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E3 2015 Rainbow 6 Siege Hands–On – Stop, Tactical hammer Time

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Whenever I think back to the many nights I spent in front of a TV playing games in high school, Rainbow Six Vegas always jumps to mind. Endlessly tearing through game after game of Terrorist Hunt with a friend was a favourite pastime of mine throughout the two game series – as we created increasingly difficult challenges for ourselves to complete. You can bet good money that I was one of the ones screaming joy at the announcement of the mode this week at E3 – although it was a bit subdued by the time I got to play.

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Rainbow 6 Siege’s multiplayer changes up the formula a bit in a few ways. Your tactical team of four still has to enter a location and take out as many balaclava wearing enemies as possible, but with the added objectives of disarming two explosive devices. This puts a clock on you, making sure you precisely execute your tactical moves rather than waiting in the wings for someone to die of boredom. Reach a bomb site, and you can use a remote hacking device to shut it down. And then things get really interesting.

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Rainbow Six Terrorist Hunt was so focused in the offensive, that it completely forgot about the converse being true. With the remote hacking device in place, the tables turn in Rainbow Six Siege. Your squad is now cornered and forced to protect the device until it shits down the bomb – letting enemies rappel, breach and pretty much do anything else to bind a way into the room. It creates a tense few moments, especially at the higher difficulty levels, where your sneaking prowess is put to the test from the opposite side of the table.

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Teamwork is key, as you’d expect from this series. Communication with my three teammates ensured that we all knew which entrances were covered. Enemies could use the exact same moves as us –meaning windows, doors and even solid walls weren’t safe for assumption. The AI is particularly smart already, managing to figure out where less fire would occur at the best of times. It enhances the already tense atmosphere, and leaves your heart racing until the next encounter.

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Being able to go through anything that thicker than a book, Rainbow 6 truly does boast a large sense of tactical freedom. Sledge can break holes with the swing of a hammer, so having him along for the hide is rather useful for getting jumps on enemies below, or diverting their attention away from a thermite breach. The way characters are slotted into specific roles help visualise what perhaps went wrong in the previous round, and let’s you pick a standardised contribution to the team without having to think too hard.

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But despite all of this, including the new way that Siege plays with the traditional Terrorist Hunting mechanic, it struggled to invoke those same feelings I had about Vegas all those years ago. It’s weighed down massively by the fact that I was talking with complete strangers, and I suspect many, many other people won’t feel the same way. But for now, it’s certainly something you have to try with a close bunch of friends – especially since the maps randomly rotate objectives, enemies, and entry points.

The game has the potential to ride out a long multiplayer wave if it catches it before the curl, but for now there’s nothing really much else too it. Rainbow six has always been about tight, tactical multiplayer shooting, and Siege really doesn’t seem to be doing much further than that. If it sounds like your fancy, then there’s probably not another shooter out there to rival it. If you’re looking for a bit more though, you might have to start looking for some friends.

Last Updated: June 19, 2015

53 Comments

  1. Meh.
    The terrorist hunt return is nice, but they’ve chucked the storyline away, so that instantly loses all my interest.
    Have people forgotten where Rainbow Six comes from? Clearly Ubisoft has.

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    • Trevor Matrix

      June 19, 2015 at 14:47

      Ubisoft. Say no more…

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      • Captain JJ Browmehn

        June 19, 2015 at 14:49

        Yea, pretty much.
        They’ve gone from one of my most loved devs to one that I don’t even bother with. Within just a few years.

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        • Trevor Matrix

          June 19, 2015 at 14:54

          The original Rainbow 6 games were amazeballs. But yeah… After Far Cry 3 I wept for Ubisoft…

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          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 14:55

            I remember Lockdown even had a Pretoria map 😀

          • Trevor Matrix

            June 19, 2015 at 14:56

            It did???? Crap. I missed out on that.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 14:59

            Still have my original copy of Lockdown actually. Was a great game. But Vegas still takes the cake for me. Awesome story. Great co-op. SP and Multiplayer modes. Hours upon hours of fun.

          • Hammersteyn

            June 19, 2015 at 14:58

            Near Loftus I bet?

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 14:59

            😀
            Then you don’t need a gun or armour, just your fists and a backwards cap.

    • Admiral Chief's Adventure

      June 19, 2015 at 14:49

      They only see dollah signs yo

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      • Captain JJ Browmehn

        June 19, 2015 at 14:49

        Luckily Tom Clancy isn’t here to see what they’ve done to his name.

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        • Admiral Chief's Adventure

          June 19, 2015 at 15:10

          Indeed

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      • Hammersteyn

        June 19, 2015 at 14:51

        Plus we might have to start looking for some friends…. What? Friends that use Uplay?

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        • Captain JJ Browmehn

          June 19, 2015 at 14:51

          Problem right there.

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  2. Hammersteyn

    June 19, 2015 at 14:52

    Not sure about this. I like MP games but when it’s a battle of schedules the game becomes useless. Like GTA. Sure not all my Friends are available all the time for Heists, but there’s still plenty I can do on my own online

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    • Aries

      June 19, 2015 at 15:03

      That’s why I have a Battlefield clan to help out, they have little choice of when to be online

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      • Hammersteyn

        June 19, 2015 at 15:52

        Indeed, but sometimes you want to play some other game but then you feel obligated to play with friends and that’s not optimal.

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  3. Fnuik

    June 19, 2015 at 14:54

    “protect the device until it shits down the bomb”

    I see a sticky situation coming…

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    • Captain JJ Browmehn

      June 19, 2015 at 14:55

      Now that sounds like a game mode that could be fun.

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      • Trevor Matrix

        June 19, 2015 at 14:56

        Hands on with his Rainbow 6?

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    • Trevor Matrix

      June 19, 2015 at 14:55

      Watching Porn again?

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    • Hammersteyn

      June 19, 2015 at 14:57

      I don’t think that’s a typo tbh.

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      • Fnuik

        June 19, 2015 at 15:00

        So the shit will literally hit the fan if you do not disarm in time?

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        • Captain JJ Browmehn

          June 19, 2015 at 15:00

          That’s the kind of thinking outside the box that Ubisoft needs.

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          • Fnuik

            June 19, 2015 at 15:02

            They will probably charge extra for different kinds of shit.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:06

            😀

        • Hammersteyn

          June 19, 2015 at 15:01

          Exactly XD

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  4. Aries

    June 19, 2015 at 15:02

    Only problem here is that it is UBI and I’ve never got to stay online long enough with UPLAY, so ya, only concern

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    • Captain JJ Browmehn

      June 19, 2015 at 15:07

      We tried FarCry 3 co-op. Loads of connectivity problems.

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      • Aries

        June 19, 2015 at 15:08

        I have watch dogs, couldnt log in to play the games single player

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      • Mossel

        June 19, 2015 at 15:09

        FC4 also had some connectivity problems. But I just assumed that was my useless internet.

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        • Aries

          June 19, 2015 at 15:09

          I thought that at first but battlefield and borderlands co-op worked fine, so it must be UPLAY

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          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:10

            Borderlands co-op, oh you wonderful thing

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:11

            I got BF4 Premium…finally! Played it the other night after about 40gb of downloads…Only thing that sucked is there was about 8 okes on a 32player conquest map.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:11

            Better than the 3 they had on Hardline. 😉

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:12

            haha hardline doesn’t intrigue me at all, don’t know why. It’s just not a…battlefield.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:13

            No it’s not. They just used the name to get some sales out of it.
            A big battlefield-fan friend of mine says the Hardline games are dead. He’s just settling into BF4 himself now.

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:14

            And it runs smooth as butter with my gtx970! Everything on ultra settings! Yup, I like BF. Way better than CoD.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:16

            Excellent stuff man.
            I played some BF3 back in the day. Enjoyed it until I had two bad experiences after another with hackers and it put me off the game a bit.

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:16

            BF4+Premium is R250 on Origin! It’s really a good deal.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:19

            I must add. There are few people that suck as much as I do in MP FPS games (maybe not as bad as your helicopter piloting – according to Admiral). I’m the patient, stealthy kind, which seriously counts against me.

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:21

            Dude in BF4 it works! (Not the helicopter flights, I still suck at that). Just use sniper or engineer class and snipe people and/or take out tanks while everyone else runs around like hooligans! That’s what I love about BF! There are so many ways to approach the game! OK I’m out, leaving early! Cheers.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:22

            Cheers lucky bastard. 😀 I’m still here until 5.

          • Aries

            June 19, 2015 at 15:18

            BF4’s community very strict now on hackers, people get banned almost immediately for hacking, havent come across a hacker in my 700+ hrs, it origins game time that gets the hackers into the game though

          • Trevor Matrix

            June 19, 2015 at 15:21

            That is like saying you enjoy shagging bearded old ladies more than shagging bearded ladies.

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:22

            Don’t tell me how to live my life! I shall shag whomever I so please!

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 19, 2015 at 15:23

            You tell him!

          • Trevor Matrix

            June 19, 2015 at 15:23

            You cannot please any one! Not even yourself during a “selfie”

          • Aries

            June 19, 2015 at 15:12

            add me on battlelog, 21Aries, on most nights, my clan usually plays where I play, so there atleast 20+ people on a server and we got a server

          • Mossel

            June 19, 2015 at 15:13

            I got you on Origin already. Awesome!! I will do that. Just need to sort out my latency. I’m getting like 120-150ms.

          • Aries

            June 19, 2015 at 15:14

            oh haha, Sometimes for me aswell, the joburg servers especially, dont know why though

  5. Mossel

    June 19, 2015 at 15:09

    How will the MP work? Do we have servers or is it peer-to-peer?

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