Rainbow Six Extraction Delayed Until 2022

In Rainbow Six: Siege, the most recent entry in Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six series, the aim is to take things nice and carefully. Approach your objective by rounding that corner ever so slightly to avoid being picked off by a guy from Minnesota who got to that corner a couple of seconds before you did. Anyway, to bring that analogy into relevancy, we have to talk about Ubisoft’s upcoming Rainbow Six: Extraction, which they have delayed until January 2022 (as it was originally supposed to release on).

Announced in a short blog post on the Ubisoft website and subsequently posted out on social media, the team behind Rainbow Six: Extraction announced that they would have to delay the game until January of 2022 to deliver on their vision for the game.

Update:

We are delaying the release of Rainbow Six Extraction until January 2022.

We will use this time to ensure that we bring this immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience to life as we prepare to bring you a truly unique Rainbow Six game.

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— Rainbow Six Extraction (@R6Extraction) July 16, 2021

The full post went as follows:

Our ambition with Rainbow Six Extraction is to deliver a full-fledged AAA experience that changes the way you play and think about cooperative games. With unique features like Missing In Action or The Sprawl, every mission is set to be a tense and challenging experience in which you’ll lead the elite operators of Rainbow Six in a fight against a lethal and evolving alien threat.

We are embracing the opportunity to take additional time to bring this vision to life in the way it deserves in January 2022. We are confident this will ensure Rainbow Six Extraction is the immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience we set out to create, and the one you aspire to play.

We look forward to sharing more with you very soon!”

Rainbow Six: Extraction, originally named Rainbow Six: Quarantine before the name was changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was a slight departure from the previous game that saw so much success in the years after its launch, even finding its way onto PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rainbow Six: Extraction offers a more condensed experience, where teams of operators will face off against monsters called the Archeans, and people who have played the Left 4 Dead series and any other co-op shooters will be familiar with the gameplay experience of fighting off hordes of enemies (with Left 4 Dead-style archetypes) to accomplish the objective.

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