In Fiction
GIGN members are present in several video games such as SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Tactical Strike, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Hitman: Contracts, Battlefield 3, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. GIGN uniforms are available in the games Counter-Strike and SWAT 4. You can also choose your avatar on the Xbox 360 gaming platform to have the GIGN special ops costume, from the Modern Warfare 3 Avatar content pack on the avatar storefront. It's labeled as French Special Ops costume, but is the GIGN Special Ops uniform in reality. The group is also mentioned in the Phoenix Force 1984 book Phoenix in Flames. They are featured in L'Assaut, a French film about the Air France Flight 8969 hijacking. It was done with the collaboration and the advice of the GIGN.
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