Usually, when a studio is developing a new game, it has top men working on it. Top. Men. But Ubisoft’s upcoming Rainbow 6: Patriots is a temporary exception, as four of its top men have reportedly been “removed” from the project.
Told from the terrorists’ perspective, this is the debut trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Patriots, shown moments ago at the Spike Video Game Awards. Even given its fuck-the-man tone, it was little weird hearing the crowd cheer that suicide bombing with such verve.
While other shooters are pursuing more weapons, more maps, higher polygon counts, higher body counts; Tom Clancy’s latest Rainbow Six game is pushing the envelop on morality.
According to sources speaking to CVG, Ubisoft are planning to release new versions of both Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six this year. Try and regain your composure from the shock of it all to read on.
This is real pie-in-the-sky stuff, so remain seated while reading, but here goes: Ubisoft are looking into turning their five Tom Clancy series – Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Endwar and Hawx – into a “megagame”. How’s that going to work? Here’s how. They’ll do it in baby steps. For example, in the next Ghost Recon and the next Endwar, they’re hoping the missions will be interwoven, a mission in Ghost Recon 3 being given context in the larger conflict by a mission in Endwar 2.
And that’s just the start. Eventually – tech and public interest allowing – the Endwar “universe” would act as the overarching Clancy universe, within which the storylines of each new Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell and HAWX missions would be played out, ultimately leading to the direct linking of each game’s campaigns.
Like I said, it’s pie-in-the-sky stuff. Details are thin. But hey, even if you can’t stand the thought of a Clancy-branded Katamari sweeping the globe rolling up piles of cash money, you have to admit, it’s a pretty neat idea.
Ubisoft to merge Tom Clancy range into Super Game [Gameplayer]
