Kotaku: rainbow six: vegas

New Content For R6: Vegas In March

Mike Fahey — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:25:42 MST

Wouldn't you know it, just as I am finally figuring out the best way to kill Crecente in Rainbow 6: Vegas, Ubisoft goes and mixes things up with a new content pack, heading for Xbox Live towards the end of March. Called the Player's Pack Red Edition, the update includes revised Killhouse and Bordertown maps alongside three new ones: Doscala Restaurant, Marshalling Yard, and the Roof of a gang-ridden Mexican coffee factory.

The update also sees two new modes. Assassination, in which one team guards a target while the other tries to kill it, and Total Conquest, which is all about controlling strategic points. Ubisoft hasn't released a price yet for the Player Pack, but since it contains brand new content for my second-favorite shooty game on the 360, I'll say it should be worth whatever they charge. Michael Fahey

R6: Vegas DLC detailed [GameSpot]

Games Of The Week: Zelda's Finally On The Gamecube Edition

fdemarco — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:00:44 MST

With the exception of a few titles, almost everything this week is is something that's already out on other systems. Not really much in the way of new stuff besides Elebits, although I'm hot to try out Super Swing Golf.

Super Swing Golf (Wii)
Watch Kasumi and her boobs play golf!

Elebits
Wreck everything in pursuit of cute little blobby things!

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (PC)
Rainbow Six action now for the PC!

Metal Slug Anthology (PSP)
The full collection of the arcade classic title lands on the PSP.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy (DS)
The popular manga and anime series gets it's first DS game.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)
Zelda fans who couldn't get a Wii, rejoice!

Star Trek: Legacy (Xbox 360)
Experience the entire history of Star Trek all in one game!

The Shield (PS2)
Michael Chiklis in polygons!

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (PS3)
More World War II simulation from Aspyr.

Flynn De Marco

Rainbow Six Vegas Mii

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:40:56 MST

Kotokuite Mark has taken Rainbow 6 Vegas face mapping to a whole new level.
Yep, that's a Mii. Brilliant. I expect a large-scale Mii invasion of R6 servers to commence immediately.

I'm still busy trying to get my cat Rufus to sit still long enough to test out non-human head mapping. You know, for the furries. Michael Fahey

Celebrity R6 Vegas Faces

Brian Crecente — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:20:00 MST

The genie is out of the bottle and I'm liking what I'm seeing. Brian Crecente

Hit the jump for plenty more courtesy of FourZeroTwo.

HowTo: Create Celebrity Faces in R6 Vegas

Brian Crecente — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:00:05 MST

I just realized that in the excitement of posting about sticking Sopranoes characters into Rainbow Six: Vegas I forgot to walk you fully through the process of creating your own celebrity in-game faces for the shooter.

This all comes via Will, who actually took the time to put my wild ruminations into practice, and DigiMask the people behind the technology.

The first, and often hardest step, it seems is finding two really good shots of the celebrity you want to face map. They need to be clean, clear, up close pictures showing a head-on and side pose.

Here are some tips for what to look for in a photo:

The image should have a neutral expression, eyes open, mouth closed. No smiling if possible.
Make sure you can see both ears in the face-on image.
Make sure the hair isn't covering the ears or forehead.
No glasses.
You should only be able to see one eye in the side-on shot, not even part of the other, and the whole ear.
Make sure the profile faces to the left.
Even lighting with no shadows or bright highlights is important.

Once you find your celeb pics, photoshop them if necessary to get the brightness and contrast right.

Will pointed his Vision Camera at his computer screen to do the capture, which probably explains Gandolfini's angelic glow. I'll try to do some off of prints later this week.

Good luck and happy photo hunting. Make sure to send in any particularly good faces. Too bad Vegas doesn't let you save multiple custom faces.