It requires a different kind of (more formal) communication skills though. Of course you need to be able to report your progress, your obstacles, work out requirements, and discuss who is going to do what. This could be through IRC or through Skype or whatever...

However it is completely different from an "extraverted team environment" in which you're expected to be social and cheerful about all kinds of unrelated stuff.

I never worked in a remote project, but for me it is easier to communicate via email/chat than by talking to people because the asynchronous way gives me more time to think about what I want to say.