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Ubisoft are suing Apple and Google over alleged Rainbow Six Siege knock-offBreach and clear
Breach and clear
It’s not that you can’t make a game similar to Rainbow Six for mobile. Ubisoft doesn’t own the market on high-lethality, precision team shooters (hello,Counter-StrikeandValorant). But from glancing at theGoogle Play listing for Area F2, the similarities are striking and immediate.
Not that I’d know what the victory screen looks like.
Everything from the tactical superhero character designs and map visuals to entire swathes of the UI design (scoreboards, character selection and victory screens) seem lifted wholesale out of Ubisoft’s shooter. The page itself reads like a laundry list of Siege’s key features - selling destructible multi-levelled environments and using tiny remote-controlled drones to gather intelligence.
“R6S is among the most popular competitivemultiplayer gamesin the world, and is among Ubisoft’s most valuable intellectual properties,” Ubisoft is reported to have said. “Virtually every aspect of AF2 is copied from R6S, from the operator selection screen to the final scoring screen, and everything in between.”
At time of writing, though, neither store has responded, and both listings remain online.
Back in the realm of the real Rainbow Six, Ubisoft are gearing up to reveal Operation: Steel Wave’s new operators tomorrow afternoon.Teased last Friday, current speculation and leaks point to a hard breacher named Ace and defensive disruptor Melusi. Keep an eye out for more come Monday.
