Game news Ubisoft and Netflix reveal a new Rainbow Six game, but it’s very, very far from Tom Clancy’s style
The least we can say is that Ubisoft has some great licenses in its portfolio and among them, we can easily cite Rainbow Six: the franchise has given birth by surprise to a brand new… mobile game. And on Netflix!
Back by surprise
It was in 1998 that Ubisoft offered Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, a realistic and infiltration FPS directly inspired by the eponymous novel by the famous Tom Clancy: the beginning of a long love story since the French firm has since released thirteen others games, the latest of which came out somewhat by surprise. Maybe you missed it, but it’s called Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: SMOL is already available on iOS and Android… provided you are a Netflix subscriber.
Because yes, the famous American VOD platform is interfering more and more in the video game industry and is even granting itself real exclusives: Ubisoft is one of its major partners, the publisher having already released Unknown Soldiers: Brothers in Arms only on Netflix.
The Rainbow Six SMOL trailer can therefore be enjoyed in our video player above and a few seconds will be enough to understand… that the experience is significantly different from the saga games to which we are accustomed!
A tactical roguelite on mobile
Developed by a small team of around ten people at Ubisoft, itself led by creative director Renaud Forestié, Rainbow Six SMOL therefore takes the form of a roguelite which focuses heavily on tactics, an essential component of the games in the series. We must then constitute a squad of elite soldiers with the operators of Rainbow Six Siege, in front of to cross destructible levels using a whole finely thought-out arsenal.
Above all, the whole thing is played out via an isometric view and a rather cartoonish artistic direction: “we saw an opportunity to open the franchise to new audiences with a more accessible approach”, explains Renaud Forestié to The Verge. And if you are upset in advance about Netflix exclusivity, know that this partnership thus allows a business model which does not rely on micro-transactions and advertisements, the subscription to the platform being a basic payment (and therefore access to the game, de facto). Good news, in itself!
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