Ubisoft and developer Ubisoft Montreal announced earlier today the release date for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege as October 13th.

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Rainbow Six: Siege is a strategic team-based military first-person shooter and is being developed for the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. The game is inspired by the “reality of counter terrorist operatives around the world”, and the environments will react “realistically, dynamically, and
uniquely based on the size and caliber of bullets used or the amount of explosives that have been set.”

A new short trailer was released along with the release date announcement which you can see below.

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The developer is expecting the sales of Rainbow Six: Siege to become their best-selling shooter in the history of Ubisoft, with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explains during a recent investors call “Over its lifetime, we believe Rainbow Six: Siege has the potential to become the highest-selling shooter in Ubisoft’s history.”

According to CFO Alain Martine, Rainbow Six games have settled at about three million units, while Far Cry 4 has “exceeded seven million” to date. He continued saying “We believe that Rainbow Six, because of replay-ability and multi-player, might have the potential to better than Far Cry over its lifetime.” Taking those numbers into account, Rainbow Six: Siege will have to sell over double

What are your thought’s on Rainbow Six: Siege, is this something you are interested in purchasing? Do you think the game can sell as many units as Ubisoft is saying? Let us know in the comments below.

By Wade Hinkle

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