14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft released a brand new, 24-minute long video of Rainbow Six: Siege gameplay, offering an unedited look at two five versus five hostage rescue matches.
The matches are shown to begin with a short construction phase, during which the criminals attempt to reinforce the house and create some barricades and block access points, while the Rainbow Six team makes use of remote-controlled drones to sneak a peek at their construction efforts.
Rainbow Six: Siege is a cooperative multiplayer-focused first-person shooter, in which a team of hostage-taking criminals has to transform the environment into a stronghold, which the Rainbow Six operatives then have to breach through a deadly assault.
One of the game's main draws is the focus on the tactical aspect of shooting, as instead of the usual twitch-based run and gun action that is prevalent in modern shooters, the Rainbow Six series focuses on team tactics and coordination.
The game features an astounding destruction engine, with players being able to blast holes through doors and walls in order to gain a new vantage point or to breach into a room. This unprecedented level of environment destruction also means that the maps will be pretty limited in scope, focused on fast and deadly action rather than sprawling across large locales.
Previous Rainbow Six titles have been a pretty big draw for single player enthusiasts, emulating the team aspect without eliminating the game's sequential pace, and offering fans of tactical action an outlet that traditional multiplayer titles such as Call of Duty or Battlefield don't.
Fortunately, Ubisoft will manage to strike a balance between the competitive multiplayer focus and the more single-player oriented audience that the series traditionally has.
The video already shows that the limited round time (set to 3 minutes) is geared toward the fast-paced action of traditional tactical multiplayer shooters such as Counter-Strike, which isn't exactly a SWAT sim.
The restricted round time is still almost twice as long as the duration of a Counter-Strike round, so it should still offer some leeway when it comes to taking your time, while not promoting stationary play and camping, in spite of the fact that it seems like a step back from the cautious crawl of the former games in the series.
Rainbow Six: Siege is currently scheduled to come out sometime during 2015, for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms. Sebastien Labbe, one of the game's producer, mentioned the possibility of a beta testing phase being held ahead of the game's release.
