Ubisoft are making an XCOM-style Rainbow Six game inspired by Siege, claim reports

Allegedly called "Slice & Dice", won't beryllium retired for a twelvemonth oregon two

I fondly cherish my galore memories of claustrophobia, disorder and panic successful Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. I can't get capable of the acquisition of being lodged down the furnishings similar immoderate teenager's hurriedly hidden transcript of Loaded (or immoderate the kids are speechmaking now), firearm pivoting wildly betwixt barricaded doors and windows, arsenic force players bustle astir the extortion similar awful, C4-toting pigeons.

Still, each present and past I bash consciousness the impulse for immoderate benignant of proper, real-time tactical overview. Don't we person drones for that, Mr Clancy? As such, I'm moderately pleased to perceive that Ubisoft are moving connected a top-down turn-based crippled acceptable successful the Rainbow Six universe.

The rumour successful question comes from Insider Gaming, who look to person entree to a full wardrobe afloat of Ubisoft's soiled laundry, and are present skulking wrong that wardrobe with a shotgun. The task is allegedly 1 oregon 2 years from release. As it stands, it's said to play a batch similar XCOM, but with fixtures and a "loop" borrowed from Siege: you'll prime operators based connected their skills to raid buildings and prevention hostages, each the Clancy favourites. It's said to past astir 25-30 hours. The study has been corroborated by Kotaku's Ethan Gach, who adds successful the latest Dead Game newsletter that the task is codenamed Slice & Dice and is led by Elie Benhamou, the crippled manager for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.

The estimable Rock Paper Shotgun verdict connected Breakpoint was that it broadly sucked arse, contempt a meticulously-woven unfastened world. The rumoured "Slice & Dice" conception seems promising, however, peculiarly if it tin incorporated each the tricky things Siege players bash with destructible surfaces.

Assuming the reports are legit, I ideate the large interest for the project's developers close present is the imaginable interaction of Ubisoft's carving retired of a caller Tencent-backed subsidiary for their astir profitable games - that's Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six.

We're inactive waiting for a proper, top-down tactical overview of however this subsidiary volition beryllium run: the woody covers studios successful Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Barcelona, and Sofia, but the fig of idiosyncratic developers progressive remains to beryllium determined. It's besides not wide however developers mightiness determination backmost and distant betwixt the caller subsidiary and the remainder of Ubisoft: Siege's improvement is led by Ubisoft Montreal, but features contributions from teams based successful Toronto, Kyiv, Shanghai and Chengdu.