Bungie's former director of product management for Marathon, Chris Sides, recently took to a podcast to complain about the game's genre name, calling the title 'extraction shooter' "so bad," and saying that he was "dying to create a new genre name" while working at the company.
Speaking on the Shooter Monthly Podcast (thanks, The Game Post), Sides calls the title extraction shooter "the only genre name based on a mechanic." The mechanic he's referring to is the extraction from the arenas at the end of a game or match, but you could equally say that you drive in driving games, fight in fighting games, and platform in platforming games, so this comment might not have been fully thought through.
