Rainbow Six: Lockdown Review

We've played several LAN matches and have gone through quite a few online matches on the game's official servers. Perhaps the only glaring omission is that players cannot enjoy the PEC (Persistent Elite Creation) mode, which was playable via Xbox Live. Each gamer had the possibility of creating a unique character and storing it permanently on Xbox Live. Granted, the PC version does leave several other options open, such as being able to choose different character classes that have their own bonuses.

When are you gonna get rid of that ridiculous 'stache?

How do you say "covering fire" in French?

All the multiplayer modes are fun enough to keep you occupied for quite some time. You may also look forward to playing all the single-player missions in co-op with up to four players, in LAN or online matches via Ubi.com. It's obvious that the game puts forth plenty of solid content that's good enough to come back to.

The game gets a slightly lower score due to the frequently sluggish frame rate and certain technical issues that can be observed during gameplay. A few times one of my teammates got stuck while he was passing through a nearby wall (!?!). Hm, must be an all-new-special-ops cloaking maneuver I'm not familiar with.

In all, there are 16 missions in the single-player campaign, which, from my experience, should provide for some decent entertainment. Once you're done with that, you can have plenty of fun with the game's online and LAN multiplayer modes. I'm still not happy with some of the technical mishaps I ran into and I thought I wouldn't have any trouble running the game on my rig - AMD 64 3000+, GeForce 6800 and 1 GB of RAM (but I was obviously wrong there). Toning down certain effects improved the framerate, but it made the game considerably uglier.