Ubisoft is taking the Rainbow 6 franchise to some more familiar territory in Patriots with Americans rising up against perceived evil. The new trailer pulls all the right strings and shows just how far some people could go.
Yep, throw him out of his office and then blow him up, effectively removing any trace of him and therefore never letting anyone see the message you were trying to send.
The game was in development before the Occupy movement. This seems in line with the 7 minute trailer shown a month or two ago that was released before the movement had become so publicized. I'd say it's more taking advantage of the general outcry/atmosphere surrounding the 1% than trying to knock protesters as potential terrorists.
This seems like it could be legitimately interesting and quickly devolve into some copy pasta plot about mercenaries working for the Russians to end US fill-in-the-blank in the country of fill-in-the-blank.
Oh please, aside from the fact that occupy is recent, to equate that with an armed revolution in the US is bad comedy. The occupiers were 99.999% twenty-something dirtbags from big cities, not everyday Americans. Flame me all you want, but people have painted that "movement" to be something when it's nothing.
On topic though, why would they take the story in this direction? It sounds reasonable enough in the narration, wanting to right the abuses now rampant in this country, but then they proceed to blow up civilians?
So I guess what the game is really going to be about is cheerleading the US as-is, with anyone who wants to take extreme measures nothing but evil murderers? Sigh... I think @VicYoungBlood has it right.
Not sure about your first comment but I agree with the second. I was totally with those guys in the trailer until they threw a bomb into the street. It's unfortunate how they cast this movement in such a negative light. I only hope it wasn't intentional.
It didn't make sense how they don't like how the guy took bailout money from everyday people but they didn't killing a handful of those innocent people. As if the drop from that high wouldn't have killed an old man anyways...
Rainbow Six always gets me excited. It would be crazy if out of nowhere Rainbow Six became more popular than Call of Duty. Who thinks there will be news stories about this game being controversial when it's coming out?
You guys are acting like it's the first time you see a story about someone dissatisfied with the status quo taking things too far. I just hope they don't end up painting them as just that, i.e. "we're mad at corporate america so we're gonna start blowing everybody up", and give the bad guys a bit more depth than that.
Wait, so you're pissed at corporations fucking up America and the best way to get back at them is to strap CEOs with explosives and blow them up in crowds of innocent people?
@handy youre an idiot...the message is he is dead. The whole story revolves around these big corprate guys being targets and dying watch the other videos and dont be a dumbass when you post... to the others "oh this is an Occupy game" Ubisoft has been working on this for a while so im pretty sure your stupid remarks mean nothing when it came to the developement of the story
Still you got to wonder how bad the game will go with who is right and wrong in the game. You know full well they will have it where you will make choices to do the right thing and some one is going to die for those decisions. I hope it has different endings
@Hazurr actually Ubisoft said RS6 will be on pc, but it will be the same as the console versions! Obviously GhostRecon suffers a far more dangerous fate of piracy than RS6 does lol.
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As far as the game goes, I really hope Ubisoft can battle through the news/media/political trials this game is going to go through simply because it is kicking the living shit out of the hornets nest. The discussions rising alone in these comments show how powerful the "message" this game is sending is.
It hits close to home, and perhaps that's exactly what RedStorm is going for. Hell this is what made the old Rainbow Six games so damn exciting were the moments where they hit close to home. Only now since things are more visually captivating in technology, they really can take it to a new level.
I don't expect this game to hit the old-school roots of RS6 (gameplay mechanics wise) that I grew up with unfortunately. BUT! as far as the mood and the setting goes, this definitely has me very interested.. and for me that's saying a lot because I pretty much have written off Ubi / Redstorm since GRAW.
WoW, liberal article poster (reporter you're not). Reading greatly into a trailer. Antagonists is not 'a perceived threat' ; it's a game. Education through the newspaper does not make a journalist. Isn't there a two bit paper you can write for? Don't go to CNN, they're laying off folks cause 'they tell truth'........lawl
this is such a ridiculous fucking premise, I mean really
I'm a pretty cynical person, but even I don't think most Americans would resort to terrorism and even if hypothetically they did HMS would quash it before it could even get started
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8:25 PM on 12.10.2011 | 
Solid Snake.
To stop the Patriots.
So I guess what the game is really going to be about is cheerleading the US as-is, with anyone who wants to take extreme measures nothing but evil murderers? Sigh... I think @VicYoungBlood has it right.
Not sure about your first comment but I agree with the second. I was totally with those guys in the trailer until they threw a bomb into the street. It's unfortunate how they cast this movement in such a negative light. I only hope it wasn't intentional.
I'm pretty sure cabbies are considered a part of the 99%.
All of my what.
Still you got to wonder how bad the game will go with who is right and wrong in the game. You know full well they will have it where you will make choices to do the right thing and some one is going to die for those decisions. I hope it has different endings
anyway
THE PATRIOTS
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As far as the game goes, I really hope Ubisoft can battle through the news/media/political trials this game is going to go through simply because it is kicking the living shit out of the hornets nest. The discussions rising alone in these comments show how powerful the "message" this game is sending is.
It hits close to home, and perhaps that's exactly what RedStorm is going for. Hell this is what made the old Rainbow Six games so damn exciting were the moments where they hit close to home. Only now since things are more visually captivating in technology, they really can take it to a new level.
I don't expect this game to hit the old-school roots of RS6 (gameplay mechanics wise) that I grew up with unfortunately. BUT! as far as the mood and the setting goes, this definitely has me very interested.. and for me that's saying a lot because I pretty much have written off Ubi / Redstorm since GRAW.
I'm a pretty cynical person, but even I don't think most Americans would resort to terrorism and even if hypothetically they did HMS would quash it before it could even get started