Single-player is in the works, but it's barely gotten off the ground floor. I asked Couture if any of Patriots' cinematic bells and whistles will end up in Siege's single-player mode, but as of now that's undecided. Patriots was in the works for quite some time, though, and it's hard to imagine all of that work going to waste. "We've been working hard for the past year-and-a-half. So for us it was just a better solution to clean the slate, reset, and make what's best for the players." We tried to see how it could fit with old-gen, but it just didn't work out. What can we do for that?' We were trying stuff out with destruction technology, and we realized destruction really changes the game.
Next-gen consoles were just around the corner, and we were like, 'OK, we want to also have a next-gen experience. "To be completely transparent, I worked on Patriots - on Rainbow Six for three-and-a-half years - and Patriots was old-gen. Here's what technical artist Oliver Couture had to say about its cancellation:
What happened there? I asked Ubisoft, and they were refreshingly frank about both why the game got canceled and what's going on with Siege's single-player.įirst up, Patriots. interesting last time we saw it strut its Heavy-Rain-inspired stuff. But the game it's taken the place of, Rainbow Six Patriots, at least looked.
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First the good news: weird capture-the-lady reveal aside, Rainbow Six Siege looks great! Full destruction is actually a game-changer, and it allows for all sorts of mad strategies, just as quick deaths encourage people to not just Rambo-charge in, wreathed in shimmering wood splinters, and fire blind.