SPOnG Staffer Masquerades as Rainbow Six Operative
Xbox Live Vision Camera plus Rainbow Six: Vegas equals future of multiplayer gaming
SPOnG spent a good part of yesterday hanging out in Vegas. That is, we sent our own P.J. O’Rourke, Adam, over to Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas demo event in London's fashionable Shoreditch.
Not only did he preview the game, he also managed, most impressively, have his chiselled northern mug transposed into the game via the rather nifty Xbox Live Vision Camera.
Check out the screenshots from the event here to see what Adam looks like all painted up as a camo-faced Rainbow operative. We think you will agree that he looks rather frightening – in a way that only a SPOnG journo with a gun and a hangover can.
Shazam!
The virtual makeover takes around a couple of minutes. You take two shots of yourself, one facing into the camera and one side-profile shot and - Shazam! - the game does the rest. The awesome Digimask magic face-mapping tech creates a custom head that looks exactly (there is a wide range of ‘exactly’) like you.
Once you're happy with your in-game head players you can further customise your online character, choosing various weapons, clothing, camouflage and body armour. It's a dream come true for all those boys-of-all-ages who, like Adam, used to enjoy painting the faces of their Action Man dolls (Surely, ‘action figures’, Jungian Ed.) as a kid!
Rainbow Six: Vegas is a stunning game, continuing the recent trend for Ubisoft to seemingly only publish solid, Triple-A next gen titles on Xbox 360. Fans of sneak-em-up shooters are going to want to buy this in addition to Microsoft's also-must-get Gears of War next month.
Classic Clancy
The storyline is classic Clancy: “Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip and casinos.”
For fans of the series, all you need to know is that Vegas is out on the 24th November. Even if you were not so much of a fan of previous Rainbow Six games or perhaps were of the opinion that the series was getting a bit ‘tired’, Vegas is highly likely to change your mind.
The mere fact that you can sneak around beautifully-rendered Vegas casinos and neon-lit cityscapes, taking out those tourists (Surely, ‘terrorists’, MI5 Ed.) while playing co-op or deathmatch with a bunch of mates over Xbox Live, while seeing their actual faces on their actual characters is a huge technological leap forward for multiplayer gaming.
Check back later for our full Rainbow Six: Vegas preview.
Not only did he preview the game, he also managed, most impressively, have his chiselled northern mug transposed into the game via the rather nifty Xbox Live Vision Camera.
Check out the screenshots from the event here to see what Adam looks like all painted up as a camo-faced Rainbow operative. We think you will agree that he looks rather frightening – in a way that only a SPOnG journo with a gun and a hangover can.
Shazam!
The virtual makeover takes around a couple of minutes. You take two shots of yourself, one facing into the camera and one side-profile shot and - Shazam! - the game does the rest. The awesome Digimask magic face-mapping tech creates a custom head that looks exactly (there is a wide range of ‘exactly’) like you.
Once you're happy with your in-game head players you can further customise your online character, choosing various weapons, clothing, camouflage and body armour. It's a dream come true for all those boys-of-all-ages who, like Adam, used to enjoy painting the faces of their Action Man dolls (Surely, ‘action figures’, Jungian Ed.) as a kid!
Rainbow Six: Vegas is a stunning game, continuing the recent trend for Ubisoft to seemingly only publish solid, Triple-A next gen titles on Xbox 360. Fans of sneak-em-up shooters are going to want to buy this in addition to Microsoft's also-must-get Gears of War next month.
Classic Clancy
The storyline is classic Clancy: “Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip and casinos.”
For fans of the series, all you need to know is that Vegas is out on the 24th November. Even if you were not so much of a fan of previous Rainbow Six games or perhaps were of the opinion that the series was getting a bit ‘tired’, Vegas is highly likely to change your mind.
The mere fact that you can sneak around beautifully-rendered Vegas casinos and neon-lit cityscapes, taking out those tourists (Surely, ‘terrorists’, MI5 Ed.) while playing co-op or deathmatch with a bunch of mates over Xbox Live, while seeing their actual faces on their actual characters is a huge technological leap forward for multiplayer gaming.
Check back later for our full Rainbow Six: Vegas preview.
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Comments
micta 31 Oct 2006 16:35
1/2
I wouldn't have pressed the 'A' button...
fluffstardx 31 Oct 2006 18:54
2/2
He looks like Hitler. On the face map, though, and not the photo, which IS bizarre.