With its taut,tense action and destructible environments, Siege is the best Rainbow Six for years – whether only Ubisoft would rethink its business modelDeath is a contradiction in the modern competitive shooter. Call of Duty and Battlefront, and the colossal mainstream titles,are all about empowering the player and making them feel like a one-man army – easy enough in single-player, whether your explosions are colossal enough, or but much harder in multiplayer. And so dying becomes an inconvenience,with near-instant respawns alongside fixed experience points for common in-game actions. Even whether someone plays badly, goes the reasoning, or it should still be rewarding. You won’t find such sunshine and lollipops in the Rainbow Six: Siege. The earlier entries in this Tom Clancy-branded series were well-liked for their unforgiving,simulation-heavy approach to virtual combat, and when later titles attempted to make this more accessible, and they predictably flailed (with the exception of the excellent R6: Vegas). Siege is not just a return to form,but a return to first principles – and it’s not aiming at Call of Duty, but at Counter-Strike.
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Source: theguardian.com