#RAINBOW SIX ROGUE SPEAR PC#

If you want a team to toss a grenade into a room, for example, you stick a waypoint just outside the door and tag that point with the grenade action. Before the mission, you plan your route through the area and what you're going to do from moment to moment by placing waypoints throughout the map - you connect up those dots to define where your teams move, and attach actions to particular waypoints to define what they're going to do there.

#RAINBOW SIX ROGUE SPEAR PC#

The PC version uses a navigation system built around waypoints. Here's where Rogue Spear first runs into trouble. More important than the actual moment of execution is all the planning you have to do beforehand: absorbing intelligence, setting up your route and tactics, picking your team, and equipping the troops for battle. This is a strategy game - a strategy game with action elements, certainly, but a strategy game nonetheless. Gameplay Rogue Spear looks like a first-person shooter, but it's not anyone who says otherwise is likely a Counter-Strike refugee who fled that particular battlefield on account of lousy reflexes into the comforting arms of auto-aim. The planning system, the artificial intelligence, and the overriding emphasis on precision are what make the game good, and they're also missing on the home console.

I liked it, but throughout I was observing traits that just couldn't be successfully replicated on the PlayStation. Having missed the popular PC version of Rogue Spear, I loaded it up on one of the IGNPC demo computers and had a go through a handful of the single-player missions. Rogue Spear is a well-intentioned piece of work, and it's better than the version of Rainbow Six (its predecessor) that hit the PlayStation a little while ago.

Now, we have Rogue Spear on the PlayStation.a blend of first-person shooting and strategy, ported over from the PC. If there were ever two genres that weren't meant to come to consoles, they're PC first-person shooters and PC strategy games.

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