There's Blackjack, and poker, and the roulette wheel
Ubisoft have announced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas for PC, next-generation and current-generation video game consoles, will arrive this Autumn. This will be the fifth game in the series of Rainbow 6 games.
It's a strange move by Ubisoft, out of all the places in the World who would have expected Las Vegas to be the next war zone? Let's hope the environment is totally destructible!
The stakes are high when the world's most elite counter-terrorism unit enters Las Vegas, where over 36.7 million men, women and children visit each year. "Sin City," the home of the famous Las Vegas Strip, flashy hotels, high-rolling casinos and world-famous celebrities, becomes the setting for a terrorist threat of global proportions. What happens when one of the world's most famous cities is held hostage by terrorists?Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas will push technology through graphics, artificial intelligence, physics and animations created by Ubisoft's award-winning Montreal studios, which house some of the world's best talent, including Senior Producer Chadi Lebbos who was the lead on Rainbow Six 3.
"Rainbow Six is back and better than ever," said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing at Ubisoft. "Building upon the online success of the Rainbow Six franchise and harnessing the power of the next-generation experience, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas will be the benchmark against which all next-generation games will be measured. With Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter being released this month to wide critical acclaim, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent also due out this year, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas makes a perfect addition to the Clancy series in 2006."
If Ubisoft get things right with GRAW and Rainbow 6:Vegas it could be a very successful year for the publisher.
