't all that compelling or necessary anyway. At least I got to experience the game and know I made the right choice to not waste any MORE of my money on it.

This game is astounding. VERY good graphics. VERY good storyline. Well done on the voice acting, and the lips synching properly. Immersive, and awesome!