Rainbow Six Quarantine Reportedly Changes Name

Since it first launched in 2015, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege has totally revitalized the Rainbow Six series and brought the tactical shooter back to the forefront of popularity. The first installment in the series since 2008 revolutionized the franchise with a competitive anti-terror tactical multiplayer experience. Siege offers players the choice of a full slate of playable operators, which each offer unique abilities and equipment.

Six years later, the title is still updated to this day. A limited time event released in 2018, switched up the game in a PvE mode called Outbreak which switched up the gameplay from taking on other players, to AI controlled victims of a zombie epidemic.

The extreme popularity of this mode in its brief availability in the game, led to the 2019 announcement of a new co-op title in the universe, with Rainbow Six Quarantine. Ubisoft is yet to release any additional information or show any gameplay since the title was first announced. The title is in-development for both PC, current-gen, and last-gen consoles with the recent Ubisoft earning call confirming a release is coming in the first half of 2021.

The tactical co-op shooter will take place in the near future of the Rainbow Six world as operators take on a new breed of a mutated alien parasite. The game will launch players into a variety of chaotic missions for squads of players.

With the total silence from the publisher since the game's initial reveal, many had speculated something was going on behind the scenes for the title, which appears to have been proven true based on new evidence.

RAINBOW SIX QUARANTINE NO MORE

MP1ST has revealed that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Ubisoft has opted to amend the once Rainbow Six Quarantine title to Rainbow Six Parasite.

The change was confirmed by new poster artwork discovered on an unreleased PS4 build of the game, as seen below:

Name change for Rainbow Six Quarantine https://t.co/QdpLmu4n2y

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 15, 2021

 

QUARANTINE IS A BIT TOO REAL FOR UBISOFT

The change of title for Ubisoft's upcoming release shouldn't come as a surprise to many. Quarantine was announced as the game's title prior to a real global pandemic sweeping the globe, so it makes sense for the publisher to amend the title to something less applicable to the current global climate.

The next title in the Rainbow Six world was totally absent from the 2020 Ubisoft showcase during the Summer — a decision which makes sense as the showcase came early in the pandemic and could've seemed insensitive. 

Original announcements for the co-op shooter revealed a storyline of the Chimera virus sweeping a new future world, transforming people into zombified roaches. However, the world parasite tends to refer to an external organism feeding off a host, and not a virus. 

Changing the name of the title could indicate a switch-up in the storyline of the game from a global pandemic — as the world is currently seeing — to some kind of alien parasite infecting the world. All round, this would be a smart decision for Ubisoft to distance their title from the current events of today.

Ubisoft are yet to officially comment on the change of title, however, a leak from the PlayStation Network seems to be pretty solid evidence an announcement is incoming soon.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Parasite is set to release in the first half of 2021 on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PS4.