![]() ![]() We were very surprised to get diamond so easily and wondered if we were really just that good. For the second week, I played with a full squad who I know is pretty good. I have received diamond for maelstrom both the second and third week, and the only reason I did not on the first was that I only played it once because I was focusing on the normal missions. Secondly, maelstrom, while more difficult than critical, is way too lenient. Yes, I do know that sometimes in critical and even the lower difficulties, enemies seem to spawn in massive hoards and are too much to take on without getting downed a couple of times, but in general, critical seems like a walk in the park. Maybe in those, you have multiple mutations per incursion or more easily disturbed nests or something, but there needs to be another step up from critical. I believe that there should be one or maybe two higher difficulties than critical. I do know that the assignment and maelstrom are generally supposed to be harder, but that's not enough. Only doing such, I 100% all of the areas and reached milestone 30 quite quickly. Sure it's harder than severe and the other lower ones, but after learning how to play a little bit, I did only critical for all of my missions. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction is out on 20 January £45.I do have a lot of experience with r6 gameplay, but I progressed way too quickly through both the difficulty rankings and maelstrom protocol ranks.įirst off, critical is not hard enough. There are plenty of co-op shooters on the market, and some intriguing titles on the way (Sons of the Forest, Gotham Knights, Redfall), but Extraction has military gadgets, dank horror and heart-stopping stealth, and those are qualities that, although not original, make for a heck of a game. ![]() Playing with two pals is the optimum experience, but you can choose to be placed with strangers or to go it alone – in which case it becomes a survival horror experience akin to the more shooty Resident Evil titles. The soundtrack, too, is excellent, a mix of John Carpenter-esque synth tracks and spooky cello sonatas that really immerse you in the fiction. This is an enthralling strategy shooter with thorough world-building, a well-balanced progression system and atmospheric locations. Clearly, the developers of Extraction saw the old Oscar Wilde quote – “talent borrows, genius steals” – and nicked it for their design document.īut honestly, it doesn’t matter. The rescue sequence involves you yanking the character from a horrible gooey tree-monster before it consumes them – an idea surely inspired by co-op horror title Dead By Daylight. When operatives are incapacitated during a mission, they’re left behind and you have to go back and rescue them on a later incursion. ![]() The interplay between tense exploration and these moments of loud, lethal action is extremely well-handled, and trying to complete an objective when you’re all on 1% of health and you can hear the aliens breathing nearby is genuinely nerve-shredding stuff.Īs if that wasn’t enough pressure, there’s an extra resurrection mechanic ripped from the roguelite genre. ![]() You’re not just hunting and shooting the aliens, you’re investigating their biology and using it to create new defences (which is very XCOM), but occasionally a mission will require you to defend a key section for several seconds as the monsters team toward you, which feels very like zombies, or any frenzied horde mode shooter. What it feels like then is a tactical co-op shooter crossed with Call of Duty’s zombie mode crossed with the XCOM turn-based strategy games. When you complete a sub-zone you get awarded a bunch of points for completing tasks and doing extra challenges, and all this goes toward levelling up your equipment and researching handy new gadgets such as claymores and scan grenades, which highlight all the enemies in an area. Locations are dark and twisty and multilevelled and, as in Siege, there are walls you can smash down and doorways you can barricade in order to control the flow of the action. The zones themselves take in everything from New York hotels to San Francisco punk clubs and Alaska refineries. The key is to take things slowly and carefully … Rainbow Six Extraction. ![]()
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