Two years ago, Rainbow Six: Patriots was announced, with a new dynamic story and a 'We are the 99%' theme. Since then, the game quietly dropped out of site. Ubisoft's NA president Laurent Detoc explained that the game wasn't working and had to be remade.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six | |
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Genre(s) | Tactical shooter |
Developer(s) | Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft Milan Red Storm Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Mac OS, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, PlayStation Network, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Mac OS X, Mobile phone, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, iOS, Xperia Play, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
First release | Rainbow Six August 21, 1998 |
Latest release | Rainbow Six Siege December 1, 2015 |
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a media franchise created by American author Tom Clancy about a fictional internationalcounter-terroristunit called 'Rainbow'. The franchise began with Clancy's novel Rainbow Six, which was adapted into a series of tactical first-person shootervideo games.
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Team Rainbow[edit]
Rainbow Six describes Rainbow as an international counter-terrorism operation hosted by NATO and funded by money funneled through the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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The base of operations for Rainbow is located in Hereford, England, due to the United Kingdom being one of the most accessible countries in the world and having one of the world's foremost special forces units. Most of the characters in Rainbow Six are American or British, though the NATO countries of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the non-NATO ally of Israel have at least one representative each.
Clancy describes the structure of Rainbow as having one Director, who oversees the entire operation, and one Deputy Director, who is second in command. Rainbow is portrayed as the 'blacker than black' operations, and it works off its very own intelligence service which has intelligence contacts all over the world. In the book, when Rainbow is called upon for help from another country's government to deal with a terrorist situation, usually only one of the two teams will be sent, but in some situations, both will be sent. Both teams have an officer (O-4 or equivalent) as team leader and a senior NCO (E-9 or equivalent) as second in command. Not including the team leader, each team is made up of ten men. Rainbow also has a standard-issue weapons kit. Each team has two snipers.
In the video games, Rainbow is portrayed differently. John Clark is still the leader for most of the series, but is supported by a set of other key staff and advisers who vary from game to game. As of Rogue Spear, the unit has 30 operatives, including members from NATO countries and from non-NATO countries. For each mission in the first three games, a maximum of eight operatives can be deployed and can be split into a maximum of five teams. Weapons, uniforms, and equipment are less standardized and are instead chosen to suit the operative and the mission.
Novel[edit]
The novel, Rainbow Six, was written by Tom Clancy and published in 1998. The novel focuses on John Clark, Ding Chavez, and a fictional multinational counter-terrorist organization named Rainbow.
Video games[edit]
The first game was developed by Red Storm Entertainment, while the novel was being written. The game later spawned a number of sequels and expansion packs. Red Storm was later acquired by Ubisoft, who currently develops and publishes the games. Mobile phone versions of the game are developed and published by Gameloft.
Rainbow Six and its sequels defined the tactical shooter genre, forcing players to focus more time and effort on stealth, teamwork, and tactics rather than on sheer firepower. With some of the more recent releases however, the games have taken on more of a 'mainstream' first-person shooter approach in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience.
The cancelled game Rainbow 6: Patriots changed the word Six to 6. The latest game, Siege, has changed the series title back to Rainbow Six.
List of games[edit]
Title | Windows release | Console versions | Mobile versions | Comments |
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Rainbow Six | 1998 | N64, PS1 (1999); DC (2000) | GBC (2000) | |
Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch | 1999 | DC (2000) | N/A | expansion pack |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | 1999 | DC (2000); PS1 (2001) | GBA (2002) | |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Mission Pack Urban Operations | 2000 | DC (2000) | N/A | expansion pack |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Covert Ops Essentials | 2000 | N/A | N/A | expansion pack (stand-alone) |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Black Thorn | 2001 | N/A | N/A | expansion pack (stand-alone) |
Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea | 2001 | N/A | N/A | Not released outside of South Korea (stand-alone) |
Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf | N/A | PS1 (2002) | N/A | |
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield | 2003 | Xbox (2003); PS2, GameCube (2004) | Mobile game (2004) | |
Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword | 2004 | N/A | N/A | expansion pack |
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow | N/A | Xbox (2004) | N/A | |
Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath | 2005 | N/A | N/A | expansion pack (DLC) |
Rainbow Six: Broken Wings | N/A | N/A | Mobile game (2003) | |
Rainbow Six: Urban Crisis | 2004 | N/A | N/A | |
Rainbow Six: Lockdown | 2006 | PS2, Xbox, GameCube (2005) | N/A | |
Rainbow Six: Critical Hour | N/A | Xbox (2006) | N/A | |
Rainbow Six: Vegas | 2006 | X360 (2006); PS3 (2007) | PSP (2007), Mobile game | |
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | 2008 | PS3, X360(2008) | N/A | |
Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard | N/A | N/A | iOS, Android (2011) | Based on the original |
Rainbow 6: Patriots[1][2] | N/A | PS4, XBONE | N/A | Cancelled |
Rainbow Six Siege | 2015 | PS4, XBONE, PC | N/A | |
Rainbow Six Quarantine | 2020 | PS4, PS5, XBONE, Xbox Series X, PC | N/A |
A South Korean-only PC game called Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea was created for the South Korean market by KAMA Digital Entertainment. The game boasted South Korean Rainbow operatives and weapons with a different story and interface. It was not sold outside South Korea.
References[edit]
- ^Crecente, Brian (June 23, 2011). 'New Rainbow Six Might Be the Most Innovative Shooter in Years'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ^Crecente, Brian (June 2, 2011). 'Rainbow Six Set to Invade New York With Home-Grown Terrorism'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
External links[edit]
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots | |
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Developer(s) | Ubisoft Montreal Red Storm Entertainment Ubisoft Toronto |
Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
Designer(s) | Jean-Sebastian Decant |
Series | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six |
Engine | AnvilNext |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 4 Xbox One |
Release | Cancelled |
Genre(s) | Tactical shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots[1] is a cancelled 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. It was to be published by Ubisoft, and was developed by the company's Montreal studio, with additional development by Ubisoft Toronto and Red Storm Entertainment.[2] Due to the death of Tom Clancy in October 2013, concern was raised that this game would become the last to bear his name. Ubisoft has since stated that they will continue putting Tom Clancy's name on future Tom Clancy titles out of respect for the late author.
Patriots was cancelled in 2014 after it was announced in 2011. Instead, Ubisoft started development on a new Rainbow Six game called Siege.[3]
Plot[edit]
Team Rainbow is called to New York City to deal with a terrorist group calling itself the 'True Patriots'.[4] Styling themselves as a populist militia group, the True Patriots have taken it upon themselves to act as judge, jury, and executioner on behalf and avenging the alleged victims of what they see as Wall Street corruption.[5]
To complicate the situation, the new leader of Team Rainbow is James Wolfe, a former Navy SEAL who believes ethics are irrelevant in dealing with the True Patriots. As Echo Leader, a man who looks up to Wolfe as a father figure, they must stop the True Patriots at all costs; even at the price of their own personal morality.
Development[edit]
After finding 'reason to believe that someone may leak [their] preliminary target gameplay footage', Ubisoft chose to pre-maturely announce the game through a trailer on November 4, 2011. It was stressed that the trailer showed a pre-rendered concept created in 2010 of what a level in the final game might appear like, rather than footage of any current game build.[6]
In March 2012, it was announced that creative director David Sears, narrative director Richard Rouse III, lead designer Philippe Therien, and animation director Brent George were all removed from the development team.[7] Minimal news on the game appeared until May 2013, when GameStop removed Patriots from their database of upcoming games and cancelled all pre-orders.[8]
At E3 2013, Ubisoft confirmed that the game remained in development, but would now be produced for eighth generation consoles.[9] It had also been confirmed that players would also be able to play as the True Patriots in some capacity.
On June 9, 2014, it was announced that Patriots and its concept was scrapped. Instead, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege was announced as its replacement. The game was later released on December 1, 2015.[3]
References[edit]
- ^'Rainbow 6 Patriots | Early Concept Footage [North America]'. YouTube. Ubisoft. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^Grayson, Nathan (2011-11-03). 'Rainbow 6 Patriots Announced, Coming in 2013'. Maximum PC. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^ abCrecente, Brian (2014-06-09). 'Rainbow 6: Patriots canceled, replaced by Rainbow Six Siege'. Polygon. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
- ^Bergmark, Drew (2011-11-28). 'Rainbow Six: Patriots – Who Are the True Patriots?'. WouldYouKindly.com. Retrieved 2014-05-10.
- ^Jones, David (2011-12-10). 'VGAs 2011 – Rainbow 6 Patriots Trailer'. WouldYouKindly.com. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^'Rainbow Six Patriots Gameplay Target Trailer'. TeamXbox. 2011-11-04. Archived from the original on 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^Bertz, Matt (2012-03-07). 'Rainbow 6 Patriots Creative Director Is Gone'. Game Informer. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
- ^Dyer, Mitch (2013-05-16). 'Rainbow 6 Patriots Pre-Orders Removed From GameStop'. IGN. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- ^Goldfarb, Andrew (2013-06-12). 'E3 2013: Rainbow 6: Patriots is Next-Gen'. IGN. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
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