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.