Snake Joins Rainbow Six Siege
Metal Gear Solid's legendary Snake—voiced by original actor David Hayter—joins Rainbow Six Siege as the 76th Operator on March 3, 2026. Snake will team up with Sam Fisher of Splinter Cell fame in a historic gaming crossover.
- Snake's primary gadget is the Soliton Radar MKIII, a handheld device that displays the floorplan and detects enemies on the same level with color-coded alerts. - His unique "On-Site Procurement" ability allows him to start with one secondary gadget and scavenge up to four more from the pouches of any eliminated operator. - Snake's loadout includes the F2 assault rifle and the PMR90A2 marksman rifle, along with a new suppressed sidearm, the TACIT .45 pistol, which features an integrated suppressor and reflex sight. - The new season is titled "Operation Silent Hunt" and marks the beginning of the game's 11th year of content. - Several existing operators can counter Snake's radar gadget; Vigil is invisible to it while his cloak is active, Mute's jammers can disrupt it, and Alibi's holograms will appear as real enemies. - While Sam Fisher's original voice actor is not in *Rainbow Six Siege*, David Hayter's return is notable for fans as he voiced Snake from 1998 until being replaced for *Metal Gear Solid V*. - The crossover includes a limited-time 4v4 event mode where Snake and Sam "Zero" Fisher lead teams to capture stolen data, plus cosmetic skins for other operators like a Gray Fox skin for Jackal. - This is not the first major operator crossover for the game; Sam Fisher was added in 2020 under the codename "Zero," and the game has featured cosmetic bundles from franchises like *Tomb Raider*, *Resident Evil*, and *Yakuza*.
