Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is one of those rare beloved games of the past decade that didn’t need to exist when we have other shooters like Putin vs ISIS and CS:GO I guess are the biggest examples. The story is very self contained in the most out of the box way. It’s not knowing what happened, its knowing how it happened. This story will forever be in the back of my mind when playing most other games, hardly anything I have played even compares to this marvel of story telling genius, the twists and oh my, the darkest of turns, things that even the greatest writers couldn’t even make up. I don’t want to tell you too much, so before you read this, I would recommend buying this game, or at least watching some content on it, because this game really smashes the likes of Santa Girl VR and the visual indie masterpiece that is Hades. Anyway, now you have watched/played some of this gods work we can get down to business.

So we start this story in the household of the famed Bristol Family, this family were well known in the local community for being exceptionally wealthy, not only this, but also their devil of a child Winston Bristol was known as the local spoiled brat that got anything and everything he liked. Winston was sick and twisted, not in a Jeffrey Dahmer way, more in a Wants to watch people battle it out to the death for fun kind of sick and twisted. Of course little Winston rarely got to live out his dreams of watching people fight to the death, as you know, its not particularly common in the modern world, even when the Bristol Family thrived their were few fights that went to the death.

Like most things, his proper blood lust came later in life, his got his first taste for this on his 14th Birthday where he had been given 3 new nannies to teach him the way of the teen life, but of course he instantly had nefarious thoughts, eventually he started talking behind the backs of these innocent women, making them all hate each-other, then he would try to pit them against each-other. This of course wasn’t a piece of cake, he really had to say some horrible things, but he didn’t care of course, he was remorseless, this was in his nature, he finally started to get them to fight by asking them to, for a price of course. He realised from this young age that money really is everything and most will do literally anything to get their hands on some juicy cash, even beating their colleagues to death. Which is exactly what happened, 2 of the nannies managed to rupture the lung of the other, they sadly died not that far after this rough event.

Of course when the police checked the scene of this gruesome crime, they of course didn’t think it could have been the kid that did this and Winston new this would happen and managed to not only frame his very wealthy parents, but also get off Scot-free, it was the perfect crime. From here on little Winston gained control of the entire Bristol estate in which he used to manipulate more poor souls to fight it out for his general enjoyment, he was so strapped for cash, he didn’t even notice it as a proper expense. He never needed to work, he just spent all day making up new scenarios to put people into to make it more and more fun for him and difficult for the victims.

The Bristol family owned many a thing, including a large Scientific research company and a metric load of property, which is where the riches of this family originally came from. Of course Winston used his mass scientific knowledge and resources to make his fights even more interesting, one of their most interesting discoveries was, an advanced lighting system that when exposed to an open wound or even just a simple paper cut would easily heal hit within only a few seconds. This meant that he could force people to fight to the death with little to know risks, which of course kind of defeated the point, but its one of the main ways he managed to stay not caught for so long.

If this story wasn’t messed up enough, it gets worse, a lot worse. Winston managed to adopt children, still to this day, no one knows how this feat happened, although we all have an idea, usually a parent should be checked to make sure they are fit to be a parent, but everyone thinks that Winston just bribed to inspector to pass him, which yes is exceptionally unmoral, but as someone that pit people against each-other to fight to the death, this is literally nothing. He didn’t just adopt 1 or 2, he adopted an entire orphanage worth, around the 80-90 mark, remember Winston is wealthy and had no guide in this field, he also had a large house with enough rooms to easily house all these children.

So What is the next step from here, well of course train them into your own private militia, he hired in ex special forces to show these kids the ropes of fighting styles, gun play and even computer hacking in some cases. He let the different children choose what they enjoyed doing best, whether it was making traps or going stealthy and sneaking around unnoticed, he let them run wild in his house as long as followed his every move in the time that counts, the fights. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself, how would you name or even remember names for so many children. Winston was smart, he gave all his children a sort of nickname, we can call it a codename, like Echo, Frost or Glaz, just as some examples. All these kids were different ages, ethnicities and family backgrounds, none of that mattered, the only thing that mattered is how efficient they were in the battle.

I said before that the Bristol Family had a large network of property around the world, Winston used these various properties for his fights, he would usually pit up to 5 vs 5 people at once on these properties, where they would be forced to fight with various weapons, including real guns, knives and even other brutal melee weapons such as sledgehammers. People would get hurt, in some cases die, but luckily for him, he had science on his side, where he could easily wipe memories and heal wounds to a point that no one could tell or remember a difference.

I said it gets worse, we’re almost there, don’t worry, we’re almost done. Eventually Winston realised he could earn even more money from this, he found out that some of his eccentric billionaire friends also enjoyed watching people battle. So he setup a system where the children had to listen to the commands of these important people, so its as if they were in a real video game and had control of their own avatar. The children have to listen to the commands or they will be shocked, electrically. The only down time these poor children had was between matches and whilst the important people were sleeping. In which time they were either sleeping themselves or training to be better at their chosen craft.

So, I told you it was a dark tale, but this is just the beginning of what this wickedly marvellous game is about, if you want to find out more, you will have to put in the hours properly, I would say I am only about half way to knowing the real depth of this story. This is certainly one of my darker reviews so I hope I haven’t offended anyone, but I am just talking about some key points in this game. I understand its not very normal to ask to buy a game and play it before a review has even started, but this is a special case that had to be addressed.

The developers of this game clearly have their heads screwed on correctly as this game is priced fairly appropriately for what the game is, unlike some of the other gaming masterpieces I have not only witnessed but also played and reviewed (so check them out as well). I would whole heartedly recommend this game, it may have been one of the darkest tales I have ever heard and told people about, but its well worth it, as no other games gets even close to rivalling it. Next time you’re searching through amazon for some useless garbage you have convinced yourself you need, like a pocket popcorn maker, forget it and buy this game.