I do not play Rainbow Six Siege, but Ubisoft’s recent collaboration with Ikumi Nakamura may change my mind.
Nakamura, the creative director who won the heart of the gaming world with her energetic GhostWire: Tokyo submission at E3 2019, has been bouncing as a freelancer in the industry since leaving ZeniMax Media subsidiary Tango Gameworks later that year. Her latest concert is with Ubisoft, specifically in the design of some haunting operationsiforms vir Rainbow Six Siege. Like Nakamura himself, they rule absolutely.
These uniforms, now on sale, also feature Operators Echo and Dokkaebi with matching weapon skins and charms. After a brief overview of the rest of the skins in the game, I can safely say that Nakamura’s contributions are by far the coolest Rainbow Six Siege never seen.
“Since it’s an FPS, I even designed the nails of the female operators with care!” Nakamura wrote on Twitter earlier this week. “Isn’t it nice to dress up on the battlefield every now and then?”
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Nakamura also shared some concept sketches from her time in which she designed for Rainbow Six Siege. At one point in the process, she even suggested surrounding Dokkaebi’s face in flames due to the origin of the Korean operator’s name in Japanese, but acknowledged that an effect was probably ‘exaggerated’.
With a resume designed for the most beautiful video games of all time (Okami, Bayonetta, The evil inside, et al), it should come as no surprise that Nakamura’s Rainbow Six Siege skins are amazing. Here is the hope that her dream of opening her own studio will come true sooner rather than later.