[PC] [PS4] [ONE] Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots

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http://www.rainbow6.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_Rainbow_6:_

Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots is an upcoming first-person shooter video game, part of the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series, announced on the cover of the December 2011 issue of Game Informer, and set to be released in 2013. It is published by Ubisoft, and is developed by the company's Montreal studio, with additional development by Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Red Storm.

Similar to previous games in the series, Rainbow 6: Patriots is a squad-based game.

http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/12/36347 ... a-next-gen

In the game, international counter-terrorism unit, codenamed Rainbow, is called in to New York to capture or kill a home-grown terrorist group called the "True Patriots." The group is attacking the city on behalf of the victims of economic inequality.

The leaked video showed a man being forced to hold the detonator for a bomb strapped to his body. If he releases the trigger early his family will be killed. When the player takes control of the team, they have to at some point decide whether to toss the man from a bridge or allow his bomb to detonating killing those around him. Kotaku's sources said that those decisions will heavily impact the course of the game.

Guillemot said that the decision to weave morality and tough decisions into the fabric of a shooter was the result of a lot of internal discussions.

"It's for sure something we spoke a lot about," he said. "You have to make decisions and that implies lots of ethical choices. In the decisions you make, we have to define where you can go, and there were lots of discussions on what's possible, what should be possible, what shouldn't be possible. But that's what is interesting with the concept - being able to give a choice to the person who is playing."

Rainbow 6: Patriots remains listed as a 2013 game in development for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Early Concept Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87z7--N1MRM

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According to the Wikipedia page linked above, this is now coming out on PS4 and Wii U, so thread title edited accordingly.

PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
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Wii U

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http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/13/ ... IGN+All%29

Rainbow 6: Patriots ‘Had To Be Remade’

Ubisoft has broken its silence regarding Rainbow 6: Patriots. Speaking to IGN, North American president Laurent Detoc explained why Patriots suddenly went dark, plus why he feels that a switch to next-gen consoles has been good for the project.

“We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got started, and then the game wasn’t working. So [they had] to start again,” Detoc explained. “There’s an editorial group in Ubisoft, a big group, very influential. If the game is not good enough, they say it’s not good enough. Most of the time, the team will say, ‘yeah, I know.’ But sometimes they want to continue in a direction where you say, ‘no, it’s not going to work.’”

“Rainbow had to be remade,” he continued. “Now they’re going to have the benefit of the new consoles, if and when it comes out. It’s one of those examples where you try, it doesn’t work, you try again. If it doesn’t work, we’re not going to bring it to you.”

Detoc also responded to speculation that Rainbow 6 may no longer be called Patriots at all. “Could it become a shooter with another name in the end, because the team doesn’t want to do counter-terrorist guys? Say they want to be in a mercenary setting? That’s possible,” he said.

Rainbow 6: Patriots was announced back in 2011. At E3, Ubisoft's Tony Key confirmed to IGN that Patriots is now coming to next-gen consoles, and Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre more recently told us the project is “still cooking.”

Look out for much more from our interview with Detoc in the days to come.

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http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/9/5792660 ... -six-siege

Rainbow 6: Patriots canceled, replaced by Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six: Patriots, the controversial, long-delayed anti-terrorism shooter, is officially, and permanently dead, Ubisoft confirmed this week.

"It's not in development anymore," said Alexandre Remy, Rainbow Six brand director. "The main decision was some months after Patriots was announced in 2011 that was the first moment we knew the first generation of new consoles were coming. So obviously at that moment and for a franchise such as Rainbow we needed to decide if we could make something for next-gen and we were already pretty advanced in the development of Patriots.

"It would require doing a lot of extra things."

He added that the decision to kill the game was not driven by the controversial nature of the title. It was more about what they wanted to do with the franchise, he said.

"It was a strategic decision to make that happen," he said. "It's hard to imagine a Rainbow Six game that doesn't use the latest technology. We had to decide do we keep working on something that might be a bit late in the cycle or do we actually take that opportunity of next-gen?"

Patriots first came to light in 2011 when a video showing off the game's preliminary target gameplay footage was leaked to Kotaku. The early, internal video showed off a game that hoped to push the envelope on morality.

In the game, international counter-terrorism unit, codenamed Rainbow, is called in to New York to capture or kill a home-grown terrorist group called the "True Patriots." The group is attacking the city on behalf of the victims of economic inequality.

But after a confirmation and splashy reveal, the game disappeared. In November, 2012, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told Polygon that the game was still in development and might be headed for a next-gen release.

"The only thing I can say is that we have a good team working on it, and it's really looking good," Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot told Polygon at the time. "So when it will come, it will surprise the industry."

Then about six months later, a Ubisoft executive told IGN that the game was headed to next-gen platforms. Six months after that, the president of Ubisoft North America said the game wasn't working and that it needed to be remade, adding, "If it doesn't work, we're not going to bring it to you."

After the decision was made to kill Patriots, Ubisoft decided to start another Rainbow Six game with a fresh, core team of 40 people, said Remy.

The new game has been in development for 18 months, he said.

"It's safe to say," Remy said, "that it's always better to start fresh."