MikeMcD

<span class="articleText">There you are -- sitting at home watching the news or browsing your iPad. Your negligee-wearing wife presents both herself and a little cupcake to commemorate your birthday; moments after blowing the candle yet before you can get intimate with her, the doorbell rings. And that's when everything goes wrong -- serious men storm in; they restrain your wife; and they knock you out despite your attempt to defend your family and home. When you come to, they mock you for making money off of home foreclosures while strapping a bomb vest to your body, and tell you that if you don't go with them to Times Square, they will kill your wife and child.
Fast forward a bit and you're trapped in a van on the Brooklyn Bridge. Everything that can go wrong is in the midst of going wrong. You're under fire, the men who kidnapped you are busy shouting or dying, and one of them reiterates the "get to Times Square or they die" threat. The doors open and the Brooklyn Bridge lies under siege. Everyone around you is either shooting or screaming or dying. Men in black body armor assault you from multiple angles as you race your way down the bridge. Then, the perspective shifts, and you make a realization: the armor-clad foes who have been raining down assault rifle fire -- the terrorizing enemy -- turn out to be Rainbow Six operatives. That is, from your perspective of a civilian-forced-into-suicide-bomber, the heroes of Rainbow 6 Patriots have become the enemy. And now in Rainbow's perspective, the innocent civilian is now the primary target. This perspective shift (which occurs rarely in the game, so don't mistake this for multi-perspective action a la Call of Duty) reinforces one of the primary points of Patriots: anyone can be the enemy.


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