Ubisoft: 'Good chance' Rainbow 6: Patriots is next-gen game

I can't wait for the next gen so many good games are coming out!

A Rainbow Six game would actually surprise me if :

- it would be playable offline, without DRM, forced online mode or 3rd party launchers

- it would allow me to host my own multiplayer server to which people can connect directly, without the need of a "Lobby" service

- it would be a return to the features of the good old Rogue Spear (the hard difficulty, the combat features, the movement, actual magazine bullet tracking, plan and go, etc.)

- it would be a feature complete, bug free, quality tested release without DLC madness afterwards

.. but I assume it will fail all of that, because "next gen" (according to the big 3, EA, UbiSoft and Activision / Blizzard) is all about the big companies wanting control over customer behavior tracking, milking them with DLC, forcing online mode, releasing most accessible titles for all ages, abusing brand names to get more sales, put more effort into marketing than development, ... you get the idea.

If you want a challenging Rainbow Six Rogue Spear successor, you better look at smaller development studios or indies (or even modding communities) to provide one some day.

Prove me wrong, UbiSoft, but I think you won't.

Rogue Spear!

Oh, and one last thing, it had better retain the Classic MP maps such as LVU, Vault, Kill House and Streets : )

and who doesnt love a good old A&D; in the Calypso Casino : )

Hmm...  I've got a soft spot for Tom Clancy branded games, especially Rainbow Six.  I will buy this, that's a given, but I really hope it's as good as it's cracked up to be.  Ubi has released some truly great stuff, as well as some pretty crappy stuff.  I just want a good Rainbow Six game.

Well, i gotta say that i did actually expect this announcement.

My only hope is that it keeps to its roots, i love and still play 'Vegas 1' on XBL (as do many others) and would just love to see 'Patriots' sticking to the origonal formula that made the original such a brilliant game.

Oh, and i hope that 'Patriots' retains the PEC system, 1st & 3rd Person Cover System, and not the system adopted by GR: Future Soldier.

This would make a great launch title for Xbox 720 and Playstation 4. With the Xbox 720 due in November 17th 2013? There has to be decent games available for launch. Rainbow 6 Patriots could be one of them. Ubisoft has 1 year to ready this game for fall 2013.

early to talk about next gen

You have got to be kidding me...

its still too early for another next gen console the PS3 still has a ton of potential while the xbox360 has already reached its peak because it came out one yr earlier than the ps3 did.

What this really means is.... Rainbow Six Patriots will be ported to next-gen systems to take advantage of launch sales and a lack of competition in the new consoles library. I've seen enough conso;e launches ton know that true next generation gaming doesn't really start until at least one or two years into it's life cycle. Especially with the last couple of console launches.

This game was announced and teased a long time ago.  It should be released this gen.  No amount of next-gen graphics would make it that much better.  Now, if they recently teased this game like "Watch Dogs" then I would understand why they will be taking it to next-gen.  It's like Splinter Cell Conviction all over again, with the teasing of how it would be a different Splinter Cell game and then they canned all the great concept and ideas and settled for an average third-person, cover-shooter, stealth game.  

I'm just not buying it.

I'm having trouble giving a damn. Ubisoft has turned the whole Tom Clancy stable into something quite awful.

Sounds like they mean a multi-gen release, like what they did with SC : Double Agent. Regardless, this is one way the can get me on board for at least one of the next consoles, I've been following this game for so long now

And I see they swept aside the original development team. That is really bad news. It was David Sears' vision of the game in the article first covering it in Game Informer that got me really stoked up, and now he's gone? I'm wondering if this is even going to be the same game it was intended to be by the time it comes out. -_-

I'm looking forward to this game when ever it might come out.

I really hope that this is well done!

Whilst Vegas 1 & 2 were entertaining, nothing touches the tenseness of Raven Shield and Rogue Spear, checking a doorway in those two could seriously make me more tense than most survival horrors ever have.

I've got a craving for a thinking mans shooter. Hopefully they don't do a splinter cell on this one. I miss the old splinter cell and ghost recon games.

I hope they will make a 360 version. I am not ready for the 720, there's too much games I haven't played yet...

So they've been developing it for the 360 but might wait to release it on the 720? When the 720 does come out I dont want it to play 360 games on it.

Good.

I know some people want to play as soon as possible, but it could offer so much more on next gen.

No, not just graphics, but better, more elaborate mechanics, less obnoxious loading times, could possibly even be longer.

I love the Rainbow Six series so this makes me happy, I'll wait paciently.

Like most others I'm hoping this is a true R6 title like the ones that were more tactical than "FPS."

I'm betting the new Splinter Cell may be an indication of what to expect.  If they let Splinter Cell fall yet again in terms of strategy and tactics and the unforgiving "you've been spotted - COMPLETE FAILURE" nature of the design... R6 will be arcadey again.

I'd like to think it'll have more of an influence of the new Ghost Recon in terms of some genuine thought going into improving the franchise's core mechanics.

I wanna know what way they are going to go with the game.

Something like the original or are we going to see something that was out of Vegas.

Either Or, I'll most likely pick it up, always been a fan of the series. 

I miss the original Rainbow Six, still my favorite one of them all by far.

If it's more like ravenshield i'll be happy. If it's more like the garbage pile of lockdown and vegas 1 and 2 i'll disown all clancy games. GRFS was almost enough to make me go there but i'll wait for this to make my final decision

This could be a title I buy if they do it right....looking forward to it next gen on the 720/PS4.

Regarding next gen consoles, you guys might want to take a look at this. It might be the ramblings of a random developer but it does shed some light on what we might expect from the 720/PS4.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/376688/pcs-already-more-powerful-than-next-gen-consoles-says-star-citizen-dev/

Please...stop calling it the Xbox 720...it takes a couple more keystrokes, but just go with something like "next-gen Xbox"... If they eventually do call it the xbox 720, i dont care if it makes me look like an idiot, but for now...geez. seriously i can't stand that name...

judging by the amount of time ubi delays all of its tom clancy games i would expect to see this game make in time just before the next next gen of consoles.......reason for delays: kinect features noone gives a flying fuck about

I cannot tell you all how unhappy this makes me.

God.... damn.... -_-

  Yes, treat this gen as an after thought.. because in all honesty if a top dev out there doesn't have stuff running or prepping for next gen they'll miss the launch (2013) thats for sure...

I've always loved the Rainbow Six series and have been playing it since the very beginning on my Voodoo3 3000 graphics card. I can't wait for Patriots to come out. Hopefully they don't make the same mistakes as GRFS.