Ubisoft sends along another Rainbow Six 4: Lockdown Q&A, which is about the new sniping game mode they are putting in the game. We also have four screenshots from the Xbox version of the game.

Throughout the Rainbow franchise, Dieter Weber has been the Rainbow "Sniper". As we knew we wanted to focus the action phase of the single player experience on room clearing and close quarters combat, having a sniper on your assault team or sniper weapons in your inventory started to become out of place. As with actual counter-terrorism teams around the world, most snipers are stationed to provide extraction and insertion cover for their team and are fairly stationary. By pulling the sniper element out of the action phase and by making it a new game mode, the player now gets to take out the enemy as a traditional sniper, providing cover to his teammates in the mission. With the addition of the digital scope and some of the amazing new shot reactions, you will see when you hit an enemy that the player really gets to feel like an elite sniper.