Rainbow Six Siege: Real Places Behind the Maps

While building Siege, the team looked at real-life examples of sieges, and the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege inspired the map Consulate. The real event began when six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London, and lasted from 30 April to 5 May 1980. It ended when the SAS went in, abseiling from the roof and forcing entry through the windows.

Location precision: Consulate is inspired by the 1980 siege rather than a copy of the building; the pin marks the Prince's Gate area.

The Operation Skull Rain DLC came with two Brazilian operators and a map set in a Brazilian favela. That map, Favela, is based on Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Location precision: Favela is based on Rocinha as a whole, not on one street or house.

Operation White Noise brought a South Korean observation tower set far above Seoul. Mok Myeok Tower is loosely based on the real-life Lotte World Tower, and players battle through a nightclub, an art gallery and a restaurant while rappelling down and through access points. The real tower is a 123-story, 555-metre skyscraper in Seoul, and it opened to the public on 3 April 2017.

Location precision: The map is only loosely based on Lotte World Tower; the pin marks the real tower.

Visitor guidance: Lotte World Tower is open to the public.

In November 2018 Ubisoft announced that Siege was heading to Morocco for Operation Wind Bastion. It added two Moroccan operators and a map called Fortress, the first ever closely linked to an Operator. The map is modeled after the distinct architecture of a Moroccan Kasbah and is designed to give operators a variety of tactics. Ubisoft names no single real kasbah, so the pin sits at the centre of the country.

Location precision: The source names the architecture style, not a specific kasbah; the pin is a country-level marker.

In the story, two recruits head to Detroit to investigate the Legion's relation with a company named POLARIS. Inside the company building they meet enemy forces and are attacked by Phobos, who destroys the building with planted explosives. Detroit is a real city on the bank of the Detroit River, across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. The story gives no street address for the company, so the pin marks the city centre only.

Location precision: The story names Detroit but no address for the POLARIS building; the pin marks the city.