The CHIEF April 2024

Game Reviews

By Jack Demopoulos

Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical shooter game that requires some of the best skills out of any other game in its genre. Rainbow Six Siege , or R6 , is a game that requires all of your attention and your ability to know what operators to pick. Operators are the characters you choose to attack/defend a map against the enemy team. The strategy of the game is to either try to plant the defuser or negate the attacking team by planting or eliminating everyone on their side. There are some operators that are almost essential for any map that you will play on such as Thermite, Ace, Hibanna, or such. For example, to defend a site such CCTV Rooms/Cash Room from the Club House map, the optimal operators to bring are as follows; Jaeger or Wamai, Valkyrie, Kaid or Bandit, Maestro, and for the last operator you will have an Azami. Now this is not the end all be all, everything can be adjusted slightly but this defense is hard to get through and will make it very annoying to fight through. Now to counter this defense, on the attacking sides of things you will bring a Capitao, Thatcher, Thermite, Osa, and a Finka. Thatcher to get rid of all electronics on a wall, Thermite to blow up the wall, Capitao to put fire on the catwalk to get rid of the Azami playing on it, and Osa will put down her bulletproof shield to pre-fire enemy combatants who cross their path. Finka will act as a support and will give you a boost in your health and your recoil control. However, there are many variables to determine who to bring for a site, and at the end of the day it is the team’s decision of what operators they want to use. R6 , being one of the most played games currently, has to have the biggest skill gap among all players. You must have a good squad around you to win games along with good game sense, communication and in-game hearing. In-game hearing involves listening to an enemy walk across a certain type floor (cement, wood, or a carpet), hearing the placement of breaching charge, or hearing the grunt of a certain operator. Rainbow Six Siege is one of the hardest games to become excellent at, but when you do it feels so good to be on a different playing field than anyone else.