Las Vegas is the setting for all five missions in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas, in which the player assumes the position of one of two anti-terror soldiers on a mission to find their missing friends. Only a lone fighter is under the player’s command, in contrast to the other games in the series and the NextGen adaptation of this game, in which the player controls an entire squad. He can either play the role of Brian Armstrong (attack) or Shawn Rivers (sniper), depending on the mission chapter you are on. This indicates that it is even more focused on taking action.
However, the game uses some of the features familiar to franchise fans, such as the snake cam, which allows players to peek behind locked doors. There, the player can mark an adversary and track his movements even when obstructions obscure their view. When the player gets close to a wall, they are forced to take shelter automatically, and the perspective of the game shifts to that of a third person. Although there is no auto-regeneration of health in this game, no health or ammo pick-ups are scattered throughout the levels.
Throughout the game, the player can unlock supplementary content such as concept art and a mode called Terrorist Hunt. In this mode, the player will return to the single-player levels and continue eliminating terrorists.
