Rainbow Six and zombies? Count me in.
The early 2020s were a liminal space in gaming, and not just because COVID wreaked havoc on our collective lives. Apex Legends was the defiant last stand of battle royales, debuting in 2019 before the genre fatigue hit with full force and no one knew exactly what was next.
From that weird, feverish limbo arose Rainbow Six Extraction, a forlorn spinoff pitting the Rainbow operatives against zombified bioweapons called Archaeans. At its core, Extraction has a solid structure thanks to the gunplay and operators from Rainbow Six Siege, but lacks depth.
The potpourri of Rainbow Six and a Left 4 Dead wannabe makes for a fun way to kill time, but it’s hardly Game of the Year material. Ubisoft ceased development on it just about a year after its release.
Extraction released before every other game added a PvPvE component or tried a “fresh new take” on the genre, when “extraction shooter” was almost another way to say “Escape from Tarkov.” Ubisoft was treading on barely charted waters at the time, muddling through loosely defined tenets of an arcane category.
The result was like a medieval painter drawing a tiger without ever seeing one.
Instead of being an extraction shooter with heavy PvE elements, Ubisoft’s title is a PvE-focused game that slightly borrows from the extraction genre—and even that was a sizable gamble at the time. There’s no scavenging for treasure to flip, no rushing to the exit because you found a rare material needed to improve your base. The stakes just aren’t that high.
Failing to escape instead marks your character as MIA and costs some XP, and getting them back requires a full-scale rescue mission. You get a few mulligans thanks to the game’s impressive 20-operator lineup, even if it means having to bring lower-level reinforcements.
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