When Ubisoft announced that they were hard at work for the next instalment of the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six games, titled Rainbow Six: Patriots, they got quite a few people excited for the new games’ ideas. Sadly, Ubisoft’sĀ Laurent Detoc has stated that Patriots has been scrapped and brought back to the drawing board.
“We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got started, and then the game wasn’t working. So [they had] to start again,” Detoc toldĀ IGN. “Rainbow had to be remade,” he went on, saying it’s “one of those examples where you try, it doesn’t work, you try again. If it doesn’t work, we’re not going to bring it to you.”
Detoc continued in the interview that if the game does come out it would be for Next-Gen, which had been the rumour since the game was announced in the 2011 GameInformer. It was also mentioned that the game could drop the Rainbow Six title as the team was experimenting with Mercenaries rather than the Counter-Terrorist unit that the series is known for.
The game had been listed as in-development for 2 years now, a year after the announcement Ubisoft announced that the team had been restructured and that they were going to keep the setting to deal with the moral grey area of Counter-Terrorism.