Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is being developed by an entirely new team at Ubisoft Montreal, who were inspired by the long-standing brand legacy of tactical co-op shooters and the varied cast of operators from Rainbow Six Siege, to develop something that is truly more than the sum of its parts.

The Rainbow operators face off against a totally new breed of mutated alien parasite. Infecting human hosts and their surroundings, this new enemy is more lethal and challenging than ever before.

Prepare to launch into tense, chaotic and totally unpredictable missions as you and your squad risk everything every time you step into Quarantine.

Formerly titled Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Quarantine, Rainbow Six Extraction is being led by a seasoned team of veterans at Ubisoft Montreal. Inspired by the long-standing legacy of co-op Rainbow Six shooters, Rainbow Six Extraction is a brand new tactical co-op PvE experience bringing operators together to fight against a mysterious threat.

Three years ago, in the quaint town of Truth and Consequences, a meteor crashed down on a New Mexico community, releasing an unknown parasite. A handful of operators from Rainbow Six Siege seemingly contained the initial outbreak – until the Chimera parasite reappeared in multiple sites across the U.S., deadlier than ever. To take on this threat, the Rainbow Exogenous Analysis & Containment Team (REACT), a highly specialized and outfitted organization was formed by Eliza “Ash” Cohen, Dr. Elena “Mira” Álvarez, and Jordan “Thermite” Trace.

For decades, Team Rainbow has been the shield against the worst global threats imaginable: hostage situations, biological weapons, the threat of nuclear war. But now, we face the greatest terror our world has ever known: a lethal, mutating alien threat.

Rainbow Leader Ash has recruited an elite global team of Rainbow Six Operators best suited to the task to form REACT (Rainbow Exogenous Analysis and Containment Team).

Called the Archaeans, this alien parasite has taken over four key regions in the United States: New York, San Francisco, Alaska, and New Mexico. Your objective is to head into these regions, gather intelligence within their three contaminated zones, push back the Archaean threat, and extract your squad safely.

The most important question that you will have to ask yourself while playing Rainbow Six Extraction is, “How far am I willing to go?” Whether you’re playing by yourself in solo mode or with two of your friends in co-op, every incursion is different thanks to dynamic objectives, Archaeans, and challenges to overcome. As you progress through a map’s three zones, you will always have the chance to extract and bank all the experience you’ve gained so far. If you decide to push forward and take on harder challenges, you can gain bigger rewards, but pushing further into the Archaean-infested zones increases the difficulty and the chance you won’t make it out.

The XP you gain from successfully completing objectives and extracting your Operator fuels your global milestone progression, allowing you to unlock new maps, Operators, REACT tech, customization items and more.

What happens if you fail to extract your Operator? They will go Missing in Action (MIA), locking your ability to play as them until you mount a rescue mission. Don’t worry, if you are unable to complete the rescue mission you will still get the Operator back, but you risk losing all the progression you’ve made with that specific Operator.

If you’re a fan of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Extraction introduces a whole new way to play with the Operators you love. Operator progression will change the way you utilize each Operator’s skill set. The experience gained from successfully extracting from incursions advances their unique gadgets, weapons, and abilities in new and exciting ways. Make sure you use these new tools to take on the harder challenges that await you. 

For more competitive players, Maelstrom Protocol is a ranked mode that offers you and your team intense, escalating challenges and top tier rewards. The Protocol is updated every season, ensuring fresh endgame content. Additionally, Rainbow Six Extraction will offer free, regularly updated post-launch content. 

While we’re not ready to divulge all the details yet, we hope that you’ll stay tuned for more information as we get closer to launch day.

For those playing on PlayStation 5, we want you to know that we’re taking advantage of the awesome, immersive features that your console provides. We’ve developed Rainbow Six Extraction on PS5 with an intense focus on three pillars: 

• Deep Immersion and Control: Haptic feedback and Adaptive Triggers are at your fingertips, putting the intensity and tactical precision of being a REACT Operator right in your hands. 
• Visual Feast: Experience the game at its best at 4K resolution at 60FPS with full HDR support. Beautiful particle effects, crisp lighting and shadows, and volumetric fog in HDR will plunge you deeper into the containment zones. 
• Speed and Immediacy: Get ready for a smooth playing experience with minimal loading times between incursions, as well as map and texture streaming with support for the ultra-high-speed SSD inside the PlayStation 5.  

In Extraction, players will 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 the Archæans. After completing each objective, players must make a difficult choice: extract and collect their rewards or push deeper to face tougher enemies and earn greater rewards in a chaotic and intense experience. This gamble could mean temporarily losing one of their operators who are caught Missing in Action (MIA) within the containment zone. To recover an MIA operator, players must squad up and risk it all in a rescue mission.

Choose from 18 Rainbow Six operators, each equipped with specialized REACT gear, weapons, gadgets, and abilities to learn and master, lending to highly replayable and immersive gameplay. The uniqueness and different playstyle of each operator allows for limitless options in customizing a roster; striking the right balance on each REACT squad will be the key to success. Deploying into unpredictable containment zones with strategic loadouts will be integral to gathering the intel needed to stop the alien threat.

Set in four regions across the U.S., containment zones are aggressively dominated by the parasite, creating an evolving and unstable ecosystem within their walls. With a selection of 12 uniquely designed maps featuring plenty of challenges, infestations, and enemies who increase in difficulty, the dangers are constantly evolving. The deeper players go into each map, the richer the rewards, but greater the risks their squad will face.

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, a value of approximately $40. The Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition of Rainbow Six Extraction are available for pre-order now. 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.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Amazon Luna, Google Stadia, and PC (Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games Store) as well as Ubisoft+ on January 2022.