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Editor's note: This piece is based upon an event in London, where we played through Rainbow Six Siege's modes on PC over a couple of days. Our full review will be up later this week once we've been able to get adequate experience of the game running on live servers.Origin stories don't come much stranger: around this time last year there was a wonderful, all-too-convincing piece on the sadly departed Grantland positing that Kevin from Home Alone, that cherubic icon of sadistic childhood, grew up to be the Saw series' own, slightly less loveable lead, Jigsaw. It all makes so much sense: the parental neglect, the nasty traps and the love for a very stagey kind of pain - of course it's all true.
Spending a couple of days playing Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft's multiplayer-focussed reboot of one of its longest running series, I came to think there could well have been a different branch taken in young Kevin's life, and an alternative timeline; one where he channels all that fiendishness in other ways, enrolling in the military before his penchant for deathly devices sees him shuffled up to one of those strange, secretive government offshoots that are the mainstay of the Tom Clancy universe.
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