Rainbow Six Patriots Is Dead, Siege Puts Multiplayer First

Because Rainbow Six Siege is "multiplayer first," Ubisoft isn't saying much about its single-player campaign -- quite the opposite of its approach to Rainbow Six Patriots, a now-dead shooter with polar-opposite philosophies.

Where Patriots relied on cutscenes, quick-time events, and explosive set-pieces, Rainbow Six Siege leans more on its online innovation to fuel its story.

"We were tired of single-player, scripted military missions where things appear triggered by player presence," Ubisoft Montreal creative VP Lionel Raynaud told IGN. "We want to refresh that. We want the same level of intensity and surprise scripted scenes used to have, but within a multiplayer game."

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