If you are a fan of the Rainbow 6 series on PC then chances are you are crying in your beer right now. UBI seem to have the remarkable talent of taking perfectly good, often unique game franchises and reducing them to dumbed down console kiddie fluff.
It happened with Ghost Recon and now sadly, with R6. Well... except for this guy. Presumably on UBI happy pills or something. Boy is he in for a shock when they wear off.
Fortunately I checked the demo first. The similarities to SWAT 4 are the first thing to impress. If impress is the right word. Well. Actually. No it is not.
Lockdown sports the most incredibly stupid AI ever. In fact I suspect UBI must have had to work extra hard just to make it that dumb. The best thing you can do when you get into the game is execute your team. It will make the mission more achievable.
Then there are the spawn boxes. Empty rooms full of bad guys who pop out when you cross some trigger point. Dear god... this is the 21st century! The previous PC version of Rainbow featured some of the most immersive and complex real-looking environments. And bad-guy placement.
Lockdown is locked-down in console mode.
This bodes ill for forthcoming titles in the Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell franchises. UBI are real hit 'n' miss. But they are not alone.
The PC has far more flexibility and for the most part, a more discerning gaming public. My suspicion is that game software houses and publishers are opting for the cheapest route to market. I don't think they have woken up to the risk of losing one platform for the sake of economics. Then again I don't have the numbers in front of me. Perhaps quick releases of console ports makes economical sense. Afterall these games still sell and perhaps they sell enough - perhaps more than enough - to justify their existance. If this is the case then as far as people like me are concerned, the PC game platform ceases to be of interest.
I will stop buying games. Stop upgrading my PC.
Will that matter? With a new generation of gamers trying PC games for the first time will they notice? Will they care when the experience is little different on a console and that console is way cheaper?
For the first time I do begin to see that there might be an end to games on the PC in the coming years.
Oh well time to get back onto the Apple platform again.
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It happened with Ghost Recon and now sadly, with R6. Well... except for this guy. Presumably on UBI happy pills or something. Boy is he in for a shock when they wear off.
Fortunately I checked the demo first. The similarities to SWAT 4 are the first thing to impress. If impress is the right word. Well. Actually. No it is not.
Lockdown sports the most incredibly stupid AI ever. In fact I suspect UBI must have had to work extra hard just to make it that dumb. The best thing you can do when you get into the game is execute your team. It will make the mission more achievable.
Then there are the spawn boxes. Empty rooms full of bad guys who pop out when you cross some trigger point. Dear god... this is the 21st century! The previous PC version of Rainbow featured some of the most immersive and complex real-looking environments. And bad-guy placement.
Lockdown is locked-down in console mode.
This bodes ill for forthcoming titles in the Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell franchises. UBI are real hit 'n' miss. But they are not alone.
The PC has far more flexibility and for the most part, a more discerning gaming public. My suspicion is that game software houses and publishers are opting for the cheapest route to market. I don't think they have woken up to the risk of losing one platform for the sake of economics. Then again I don't have the numbers in front of me. Perhaps quick releases of console ports makes economical sense. Afterall these games still sell and perhaps they sell enough - perhaps more than enough - to justify their existance. If this is the case then as far as people like me are concerned, the PC game platform ceases to be of interest.
I will stop buying games. Stop upgrading my PC.
Will that matter? With a new generation of gamers trying PC games for the first time will they notice? Will they care when the experience is little different on a console and that console is way cheaper?
For the first time I do begin to see that there might be an end to games on the PC in the coming years.
Oh well time to get back onto the Apple platform again.
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