On the heels of Tarkov's worst week ever, a new rival extraction shooter is looking to woo its disgruntled audience

Tactical FPS Gray Zone Warfare is set to launch in early access tomorrow⁠. It's an exciting release given this shooter's mashup of Arma-style milsim realism and extraction gameplay, but the recent upheaval around Escape From Tarkov's monetization catastrophe has all eyes on Gray Zone as a potential Tarkov killer.

There's plenty of other heat in the extraction shooter realm right now, but Tarkov carved out a special niche with its highly realistic, modern military aesthetic and gameplay: time to kill in Tarkov is extremely fast...