R6V Red Pack

[Epyon MX]

IGN has coverage of the 5 new maps and 2 new modes coming April 18 here and here.

3 Totally New Maps

Doscala Restaurant: This well-known Italian restaurant is located in the heart of Las Vegas, near the famous Fremont Street.

Marshalling Yard: This century-old service yard is situated in the center of an industrial district. Still active today, it is primarily used to store cars, but is also equipped with cleaning and maintenance facilities.

Roof: A coffee factory has been overrun in the continuing gang violence that is wreaking havoc in this Mexican border town. The strategic positioning of the factory makes it highly desirable to control, and therefore a focal point of the violence.

2 Remixed Maps

Border Town - Redux is based in the city of San Joshua Mosquiera, a small village where crime and gang violence have overrun the place. Here, the map is essentially a small square with houses and porches and such along the perimeter, car-strewn streets inside them, and a church planted in the center that can be climbed using ladders. Up top, the roof of the church is perfectly designed with a wall to prevent instant kills at the top of the ladder, a large dome in the center to prevent long-shot snipes, and the satellite at the end with two bell towers on each side to hide in. My first visit to the top featured a sneak grenade toss that blew me into chunks, and my second visit included me gutting a few enemies in vengeance. This is a great map, and though it's rather smallish, it's nothing like the free Crash Site map in Gears of War, which is just a mad rush of death. It's a good, solid map.

Killhouse - Redux, however is a remake of a level from the single-player campaign of Vegas, but it's also a remake of a legacy map. I'm not sure, but I think this map is actually a remake of the original Rainbow Six games, perhaps the first. This is a symmetrical, vertical map three stories high that leads players through the middle, which is riskier but more satisfying (if you succeed), or around the outside. It's a tough, crowded set of hallways and it's super fun with the right guns (i.e. shoguns and short-burst machine guns).

2 New Modes:

Assassination: "The goal of the attackers is to eliminate a high-value asset of the defenders, who in turn will try to defend and escort the VIP to his extraction zone."

Total Conquest, on the other hand, is more of a "Battlefield" type mode in which teams strive to control points on the map. "This is a team-oriented, static control-point game mode where each map contains three Mobile Radar Installations (control points). To win, a team must activate and maintain control of at least one of the three Mobile Radar Installations for a given period of time," said Ubisoft.

April 18th for $10. I'm in, anybody else?

[N0W IM N0THING]

Sure I am down for it. This game has mega replay value as it stands now.

[Peench]

For $10, I'm all in! We need to get some more gaming time in with this one. I still haven't completed the SP, but I have played a fair amount of MP. I really enjoy it!

[Jon Liu]

I'm in! Peench, you should finish the Single Player! You'll NEVER guess the ending!!!

[KEEZY]

I'm down. What the hell though... I thought they were bringing back Presidio! Whatever!

Forget the GRAWAR, I say we use this for the next war.

[dmiller68]

Originally Posted by KEEZY

Screw the GRAWAR, I say we use this for the next war.

Hum no... I like GRAW, I'm actually not bad at it, ahhh that's it Keezy is scared of me....


I would be up I have to start playing this one... I haven't played the single player at all, likewise I haven't played much multi-player. I could be talked in to the add-on pack... I hope you don't mind being blown up a few times when I accidently press the "b" button...

[D_Litch]

Originally Posted by KEEZY

Forget the GRAWAR, I say we use this for the next war.

Yes!!!

[Jon Liu]

No!!!

Just kiddin'. I'd rather GRAW for the War, but this game would probably be better, stability-wise.

[AZRaiderH8r]

I'd much rather go GRAW for the next war, at least until the connectivity issues force us to do something else. But, I haven't played nearly enough of this on MP; I'd really like to, but those damn GRAW achievements are consuming me!

[Desi Cuse]

ill download it

[KEEZY]

Haha, my edit was caught! We just need to give this game the PGL lovin it deserves. I hear GRAW is actually more stable when it is in VS mode. I'm not trying to dethrone GRAW as the next War Game, though.

We need to play this more!

[Epyon MX]

Originally Posted by KEEZY

We need to play this more!

Testify!

*waves hands in the air!*

[N0W IM N0THING]

Agreed, this game need more love from the PGL crowd

[BMC]

I'm getting this! I guess I need to branch out and try to play some of the other variants other than Terrorist Hunt.

[Lord Sam]

I'm down for some more R6V in the PGL. Finally got around to playing some last night, this game is a blast!

[KEEZY]

I tried to revive this once, but nobody showed up. Somebody else will have to do it. I'm scarred for life!