Just about the time that you fight your way out of the city-alone-you find out that the terrorists have made their way to Nevada. But because of some bad intel your comrades are captured and you’re left for dead. Things start out somewhere in Mexico where the team is supposed to flush out a terrorist group. You play as Logan Keller, the leader of an elite, three-man counterterrorism team. It’s a game that demands thought and planning at every turn. Their latest in the Rainbow Six series is a tactical shooter set in today’s Las Vegas that’s thick with tension, realism and close-quarter battle.
The creators of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas are obviously people who share my strategic bent. (Although I soon learned that women are well beyond the game plans of mere mortals.)
And as I grew up and honed my mental strategies, I happily realized that I could apply those same skills to my other favorite pursuits, from tennis to video games to girls. But driving me forward was the joy of plotting out the movements of those funny-looking little horses and castles. He suffered through game after game until I could wrap my young brain around the particulars. My dad was more of a checkers man, but he taught me how to play chess after I bugged him long enough.
