One exception though. The game has to make sure I have a chance to see the enemy or give me some reason to, say, suspect a sniper might be present. I’m none too fond of restarting because someone shot me from a building half a mile away. (Not a problem in Vegas so much, but GRAW) Vegas also has a nasty habit of spawning enemies in places which you’ve already cleared. That’s low. There’s a particularly nasty example of that later, when the game basically drops a guy right behind you.

2. I know precisely what you mean. The tunnel level. I’m actually stuck in that at the moment. No savepoints, all enemies have a shotgun for that instakill goodness, almost no proper cover and no squad mates. The worst time I’ve had with the game so far and it’s not even that far in the campaign. The pistol helps a bit, by the way. You can usually take out one guy with a headshot before they see you.

Interestingly, when playing the same mission in co-op, none of this is a problem. The missions are quite different, since they’ve removed almost all the scripted moments.

1. Enemies I can’t see head shot me all the time.

2. Then, after figuring all that out, I get put in a weird level where I have to run around Halo style with a shotgun… except the shotgun sort of sucks.

The fact that savepoints were two hours apart didn’t help either.

RS: Vegas has been a favourite of mine for a while now. The co-op is top notch. Of course, being a Clancy game you have to make some effort to avoid the plot, but it usually doesn’t show up besides the two-sentence briefing bit at the lobby. I just wish the game had a bit less bugs, I don’t think I’ve seen as buggy a console game before. Also, a button to skip those bloody helicopter scenes in the beginning would be nice…