Earlier this week, Ubisoft launched its latest update for the tactical shooterGhost Recon: Wildlands, which brought a pretty large offering of content to the table that includeda crossover with the world ofRainbow Six Siege. Interestingly enough, some fans have now found that the update also includes a sly nod to the once-in-development, but now totally cancelledRainbow Six Patriots, withWildlands' development team having hidden an Easter egg in plain sight.
As seen below in the video from the YouTube channel known as Gaming Prime,Ghost Recon: Wildlandsfans will notice thatRainbow Six Siegecrossover campaign mission features a brief sequence in which a player’s Operative seems to ask Twitch – that is,Siege’s drone specialist – aboutPatriotswhile driving. The Operative says, “Hey, I heard something about an op you guys ran that went south. Operation Patriots ring any bells?”, and it leads to a confrontational discussion.
For those unaware,Rainbow Six Patriotswas revealed to the public all the way back in 2011, with the plot centering around Team Rainbow being called New York City to face a terrorist group calling itself the “True Patriots”. Unfortunately, news about the title started becoming noticably absent in the following years, with the project eventually being confirmed as cancelled in 2013. This, of course, led to the series continuing in the form ofRainbow Six Siege, which came out back in 2015.
Taking all of this into consideration, it’s nice to see that Ubisoft can poke some fun at itself, even when the butt of the joke is one of its failed projects couched within the respectable success ofGhost Recon: Wildlands. And while some may not acknowledge it as one ofthe best video game Easter eggs,Rainbow Sixdiehards will almost certainly appreciate the nice little reference to the Tom Clancy franchise’s past.
Ghost Recon: Wildlandsis available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
