![]() There are different characters within each faction, but they're purely cosmetic (and therefore meaningless in my book). If the intention was to promote interest in all these other Ubisoft titles, then surely you could have these factions a tad more inspiring? Choose your flavour of generic FPS role! We've got vanilla, double vanilla, vanilla lite.Įach faction has a passive trait, an Ultimate ability (called an Ultra), and two quite similar abilities to choose between per life. Tell me, Ubisoft - did anyone actually ask for this? Of course the idea isn't intrinsically bad, but it certainly makes you question the decision when each of these factions has been reduced to a stereotypical FPS role. And Deadsec are the hackers, from Watch Dogs. Phantoms, from Ghost Recon, are your tanks. Libertad hails from the Far Cry series, they're your support characters. ![]() Then there's the Cleaners from The Division - they're the DPS. You've got the Echelon, from Splinter Cell - they're the flankers. A free-to-play first-person game with several familiar arena and escort-style modes, a bunch of three-lane maps, a medley of familiar guns and attachments, and - brace yourself for the fascinating twist - five factions (read: classes), each one taken from a different Ubisoft game series. Essentially, this is the vanilla ice cream of arena shooters. Clean movement, solid gunplay, easy to dive into. According to executive producer Mark Ruban, XDefiant was the result of their desire to reignite players' love for classic fast-paced arena shooters. Our time with XDefiant was prefaced by a short prerecorded livestream introducing us to the game and the philosophy underpinning its development. ![]() ![]() It's opted for the second path, and having played several matches against a medley of press people and content creators, I'm not convinced Ubisoft's new arena shooter is up to the challenge. XDefiant has to either give players something completely different, or absolutely nail the basics. That's some unbelievably tough competition. Apex Legends, Warzone 2, Overwatch 2, Valorant, Rainbow Six Siege. More than anything, I was impressed at just how good we have it in the multiplayer FPS genre at the moment. After two hours of XDefiant, I came away with a rather different thought in my mind than I expected. ![]()
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