Rainbow Six Extraction really_ really blows (Review) Part 2

 with a beginning and an end and specific beats and standard moments, extraction is not like that. The easiest way to think of extraction is like a PvP game when you replace human opponents with really dumb zombie aliens, so there are four regions and each one has four maps and you basically just press the quick play button to go to to play. You can select individual maps if you wish, but most of the time you just blindly press the quickplay button, which will randomly drop you onto a random map. These maps aren't sequenced, structured, curated maps, they're basically just multiplayer maps full of indescribable ones , reusable areas that can be used on any random objective you randomly get and that's no exaggeration, ok sometimes you load into a map and you click on five things that are very close to your spawn point, and then go to the exit which is the mission. It's over in less than 15 seconds. You spend more time preparing your character before D deploy and then waiting in the airlock than playing the actual game which is a more extreme example but most of the objectives are similar to this there is a pool of maybe eight objective types and some of them are so easy it's even ridiculous The highest difficulty we've played through these goals is so easy it feels like a complete waste of time, the goal design itself just isn't interesting at first, and once you get there once you learn how this game works, you can do most of it with your eyes closed because there isn't enough variability in the objective design of the map design or the design of the enemy to make each encounter unique and interesting. For 15 hours my memories of this game are just one big amorphous veil because every moment was exactly the same every other moment the easiest the hardest

difficulty this goal this goal the alaska map the new mexico map it all felt the same when i saw the reveal of this game which i really envisioned like curated structured sequenced missions like the old rainbow six games but also like contemporary co-op shooters like Left 4 Dead or Back for Blood or Aliens Fire Team Elite, none of that is here, it's just really phoned multiplayer style, awkwardly grafted onto a PVE framework, it sucks, even if Taking it on its own premise, other games have done this so much better, as does Deep Rock Galactic, for example, resemble the Extraction in that it has no story or scripted missions and

At this point you can unlock the second, the third, and finally the fourth. It takes about four to five hours of gameplay to beat these two bottom difficulties, and they're so devastatingly easy that I really expect most people will just ditch this game because they present so little challenge, people just will be that you can just brutally fight your way through objectives on these difficulties and I would actually say the game doesn't work on these difficulties because this brute force style of the game is so contrary to what this game is At least most of the time things improve when you reach the third and fourth difficulties. At this point you can't just run in and aggro everything because you need to be overwhelmed take things slow, explore your surroundings, plan your approach and work as a team. You have to be tactical here because when you play this like Left 4 Dead it doesn't work most of the time, but even then at these highest d there are still so many things that ruin this experience. These really easy objectives I listed earlier are an example that you can complete some missions in seconds and it's like you made it through tests. You can learn very quickly how easy it is to take down most enemy types and arrive at strategies and loadouts that trivialize some of the more challenging objectives. The Scout Drone for example can just light up every single target on the map as you scroll through so you don't even have to press a button to mark them BTW it literally just marks them automatically and then you can see them all with x-ray vision, reducing the need to get your eyes around the oh boy, they're just flashbangs as you get so many of them and they allow you to kill even the biggest and most dangerous enemies instantly

The game sure works on these difficulties, it's just that the solutions to each of the objectives and enemy types are universal, and you just get a rhythm with how you do everything and then just go through all the moves over and over again Completed standard missions on the hardest difficulty and we didn't feel like playing more, there are two additional game modes, although you can see those alright, so the first one is called Wall-to-Wall and that's essentially just one Zombie Horde mode in standard maps you can prevent enemies from spawning, but in these maps enemies just come at you in endless waves. It's available in the hardest difficulty only we did it on our first try maybe our second it's just super mindless how the beauty of the siege was these operators and their kits and the levels and the excitement and the strategy, all of that is completely thrown out the window in this game mode, it's just mindless shooting, sure it's different, but it's the opposite of what the rest is when this game is trying to be, and when none of your gaming systems is designed for that, then yes of course it won't work, by the way this isn't the only example of there being boss encounters in the main missions where you fight doppelganger operators as you know them, an alien version of sleds or smoke or alibi or whatever these bosses are just bullet sponges that's all they are as if this whole game is trying to get you to go slow and method ish and being careful and strategic, but then all of a sudden it throws an enemy at you that you have right now