Trailer: The upcoming Rainbow 6: Patriots wants to make you feel like a serious spec ops soldier - and some kind of jerk.
It's not often we watch a game trailer and feel so... punched in the gut. But it seems that that is exactly the tone that developer Red Storm and publisher Ubisoft are aiming for.
This is the new trailer for Rainbox 6: Patriot, and the more I think about it, the more I feel rather conflicted about the game. I love me some gritty neo-political thriller, but the actions this game seems to make you want to take, and the kind of emotional rollercoaster it wants to put you through... I'm wondering if it's going to be fun.
Not that an entertainment needs to be 'fun' of course. Film has long taken the route that some truths, no matter how uncomfortable, are worth exploring. It's just that taking this kind of route with a game -and a shooter at that - seems... a hell of a risk.
Here's the trailer. What do you guys think?
Issue: 137 | June, 2012