Outside of the occasional free weekend, you’ll be able to’t play Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege at no cost – by no means thoughts making an attempt to get it working in your telephone. Unfortunately for Ubisoft, evidently specific area has been stuffed by an unnervingly related tactical FPS. This week, the French publishers filed a lawsuit towards Google and Apple, demanding Area F2 – an alleged clone of Rainbow Six Siege – be faraway from their respective cell cabinets.
As reported by Bloomberg (thoughts the paywall), Ubisoft are suing each cell storefronts in an try and get the “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege delisted. By their reckoning, Ubisoft declare the aggressive similarities between their shooter and cell FPS Area F2 can’t “seriously be disputed.”
It’s not which you could’t make a game just like Rainbow Six for cell. Ubisoft doesn’t personal the market on high-lethality, precision staff shooters (howdy, Counter-Strike and Valorant). But from glancing on the Google Play listing for Area F2, the similarities are hanging and speedy.
Not that I’d know what the victory display screen appears like.
Everything from the tactical superhero character designs and map visuals to whole swathes of the UI design (scoreboards, character choice and victory screens) appear lifted wholesale out of Ubisoft’s shooter. The web page itself reads like a laundry checklist of Siege’s key options – promoting destructible multi-levelled environments and utilizing tiny remote-controlled drones to collect intelligence.
“R6S is among the most popular competitive multiplayer games in the world, and is among Ubisoft’s most valuable intellectual properties,” Ubisoft is reported to have stated. “Virtually every aspect of AF2 is copied from R6S, from the operator selection screen to the final scoring screen, and everything in between.”
So why sue the storefronts and never the builders or publishers? Engadget reckons that, with Ejoy and Alibaba being primarily based in China, Ubi would have a more durable time making a international copyright declare. By getting Area F2 taken off the App Store and Google Play, they’d at the least have the ability to restrict the variety of folks taking part in a free clone of Rainbow Six on their telephones.
At time of writing, although, neither retailer has responded, and each listings stay on-line.
Back within the realm of the actual Rainbow Six, Ubisoft are gearing as much as reveal Operation: Steel Wave’s new operators tomorrow afternoon. Teased last Friday, present hypothesis and leaks level to a tough breacher named Ace and defensive disruptor Melusi. Keep a watch out for extra come Monday.
