The latest entry in Ubisoft's Rainbow Six series... If you don't count Rainbow Six Mobile. But why'd you count Rainbow Six Mobile?
Rainbow Six Extraction is an FPS horror tactical shooter inspired by the more popular Outbreak event that took place during Operation Chimera in Rainbow Six Siege, this game's older brother. Loosely inspired by GTFO, this game is really one of a kind: you'll never find another game that plays exactly like Extraction.
Story-wise, Extraction takes place after the event of Outbreak, as the Chimera virus puts the whole country on lockdown. Team Rainbow's efforts to contain the pandemic are uniquely told through environmental storytelling, though this element is not as intuitive as in other games with this element such as SWAT 4, as you can hold F when you see the prompt near those elements and the game will spoon feed you everything. Otherwise, the plot is surprisingly well written and we can appreciate the semi-realism of the scientific side of the game that's seen in all the labs scattered around in the game.
Gameplay-wise, Extraction has a fatal flaw that made it end up as forgotten as it is: while it tries to shift away from the competitive side of Siege, bringing back mechanics like quick leaning; to create something that reminds me a lot of Rainbow Six Vegas 2's terrorist hunt mode, at the same times thematically the enemies you face are the complite opposite of that, being all sci-fi alien zombies that'll mindlessly run towards you to make it easier for you to shoot them in the head when you're detected, completely ruining the immersion created beforehand.
This game should've never existed as an entity outside of Siege, I think it'd have fit WAY more as a game mode even if we sacrificed the story, as the gunplay is exact same as it is in the game, with the exception of silencers functioning in a different way. Something that Outbreak showed was irrelevant years ago. Instead, Extraction plays like a less competitive terrorist hunt game mode for Siege that you have to pay for. I actually think the current, slower gameplay Siege offers would've made an Extraction game mode more appealing and it'd have helped the immersion a lot more.
As its final update arrives, one can only be sad at the potential Extraction had, potential that sadly was never met. This is not a game I suggest buying.
Rainbow Six Extraction is an FPS horror tactical shooter inspired by the more popular Outbreak event that took place during Operation Chimera in Rainbow Six Siege, this game's older brother. Loosely inspired by GTFO, this game is really one of a kind: you'll never find another game that plays exactly like Extraction.
Story-wise, Extraction takes place after the event of Outbreak, as the Chimera virus puts the whole country on lockdown. Team Rainbow's efforts to contain the pandemic are uniquely told through environmental storytelling, though this element is not as intuitive as in other games with this element such as SWAT 4, as you can hold F when you see the prompt near those elements and the game will spoon feed you everything. Otherwise, the plot is surprisingly well written and we can appreciate the semi-realism of the scientific side of the game that's seen in all the labs scattered around in the game.
Gameplay-wise, Extraction has a fatal flaw that made it end up as forgotten as it is: while it tries to shift away from the competitive side of Siege, bringing back mechanics like quick leaning; to create something that reminds me a lot of Rainbow Six Vegas 2's terrorist hunt mode, at the same times thematically the enemies you face are the complite opposite of that, being all sci-fi alien zombies that'll mindlessly run towards you to make it easier for you to shoot them in the head when you're detected, completely ruining the immersion created beforehand.
This game should've never existed as an entity outside of Siege, I think it'd have fit WAY more as a game mode even if we sacrificed the story, as the gunplay is exact same as it is in the game, with the exception of silencers functioning in a different way. Something that Outbreak showed was irrelevant years ago. Instead, Extraction plays like a less competitive terrorist hunt game mode for Siege that you have to pay for. I actually think the current, slower gameplay Siege offers would've made an Extraction game mode more appealing and it'd have helped the immersion a lot more.
As its final update arrives, one can only be sad at the potential Extraction had, potential that sadly was never met. This is not a game I suggest buying.