But the 80s (and Miami Vice in particular) offered us the Uzi as a low-life villain's weapon, spit-fire and out-of-control. "For an Uzi, people think it fires lots of bullets, and it's really inaccurate." That, he knows, has nothing to do with reality-if anything, Uzis are considered some of the most reliable and accurate submachine guns around. "I take these weapons, and look at what defines them, or what people think defines them," Theiren explains.
So a shotgun blast will punch through walls and armor just fine, even though buckshot is known for its lack of penetration in the real world. Why? "People associate shotguns with powerful, close-range weapons," Theiren says. A shotgun firing buckshot, for example, has significantly more penetration in RSV2 than it should. All of the guns in RSV2 start out extremely accurate, based on factory stats and more, before game balance and player expectations come into play. "If someone shoots through a plant, then a car door, then it hits Level 3 body armor, all of that effects the force of the round." Actual ballistic data associated with the guns in RSV2, then, determine whether you can fire a burst through a wooden table and take someone out.Įxcept, of course, when the developers feel the need to cheat. "It's actually an excessively complex formula," Theiren says. But according to Philippe Theiren, an RSV2 designer at Ubisoft Montreal and the team's self-described "gun guy," bullet penetration now takes into account incredibly fine details, like whether the target is wearing leather or cloth. This isn't an industry first-in Call of Duty 4, for example, bullets can veer off into different trajectories. Or does it just seem that way? In this installment, bullets can penetrate a variety of materials.
REALISTIC GUN FIGHT GAME VAGAS SERIES
But when it comes to the guns, the developers seem to have pushed the Tom Clancy series closer to the battlefield. Aside from a new "sprint" button, little has changed in couch-potato combat here. Cover is still crucial to most engagements, and squad-level tactics (i.e., when to use smoke grenades) will usually prevail over run-and-gun action-hero stunts. Like the plot, the gameplay for RSV2 picks up where its predecessor left off, as players navigate an array of ambushes and hostage situations in Las Vegas and Mexico. It's a gung-ho fantasy of special-ops heroism, complete with weapons of mass destruction and a seemingly endless supply of well-equipped bad guys. If Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is any indication, the answer is a big, fat "sort of." The hugely anticipated sequel, which came out last week, has a relatively standard techno-thriller story line. So as this successful genre continues to deliver best-selling titles, will increasingly powerful PCs and game consoles allow military shooters to become more realistic than ever? And the damage inflicted feels more accurate, too: In games like Call of Duty 4 or Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, most enemies are vulnerable to a single burst, and a few incoming rounds can kill you easily. Firefights look and sound like something out of Blackhawk Down, with that unnerving, staccato crackle of modern-day warfare. In other words, as optimistic as game developers might be about a high-tech replacement for the M-16 assault rifle, there are no plasma rifles or rail guns in your arsenal. Most of the in-game weapons are available now-or at least loosely based on designs that could eventually reach the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So shut up and starting shooting guys.īut unlike sci-fi FPS games such as Halo or Doom, military shooters have a tradition of so-called realism. It doesn't matter how many bullets you take while gunning down whole platoons of terrorists and mercenaries, because this is red-blooded escapism at its geekiest. After all, you're an elite commando, and there's no way not to fight-no button to press to call your nervous wreck of a wife or go hang out with the kids. But in many video games, particularly military-themed first-person shooters (FPS) like the just-released Rainbow Six Vegas 2, you can't wait to step into the line of fire. In real life, people rarely want to get into a firefight.
The main gun developer for the new Rainbow Six Vegas 2 says Ubisoft's team "could make it as anally realistic as possible" but that gameplay concerns are paramount.
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