Ubisoft Dissapoints

I got some people around today to play some games on the Xbox 360,
the games we already had were:
Gears of War
Ghost Recon

We looked through some video hire stores to find a game to hire and finally
decided on Rainbow Six: Las Vegas; the only decent looking one that claimed to have "2-4 offline co-op, 2-16 System Link and 2-4 online co-op". Lacking broadband and having the 2-4 group that the game claimed to support; we hired it.

We started with some Ghost Recon and Halo 2 action which went well; Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six are both done by Ubisoft; have the same setting, are both about Mexicans and in a lot of ways are generally similar.

We decided it was time to play our hired game, we signed into our profiles, selected multiplayer and tried to get slots. That's as far as we got to having a decent multi-player experience.
The controllers were shown on the slot selection menu, but there was only two slots avaliable.

Confused, we turned to the internet for help and found two pages which pretty much summed up the answer we needed.
Ubisofts page
Xbox forums

So it turns out that the only way to get more than two players is to use System Link.
So what? Just get another console!
It also turns out that once system link is activated your limited to one player per console.

I can say that our only consolation is that we didn't buy the game; we don't intend to now either.


As a final few words for Ubisoft:
Great job on tricking people into getting your game you BASTARDS.