Rainbow Six dev: 'We will never go back to Vegas'

by Ross Miller { Feb 8th 2008 at 3:10PM }

Don't expect a Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 3 anytime soon. Speaking to Eurogamer, designer Philippe Therien said, "We will never go back to Vegas - at least, not in the foreseeable future." So much for the "rescue four hooker witnesses from a back alley full of out-of-town drunkards" mission we've been dying to play.

Therien also noted that, although the single location worked well for the story of the previous two games, he's not sure if they'll return to that format for the next Rainbow Six installment. (Make no mistake, no one expects this to be the last Rainbow Six title.) The glamorous, time-paradoxical Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is due out March 21.

Tags: rainbow-six, rainbow-six-vegas, rainbow-six-vegas-2, rainbowsix, tom-clancy, tomclancy, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

zsb2003 @ Feb 8th 2008 3:18PM

no biggie

Mr.ESC @ Feb 8th 2008 3:27PM

Rainbow Six:Disneyworld confirmed.

Curtis the Claw Game Master @ Feb 8th 2008 3:34PM

At first this made me laugh. Then I realized how awesome it would be if there really was Rainbow 6: Disneyland. Think about it, you would go through the rides and terrorists would be dressed as Mickey, Goofy, and other Disney character. This would be great.

Snap Count @ Feb 8th 2008 4:55PM

You sir made me laugh...

I would love to see a side mission to Seaworld where you had to get rid of the pesky terrorist sharks with "frickin' laser beams attached to their heads"

Vidikron (FU) @ Feb 8th 2008 4:56PM

That might actually work. Terrorists attacking a big tourist resort like that isn't exactly an unimaginable scenario. I'd like to see that game made. Of course, I doubt Disney would allow it.

Abuzar @ Feb 9th 2008 11:59AM

Rainbow 6: Viva Pinata edition!

Now that would be a very SWEET game.

Pun intended.

Micah Chambers @ Feb 9th 2008 1:42PM

Actually I think they go to an amusement park in the book. "Ding" Chavez gets too pissed off and so instead of getting a headshot, he first shoots the guy in the arm or something. Also he is on the top of a roller coaster I think....

NATO_Duke @ Feb 8th 2008 3:29PM

Here comes Rainbow Six: Piñata Island!

xAnarChisTx @ Feb 8th 2008 3:34PM

Oh! How about a Rainbow Six: Hell!

...oh, wait, that's Clive Barkers Jericho. Stupid me!

JakubK666 @ Feb 8th 2008 3:40PM

Rainbow Six:London or to Rainbow Six Extreme: Soho :)

Alex R @ Feb 8th 2008 7:13PM

@ JakubK666
No, that's just 'Dead on Arrival'

Shagittarius @ Feb 8th 2008 3:42PM

Rainbow 6: 12,000 BC

The first game to let me mow down clans of cavemen wielding sticks and rocks with a MG gets my money.

shamgar @ Feb 9th 2008 1:44PM

Queue pissed off caveman commercial.... NOW!

BananaPoo @ Feb 8th 2008 3:54PM

I would love to see a much darker Rainbow Six...

No nukes or anything but what of some bio weapons or Chemical weapons... but we see real people being messed up by it...

Nuke weapons are wasteful atleast with Chemical or Bio or some sort of weapon that Kills the people off slowly and leaves the rest of the City Structure intact... that way you keep the City and the money all there and not just blow it apart...

It be kool think of it... you start the story off with a huge city full of people and slowly as each level progresses less and less inocent people are there...

and once all the people are dead and gone you could have a resistance of pockets of people fighting off the bad guys...

Just be kool I think... and make it an M game...

xAnarChisTx @ Feb 8th 2008 4:05PM

How about Rainbow Six: Dawn of the Dead!

The R6 team against a biological weapon that turns people into zombies, but for every time you play the level over again, there will be a random number of people turning into zombies, so it will always be a different play-through.

Sounds pretty cool, eh?

Alex R @ Feb 8th 2008 7:15PM

Dead Rising?

Jnas @ Feb 8th 2008 4:01PM

"We will never go back to Vegas - at least, not in the foreseeable future."

That sentence makes no sense. If you are going to add "at least, not in the foreseeable future" to the statement, then what's the point of saying "never"?.

Never say never...or never say never say never....or never say never say never say never....or...ok i'll stop.

GRANTED @ Feb 8th 2008 4:06PM

i thought whatever happens in vegas, stays in vegas. HOW CAN IT LEAVE VEGAS IF IT ALREADY HAPPENED!>?

Freeze @ Feb 8th 2008 4:22PM

How about Rainbow six: Next Door Neighbors

We see our squad ripping down the neighbor's door and shootin' up their stereo, their french poodle, the PS3, and their 75" plasma LCD 3000 watt cameo chameleon shaping supernova sounding screen. Then they run up the stairs blow up the neighbors bedroom, ripping apart the wife's vanity mirror while they strike-a-pose.

Freeze @ Feb 8th 2008 4:24PM

The french poodle is a USD 50,000 mech robot by the way

skullivan @ Feb 8th 2008 5:28PM

After two games I would hope not. I think most people were surprised enough to see them recycling Vegas for the sequel.

I don't really care either way, so long as the multiplayer is improved over the first one and there are some good maps. The single player was cool but the story was almost nonexistent. No one plays Rainbow Six for the story. I couldn't even remember what had happened in the game before I even beat it.

figurhead @ Feb 8th 2008 6:51PM

Me : 'I Will Never Buy Another Right Wing Military Shooter Endorsed By A Hack Writer'

Mabooza @ Feb 8th 2008 8:48PM

Has anyone confirmed this as a worldwide release date? 3/21 is a Friday. Seems odd, unless that's really the Euro release date. EB/Gamestop still have it listed as 3/18.

Shawn @ Feb 8th 2008 10:04PM

I miss the old Rainbow Six, you know, the actual tactical shooter that the name has always represented. This? Again? Can someone say whoring the franchise to the point of exhaustion?

ChocolateMoose @ Feb 10th 2008 4:32PM

They need to go back to the raven shield style. Stupid amounts of guns and addons for them. I am a fan of the vegas games, and like the new style it brought with it. But I want to see a sucessor to raven shield. It was just such an awesome game, and would be great to see it updated graphically and in other ways.

potato @ Feb 8th 2008 5:10PM

Absolutely. Raven Shield is amongst my favourite games of all time. While I like R6V, I want the ability to coordinate squad orders, and actually feel like an elite SWAT team, as opposed to an invincible badass with close to unlimited ammo.

This means more "arena" like missions, where I can decide point of entry, etc etc. R6V is actually very linear.