Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege - Preview

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege - Preview

Added: 15.06.2014 21:49 | 11 views | 0 comments

It's six of one, half a dozen of another.

The disappointment over the cancelation of Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots back in 2011 was palpable. Then in October last year, author Tom Clancy passed away at 66, leaving fans worried that the upcoming Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege would be halted or nixed altogether. But Ubisoft wishes to respect his name by developing this first-person multiplayer shooter as best they can, and though I'm not a person who regularly plays online multiplayer, its cops-versus-robbers scenario had me itching to grab my hands on the keyboard... or the controller. Take your pick.

It's unclear whether Rainbow Six: Siege has a single-player campaign of any kind, but this title will be focus primarily on its multiplayer offerings. Whatever the case, the concept works. In the hands-on scenario shown at Ubisoft's booth at E3 2014, a team of five highly trained officers called Raven Shield must rescue a hostage from a house fortified by an opposing team of five masked men named Rogue Spear, who are given about a minute head-start before the cops breach their defenses and attempt to complete their mission within a spare three minutes.