

The players must find their way onto campus, battle through the villains and break the siege to rescue those innocents on the grounds and eradicate the terrorists. The teams are assembled and trained, before setting forth on the main mission, the take down of the White Masks after they attack a university (Bartlett University).

Rainbow unit is redeployed, having been dormant for three years, and controlled by Six (voicing and motion capture performed by Angela Bassett).

The White Masks are a terrorist organisation bent on world domination for unknown reasons. Characters killed in the fray, however, can enter Support Mode, and aid their companions remotely as radio support and similar. Once a battle is initiated, it must run to the end, and players cannot respawn until it is lost or won. Players can choose their character, make upgrades and perform customisations to weaponry and gadgets, as well as pick spawn/ respawn points: but once the mission has started these choices cannot be undone so players must consider all the information carefully before committing to anything. Tactical thinking starts early and then provides a support throughout the whole game: the most successful missions are those that are carefully planned from the off. You can play as American, German, Russian, French or British operatives, all in teams of four.Īs each team member has different capabilities and gear, teamwork, cooperation and communication between all the players is absolutely vital for successful runs. There are several to choose from, and each character has different gear and gadgetry, specialised weapons and are even of nationalities. The player chooses to play as one of the members of the Rainbow teams. The game got off to a slow start but plenty of downloadable content upgrades, plus the developers ‘game as service model’, since its release have seen any gaps in gameplay, plot and progression get filled in, and it is now known as one of the best games of its type with over 45 million registered players worldwide.

These include hostage rescue, bomb defusing, and capturing or defending a control point. There is a strong emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation between players, with each player assuming control of a playing character to defend or attack in each different scenario. Rainbow Six Siege for PC is an online tactical shooter game.
