It means that, instead of clearing all three zones, extracting early and keeping all the experience you’ve currently accumulated, even if it’s a smaller pot, can be a smart option if the mission seems to be going south.Ĭompounding this choice is the fact that operators retain health and tech zone to zone. To regain the experience and operator you lost, you’ll need to replay the exact incursion where you went missing-in-action using a different operator and successfully save your first character from the Archaeans. But if your operator falls in battle, you’ll not only lose experience, but the operator you were playing as will become captured by the Archaeans–removing the option to use that character.
If you complete an incursion, you’ll earn huge amounts of experience, potentially increasing the strength of your operators and unlocking new tech that you can bring into follow-up incursions. It’s up to you and your team to decide whether you go for broke and complete all three zones in a single incursion, or choose to extract from the mission early. As you progress, the difficulty of each zone increases, adding more enemy Archaeans and better rewards for completing objectives. In Extraction, squads of three are sent into “incursions.” Each incursion, a mission into an area infested by the Archaeans, is divided into three sub-zones, with your objective changing zone to zone. It’s a compelling gameplay loop, one made far more fun if you have two friends to jump into the fray with you.Īs opposed to the player-vs.-player engagements of Siege, Extraction is entirely player-vs.-environment. Yeah, you’re fighting aliens, but a successful mission is still entirely dependent on teamwork, communication, and your ability to adapt to difficult situations. This is a bit more otherworldly in comparison to the more earthly concerns that Rainbow usually fights against, but the core gameplay tenets that define the Rainbow Six games are present in Extraction. In Extraction, select members of international counter-terrorism unit Rainbow are called in to form REACT, a team tasked with studying and fighting against parasitic aliens called Archaeans.
Teamwork won the day for us–and that satisfying sense of camaraderie is Extraction’s greatest hook.Ī spin-off of Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft Montreal’s team-based first-person shooter Extraction doesn’t initially present as your typical Rainbow Six game. We discussed the pros and cons of our operators’ unique gadgets, made plans to take subsequent incursions at a more careful pace, and promised to stick together until the mission was finished. But we persevered after our initial failure. And yet, we’d cleared an incursion without a single operator going down, playing a mission that just an hour before had been too challenging for us to even get a third of the way through. Even on the easier difficulties, missions had proven to be brutal. I couldn’t help but pump my arm and mutter a “hell yes” as my squad finished up our first successful incursion in Rainbow Six Extraction. Though progression feels too closely tied to a mediocre challenge system, Rainbow Six Extraction offers fun incursions against a parasitic alien threat and rewards teamwork.
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