Rainbow Six Siege: Why Tom Clancy’s hit multiplayer game is worth playing now more than ever
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is hands down one of the best multiplayer games to both play and watch.
Thanks to the game recently going on sale on the Xbox, PS4 and PC, with a stint of the game being free, a host of new players have been attracted to the fast-paced FPS.
The single player focused Rainbow Six: Patriots was cancelled making room for Siege
Now is the best time to get into the game with new combatants flooding the servers there won’t be too many players who are crazy good at the game continuously knocking your confidence.
One of the most daunting things about getting into siege is the skill gap between players.
It takes a lot of patience, practice and tactical thinking to make headway in a game full of veterans.
Taking your time and watching the pros play is a great way to pick up some good habits and learn which specialists suit your style.
The FPS was released three years ago
What makes Rainbow Six Siege unique?
Siege isn’t your typical first-person shooter.
First off unlike Call of Duty or Battlefield there is only one game mode, which plays similarly to Call of Duty’s Search and Destroy game mode.
Matches consist of two teams of five fighting to the death in various scenarios – be that protecting a hostage or disarming a number of bombs.
Rounds last a few minutes or so, kicking off with a preparation phase where teams select what operators they want to use (all have different strengths and weaknesses) before choosing where to deploy.
Rainbow 6 has been a surprise hit for developer Ubisoft, who keep updating the game every few months
At the start of each round, the attacking team will send small camera drones into the enemies’ location to locate either the hostage or the bomb, meanwhile, the defending team will put up barricades, lay traps and get into killing position.
An action phase then follows, usually ending in a shootout that sees the floor and walls covered in blood. What’s left of them, that is – environments are almost entirely destructible.
This destruction completely changes the round, the map and the strategies teams use.
as players can remove sections of walls, doors and windows in order to get vantages you wouldn’t normally have.
Ubisoft plan to have 100 playable operators in the game
We spoke to the Ubisoft esports directer, FX-Daniele at the Six Major Paris event earlier this month about getting gamers to play Siege:
“What we need to work on is the onboarding of the game – the fact that we need to bring people from classic FPS to understand that we are not so far removed from it, such as introducing more intro videos to explain who is this operator and why you need to pick them. What is the relation between the attackers and defenders on this map etc.
We are working on the onboarding and the business team are doing with the free weekends. It allows people to come and play together all at once. We then need to create an ecosystem for the new players to learn together and not put them in front of the pro players too early.”
The new operation titled Grim Sky brings into two brand new operators Maverick and Clash
Why you should give it a go
The things that make this game different from other shooters are what makes it so entertaining to play.
You can’t just blindly run into a building, a room, a corridor or anywhere without first thinking ‘what if there’s a trap/person/camera/hole there’.
Every move must be thought out, with the game rewarding you for clever plays and tactical thinking.
Fan favourite Hereford Base has had a huge overhaul
Lobbies in Siege are also friendly, with a capable matchmaking system and the ability to kick players who ‘team kill’.
A tonne of the maps have been redone since the game’s launch in 2015, with new updates coming regularly.
Ubisoft has also recently announced that the coming year will see the introduction of eight new operators to the game increasing the number of playable specialists in the game to 48.
G2 esports won the recent Six Major Paris tournament taking home $350,000
We certainly haven’t seen the end of Rainbow Six Siege and the game looks set to be a stable pillar in the world of first-person shooters for many years to come.
Check out some of the highlights from the Six Major Paris grand finals earlier this month below.
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