Get Your Face in Rainbow Six Vegas
If the constant full-frontal male nudity has yet to be put off the Xbox Live Vision Camera, you can now use it for something more constructive.
While many of the owners of the Xbox Live Vision Camera are using it in games of UNO or to show off body parts to unsuspecting chatters, Ubisoft has decided to put it to more constructive use in its upcoming team-based shooter Rainbow Six Vegas.
Using the camera, you can take head-on and profile shots of your head and have them mapped onto a character model to look "exactly" like you. We're guessing Ubisoft means sort-of when it says exactly. Either way, once your noggin is on a character, you'll be able to virtually traverse the multiplayer sections of the game only.
Of course, this is just part of what Rainbow Six Vegas has to offer. The meat of the game is the team-based story mode where you face off against terrorists in the titular Sin City.
Rainbow Six Vegas is due for Xbox 360 later this year. There's a PlayStation 3 version coming too, and another side-mission game headed to the PSP.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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