Ubisoft recently announced the mobile game "Rainbow Six M", from the real machine, "Rainbow Six M" is a real PC transplant - there may be a lifetime, we can really fight terrorism in the nest.
In addition to looking forward to it, you may also wish to talk about the past and present lives of Rainbow Six: Siege on this occasion.
Start with the name. Its full name is Tom Clancy Rainbow Six: Siege, a prefix that many of Ashoka's games use, not as an ancient IP, but as a personal name.
When the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union began in 1947, Tom Clancy was also born in Maryland in the same year. He loved to read when he was young, and when the Cold War was white-hot, 007 and other spy novels were hot, Tom naturally heard about it, and even really tried to join the army, but unfortunately did not pass because of high myopia. After that, I found an insurance company to work, and in my spare time, I read books and newspapers.
The craze for spy novels in the 80s hadn't yet passed, but there were so many indiscriminate works that tom, Chinese New Year's Eve-year-old, thought: It's better to come by myself. Therefore, he used his knowledge from watching the news and books every day to create his debut work "Hunting Red October".
Interestingly, the Chinese version of this novel was translated by Zhang Zhaozhong
This novel tells the story of the defection of the Soviet nuclear submarine, and the tricky technical details in the story make readers who are tired of watching Superman spies shine, and from time to time they "expose" some political insiders, which is quite aware of the taste of "relevant people thanking the invitation".
As soon as the novel was released, it sold out, Tom Clancy became a hit, and subsequent works were also best-selling and easy to drink.
Each novel he wrote was close to the real-time political situation at that time, writing about anti-terrorism under espionage, more than once being regarded as a retired officer by the media, and many plots also predicted reality. He had described in the novel that The 747 had committed suicide attacks on the U.S. Congress, and five years later, the 9/11 incident actually happened, and the FBI came to the door several times afterwards.
In 1995, he caught up with the fashion of starting a computer, immediately realized the potential of video games, wanted to participate in the game publishing industry, and founded the "Red Storm" studio with friends. Tom then continued writing, occasionally going to the studio.
One day he was chatting over coffee with the creator, who said they were working on a tactical shooter called Black Ops, featuring a fictional counter-terror squad of elite agents from around the world with the goal of rescuing hostages or terrorist attacks.
This attracted Tom, because he actually happened to be writing the same novel, so he provided the plot and evidence in his novel to the development team. The main creative team followed the plot of the novel, and also changed the designed level names to chapters, and the name of the game was changed to "Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six".
In August 1998, the novel and the game were released at the same time. Rigorous squad combat, hardcore equipment tactical simulations, and excellent infiltration atmosphere were in stark contrast to other dual-wielding machine gun FPS at the time. Coupled with The title of Tom Clancy, it was difficult to think about it at the time when CS "Counter-Strike" was not yet available.
Subsequently, the future owner Ubisoft also saw the value of Tom Clancy's IP, and formally acquired "Red Storm" in 2000, intending to use this series to enter the US market. Red Storm's creations in the years that followed did just that, with a variety of titles such as Ghost Recon and The Division surprised players, and the Rainbow Six series cemented the IP with an excellent story atmosphere and signature tactics.
After the millennium multiplayer competition became a new hot spot, the Cai Liu series for a long time only focused on single-player plots, after the multiplayer mode Waterloo of "Vegas 2" in 2008, Ubisoft intended to redesign a unique multiplayer "Cai Six", and carried out drastic reforms to the sequel to Cai Liu codenamed "Patriot", such as directly deleting the original single-player plot, adding destructible building walls, unmanned props and so on.
In 2014, Rainbow Six: Siege made its first appearance at E3. Like the current "Red October", let the players who are tired of playing COD and CS look stunned: can counter-terrorism still be played like this?
Soon, the game was officially launched at the end of 2015, and I was also the first player to enter the pit. The earliest games were more tactical simulations, with the familiar flavor of the old Cai Liu, and the unique skills of the characters were novel enough at the time, and even the official announcement would launch a hundred unique operators. The heat of the game has been high, in addition to the eternally unstable potato server, "Rainbow Six: Siege" really had no shortcomings at the time, in the year there were chicken eating, DOTA2, Monster Hunter World this monster level of the game, the number of color six play can also be ranked in the top five.
As a multiplayer game, after the fire will always face a problem: e-sports or entertainment?
Ubisoft has chosen to focus on esports, constantly adding season content and making balance adjustments. This has really made the siege in the esports circle in recent years sound and colorful, and it has not become as unbalanced as OW. However, some players feel that it deviates from the original color six, and adds a lot of strange changes, and the skills of the operators are becoming more and more mysterious and incompatible with personal backgrounds.
From the reduction of the frequency of updates of the operator and the map and the independence of Rainbow Six: Xeno from the limited-time mode, we can see that Rainbow Six: Siege is slightly tired, after all, as a game that has been in operation for more than five years, it should have entered the end of the product.
The announcement of the "Rainbow Six: Siege" mobile game can see Ubisoft's confidence in the series and the expectation that it will be rejuvenated on the mobile end. For the old players who like color six, it is indeed good news to be able to use mobile phones to fight terrorism, but how to play it, whether it is a stop or a period for the series, it remains to be seen.