Rainbow six Extraction Review

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Published on January 24, 2022 6:30:41 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYfdGPuLj0

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Rainbow Six Extraction (2023)

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Rainbow Six Extraction

• Developer: Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Release: January 20th 2022
• On: Windows
• From: Ubisoft Store, Epic Games Store, Xbox Game Pass

Rainbow Six Extraction was announced in a world we no longer live in: the world of 2019. Back then, the co-op Siege spinoff FPS was called "Rainbow Six Quarantine" (ha!). It was an unlucky time to be making a game about a parasitic virus, but a great time to bring back the dormant co-op zombie shooter. Siege's 2018 Outbreak event was a brief but excellent taste of what Left 4 Siege could be, and I hoped Extraction would blow that 2-hour mode out into a sprawling collection of campaigns.
Three years later, not only is Extraction one of many co-op shooters on the block, but it's hardly recognizable from the original Outbreak campaign. It's the anti-Left 4 Dead—a precise, grueling survival game about keeping your head down and never poking the bear. If you do, Extraction's sadistic AI takes over, eager to punish the smallest lapse in judgment.
It's a mean game that can produce some great thrills, but its strict rules make some awkward design choices stick out. Extraction is also a smaller game than I anticipated—Ubi's decision to lower its price to $40 and introduce it to PC Game Pass at launch makes sense now. I really liked mastering each of the dozen objective types and maps, but missions start to get samey really fast.

Before addressing that question, it's worth considering Extraction's long road to release. First revealed at E3 2019, the shooter, then known as Rainbow Six Quarantine, was pencilled for launch at some point the following year. Less than ten months later, however, the global pandemic offset Ubisoft Montreal's plans – forcing three subsequent delays and a name change, all within circumstances that better reflected a Tom Clancy novel than our pre-2020 reality. And yet unlike the opening cinematics of The Division and Siege – where we're sold a once far-fetched-now-entirely believable story about a global virus; and are introduced to a team of crackshot world-defenders by Hollywood actress Angela Bassett – Extraction's arrival is subtle, bordering underwhelming. Set on New York City's Liberty Island, we're shown tourists shuttling between souvenir stalls and the Statue of Liberty, before getting our first glimpse of the Chimera Parasite. Arcing stalagmite, tree root-like 'Carapace' structures burst from the asphalt, as a tough, grey and gooey biofilm named the 'Sprawl' spreads itself with menacing purpose. With that, we're zipped off to the REACT HQ – the home of Extraction's expert team of anti-alien freedom fighters – and then, in essence, are dropped straight into the danger zone, to take down hordes of Archaeans in New York, San Francisco, and Alaska among a handful of other locations.

Fans of Rainbow Six Siege are likely quite familiar with the franchise's impressive environmental destructibility, but in Rainbow Six Extraction, these fine-tuned physics feel more meaningful than ever. In other co-op shooters like Left 4 Dead, players could easily hunker down in a corner and wait for the horde to stop, but this tactic simply doesn't work here. The haunting alien enemies in the game, called Archaens, can smash their way through walls, doors, and even fortified barricades. Watching chunks of office furniture explode as you detonate remote mines or shoot volatile enemies like Bloaters remains one of the most consistently satisfying things in the game.
To ensure your squad has plenty of alien disposal options, Rainbow Six Extraction hosts an extensive portfolio of operators, each with their own unique tactical abilities. With 18 familiar faces from Rainbow Six Siege, there's a remarkable level of flexibility when replaying missions. Operators like Sledge can use their massive hammer to tear down walls and create escape paths. At the same time, more nuanced characters like IQ can significantly assist with environmental awareness courtesy of their specialty scanning device. Every operator has 10 progression levels you can climb, which will unlock special perks and buffs. Finding your favorites will likely require some trial and error, but Rainbow Six Extraction does a great job rewarding that experimentation.

Sadly, I did have a few qualms while playing Rainbow Six

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