Not all games need a compelling story. In particular, shooters often forego a story mode or campaign in favor of tons of multiplayer content. Titanfall and Evolve had no campaigns, Star Wars: Battlefront won’t have a single player campaign and Call of Duty: Black Ops III won’t let old-gen gamers experience the campaign. Now confirming what we’ve known for months already, Ubisoft has re-iterated that Rainbow Six Siege will also be letting go of the traditional campaign.
Speaking at EGX, an Ubisoft developer explained that players will have the opportunity to experience all the maps, playing as the various operators, against AI if they decide to play in single player. But that won’t include what typical progression through chapters or story-telling in some kind of campaign:
You can customize matches, so that’s what we’re offering on the single-player side of things.
It’s a pretty good training ground, and on top of that you’re unlocking the same content as you would playing in PvP.
I suppose this sort of makes sense, even though I still wonder about these things. I know plenty of people never even play the single player campaigns in shooters. Call of Duty’s single player experience is largely ignored by fans of the franchise in favor of jumping in and playing with friends. I get that, and I suppose plenty of people think the single player campaign is useless so who cares. But what about when servers go down, or your web is being cranky? Surely people like to be able to play something interesting offline? Or am I just being stuck in the past?
At least your unlocks carry over into online play, so you really can train your way through Rainbow Six Siege and get all your favorite guns and upgrades sorted to blow away all your friends when you play with them online. Seeing as that’s all people want to do anyway, it makes sense for Ubi to focus on that instead, I guess.
Last Updated: September 28, 2015
Grand Admiral Chief
September 28, 2015 at 08:43
When a big name title states they are not doing SP, two words come to mind
– Lazy
– Greedy
WitWolfy
September 28, 2015 at 10:29
I smell yet another Evolve coming… After a month no one will be playing it anymore.. Then thats when the expensive DLC maps will strike…
Ir0nseraph
September 28, 2015 at 08:45
Titanfall and evolve , they were a huge success …………. oh wait 😛
WitWolfy
September 28, 2015 at 08:46
I got Titanfall for like R200 at CNA. So I cant complain 😀
Grand Admiral Chief
September 28, 2015 at 08:47
Score!
Fox1 - Retro
September 28, 2015 at 09:24
R120 on Xbox Live with all DLC.
The community is still strong around TF
WitWolfy
September 28, 2015 at 15:32
I had to change my region to UK to downlaod the DLC though… Plus the DLC is all for free anyways.
Hammersteyn
January 14, 2016 at 07:50
That’s normally what happens when a game doesn’t sell well. I mean CNA of all places? O_o
SargonTheRebornBatpanda
September 28, 2015 at 10:54
Well tbh Rainbow Six Siege is like counterstrike with super saiyan gear. I can’t see how that would/could fail. But of course I allow for the pretty high possibility that I could be very very wrong. 🙂
Ir0nseraph
September 28, 2015 at 11:41
Love the game series, but the price tag is a bit steep for MP only and Terrohunt.
Ryanza
September 28, 2015 at 08:47
And the future of always online gaming is here.
Don’t Support DRM.
SargonTheRebornBatpanda
September 28, 2015 at 10:54
As foretold by Orwell!
HvR
September 28, 2015 at 08:47
Old Ubi, using the name and legacy of the greatest espionage and military novelist to sell a game with no story.
Commander JJ of the Normandy
September 28, 2015 at 08:53
They should have just called it Battlefield of Duty.
Commander JJ of the Normandy
September 28, 2015 at 08:50
So it’s not Rainbow Six.
Ryanza
September 28, 2015 at 09:04
This would make Tom Clancy turn in his grave. No story.
No fucking story. Why did they even bother buying his name.
Grand Admiral Chief
September 28, 2015 at 09:06
Should have called it Counter Siege, or Assault Siege, or just SIEGE
HvR
September 28, 2015 at 09:32
Rainbow 6 Team CounterSiege: Call of the Battlefield
YOU’VE
NEVER
SEEN
SO
MANY
RIP-OFFS
Hammersteyn
January 14, 2016 at 07:49
Exactly
HairyEwok
September 28, 2015 at 09:04
Multiplayer should be seen as the continuation from the end of a single player campaign… Especially with shooting games. Seriously I want to know why I’m shooting people.
Commander JJ of the Normandy
September 28, 2015 at 09:25
MP used to be a fun little add-on when you’re finished with the campaign to add longevity to the game.
HairyEwok
September 28, 2015 at 09:38
Exactly, now times have changed and Multiplayer seems to be the main story line with no actual story.
SargonTheRebornBatpanda
September 28, 2015 at 10:51
You mean it isn’t enough of a reason that they’re… not American?
Martin Human
September 28, 2015 at 09:18
Was going to get this. Now there is no way.
RedRover
September 28, 2015 at 11:22
Personally I haven’y completed a single player campaign since MW2 and I only played Borderlands while co-oping with mates. Once you have been bitten by the multiplayer bug campaigns are such a let down
Mordred
January 13, 2016 at 23:22
Congratulations, you are the reason that we ended up with half a game at full price.