We have a spin-off game today in our hands, and let’s talk about it in this review, but first, let’s understand where extraction came from. So to start everything off, Ubisoft made a game back in 2015 called Rainbow Six Siege, which is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter that was available on console and PC and supported cross-platform gameplay.
Well, till 2020, Rainbow was hugely famous and was played throughout the globe with massive tournaments and streamers rising around the globe. I personally played the game for four years, and like any other AAA title, it saw its downfall in late 2020.
So Ubisoft decided to launch a spin-off game that will have the “Rainbow” name and the play style even the operators of the game, which I will explain later in this article, but instead of battling real people in a 5v5 format, you will defeat aliens!
Now Ubisoft team teased the game in November 2020, and fans were really hyped about the game as people thought they would revive the dying fan base of the original series through this game and much more, like what CD Projekt Red did with Witcher 3 when people were frustrated about not getting any DLC or sequels.
So Rainbow Six Extraction is a tactical multiplayer online shooting game like its parent game but different in every way which is appealing to the existing fan base of Rainbow, but is it for a new player? If it is, then what happened to the game, and where’s the fan base? We need to dive into the details to understand all the questions.
So after the launch, people were really hyped about the game, and every big streamer in the world jumped into it prior to its launch. The game is pretty simple, unlike Six Siege. It’s you against these deadly aliens called the Archaeans, which you have to kill and extract safely in order to win.
So if you know how to shoot in “Siege,” you’re good here. So is it worth paying $40 and your disk space for? Let’s see in this Rainbow Six Extraction Review article.
- Release Date: January 2022
- Creator/Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
- Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, MORE
- Ratings: 7/10
- Genre: Tactical shooter
- Price: $39.99
Rainbow Six Extraction Story And Gameplay Review
The game is easy to understand only if you are already a Rainbow Six Siege player. So you jump into a map with up to two other friends or randoms, and upon arriving, you get a random objective. This can be anything like extracting the thing, or activate all three computer terminals in a limited time, or hunt down a certain enemy, or even trapping and capturing a certain enemy Destiny 2 style.
A level has three tiers and three chunks and is usually pretty challenging by the end but worthwhile for progression. Now, if one of your team members gets permanently downed, they actually get sealed in protective foam to keep them stabilized, so you could try to go in and grab them and drag them out and drop them in a pod before you extract to get them to safety, too.
So there’s an added level of survival tension here. How far do you push it? Do you take what you can get? Do you go back for your teammate? There’s some good stuff here that could also just lead to fun little conversations and clashes, like seeing which of your friends is gutsier than the others.
You’re going to be using all the tools at your disposal: breakable walls, barricades, silenced weapons, UV light, the crouch button a lot, your drone, and the gadgets you unlock. There are a bunch of difficulty levels, and it can be challenging right from the start.
But if you want to get real sweaty and get a good group of vets going, you can have some moments where you really survive by the skin of your teeth, and that’s game at its best. Although the tactical shooter relies on sneaky stealth gameplay, the stealth detection in Extraction feels messy and inconsistent.
It’s cool at first because it’s challenging, but then you start to realize just how messy and dumb these enemies can kind of be. The hit detection for them is weird, and there’s no cool animation or blowup effect like in Elden Ring, which you might expect as you are literally fighting the computer and not a real person, so the devs could have been more creative at it.
Rainbow Six Extraction Conclusion And We Think About It
But it’s a rotating objective in a series of rotating levels that just get old fast in extremely boring maps.
I appreciate “Rainbow Six Siege’s” gameplay and some of its nuances of it, but I’m not really into this battling AI thing, as it gets boring after some time.
A fun experience with that framework centered around solo or co-op play with actual tactical gameplay could have been cool here. I’ve been playing R6 since 2018 and have always been a fan of the game and its season events.
I am here for this stuff, dude, but unfortunately, it feels so undercooked with Extraction. It should’ve been something integrated into the main “Siege” game, like the event, not a separate thing for a price tag and more of your time.
Overall, for $39.99, which is basically 4 times more than the $10 R6 on the Steam market, it’s not worth it, in my opinion. The game has good visuals, mechanics, and feels to it, which ultimately comes from R6’s elements, not Extraction’s, so why need a new game or play it?
Our Rating: ⭐ (3/5).
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