IGN speaks with Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America, who
explains Ubisoft's silence following a shakeup to the development team for
Rainbow Six: Patriots. Detoc now admits they basically had to start over on
the shooter sequel: "We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got
started, and then the game wasn’t working. So [they had] to start again," Detoc
explained. "There’s an editorial group in Ubisoft, a big group, very
influential. If the game is not good enough, they say it’s not good enough. Most
of the time, the team will say, ‘yeah, I know.’ But sometimes they want to
continue in a direction where you say, ‘no, it’s not going to work’." He goes on
to say the new console generation will benefit the final product, and he does
not rule out the prospect that the Patriots name and the proposed
counter-terrorism storyline may be ditched before it's all said and done.