‘Rainbow Six Extraction’ is really good. I don’t believe it either.

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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction

Available on: PC, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna.

When “Rainbow Six Extraction” was first revealed in 2021, the reaction of the Launcher team was skepticism and boredom — if even that. Mostly, it didn’t register at all. A Tom Clancy player-versus-everything game in which teams fight black goo? Yawn. In that moment, watching the premiere E3 2021 trailer, I could not have possibly imagined that I would ever write the sentence that I am writing right now, telling you, the reader, that “Extraction” was not only undeserving of our scorn but is actually quite excellent.

https://youtu.be/Da668e8e5Os

“Extraction” suffers from the opposite issue of a game like “Call of Duty: Vanguard.” The latter title is gorgeous, but as with the idyllic setting of a postmodern horror film, the closer you look, the more apparent it is how dead, dull and evil everything is. “Extraction,” on the other hand, is visibly ugly. A vicious art critic could really sink their teeth into Ubisoft’s house style, which, among other crimes, condemns virtually every interior space to the aesthetic sensibilities of an airport fast food outpost. And the alien threat you’re set against ranges in design from normal goo man, tall goo man, big goo man, hunched over goo man, goo man on all fours, and a slew of similar configurations.

But — wipe away the goo — and there’s an impressive, thoughtful game underneath.

There’s no need for hyperbole. “Extraction” isn’t an early game of the year contender. There’s virtually no story, and the bare-bones cutscenes that are present aren’t really worth taking seriously. I doubt I’ll be playing it in a month. But I don’t need “Extraction” to go on forever, and so, I’ll be rooting for it. Like other recent titles in Ubisoft’s catalogue, it sets up one core gameplay loop and executes compellingly on that vision. When the time comes, I’ll call in the helicopter to airlift me out, and I’ll be more than satisfied with my time spent in “Extraction’s” ugly world.

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