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The Return Of Rainbow Six

Ubisoft Montreal discusses the Rainbow Six legacy and how it's bringing the Tom Clancy tactical shooter up to speed in the highly competitive shooter market.

In the three years since Rainbow Six Vegas 2 released, the first-person shooter genre has exploded to an unprecedented level of popularity. To storm back into contention, the team at Ubisoft Montreal knew it had to raise the bar of expectation for its tactical series. In this video, creative director David Sears discusses the Rainbow Six legacy, his past working on the SOCOM series, and the improvements his team hopes to bring to the series with Rainbow 6 Patriots.

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  • If only they would have done this kind of thing to the SOCOM series. Looking forward to seeing the final product.
  • I need to read up.

  • this guy seems to really have a vision for this game, hope it turns out well
  • Definitely sounds good. I loved R6 Vegas and it's sequel, and I'm glad this franchise is making a return. I really like the idea of the characters interacting with the environment more heavily! It sounds like this game is headed in the right direction.

  • Dude in the picture looks like young Sam fisher...
  • Man, I was starting to get scared Ubisoft would never release new Far Cry or Rainbow Six games over their Assassin's Creed and Ghost Recon upcoming releases. Good to see I was wrong on both counts this year, I love me some Rainbow Six!
  • My speakers aren't working well today so I can't listen to the vid...but when it says "bringing the Tom Clancy tactical shooter up to speed" I hope they don't mean just throwing in tons of explosions, taking away all suspense and story, and making it as linear as possible.
  • sounds like a good direction.

    look forward to it.  hope the world holds together at least until then.

    :)

  • Sounds like Rainbow is in the right hands.

  • This reminds me of of a era when games where crafted and built to be a entire experience, a way to look into another world and let it engulf u in the fantasy....now we have sub par games like Call of duty that just slap some new box art and ship it as a "new game"
  • hold up is the sencering not workn? oh ***

    no its still workin i got cencored
  • This some how reminded me of playing all the classic Rainbow Six games, now i want to go play them again.

  • I just don't believe that Ubisoft is willing to take chances. If they were Beyond Good And Evil 2 would be out by now and that Ghost Recon we saw at E3 2010 wouldn't have been changed so much among other things.
  • For all of you who haven't read Rainbow 6, it's an incredible book. Highly recommend it.
  • Tom clancy is a member of the NRA and republican and showed great admiration to Ronald reagon. Sorry but that pretty much means the storyline in this game is undoubtable a attack on the anti-economic inequality upsurge in the united states if he was invovled with the story, absolutely the subtext to the game. Unless these guys seriously tow the line between the two sides and dont make the 'bad guys' as dehumanizted and propagandish exaggeration of the movements beliefs as they where in the target rendering it will be totally unbalanced pespective and story portrayal imho tbh, and definitely wont be buying it.
  • i dont even need to see what its like im sold never played the others but they looked interesting

  • been playing rainbow six 3 it holds up pretty well exited for this series

  • I love me some Rainbow 6 and hopefully after hearing this Clancy's team puts together an amazing shooter! The market is full but, if anyone can do it, it has to be one of the originators......

  • Sounds like it is going to turn out really well. He is very passionate about this game and I like the direction they are going with it.

  • Can't wait! That video just blew me away. I really hope they follow through on the story - I feel like it's been a long time since we've had an FPS that had a real plot that made me really feel emotion.

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