I'd spent time with Rainbow Six: Siege a few times. Once when it was a fresh release and another a few years ago when I was bored. But this year I picked it up again and gave it a real try in earnest, and part of me regrets having not been a bigger fan sooner.

Siege is some kind of cross between Valorant and Overwatch. It's the bomb-defusal shooter of Valorant and CS:GO but without the economy management aspects and gun sharing. The games are also less rounds and TTK is slightly higher. It's not quite as overthetop as Overwatch but it has many, many distinct hero characters with a wide range of abilities and traits. It all amalgams to a video game that feels exceedingly familiar to the bigger standouts in its genre but manages to be comfortably distinct as well.

Siege rewards skilled players and reward map knowledge. There's a shocking amount of teamplay required as you move up the higher ranks but a supremely good player is still easily capable of carrying their team which means that even the most fire of 1v5s can be winnable if you git gud. The destructable environments and walls and array of weaponry make the game pretty unique and pleasing. It's also still very visually appealing even with the game knocking on the door of a decade in existence.

I'm sure had I played this game more consistently for the last eight years I'd have a few different thoughts by now. But all-in-all it really is just a competent hero shooter that feels fun to play. It's nothing groundbreaking and there are better versions of its many elements. But not many compare to the sum of Siege's parts.

This is a review of Operation Deadly Omen.

Definitely one of the weakest seasons in the game's entire lifecycle. I have no idea how this new update got everyone playing again, but here we are. Deimos is cool and I guess the lore is going somewhere? I don't know, I don't really follow Rainbow lore. The core multiplayer is still great but removing Situations and Terrorist Hunt was FUCKING STUPID. As a T-Hunt player, I am fucking LIVID. And then they replaced it with a stupid Practice vs AI mode that ISNT EVEN FUCKING FINISHED. Fuck Ubisoft and fuck this update. The online plays fine though.

I'm somewhat of a veteran, came around 2016-2017

Fun with friends, fun sometimes in solo. As long as you're level-headed, this is a good """tactical""" "strategy" game.

Really wish they kept with the semi-realism instead of going sci-fi.