Recent reviews by Explicit Ken

Rainbow Six Siege Review, 1000/10, Rated Deliciously Toxic

If Siege were a dessert it would be black coffee with matches in it, and somehow you would ask for seconds. The game is a masterclass in controlled chaos, where walls are suggestions and gadgets are tiny agents of chaos that always arrive at precisely the wrong time. Your team will promise to hold angles, then immediately invent new ways to betray basic physics and your trust.

Operators are a delightful collection of people who would absolutely show up to a fancy dinner wearing armor and a grenade for appetizers. Mira will build windows into your soul, Hibana will proof your existence is temporary, and Smoke will make you reconsider every life choice that led to peeking a doorway. The maps are crime scenes you get to tour repeatedly, and each round is a short story about how optimism dies gloriously and fast.

Sound is so good you can locate footsteps that do not even belong to your game sense anymore. Footsteps are basically a passive aggressive whisper saying, I see you, and then a shotgun does the rest. Planting the defuser feels like trying to defuse the mood at a family reunion, except the stakes are higher and someone is definitely crouching in the vents with a sadistic grin.

Ranked turns skilled play into a tragic comedy. You will learn humility, you will learn profanity in multiple languages, and you will develop rituals like clapping at the monitor after a clutch because ritual seems to help. Solo queue is an exercise in hope management. Squad queue is where childhood friendships die and are reborn as siege strategies.

The community creates stories you tell for years, mostly because they haunt you and also because they are hilarious. There is something deeply satisfying about losing to a perfectly executed rotate that makes you respect your opponent and question your life at the same time.

Play it if you enjoy tension, absurd triumphs, and the occasional existential crisis wrapped in tactical gameplay. Do not play it if you are allergic to fun, chaos, or glorious humiliation.

Verdict, 1000 out of 10, would recommend to friends, frenemies, and anyone who likes their gaming with a side of deliciously dark humor.