As expected, Ubisoft announced its plans to launch a new Tom
Clancy's Rainbow Six title on PS2, Xbox and PC.
Rainbow Six 4 will introduce a new single player experience with a
personal darker storyline, state-of-the-art equipment, and offers
gamers the chance to play as two members of Team Rainbow: Ding
Chavez, and a new sniper role portrayed by Dieter Weber, who must
cover his team's movement with deadly accuracy.
In this new episode, you lead Team Rainbow as they are called into
action to battle a bioterrorist threat, but matters take an
unexpected turn as they become 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.
"With the Rainbow Six franchise
hailed for its immersive single-player games and known as one of
the best multiplayer experiences, our studios managed to fully
optimize the next Rainbow Six on Playstation 2 for a breathtaking
mix of fun and beauty. This new opus will also take the best and
make it better: this time it's personal as Team Rainbow becomes the
target. Tom Clancy's gut-wrenching tension, pulse-pounding action,
close-quarter battle and hallmark realism are about to get a whole
lot darker", said John Parkes, Director of marketing for EMEA
Territories. "This new episode will deliver an even bigger
multiplayer punch on all formats, with the addition of
revolutionary modes that take the game in a completely new
direction".
The PS2 version of Rainbow Six 4 will use a specially developed new
graphics engine to even further enhance the immersion of the player
into the gunfights. Multiplayer fanatics will see the return of
adversarial & cooperative modes through split-screen and
online. The PS2 edition will feature an exclusive rivalry mode,
which puts you against trained mercenaries in objective-driven
team-based adversarial gameplay, while the Xbox will have an
exclusive career mode, allowing you to create your own operative,
improve its skills and acquire extra equipment in all-new
objective-based missions.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 4 is being developed by original Rainbow
Six creators Red Storm Entertainment, in cooperation with Ubisoft's
Montreal Studios, and is expected during Spring 2005.