Quick Look: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege

@ript: Because they haven't tutorialized it, at least not through the first four "situations," nor through any UI queues that would draw my attention to the operator screen beyond just purchasing new operators.

If you like co-op Terrorist Hunt but don't want to drop $60 on Siege, get Insurgency. It is one of the best PC shooters I have ever played, has full Steam Workshop mod support, and a hell of an active community. The adversarial multiplayer is very good, too. It regularly goes on sale for $5 or less on Steam, and it shows up in bundles as well.

No microtransactions, either.

Looks like it could be fun if you can get some genuine cooperation going. CS still seems like a better time.

Ehh, but the destruction stuff could make for some great tension and spectacular rushes, even if it has its own arbitrary set of rules. Calling it Rainbow Six sure makes me wish for more involved planning and campaign.

Also, something about the whole "kill that dude" thing makes me really want to play a new SWAT game where you don't just shoot people dead.

I don't know if anyone else has said it already, but as far as I know the 'Six' in Rainbow Six is a common military designation for the leader of a unit? I haven't ever read a Tom Clancy book, but I'm pretty sure the titular 'Rainbow Six' was actually the general who oversaw the whole of Rainbow Team and not an operative himself.

In this case that might make Angela Bassett the 'Rainbow Six', but I doubt that was really considered too deeply in the development of this game.

@outerabiz: FSB is the spetsnaz unit represented in the game.

@austin_walker Man, a GBEast Siege night would be an amazing thing to see!

@baronsamedi: It's definitely a team-based tactical game which rewards good communication, but there are some significant issues with hit-detection and random bugs that haven't been addressed from the demo builds (clipping and sticking to walls as an example). Or it's UX being not the easiest to navigate. If they flesh those issues out, I think it can be a truly fun title. Also...why no offline LAN?

It's light feature-set for it's full price is what's been called out - had it been priced more along the lines of it's peers CS:GO or Insurgency, I think a lot of those issues could be forgiven, but for $60 with not much outside of it's main online mode and then adding in not one, but two currencies to extract more money out of the player makes for a poor value proposition - no matter how good the actual game could be.

I'll never understand weapon 'skins'. Also its slightly depressing to me how often on the final kill cam, they are just holding down the fire button well after the enemy is dead. You can just feel the teen rage.

Has nothing to do with teen rage. Its just fun to do.

Real grenade? Fragmentation? Quiet SMG? Carbine with a suppressor?

That's cool! Thanks for sharing!

@dezztroy: they should probably call it fsb alpha group. It's one of those things that probably don't seem weird to people not in the know, but it would be akin to naming the groups sas, gign, gsg9 and the army(refering to an american door kicker unit).

I fully and totally agree with this. If you think this game is for you than it's for you. Ignore all the haters, this game has some great qualitys if you know where to look.

I legitimately felt sick and dizzy when the game broke 10 minutes in.

Strict NAT!

@shnippie said:

"Very 'special' forces" this had in tears of laughter.

Those intro videos for the characters are awesome!

The first ten minutes of this Quick Look is the best!

@yummylee Such a good episode!