[ALL] New Rainbow Six in Development

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Link: Kotaku: Rainbow Six Set to Invade New York With Home-Grown Terrorism

A new interpretation of the classic Rainbow Six, the tough-as-nails tactical shooter that asked gamers to carefully plan out the nuance of a breach like a choreographed dance, is in the works, a source familiar with the unannounced Ubisoft shooter tell Kotaku.

We've also heard that the game will in many ways be a departure from the sameness found in Rainbow Six: Vegas and its sequel, and a return to what helped separate the shooter from others of its ilk.

It's unclear if the in-development game will be shown at E3.

The original Rainbow Six is more tactical and focused on stealth than on weapons. Before each mission, in those early games, players were asked to view a briefing and then build a team, pick their weapons and equipment and finally create waypoints that the secondary members of the team would follow. Once the mission started, players had only control of one team member at a time.

Rainbow Six will be a far more story-driven game than previous iterations of the Tom Clancy branded title. The game is meant to take a step in a different direction, telling a bigger, much more gritty cinematic story than previous versions of the game.

In this still-to-be-titled Rainbow Six, players will be tasked with stopping a homegrown terrorist group operating in America. The group, fed up with the greed of Wall Street and the government that acts to protect them, decides to target New York City.

While the gameplay is based on some classic Rainbow Six mechanics, there is a brand new cover system that takes you out of the first-person perspective and into the third.

A new icon-rich graphics style helps to highlight members of your team during a mission and other pertinent information.

Contacted Thursday, Ubisoft declined to comment.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

The original was a great game- I had a copy on the N64 which I still play every once in awhile. I enjoyed the tactical aspect, but you also had to be spot on with weapons choices as well as firefights.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

If it is like the original few games, that'll be awesome. I played Rogue Spear MP so much back in the day.

 

[Blade]

Fuck yea back to the original baby!!! Hopefully Clancy helps pen the script this time. Man did they fuck up in Lockdown.

 

[BrntO4Life]

My dad and I had every original game on PC. I'm psyched they're taking it back to its roots.

 

[Point Blank]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Meet me in the bathroom"

 

[wr50l]

Was just saying yesterday to killgod that they should make a new one.

 

[MvP]

Calypso Casino or bust

 

[Colonel Angus]

I loved the rainbow six Vegas games. I never played the originals but if they are as good as you say then we are all in for a treat!

 

[Maynard]

R6 vegas was awesome. it was probably the best experience online with the MM community. for like 5 months we had huge groups playing together everynight. it was awesome. vegas 2 was not so good

 

[BigBucs]

:fap: RB6 Vegas and 2 are the best console shooters the current gen has had to offer. They need to hurry up with this shit.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

You guys will not be happy if you are expecting what R6 Vegas was & Ubisoft sticks to what's written above about them going back to the original R6 formula.

The difference between the original R6 and the Vegas series is like the difference between Operation Flashpoint series and the Call of Duty series...and even that may not be a good comparison.

 

[1ke]

My dad and I had every original game on PC. I'm psyched they're taking it back to its roots.

I remember spending 3 hours on 1 single mission. Well, that was partly down to the fact it was on a Dreamcast...Lol

But fa real, planning the missions was more than half the fun. Planning the plan baby, planning the plan!

 

[Maynard]

You guys will not be happy if you are expecting what R6 Vegas was & Ubisoft sticks to what's written above about them going back to the original R6 formula.

The difference between the original R6 and the Vegas series is like the difference between Operation Flashpoint series and the Call of Duty series...and even that may not be a good comparison.

i never played anything prior to Vegas. But i loved the tactical aspects of the game. Flashpoint could have been epic with its play style. but it wasnt as good as advertised.

 

[BrntO4Life]

i never played anything prior to Vegas. But i loved the tactical aspects of the game. Flashpoint could have been epic with its play style. but it wasnt as good as advertised.

Vegas isn't even close to the originals on PC. They were hardcore as hell.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

the c4 thrilla will return.

im coming for you chief riley

 

[Blade]

You guys will not be happy if you are expecting what R6 Vegas was & Ubisoft sticks to what's written above about them going back to the original R6 formula.

The difference between the original R6 and the Vegas series is like the difference between Operation Flashpoint series and the Call of Duty series...and even that may not be a good comparison.

What the fuck are you talkin about?

The originals is where you learned how to freakin shoot instead of pray and spray like a spazoid about to blow his fuckin load. Planning a take down had its own intricacies, you had checkpoints that you could pre program, tactical measures at, a good take down included timing at these checkpoints as well. You had first person stealth missions, where it was like MGS, you get caught you were screwed. No half assin.

The MP, was revolutionary at the time with match making, lobbies, chat and if you were real hardcore, you were in a clan with a wired headset and Roger Wilco running in the background!

More to the MP than that though, you had one shot one kill online, no matter what, you better be read on that trigger and have steady aim otherwise you were as good as fucked.

The Vegas games brought almost all of that back but they didn't have the planning aspect. It was all straight through until you reached a breach point.

I can't wait for this.

 

[Prodigal Son]

I want to say the first I played was RB6 3. I remember going through an office building in, I want to say Toronto, and having to basically clear every room. That was a great game. Had a lot of fun playing Vegas as well.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I was absolutely fucking nuts about the two Rainbow Six 3 games on the xbox console.

Those games were so good, so good. I believe Rainbow Six 3 was the #1 played online game until Halo 2 rolled around.

When lockdown came out and they really started changing things I started to get a little fed up. Vegas was "OK", but personally I was still searching for RB6:3/BA gameplay and I was consistently disappointed.

Like Blade said, The thing that MADE rainbow six special was the one shot one kill. The only thing that really made that so possible (on the console versions at least) was the aiming reticule used to be the Circle instead of the cross hairs. so if you had a reasonably accurate weapon and you were in reasonable range all you had to do was make sure someone's head was within the circle and it only took one bullet.

I think Ubisoft figured that the slow, tactical, Watch every step you take gameplay was something that was dying, as Halo had taken over as the main shooter I think they tried to make their game a lot more accessible, (sound like Madden? Anyone?) but in the process they forgot what made their game special in the first place.

Rainbow Six was special to me because there was no pray and spray. I shouldn't say that, there WAS spray and pray, but the guy who was crouched and aiming while standing still was the guy who was probably going to get the kill, as opposed to the guy holding his trigger and running left to right. The game used to punish you for that more than they do today, I played Vegas extensively, and I remember being able to get through a door and find cover immediately even if I was under fire. in the older games if I had even leaned my head out of that doorway I had better have thrown a flash or a smoke grenade (and hoped thermal was disabled) or I was going to be sitting in the lobby waiting for the next round.

I miss City Street Large, Carnival, Hotel (had some GREAT battles in that level), agh the list goes on and on I really miss those old Rainbow Six 3 games.

 

[riley420]

the c4 thrilla will return.

im coming for you chief riley

Mother fucking c4 grenades. That's me popping out around the corner giving you the headshot, BTW.

This is pretty much the one and only online shooter that had any sort of staying power for me.