For the first time in a Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game, players will engage in sieges, a new style of assault where enemies have the means to transform their environments into modern strongholds while Rainbow Six teams lead the assault to breach the enemy’s position. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege gives players unprecedented control over their ability to fortify their position - by reinforcing walls and floors, using barbed wire, deployable shields and mines, and more - or breach the enemies’ using observation drones, sheet charges, rappelling, and more. The fast pace, lethality and uniqueness of each siege sets a new bar for intense firefights, strategic gameplay and competitive gaming.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege also features a technological breakthrough that redefines the way players interact with a game environment. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege incorporates procedural destruction that is realistic and unscripted, meaning the environment reacts authentically, distinctively and dynamically, based on variables like the caliber of bullets or the amount of explosives used. This advance allows players to leverage destruction in meaningful ways. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire. Ceilings and floors can be breached to create new access points. This ability to modify the level design in real time enables players to create new gameplay opportunities directly within the game level.

The Siege Games, a competitive tour at major gaming events around the United States to celebrate the upcoming launch of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege.

At each event, fans will battle for the highest score in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege in hopes of winning the ultimate grand prize: a trip to Los Angeles to show off their skills during the star-studded Siege Day launch event, live streamed to the world. Players can enter alone or with friends, and play as many times as they like.

The Siege Games locations:

July 9–12:              Comic-Con International: San Diego / Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, Santa Rosa Room
August 7–9:             RTX (Austin)
August 28–31:   PAX Prime (Seattle)
September 2:    GameStop EXPO 2015 (Las Vegas)
Early October:  Siege Day (Los Angeles)

Players who are unable to attend the events in person are also eligible to compete to earn a trip to Siege Day by registering for the closed beta and playing for a high score. The closed beta starts September 24. Sign up for the closed beta waiting list and opt in to The Siege Games..

Ubisoft and Extra Life, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals fundraising program, are giving gamers a surefire way to participate in the closed beta and help raise money for their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in the process. Starting today, anyone who donates $6 or more to Extra Life will receive a code for guaranteed access to the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Closed Beta in September. People can donate online or at any Extra Life participant’s fundraising page. Codes for the closed beta will be delivered via email to anyone who donates $6 or more by mid-July. Local Extra Life Guilds will also be on hand at each competition to register players for Extra Life 2015.

“At Extra Life, our motto is ‘play games, heal kids.’ Giving back to the kids who need it most should be fun, and what’s more fun than playing games?” said Michael Kinney, Team Extra Life. “We’re thrilled to combine the passion of Rainbow Six fans and the Extra Life community to create an astronomical force for good to help sick and injured kids everywhere.”

Key Features

• Counter terrorist operatives are trained to handle extreme situations, such as hostage rescue, with surgical precision. As “short range” specialists, their training is concentrated on indoor environments. Operating in tight formations, they are experts of close quarter combat, demolition, and coordinated assaults.
• For the first time in Rainbow Six, players will engage in sieges, a brand-new style of assault. Enemies now have the means to transform their environments into strongholds: they can trap, fortify, and create defensive systems to prevent breach by Rainbow teams. To face this challenge, players have a level of freedom unrivaled by any previous Rainbow Six game. Combining tactical maps, observation drones, and a new rappel system, Rainbow teams have more options than ever before to plan, attack, and diffuse these situations.
• Destruction is at the heart of the siege gameplay. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, players now have the unprecedented ability to destroy environments. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire, and ceiling and floors can be breached, creating new access points. Everything in the environment reacts realistically, dynamically, and uniquely based on the size and caliber of bullets you are using or the amount of explosives you have set. In Rainbow Six Siege, destruction is meaningful and mastering it is often the key to victory.