Rainbow Six: Vegas
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This First Person tactical shooter is based on the Unreal 3 game engine; it looks splendid and takes a very high end video card if you want to run it at high resolutions. It makes heavy use of shaders and excels in delivering close very realistic Las Vegas setting, with a series of Casinos on the strip that you need to “clean”. The Unreal 3 engine pushes GFX effects to the next level but requires a hefty VGA card to deliver playable frame rates at higher detail and resolution.

We went on hunting down terrorists, the Calypso Casino level looked to be one of the heavier levels to run through:



Vegas is one of the less good looking games in this round-up, yet it does put enough load on todays mainstream videocards. The 9600GT on its own all ready offers very fluent gameplay at our selected resolution and image quality settings, but going dual card will make the setup ready for even higher resolutions and Anti-Aliasing settings. In our test the dual GT's performed on par with the 9800GTX, it isn't really worth it here to consider the GT's over the GTX but if you have all ready bought one GT then the extra card does give you the possibility the scale up to much better looking graphics.


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