

And you might want to, given how the game handles injuries and “death.” Once you complete an objective, either by using stealth and gadgets or via brute force and loud explosions, you can move on to the next objective.
#WILL RAINBOW SIX EXTRACTION BE ON GAMEPASS FULL#
You can be stealthy in Extraction, sneaking up behind enemies to quietly take them out, or you can opt to take advantage of the destructive malleability of the levels to make your own paths around the rooms full of infected baddies. Instead, Extraction is slower-paced and more tactical. Unlike Left 4 Dead, Back 4 Blood, or The Anacrusis, in Extraction, you aren’t shooting hundreds of enemies and taking on large waves of unending baddies while rushing to an exit. You might have to kill a specific target, save someone or activate some bombs. While each zone is handcrafted and stays the same, they contain randomly selected objectives that change each time you play. Each location contains three maps and each map is split into three small zones. To defeat the aliens, teams of three Rainbow operators are sent into various locations around the United States, like NYC or Alaska. It’s up to Team Rainbow and R.E.A.C.T to come together and stop the alien invasion one infected room at a time. These nasty creatures are infecting humans and turning them into dangerous alien monsters. The game often refers to them as just aliens or arkies, so I’ll do the same. This time around, the eclectic cast of operators from Siege aren’t fighting terrorists or other human soldiers, but instead alien parasites called…*searches around keyboard,* the Archæans. Extraction is directly based on a limited-time mode first seen in Rainbow Six Siege, and the original level in that mode is present in Extraction. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction is a (presumably) non-canon entry in the long-running tactical shooter franchise that features characters and weapons from Siege.

Now, after all that, Ubisoft’s newest and weirdest entry in the Rainbow Six franchise is finally out and I’m not sure what shocked me more: is it how much I’m enjoying killing aliens or that Extraction manages to be fun in an already crowded genre? As the pandemic grew, the game went radio silent for a bit before understandably being renamed as Extraction. Before COVID-19 spread around the world and killed millions, Rainbow Six Extraction was first known in 2019 as Rainbow Six Quarantine.
