In 2010, Rainbow operatives Logan Keller, Gabriel Nowak and Kan Akahashi are deployed to a
Mexican border town, where they are tasked with capturing Irena Morales, a terrorist ringleader. As the team reaches its landing zone, Logan is separated from the others after he
fast-ropes down first. Logan fights his way through the town and manages to regroup with Gabriel and Kan at an old church. After infiltrating a train yard and freeing a group of hostages, the team eventually makes its way to a mine where Irena is hiding. However, they are ambushed, and Gabriel and Kan are captured as Irena escapes. Alone and armed only with his
pistol, Logan fights his way through an abandoned factory, eventually escaping by helicopter. He is then redeployed to handle a related crisis in
Las Vegas. He is dropped outside the Calypso Casino and links up with his new team: Michael Walters and Jung Park. The team clears out the casino and saves a group of hostages, including a
NATO weapons researcher, who reveals that
another scientist has been captured. The team then rescues a kidnapped reporter, who informs them that the terrorists are using a news van as a communications hub. Logan's team sends a transmission and destroys the hub, then heads to rescue the second weapons researcher. Rainbow is dropped on the Vertigo Spire luxury hotel, where the team finds and rescues the missing researcher, who informs the team about a micro-pulse bomb that was planted in the Vertigo. Michael disarms the bomb, and the team is then extracted to locate Gabriel and Kan. However, a normal bomb devastates a tower adjacent to the hotel. The team is dispatched to Dante's Casino, where they find Gabriel and Kan. However, Kan is fatally wounded during extraction. He manages to reveal that the attack in Las Vegas is a distraction before dying. The team then proceeds to a theatre to hack a terrorist server where they discover that Irena's target is the Nevada Dam. As they arrive at the dam, the team discovers
another micro-pulse bomb which they defuse. They then encounter a hostage who informs them that the dam will collapse if they do not activate an emergency release valve. After activating the valve, the team proceed into the facility, where they discover that it is a weapons research lab. They also find that the terrorists have a micro-pulse missile on top of the dam. Logan presses forward, confronts Irena, and kills her. The team then heads to the top of the dam and destroys the missile. Logan receives a transmission from Gabriel, who tells him that
he was Irena's mole before hijacking the team's helicopter. As Gabriel attempts to escape with the helicopter, Logan can either let him escape or shoot him down. Later, Logan and the team are sent out to locate the organization behind Irena and Gabriel's terrorist activity. Much later, a news clip states that a helicopter had crashed into a lake, but no bodies were found.
PSP version The PSP version of ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas'' is an entire different game, rather than a direct port due to hardware limitations. Unlike the main version, which follows Logan Keller and his team in Las Vegas, the PSP version focuses on a parallel storyline starting with two different operatives: Brian Armstrong, as an assault specialist, and Shawn Rivers, as a sniper, who are tasked with completing missions tied into the same overarching crisis. Their mission is initially to locate the Rainbow operatives Gabriel Nowak and Kan Akahashi, who have been kidnapped during the events at the Mexican border. Armstrong and Rivers them uncover that their primary target, Lucas Picares, is orchestrating a biochemical threat: plans to poison Las Vegas’s water supply as well as further sabotage tied to the dam infrastructure. As they progress, they follow leads through several locations, including a private airport, a tower, and a water filtration plant. The story is likely shifts focus on preventing the release of bio-weapon, rescue hostages and stop Picare's larger destructive plot and it only has at least five campaign missions, each taking 20 to 30 minutes to complete approximately, making it shorter than the main version. ==Development==