Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Heads To Release Exclusively for  Xbox

Game Will Ship in Time for Holidays, Feature Multiplayer Action, Downloadable Content

San Francisco, CA - July 16, 2003 – Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, today announced that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six^®3, the next installment of the best-selling Rainbow Six series of games, is a console exclusive for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft in 2003. 

Rainbow Six^® 3 is a whole new game for Xbox, based on the universe Ubi Soft brought to gamers with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six^®. The title – the first Rainbow Six game for a next-gen console – will release in time for the exciting Christmas 2003 market exclusively on Xbox.

Xbox is the lead development platform for the game, which has been designed to take full advantage of the advanced capabilities of the system. Rainbow Six^® 3 will feature dynamic lighting and soft body physics as well as support for 5.1 Dolby surround sound. The game will also utilize key online elements for both multiplayer action and downloadable content offered by Xbox™ Live, the first comprehensive, online game service fully dedicated to fast-action broadband gaming experiences. For the most intense immersion, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six^®3 will feature a brand new voice recognition system via the Xbox Live Communicator headset, allowing gamers to directly and in a very intuitive way give orders to their teammates during intense offline firefights.

The Rainbow Six franchise is known for its action-packed game play and heart-stopping realism, and Rainbow Six^®3 will continue the tradition. Developed by Ubi Soft’s Montreal studio, in close collaboration with Red Storm Entertainment, the game will utilize graphics technology provided by the next-generation Unreal™ engine to power 14 new single-player missions, 9 new multiplayer maps and more than 30 weapons.

“We are excited about our new partnership with Microsoft,” says Yves Guillemot, President and CEO of Ubi Soft Entertainment. “The same kind of exclusive agreement was a tremendous success for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell™, which ended up being the top-selling Xbox game in 2002. With the Xbox's proven gaming potential and the recent addition of the Xbox Live service, we expect even greater things for Rainbow Six^®3 !”

“We’re pleased that Ubi Soft has chosen Xbox as the lead development platform for Rainbow Six^®3,” said Michel Cassius, Senior Director, Xbox Platform and Marketing. “Using graphics technology that makes the most of what Xbox has to offer, plus Xbox Live support, means Rainbow Six^®3 will be an amazing gaming experience. After the success of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell™, it’s great to welcome another fantastic Tom Clancy title to the growing Xbox portfolio of exclusive triple-A titles.”

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 About Ubi Soft Entertainment
Ubi Soft Entertainment is an international producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products. A leading company in the multimedia industry, Ubi Soft's strong and diversified lineup has grown considerably, as has Ubi Soft itself. As well as steadfastly continuing to partner with several high-profile companies, Ubi Soft has also confirmed its presence on the global market by developing its own exceptional properties. Founded in 1986 in France, Ubi Soft is now present on every continent, both through offices in 22 different countries including the United States, Brazil, Morocco, Germany and China and through sales of products in over 50 countries. The group is dedicated to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers around the world. Ubi Soft generated a turnover of 453 million euros for the 2002/2003 fiscal year, up 23% over the previous fiscal year.

To learn more, visit www.ubi.com

 About Xbox
Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft’s future-generation video game system that delivers never before seen gameplay experiences. With more than three times the graphics performance of other game consoles, top-quality DVD playback, Dolby 5.1 surround sound to make games and movies come alive, and a hard disc that opens up new kinds of gameplay, Xbox is the video game system that delivers more of what gamers want.  Xbox is now available in Europe for an estimated street price of ç199.99/£129.99.

 About Xbox Live
Xbox Live is the first comprehensive, online game service fully dedicated to fast‑action broadband gaming experiences.  Xbox Live allows gamers to play multiplayer Xbox games with other gamers everywhere via a broadband Internet connection.  With a built‑in hard drive and Ethernet port, the Xbox console was built from the ground up to be an online gaming system so there's no need to buy additional peripherals.

 Xbox Live enables all gamers to find and play with their friends easily; talk to other players during game play through the Xbox Communicator headset; and download current statistics, new levels and characters to their Xbox hard drive.

 About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.