Welcome to our review of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction, the game that makes you rethink all you know about shooters.
Assemble a 1- to 3-operator team and risk everything in tense and thrilling incursions in dangerous containment zones. The Chimera Parasite has resurfaced across the US. Join REACT, a specialized organization created to face this new threat!
The Chimera parasite that caused an Outbreak in New Mexico not long ago has suddenly reappeared in multiple sites across the US, deadlier than ever and spreading rapidly. To monitor the parasite and prepare for any future threat, the Rainbow Exogenous Analysis & Containment Team (REACT), a highly specialized and outfitted organization was created.
Almost nothing is known about the evolving parasite, and REACT’s hand-selected operators are the only ones suited to engage, push back, and learn about this deadly new threat. It is your mission to confront the mysterious creatures, known as the Archæans, who are now more lethal than ever before.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction is a game that will make you rethink shooters in such a sneaky way, a lot of you players out there will not even notice the change in pace or playstyle it brings. Personally, I am a rather skilled defensive player in Fortnite with a 20% victory rate in the current season and this defensive playstyle is what made me fall in love with Extraction.
Everything you do, from selecting operators to play with, to how to approach a mission, all becomes a serious tactical decision. Just take selecting a weapon, you get your loadout ready before the match, selecting lighter damage but having a silencer equipped, or will you go in guns blazing and alerting every damn alien in the vicinity?
Personally, I just love sneaking around. I have taken out so many enemies by stabbing them in the back. My preferred gun is one with a single shot so I can hit those efficient headshots and a silencer that preferably has a shock dampening effect. Nothing beats taking out a parasite before they start to alert others in the vicinity.
What I also just love about this game, it is very unpredictable. Sure, there are fixed maps, but I am still to have a similar experience and I am 10+ hours into this game now. Every time, the game offers you up to three consecutive missions and yes, you can back out of them if you feel like your health won’t cut it.
Getting taken down also does not mean you are out for good. The game brings a recovery mission where you get to hopefully rescue the fallen operator. These rescue missions are tough at first, it takes a while to really free up your operator and you do not always get time to just stroll around and free them. Looking around and protecting yourself is equally important and I can not stress this enough, this is tough when taking it on in solo mode. When playing with friends or even strangers, you just need to rely on them to protect you while you free your operator.
Most of the time now, I have been playing solo as my main get to, I just love it. Not that I dislike playing in teams or so, not at all. Games like these, it is all about tactics and if you give me a good team to play with, we will dominate, firing rounds of headshots and just being all out dope. Give me a bad team and it becomes more of a battle for survival, which sadly is also fun, haha. Just give me a good team though…
What I really liked most, the sensory approach to the parasites is amazing, you can visually or audibly sense where aliens are, making the game less jump scare and more about anticipating and being tactically skilled. I just loved it.
When I played the hands-on demo first, I was pitted in with a skilled player and a fellow journalist that was most definitely also skilled in shooters, I felt the game was on the tougher side, but the more I play, the better I get and the more I truly enjoy this game. I see other reviewers break down the game but I wonder if they really played the same game as me…
In conclusion, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction is awesome and I can recommend it for everyone to try when it hits Game Pass or just outright buy it if you like tactical shooters!
