Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction Reviews
Rainbow Six Extraction can offer you a solid gameplay foundation, and many hours of fun tactical action. But beware that you won't get this experience solo - you'll need a group of friends. Another matter is the question of Extraction continued support, because the starting pack of 12 maps can get old really fast.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Rainbow Six Extraction is a nice surprise that does not lack character. The proposal is bold since the game takes the tactical aspect of the license and mixes it with gameplay elements inspired by roguelite.
Review in French | Read full review
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction is a thoroughly competent shooter. It’s a good companion piece to, but not replacement for, Siege. Though it’s best when played with a three Operator squad, it’s still functional as a single player game, though pretty challenging and not super rewarding as a solo experience. I enjoyed the mechanics of the Incursion missions, and learning the maps. Though the alien designs lacked originality, fighting them was still engaging. It was a nice break from combat with humans. I wish there was more to the package at launch, like a real campaign and characters to care about, not just avatar Operators to level up. Still, alone or with a couple of friends, Rainbow Six Extraction meets or exceeds the expected amount of fun. I wish it tried to do more.
Ubisoft Montreal's attempt at a cooperative alien survival shooter takes the operators and abilities that players love from Rainbow Six Siege and brings them into a familiar style of shooter that longtime fans of Left 4 Dead or GTFO can appreciate with a squad of friends
Rainbow Six Extraction boasts satisfying gameplay and some interesting meta-game systems, but is bogged down by its repetitive missions.
Rainbow Six Extraction offers players a surprisingly new experience, a more stealthy take on co-op shooters than is found in the competition. With blistering difficulty, tension to spare, and a delicious argument-inducing bug out mechanic, Extraction uses shooter mechanics in ways that feel utterly unique and original. Perhaps a bit light on content, but we all know that more will come in time. A stress-filled creepy good time, even for non-shooter fans.
Extraction is certainly worthy of the Rainbow Six moniker, I just don't know if it will be laying Siege to the other game's fanbase anytime soon.
In the end, this is a fundamentally a grind-heavy game, as players rerun the same 12 mission types over and over again in various locations, slowly unlocking new lore about the alien forces. But by introducing difficulty “mutation” modifiers and offering a wide variety of team compositions, Rainbow Six Extraction is able to mask its most routine elements and continue, even at lower difficulties, to keep players excitedly on their toes.
Rainbow Six Extraction might be one of the most trite co-op shooters of recent memory. Testament to the fact that making an enjoyable PvE shooter is a little harder than simply rehashing a seasonal event, it's hard to see where the effort went. Shallow, scant, and lacking any soul whatsoever, it's as bland as the black goo that adorns its promotional material.
Rainbow Six Extraction manages to create some unique and interesting concepts, but most of the time it often feels like another generic shooter. This new spinoff just doesn't have anything that makes it stand out from most shooter out there, and I beleive even Siege players won't even be interested in this game for too long.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
All Siege fans, including Outbreak fans, will immediately feel at home and will be able to enjoy a fun-intensive experience, especially playing in the company of friends, thanks to the presence in the package of a Buddy Pass. We can also not ignore the inclusion of Extraction since day one in the game pass catalog (PC, console and cloud), a not insignificant factor that will significantly expand the user base and facilitate the search for a game on all platforms thanks to cross-play.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Rainbow Six Extraction can entertain really well in co-op rounds, but wears out noticeably over time.
Review in German | Read full review
With all this and with the purest essence of Rainbow Six plus the additions that Extraction brings, we are facing a shooter that will delight everyone. Fun to play, easy to learn but difficult to master, a beastly co-op and a game mode that allows us to play new missions recurrently without falling into monotony or excessive repetition. One of those games that leave you wanting more, to play one more game when you have to leave it already and those that make you and your companions talk about when you go out on a new mission. Undoubtedly, a success on the part of Ubisoft that, once again, leaves us with a great title to enjoy.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Ubisoft's PvE shooter fails to extract the best out of Rainbow Six Siege's gameplay mechanics, and the result is a repetitive, mostly bland co-op assignment.
Rainbow Six Extraction is good fun when playing in co-op with friends. The tactical shooter gameplay just feels right for this PvE experience and Rainbow Six’s long list of Operators feel right at home with varied, useful abilities that each come into their own for different playstyles.
In its current state, Rainbow Six Extraction feels like an excellent expansion pack to Rainbow Six Siege, or the starting point of a free-to-play game with a bright future. But I just don’t believe the content in Extraction currently justifies its high upfront cost, especially when you have to spend even more money to unlock cosmetic items.
Rainbow Six: Extraction is challenging and engaging. However its narrative is borderline useless and the core gameplay is highly demanding to players not used to the genre.
Rainbow Six Siege starts out strong owing to tactical gameplay and frantic moments. Sadly, the grind becomes tedious down the line. Worse, there's a lack of incentives to keep you excited for the endgame.
Rainbow Six Extraction is a refreshing addition to the co-op shooter genre that ditches endless horde slaying for refined, tactical, and stealthy gameplay. With enough support and new content, Extraction could set a new benchmark for co-op games.