Siege is the Next Rainbow Six Game
Ubisoft closed its E3 press conference with yet another surprise title as it has done in the past couple years, this time with a new Rainbow Six game. It's called Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
The video shown during the conference revealed a multiplayer match using the game's pre-alpha build.
It begins with a 5-on-5 scenario between good guys and bad guys where one team must rescue a hostage while the other defends. It takes place in a house with the terrorist team barricading the building. Meanwhile, the good guys are able to surveil the inside of the home using a drone, which ultimately gets spotted and shot down by the terrorists.
The counter-terrorist team then choose one of three insertion points using a map of the level. They choose to descend from helicopter onto the roof and eventually the two teams exchange gunfire.
The game mode presented is an elimination type mode. The gun battle takes place all over the home, demonstrating impressive environmental destructibility. The demo video ends with a 1-on-1 encounter, just before seeing the outcome of the match.
Overall, it looked like an impressive demonstration. It's slated to come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2015 and is being developed by Ubisoft Montreal.
Here's the official press release:
Today, Ubisoft announced the development of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, the latest in the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six franchise. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege will be available in 2015 on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.
Development of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is being led by Ubisoft Montreal. Inspired by real world counter-terrorist organizations, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege puts players in the middle of lethal close-quarters confrontations. For the first time in a Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game, players will engage in sieges, a new style of assault where enemies have the means to transform their environments into modern strongholds while Rainbow Six teams lead the assault to breach the enemy’s position. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege gives players unprecedented control over their ability to fortify their position — by reinforcing walls and floors, using barbed wire, deployable shields and mines, and more — or breach the enemies’ using observation drones, sheet charges, rappelling, and more. The fast pace, lethality and uniqueness of each siege sets a new bar for intense firefights, strategic gameplay and competitive gaming.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege also features a technological breakthrough that redefines the way players interact with a game environment. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege incorporates procedural destruction that is realistic and unscripted, meaning the environment reacts authentically, distinctively and dynamically, based on variables like the caliber of bullets or the amount of explosives used. This advance allows players to leverage destruction in meaningful ways. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire. Ceilings and floors can be breached to create new access points. This ability to modify the level design in real time enables players to create new gameplay opportunities directly within the game level.
“As fans of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and tactical shooters in general, we set out to create the game we always wanted to play within the counter-terrorism universe. We asked ourselves ‘how could we capture the incredible tension and unique tactics of these confrontations?’ We found the answer in the Siege gameplay and procedural destruction.” said Xavier Marquis, creative director at Ubisoft. “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the game that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six fans have been waiting for, and first-person shooter players will be drawn to its unique gameplay.“
From more information on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, please visit: www.rainbowsix.com
Stay tuned to GameTrailers for the video.
Update: Here's the video.