Review: Rainbow Six Extraction is perfect for Game Pass, but is that enough anymore?
It feels like damning with faint praise when you say that a game is perfect for Xbox Game Pass. However, it’s hard to think of a better way to describe Rainbow Six Extraction, and moreover, that’s no bad thing.
Based in the world Rainbow Six Seige, Rainbow Six Extraction trades the hyper-strategic, team-based multiplayer for a three-player survival game in which players must complete an objective in a small area, before moving on to the next. They then can decide whether to extract, earning them some XP, but losing the chance at better rewards in later levels, or to gamble and move on to the next stage.
Players choose from a host of Siege operators, each of which has its own progress bar, and unique abilities. If you die in a level, that operator becomes MIA and you then have to rescue them in a later mission. This adds a sense of tension to harder missions, especially since, as operators each have individual levels, losing your highest level character all but bars the player from tackling the harder missions.
Once they’re rescued, you’ll need to complete full operations in order to heal them, this is to encourage you to level up a wide suite of characters, rather than focussing on getting one to the max level, level 10, which can be done very easily.
There’s also a 30 level progression system, with each level unlocking either a new operator, level or something small like a cosmetic item. Speaking of cosmetic items, Rainbow Six Extraction comes complete with a cosmetic shop which offers skins and other items for your operators that make anything you can earn by simply playing the game feel boring by comparison.
Each area is littered with Archaeans, a zombie-like species that will do its best to interrupt your plans. When you
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