Rainbow Six Siege Tease Sees Splinter Cell Meet Metal Gear Solid as Solid Snake Is Revealed as New Operator

Rainbow Six Siege is getting a Metal Gear Solid crossover, arsenic Ubisoft is teasing that Solid Snake volition look arsenic a caller Operator successful Year 11.

A 15-second clip for the tactical enactment game’s adjacent roadmap lays it connected thick, showing not conscionable a faceless assemblage wearing a acquainted sneaking suit but a Metal Gear Solid 1-style Codec Call from nary different than Splinter Cell prima Sam Fisher. It’s the benignant of crossover fans person dreamed astir for decades, brought to beingness arsenic Ubisoft teases a afloat uncover for the Year 11 roadmap that’s scheduled to instrumentality spot adjacent month, February 15, astatine 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET connected the Rainbow Six Siege Twitch page.

It’s unclear if today’s tease is conscionable for the Solid Snake Operator oregon if fans should alternatively expect a enactment of skins from Konami arsenic well, but judging by the fanfare surrounding the reveal, it looks similar Ubisoft went each retired for this latest collaboration. Either way, the Solid Snake teaser marks what is apt the astir breathtaking Operator successful the past 10 years.

There were immoderate aboriginal signs that Rainbow Six Siege could soon conscionable the satellite of Metal Gear Solid. Reputable dataminer @Shiiny77 suggested a collaboration was successful the cards for Year 11 Season 1 conscionable past week, teasing that “it is not conscionable a tegument collaboration” similar fans person seen successful the past. Insider Gaming aboriginal said it was capable to independently verify the leak arsenic well.

“There is truthful overmuch retired of this collab and the play itself, its truthful packed,” @Shiiny77 added astatine the time.

Metal Gear Solid whitethorn beryllium 1 of the wildest crossovers for Rainbow Six Siege truthful far, but it’s acold from the first. Other caller collaborations person brought the Attack connected Titan and The Boys universes into the fold with assorted cosmetics for existing Operators. Splinter Cell didn’t motorboat with the crippled erstwhile it archetypal launched backmost successful 2015, but Sam Fisher did spell connected to get his ain Operator successful the signifier of Specialist Zero successful 2020.

We’ll larn much astir what this authoritative gathering betwixt Solid Snake has successful store February 15. In the meantime, Rainbow Six Siege precocious received a monolithic 10-year update to go Rainbow Six Siege X. You tin cheque retired wherefore we deliberation it’s present an 8/10 successful our review.

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