Ubisoft
announced its plans to launch a new Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six opus on PlayStation 2, Xbox
and PC during Spring 2005. The game is being developed by two of Ubisoft's award-winning
studios: Red Storm Entertainment, the maker of the original Rainbow Six and Ubisoft's
Montreal Studios.
In this new episode, you lead Team Rainbow, the world's most elite
counter-terrorist unit, as they are called into action and unfamiliar territory to battle a
bioterrorist threat. Stakes escalate as they are personally targeted by an evil terrorist
organization. Used to protecting the lives of others, Team Rainbow must now embark on a
mission to fight and save some of their own.
The next Rainbow Six installment will
build on the ingredients that have made the Rainbow Six franchise a runaway success, and
will introduce new single player experience with a personal darker storyline,
state-of-the-art equipment, and offer gamers the chance to play as two members of Team
Rainbow: Ding Chavez, the fearless leader of Team Rainbow, and a new sniper role portrayed
by Dieter Weber, who must cover his team's movement with deadly accuracy.
The
Rainbow Six franchise, which has already sold more than 7.5 million units, is critically
acclaimed for its multiplayer games modes and enjoyed an unprecedented year as one of Xbox
Live's top titles. Multiplayer modes will return with enhanced features. Additionally,
PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions will get new and amazing exclusive modes that will bring the
multiplayer experience to a further level of excellence.
Game features
include:
- Stunning graphics and ultra-realistic ragdoll physics deliver staggering
realism and spectacular close quarter firefights.
-PlayStation 2 uses a new Graphic
engine specially developed by Red Storm Entertainment to reach unprecedented graphical and
technical achievement for the most intense gunfights offered to PS2 owners.
- New
elite operatives for the most captivating squad-based gameplay : 10 multinational
operatives, including Recon, Electronics and Demolitions experts are available to help you
to complete the missions as you command your 3 AI-teamates through Quick Order Interface or
Voice Command.
- Superior multiplayer experience: One of the best multiplayer games
ever returns with the classics: Adversarial and Cooperative modes through Split-Screen and
on-line. Additionally exclusive mode make their appearance with:
- PlayStation 2: New
Rivalry Mode pits Rainbow operatives against trained mercenaries in objective-driven
team-based adversarial gameplay.
- New Xbox Live Career Mode allows players to create
their own operative, improve their skills and acquire extra equipment in all-new
objective-based missions.
- Increasingly intelligent enemy A.I.: With every mission,
enemies get more dangerous using tactics like flanking, suppression fire and room
clearing.
- New weapons and equipment: Complete your mission with all of the tools of
the trade including new items like motion trackers, battering rams, and the deadly MTAR-21
micro assault rifle.
- Tension-building sound effects: Creaking floorboards, whispers
and hostages begging for their lives hint that a threat lurks around every
corner.
