Rainbow Six 4 = Rainbow Six: Lockdown
Ubisoft sends along a press release announcing that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 4, which they announced a few weeks ago, is now officially called Rainbow Six: Lockdown. A teaser site can be found here.
In Rainbow Six: Lockdown, players lead Team Rainbow, the world's most elite counter-terrorist unit, as they are called into action and dispatched into unfamiliar territory to battle a bioterrorist threat. Stakes escalate as they are 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.
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replyGood. They pulled a Deus Ex: Invisible War - they decided to leave the general franchise untainted by spinning off the new gameplay type into a new franchise.
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it wasn't a direct sequel to the first game, and lucky for us, they didn't name it as such. Same with this R6 game.
We're talking about the game design here, not specifically the story or characters.
Point is that since they left the next number in the series unused, the door is left open for a sequel that is true to the spirit of the original(s). Meanwhile the spinoffs are forgotten in time.-
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okay champ, let me put it in terms you will understand :)
Games titled Rainbow Six 4 and Deus Ex 2 will possibly be released in the future. They will possibly be designed more in the spirit of the originals than the spinoffs.
It's no accident that some of these games leave the number off the title. Marketing departments just doesn't forget to do that one afternoon. It's done on purpose to leave the door open for true(r) sequels.-
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hmm oddly enough you have me there, given there may not be an official RS2. I don't know which it would be, either, as there are so many RS games without numbers ( http://www.redstorm.com/games/ )
So, to the point: this game is not of the spirit of traditional RS games, and I'm happy it's named as a spinoff instead of a sequel to RS3 :[
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hahahahaha welcome to fantasy land, population : you.
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No, no, it was a direct sequel to the original game.... they pointlessly brought back characters to squat and piss all over the nostalgia we had from the first ones, while making unecessary tie-ins with the original story so they could put "Deus Ex" in the name.
You're right though, RSix4 feels like a bad spinoff... except the fact that they are keeping the same ideas from the first. And while adding unecessary shit into it to make it appeal to the VAST console crowed they are REALLY developing this for (read: not the faithful PC Community who has been buying R6 games since the beginning of time).
The death of PC gaming is upon us. Mark my words... garbage like this is only the beginning.-
Not that I want to open this can of worms, but PC gaming had its best year in a long time this year with Farcry, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and a number of other solid titles. Just because some developer jumps ship and craps out a franchise doesn't mean the "death of PC gaming is upon us".
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from a TV ad: "Invisible War! A Deus Ex game!"
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