Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas
Skip · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.49.
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in 'Sin City' threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
February 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 81 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 ($2.49, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 ($9.99, scores 42).
Of the 514 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 137 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 394 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/13540/tom-clancy-s-rainbow-six-vegasThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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