History VideoGame / RainbowSixSiege

* ShoutOut: One of Doc's headgears is called [[https://i.imgur.com/25qwBS8.jpg Exner]] and is a reference to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s Rorschach. The headgear itself is named after the John E. Exner, who created a standardised system of interpreting Rorschach tests.

* AdvertisedExtra: The new "Six" (leader of Team Rainbow) is heavily advertised in the game's shows at E3, and a big deal is made about how she's played by Angela Bassett, but she barely appears outside of the game's already thin ExcusePlot.

** A well-known strategy that could be done with either Pulse or Valkyrie is to stick a C4 below a wooden floor, use their gadgets to scan enemies above the wooden floor, then blowing them up with their C4 when they pass over it.

* ArmorIsUseless: ZigZagged. Your operators' actual armor rating, which is on a three-point scale, generally means a difference of one or two bullets depending on the weapon. However, Rook's Armor Pack ability allows additional resistance of about four or five extra bodyshots. It's useless in medium skill play, where everyone gets headshots, but vital in both low and high skill where nobody either has the skill or gets the chance.

** Another tactic involving door barricades is to destroy a few rows of planks at the bottom of the barricade, leaving just enough space for the player to crawl through. Combine it with a rapid prone-dive-to-stand-up, a player can dive out of a door barricade without making much sound.

* QuickMelee: Melee is done by a quick press of a button. It kills/downs enemies in one hit, though most of the time it is useful for punching holes in walls.

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: The bombs in Bomb mode are giant man-tall gas canisters held in large cages with electronic stuff attache to it. As if that wasn't enough to indicate that it's a chemical bomb, they even added beeping lights and a gas dispersal effect.

* AKA47: In Creator/{{Ubisoft}} tradition, most of the guns are renamed into a mutated form of the weapon's actual name. Some recurring names from past Ubisoft games like ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' and ''VideoGame/TheDivision'' include the 417 (HK417), SMG-11 (MAC-11), D50 (Desert Eagle) and Vector .45 ACP (TDI Vector).

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Some have noted that the game's gender representation is actually unrealistic, since most military special units are populated with an overwhelming majority of males (GIGN, for example, does not admit females in its intervention force, which is the main assault force of GIGN), unlike the 50-50 ratio that the game is slowly approaching. Few had complained about it though.

The storyline ends right after that, and the game moves the player on to the more interesting multiplayer, which is the mainstay of the game. Game modes include:

* BenevolentArchitecture: The buildings in ''Siege'' have some weird elements to them to accomodate for the gameplay.
** Many of the buildings completely lack doors. Some of the later maps had smarter designs to justify the lack of doors on doorways, (e.g. having the door completely opened to one side, having the door removed and lying down on the ground, or replacing the doorway with a door-shaped hole in the wall) but it is still weird to see a Chicago mansion without doors of any kind. They only have doorframes in order for the barricades to be implemented.
** There are many conveniently drone-sized holes connecting weird areas, often for no clear reason as to why they are there. They aren't even ventilation shafts since they are often located at floor-height. These are for the attacker drones to pass through.
** There are often trapdoors, sometimes in completely inappropriate positions such as the middle of the second floor, connecting to the first floor. These are breachable to grant vertical movement.

* CampingACrapper: [[http://imgur.com/TqyAXTp Apparently possible]] for the terrorists of Terrorist Hunt. As they tend to move around, it was probably more of a {{Good Bad Bug|s}} rather than intended.

** Putting a deployable shield in front of a window will make it unenterable. Even better, a player can use a deployable shield as an impromptu platform, allowing defenders to reach previously unreachable locations. ''And'' guess what, use it on a window frame, and a defender can stand ''inside'' the window frame, giving a nasty angle to unsuspecting enemies.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Recruits have generic looks and can equip every single equipment available to all [=CTUs=], but do not have any special gadgets.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Most of the [=CTUs=] (exceptions being SAS and Spetsnaz) feature a single female operator in their ranks with all other operators being male. The DLC [=CTUs=] also follow this rule on technicality, since only two operators are introduced per CTU and that means one male and one female operator is added per season.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: "Resetting" is a health-regenerating tactic that can allow a player who hadn't downed yet to regenerate a bit of health and potentially survive another encounter. The way to do this is to have your teammate deal ScratchDamage to the low-health player, [[UnfriendlyFire downing them]], then reviving them to 50 hp. This way, a player might just survive an encounter that could leave them downed and basically dead if they were at the previous low health.

** Putting a deployable shield in front of a window will make it unenterable. Even better, a player can use a deployable shield as an impromptu platform, allowing players to reach previously unreachable locations. And guess what, use it on a window frame, and the player can stand ''inside'' the window frame, giving a nasty angle to unsuspecting enemies.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Some have noted that the game's gender equality is actually unrealistic, since most military special units are populated with an overwhelming majority of males (GIGN, for example, does not admit females in its intervention force, which is the main assault force of GIGN), unlike the 50-50 ratio that the game is slowly approaching, though few had complained loudly about it.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Some have noted that the game's gender equality is actually unrealistic, since most military special units are populated with an overwhelming majority of males (GIGN, for example, does not admit females in its intervention force, which is the main assault section of GIGN), unlike the 50-50 ratio that the game is slowly approaching, though few had complained loudly about it.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Most of the [=CTUs=] (exceptions being SAS and Spetsnaz) feature a single female operator in their ranks with all other operators being female. The DLC [=CTUs=] also follow this rule on technicality, since only two operators are introduced per CTU and that means one male and one female operator is added per season. Some have noted that the game's gender equality is actually unrealistic, since most military special units are populated with an overwhelming majority of males, unlike the 50-50 ratio that the game is slowly approaching, though few had complained loudly about it.

** Most of the special gadgets carried by Rainbow operators in ''Siege'' are completely fictional except for a few, such as Sledge's breaching hammer, Glaz's Flip Sight and Tachanka's deployable machine gun. Those that are however, tend to be bleeding-edge experimental military tech with cool demonstrations of their powers in the Operator videos.

New mechanics introduced in ''Siege'' include destructible environments, allowing players to both breach walls, doors, floors and windows to create new lines of sight and shooting angles. ''Siege'' also adds the Operator system, where players would select individual classes, known as "Operators", each with their own special gadgets and weapons.

''Rainbow Six Siege'' is a tactical FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} Montreal and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} and the latest game of the ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' franchise. The game was developed as a successor to the cancelled ''Rainbow 6: Patriots''.

A big new feature of ''Siege'' is destructible environments, allowing players to both breach walls, doors, floors and windows to create new lines of sight and shooting angles. ''Siege'' also adds the Operator system, where players would select individual classes, known as "Operators", each with their own special gadgets and weapons.

Game modes include:

* BlindedByTheLight: Blitz has this gadget attached to his Ballistic Shield. It has up to 5 charges.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Tachanka in ''Siege'' uses a DP-28 LMG, which dates back to ''World War II.'' Justified though in that Tachanka is stated to be an enthusiast of old Soviet weaponry, to the extent that he prefers the old but reliable weapons to the highly experimental modern ones and even mills his own parts to make them if he can't find original Soviet-issue parts.
** A less exaggerated version comes in the form of Valkyrie's SPAS-12, which stopped production in 2000 and was {{rare|Guns}} even when it was being produced.
** An even less exaggerated version is Caveira's SPAS-15, the SPAS-12's successor. It's relatively rather recent, but that too is no longer in production.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In multiplayer, the attackers and defenders are both Rainbow Operators, even though most situations involving the Defending team's objectives lean on terrorist activities. In fact, not even the Attacking team is that good. Some can interpret the biohazard container as theirs, or aim to take back one of their own. Really neither side gets out of this scot-free.
** Intelligence (the guy on the radio) is the same for both teams and also uses the term [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposing_force "OPFOR,"]] both of which strongly suggest that the multiplayer is actually nothing more than the Rainbows completing elaborate training exercises. The co-operative "terrorist hunt," where the enemies are White Masks, is probably the closest the game gets to story mode.

* {{Hammerspace}}: The fortifications the defenders carry are ludicrously large. The wall fortifications alone are nearly as wide as most characters are tall, and still occupy a huge amount of space when folded up. And they carry two of them, alongside an infinite amount of wooden barricades.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Tachanka in ''Siege'' uses a DP-28 LMG, which dates back to ''World War II.'' Justified though in that Tachanka is stated to be an enthusiast of old Soviet weaponry, to the extent that he prefers the old but reliable weapons to the highly experimental modern ones.

* ContinuityNod:And the fact that one "Situation" is a mission about [[spoiler:containing a chemical attack with mass casualties, much like the third chapter of ''Vegas 2''.]]

* EverythingBreaks: Present in ''Siege''. In fact, the destruction of walls and doorways plays significantly into the available tactics.

* LaserSight: The Laser sight can't be toggled on or off, but it does increase hipfire accuracy. Originally, it was a borderline useless attachment in online multiplayer, since the entire beam of the laser was visible to the enemy team and it can't be toggled on or off -- creating a literal bright-red line pointing out exactly where you are hiding to the other team. Now, it has been patched so that only the dotted point of the laser is visible, making it a more viable option.

* OneBulletClips: Played straight in normal gampelay but averted in Tactical Realism Mode, which goes back to tracking individual magazines just like in the first 3 games.

* RareGuns: There are a few of these in ''Siege,'' such as Fuze's AK-12, Smoke's FMG-9, Valkyrie's SPAS-12 and both her and Blackbeard's Desert Eagles.

* YouMonster: Injuring the hostage more than once, the score message will change from "Civilian Injured" to "You Monster". Also penalizes you with -100 points, adding on with each time you injure the hostage.

''Rainbow Six Siege'' is set years after the events of ''Rainbow Six: Vegas 2'' when the Rainbow program is reactivated by a new leader simply known as Six (Creator/AngelaBassett) to face a mysterious new terrorist force called The White Masks.

''Rainbow Six Siege'' is a tactical FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} Montreal and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}. The game was developed as a successor to the cancelled ''Rainbow 6: Patriots''.