Are you excited to play Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, the next mainline installment in the Rainbow Six franchise developed by Ubisoft?
Ubisoft has revealed more details about Rainbow Six Extraction’s many features, including a deep operator progression system, four adjustable difficulty levels, 12 ever-evolving maps, 13 dynamic mission objectives, over 90 guns and gadgets, a unique ranked mode, and extensive post-launch support for free, to be detailed at a later date.
“Hey, everyone. We are excited to give you a closer look at Rainbow Six Extraction. In this co-op PVE experience, elite Rainbow Six operators take on a new terror: the Archæans,” the voiceover tells us in the official gameplay overview trailer.
Unique dynamic modifiers
With development led by Ubisoft Montreal, Rainbow Six Extraction lets players join the REACT Team and assemble a one to three-player squad of well-known and beloved operators from Rainbow Six Siege to confront mysterious alien creatures known as Archæans.
Equipped with more than 65 weapons, 10 legacy Rainbow Six Siege tech, and 15 exclusive REACT tech, the operators have been adapted to best take on the alien threat. For players new to Rainbow Six who want to go at their own pace, Extraction is also fully playable solo.
Players will deploy into four varied regions across the US, including New York, San Francisco, and two other regions, and face the alien threat in 12 all-new, unpredictable maps.
Each map is roughly three times the size of previous Rainbow Six Siege maps, and contains unique dynamic modifiers, ensuring no incursion is ever the same. Tackle 13 different mission objectives during tactical incursions, including one called the Gateway Objective, in which players must face off against a Protean — a deadly Archæan variant that has adopted the form of REACT operators and mimics their behavior.
Archæan variants
The game includes 13 archetypes of dangerous Archæan variants, infestations, parasitic mutation challenges, numerous incursion types, and exciting new gameplay features including nests, spores, and Sprawl. Extraction also offers players who enjoy a challenge a thrilling gamble: extract and collect their rewards or go deeper into each map’s subzones, facing greater risks with richer rewards for those who make it out alive. If they fail to extract, their operator will go missing in action, but they have an opportunity to go back into the containment zone to rescue their downed operators. For players who enjoy a tougher challenge, there will be a feature-rich PVE system called Maelstrom Protocol, to be detailed at a later date.
Players who play both Rainbow Six Siege and Rainbow Six Extraction will instantly unlock Extraction’s entire roster of 18 operators in Rainbow Six Siege and will receive the elite United Front cosmetic bundles in both games.
Players who pre-order Rainbow Six Extraction will receive the Orbital Decay bundle with exclusive Epic items, including the Orion uniform and headgear for Finka and Lion, the universal Vaporized weapon skin, and the Crashlander charm. Rainbow Six Extraction will also include live service support with regular content updates.
Rainbow Six Extraction will release worldwide with full cross-play, cross-save, and cross-progression in January 2022 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and the Ubisoft Store on Windows PC.
