Metallic Gear Stable‘s bandana-furrowing Snake is teaming up with Splinter Cell‘s Sam Fisher and the remainder of Rainbow Six Siege‘s roster because the tactical shooter’s latest operator. After teasing the collaboration earlier this 12 months, Ubisoft lastly pulled again the curtain with a reveal trailer that has the 2 heavyweights of online game espionage bro-ing out earlier than taking down some baddies.
The Stable Snake Operator arrives in R6 Siege with Operation Silent Hunt within the new season on March 3. One of many huge questions going through the crossover was whether or not David Hayter, the unique voice of Konami’s protagonist (created by Hideo Kojima) can be returning for such a bizarre and surprising facet challenge. The brand new trailer reveals that the reply is “sure.” Followers are relieved however want Sam Fisher might have been voiced by a returning Michael Ironside as effectively. Nonetheless not within the price range, apparently.
Right here’s the R6 Siege‘s model of Stable Snake in motion:
The reveal trailer reveals Snake doing Snake stuff like hiding round corners and taking enemies out with a silenced weapon earlier than sending in a smoke grenade and handing out takedowns. Sam Fisher pops up on the finish, the two embrace Predator-style, and Snake quips about “troopers like us” by no means getting a second’s relaxation as a brand new alert pops up on his pager.
Rainbow Six Siege at the moment has over 70 operators with Sam Fisher, codenamed “Zero,” added all the way in which again in 2020 as a part of Operation Shadow Legacy. Exterior of playable characters, the shooter’s previous crossover collaborations have included every little thing from Murderer’s Creed and Resident Evil to Tomb Raider and Halo. It’s not Fortnite ranges of branded content material however, just like the folks behind all trendy live-service video games, Siege‘s builders sooner or later realized how way more cash there’s in licensed cosmetics than in-universe kits.
Snake’s arrival is completely timed to make the most of pleasure over final 12 months’s Snake Eater remake and the upcoming Metallic Gear Stable 4 remaster through the Metallic Gear Stable Grasp Assortment Vol. 2, coming in August. Whereas it’s not clear but if Konami will ever give Snake a brand new journey, the franchise is alive and effectively on trendy platforms. The identical can’t essentially be mentioned for Splinter Cell. A remake continues to be MIA and it’s been over a decade since Blacklist got here out.
