Games for Lunch: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2

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0:15 Interesting -- I can snake a camera under a door, tag the enemies as threats, then call in my men to do all the dirty work. Seems they're not so superfluous after all! In fact, they're so quick and efficient, it's a little scary. The game is very helpful telling me how to do everything so far.

0:17 Another room full of terrorists. This time I send my team around to another door. As soon as I hear them moving in to distract the enemies, I enter through a side door and take them out easily. One of my men goes down in the firefight, but I can pick him up with a tap of the A button. If only real life were so easy.

0:18 I get a little sloppy as I'm taken out by a sniper in an open air passageway. IMPORTANT NOTE TO SELF: STAY IN COVER UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

0:19 Whoops. I hit the wrong button and frag myself with a grenade. I'm way too green to be leading a team of men.

0:20 Too much cross-talk on the audio channels make it hard to distinguish between what the terrorists, my teammates and the mission leaders are all saying. Seems a little sloppy.

0:22 The interface manages to put a lot of functions on a very few buttons. This is great when the game is telling me how to do everything, but I worry I won't be able to remember it all later on.

0:23 Rappelling down a wall, I accidentally bust in a window and get taken out by the waiting terrorists before I know what's going on. On death, I get sent all the way back to before the part at 0:15. Ugh.

0:26 This time I know what I'm doing and wait for my team to break through the window with me. This doesn't help much as I get taken out just as quickly. As I die. I hear an enemy say "Time to die! I'm going to shoot you in the face!" Doesn't that go without saying, really?

0:28 After three flawless takeouts of the guys at 0:15, I botch it this time and get shot in the face. I thought the sounds of shooting meant my team had done its job. Guess not. There was one lone terrorist waiting for me.

0:30 This time around I shoot the terrorists through the rappelling window instead of busting in, guns blazing. Amazingly enough, it works. Yippie-kay-yay!

0:32 In a lull between battles, I give my teammate a pep talk. "On the field, we are a family. Work together and protect each other. Let everything else go." Ugh. Like, gag me with a spoon.

0:34 Smoke grenade + thermal goggles = they never saw it coming.

0:35 I seem to have lost my team somewhere along the way. It takes them a while to catch up with me and finally disarm a door explosive.

0:36 I have a nice overhead view of the hostage situation from a nearby landing. There's a hostage negotiator with three paramilitaries and three guys on the floor. We're waiting for the other team to give the signal to fire. "You can still be the good guys here. I want you to be the good guys," argues the plaintive negotiator.