first person shooter
Get a Free Gun in Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Posted by Brian Crecente at 8:00 AM on March 22, 2008
Hushed Casket points out that people who purchased Rainbow Six Vegas 2 from Best Buy were given a code to unlock a free gun in the game. The thing is the code was printed on a sticker on the outside of the game. Better still it can be used by anyone who owns the game.
To unlock the gun go to the main menu of the game and do the following:
(Hold RB) Down, Down, Up, Up, X, B, X, B, Y, Up, Up, Y
This is almost as good as that free Comcast map.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Free Best Buy gun code [Hushed Casket]

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Jopan
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Mr_Fuzzypaws: Yeah and the folks at the gamestop i go to made it sound like it was the best car in the game lol. I too played with it for a short while and saw that it royaly bit.
Jopan
uppitycracker
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Bishmon:
haha and game crazy was advertising this as a preorder incentive. Ubisoft has really disappointed me with this one, simply because it seems like there was more effort put into the promotions and in game advertising than the actual fucking development of the game... because this game plays like absolute shit. i'll take RB6 vegas 1 any day
uppitycracker
jun581
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@JKPierce: thanks for the heads up. appreciate it
jun581
PapaBear434
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Posts... Disappearing... Must... Stop talking... Like Shatner...
PapaBear434
PapaBear434
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@crapsh00t:
Or the Microwave gun.
Interesting side effect? At prolonged use or increased intensity, it can irritate the bowels and cause painful stomach cramps and involuntary explosive diarrhea. You can't tell me that wouldn't be funny as hell.
PapaBear434
PapaBear434
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
You know what I liked as far as extra content? Hellgate: London had a promo that gave you a dye kit for your armor, which can be used for any armor you get ever, based on the color scheme of where you bought it. Go to Best Buy, and you get a cool dye kit that would turn your armor gold. I believe Circuit City was red, and EB turned it blue.
It looks pretty cool, without being intrusive or taking you out of the game. It looks like it belongs (it's still marred, slightly faded, and battle scared like everything else,) and it doesn't have any logo's on there to have annoying product placement.
THAT'S the way to do exclusive content, baby. Everything out in the game was messed up at launch, but that thing was pretty cool.
PapaBear434
crapsh00t
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
It's the TAR21! What a load of bollocks, I already have that unlocked... I was hoping for a railgun or perhaps an emp emitter.
crapsh00t
-EDGE-
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@bruhkgb:
You're welcome. :)
-EDGE-
Poison
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
I really like the TAR21...
And if you want the free Comcast level, in the start menu go to "Extras", then "Comcast Gift" and enter "Comcast Faster". Bam, unlocked. :)
Poison
Pheonix2og
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@DevonTheDude: Not true at all, unfortunately. Pre-ordering Army of Two from Gamestop / EBGames got you a special, unique code that unlocks two guns (not otherwise unlockable). Each of these codes only works once as you have to be connected to XBL (or PSN, I assume) as it checks the code against EA's DB. Unfortunately, I did not pre-order and, therefore, do not have the free guns. :(
Thanks EA, I look forward to you trying to sell these two guns down the road for only 800 MS Points a piece ([kotaku.com]).
Pheonix2og
JKPierce
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@jun581: N'Gai had a post on his blog the other day, found here. It's mostly on the trend of developers overlooking the PS3 in favor of the 360, similar to what gaming sites have done.
JKPierce
CaptainObvious
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Crosswayboy: It's the wireless UPC/inventory scanner gun. ;-)
CaptainObvious
Mr_Fuzzypaws
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Bishmon: If EA was to learn from this sort of misdirection and subtlety, watch out.
GameStop and EA kind of did this with Burnout Paradise. If you pre-ordered it from GameStop you got a code for the "exclusive" Steel Wheels car. Anyone can go on the net and find a code that will work. And the car is pretty much shit, I drove it just long enough to realize I hated it.
Mr_Fuzzypaws
DigiMish
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@DevonTheDude: this isn't gamefaqs.
DigiMish
PapaBear434
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
I got the game, unlocked the gun... And then hit the rank the gun would have been unlocked within half an hour anyway.
Eh, whatever. It's not like it cost me any extra.
PapaBear434
chickenplucka
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Army of Two had some exclusive codes to unlock guns developed by their forum members - a sniper grenade launcher and a powerful fully automatic SMG.
That was a one off code like Lost Odyssey and Battlefield.
The GOTY version of Call of Duty 3 also had an exclusive code to get the bonus maps.
chickenplucka
jun581
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@JKPierce: what ignore ps3 things n'gai talked about?
jun581
DevonTheDude
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Way to go Kotaku, 2 days after N4G.com posted the codes. Since when are exclusive codes, in any game, truely exclusive. Same applies to Burnout Paradise, the codes are on internet forums all over the web. A Cd/Dvd/Blu (extra disc) is the only way to have true exlcusive content.
DevonTheDude
chenry
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
TAR21, boooring. I already had that gun.
chenry
OGHowie
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Bishmon:
I got the normal edition for the 360 at Best Buy and it has the code for the assault rifle on a sticker outside of the box. It's definitely not exclusive to the LE.
OGHowie
DigiMish
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
this just reminds me how useless, and annoying store promotions are to gamers. Buy the game at our store and get this map, NO! buy the game at this store and get this map!
Everything's still going to be uploaded on the web the next day.
DigiMish
Grumps
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Mr.SithNinja: some things like the lost odyssey extras do have unique codes that are only good once. Those are the things worth preordering for. Battlefield has a code like that too, you redeem it on live to get the extra gun or whatever it is.
Grumps
dadeisvenm
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Just by the title, a whole lot of New Yorkers got excited... then disappointed.
dadeisvenm
DLNO-001
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
aaw! so old school! sequence button combos? what's next? 100up?
DLNO-001
bruhkgb
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Thanks Edge.
bruhkgb
Eltigro
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Watch out. Ol' Jack Thompson will turn this around and say that Best Buy is giving away free guns with every purchase of a "murder trainer" software...
What a dick...
Eltigro
SaintWaldo
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": You win the internets. Report to Best Buy for your prize, and for an extra $10, you'll get a code to unlock your very own Best Buy price gun.
SaintWaldo
-EDGE-
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Free Gun PS3 Version: (Hold R1) down,down,up,up,square,circle,square,circle,triangle,up,up,triangle.
Should get you the TAR. Yeah, thats right EDGEY loves ya ;)
-EDGE-
Torgen thinks AAA means “Costs $60”
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Would be better if it was a pricing gun. Take that, terrorist! You've been marked down 98 cents!
Torgen thinks AAA means “Costs $60”
Bishmon
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Xeros606:
Oh, no, Ubisoft wasn't giving this away. This was labeled as an exclusive to the limited edition version of the game at Best Buy. My buddy that bought the game, who doesn't read blogs or anything (and is therefore representative of 90+% of all consumers), wasn't going to spend the extra money on the limited edition until he saw it came with an "exclusive" assault rifle. Ubisoft essentially managed to get an extra $10 from him for a code.
If EA was to learn from this sort of misdirection and subtlety, watch out.
Bishmon
Dakito
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
wounder if it would work with the ps3 if you just fallowed the same combo on that controller.
Dakito
baberg
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Also, just in case you didn't google for it, the Comcast unlock is "Comcast faster".
baberg
Crome
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Already had it unlocked, crap gun on auto and still poor even on semi.
Crome
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Is it just me or are these gimmics stupid. The Comcast Map, the Best Buy gun, the Gamestop "exclusive" droid in Lego Starwars, why bother doing these kind of crappy promotions with "secrect, exclusive, unlockable codes that are on the net in 5min after realese?
It's not like it a real exclusive to any retailer. to me it is just dumb.
Mr.SithNinja
njhardcoreguy
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@JKPierce: This is on PS3 too. The code is very similar, but I forget it off the top of my head.
njhardcoreguy
JKPierce
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Is this one of those ignore PS3 things that N'Gai talked about?
JKPierce
Spoony Bard
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
@Mr.SithNinja: Well, someone was going to give it away at some point...
Spoony Bard
AnTi PRO
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
It's the "TAR" which was known as the MTAR 21 in R6V1. This isn't a special unlockable gun. You end up unlocking it after you gain enough exp in the game anyways. It just gives it to you early.
AnTi PRO
steliosco
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
better than EAs "guns"...
steliosco
Xeros606
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
hmm, ubi gives you a free virtual gun, and ea sells you virtual guns...
Xeros606
Bishmon
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Oh, and you can also unlock the 'Streets' multiplayer map by going into the 'Extras' section in the main menu and signing up for a free Ubi.com account.
Bishmon
GMC
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
catapult? Paintball gun?
GMC
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
DAMN YOU KOTAKU!!! You had to go and give everyone else the gun code and completly ruin any atvantage that I had by having it! The fact that it is a shitty gun that I will never use is beside the point. You just took away the one thing that made me special....
Mr.SithNinja
Bishmon
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
TAR21 assault rifle.
Bishmon
schizogony
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
How do I unlock the giatn Ace Combat ads?
Oh, wait, that's already been done.
schizogony
Crosswayboy
Posted 8:01 PM 26/3/08
Neat! What gun is it? Anyone?
Crosswayboy