Rainbow Six Developer Talks About Lockdown Company: Ubisoft Entertainment Product: Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six: Lockdown Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six: Lockdown will ship in March 2005. Lockdown has two separate developers: Red Storm Entertainment for PlayStation 2 and Ubisoft?s Montreal studio for Xbox. In Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six: Lockdown, players lead Team Rainbow, the world?s most elite counter-terrorist unit, as they are called into action and dispatched into unfamiliar territory to battle a bioterrorist threat. Stakes escalate as they are personally targeted by an evil terrorist organization. Used to protecting the lives of others, Team Rainbow must now embark on a mission to fight and save some of their own. Rainbow Six: Lockdown builds on the ingredients that have made the Rainbow Six franchise a runaway success. Meanwhile, it also introduces a new single-player experience with a personal, darker storyline, along with state-of-the-art equipment. ?The main reason for the new game mode was to give the Rainbow Six player a new gameplay experience in Single Player. We also wanted to expand on the franchise by adding something fresh, something the player isn?t used to doing in a Rainbow game,? says John Slaydon, lead designer for Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six: Lockdown PS2 at Red Storm Entertainment. ?We wanted the game to be immersive for all types of players. In Lockdown, players will get to snipe from a variety of perspectives -- from a helicopter, from a building rooftop, through windows, and have the ability to move to new sniping locations to get a better angle.? Gamers will also have the chance to play as two members of Team Rainbow: Ding Chavez, the fearless leader of Team Rainbow, and a new sniper role portrayed by Dieter Weber, who must cover his team?s movement with deadly accuracy. His aim is matched only by his attitude. ?As the story develops and the missions change, the player will automatically transition between Weber the sniper and Chavez, the squad leader,? according to Slaydon. ?Throughout the Rainbow franchise, Dieter Weber has been the Rainbow ?Sniper.? As we knew we wanted to focus the action phase of the single player experience on room clearing and close quarters combat, having a sniper on your assault team or sniper weapons in your inventory started to become out of place.? Rainbow Six: Lockdown has a total of seven missions spread throughout a 16-mission campaign. Other things to look for are the ultra-realistic ?ragdoll? physics that deliver staggering realism and spectacular close-quarter firefights, increasingly intelligent enemy A.I., new weapons and equipment, tension-building sound effects, and a superior multiplayer experience. ?The Rainbow Six franchise enjoyed an unprecedented year run as a top online title, and the next episode will deliver an even bigger multiplayer punch, with the addition of two revolutionary modes that take the game in a completely new direction,? said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing for Ubisoft. -Red Dawg, GameVortex Communications AKA Alex Redmann Related Links: Ubisoft