Rainbow Six Extraction | Critical Consensus

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Danielle Partis

News Editor

Thursday 20th January 2022

Today sees the release of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction, an online multiplayer FPS and a spin-off of Ubisoft's long-running tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege.

Originally released as a limited-time event for Siege, Extraction takes multiple elements from the team-based title to create a survival game, in which teams of three have to contain an alien life form. The team has to move to three different areas to complete the mission, and complete one objective in each, ranging from rescue missions to destroying monster nests.

While not an immediate comparison, Rainbow Six Siege, released in 2015, has a score of 79 on Metacritic. As of writing, Extraction sits a few points behind with a score of 75.

"Extraction is very much a traditional co-op shooter augmented by the sublime mechanics Ubisoft mastered in the ever-popular Siege," said Luke Winkie in their 7/10 IGN review.

Winkie called this approach a "no brainer" and said "Extraction is a chance to enjoy Siege's one-of-a-kind gunplay in a slower-paced environment."

"I really liked mastering each of the dozen objective types and maps, but missions start to get samey really fast"

Morgan Park, PC Gamer

Jake Tucker echoes this in his 4/5 NME review, paying particular attention to the game's destruction engine, which lets players destroy the environment as they play.

The things Rainbow Six Siege did well are also strengths for Extraction," he said. "This nonsense basically gives you the opportunity to pop a few walls, making you feel like a badass, which is always the hallmark of a good co-op game.

But while the similarities between the Siege and Extraction work in favour of the latter, it has led critics to question whether