Thursday, June 6, 2013
Defiance...... It is a Sci-Fi, third-person shooter as an MMO. On day one, the servers were absolutely terrible because Trion didn't expect that so many individuals would buy this game. If i were making a game with online servers, I would make sure that on day one, there would be enough room on the server for every copy of the game that was created and if you didn't need every server, then close some down. But after a day or two, Trion more than doubled their server, fixing most of the server issues for the Xbox.
So
in the game, you hear of the back story of a huge war that happened
and that most of everything was destroyed and you are one of the
survivors. You get the choice between four different classes, being
the Outlaw, Machinist, Survivalist, and the Veteran. The only
differences I have seen in the different classes are the starting
weapons. I have yet to see and story missions varying from class to
class. The other choice that you have is to make your character
a different race. You have the choice between a human or alien
race. This does nothing but change what your character looks
like. There are also new character races coming out with the
season pass for the game. And like every other MMO out there,
you can change your characters features. Do you want black
hair, blue eyes, etc. There are four skills that you can pick,
consisting of Blur (faster movement and increased melee damage),
Overcharge (increasing the amount of damage your guns for a
short period of time), Decoy (created a copy of yourself to
distract enemies and can be used to teleport to decoy's position),
and my favorite, Cloaking (self explanatory). Along with the Main
Skills, there are many perks that you can use to build your character
to accustom your play style.
As
you start out, like every other game in existence, you have a
tutorial. It teaches you how to move, look around, and to
shoot, all the basics. Then you have your first series of
"Quests" like using the mini map to find lost salvage and
grenades. Then once that is completed, you are taken to
Defiance and meet all of your fellow Ark Hunters. When you're
at the Republic camp, you can see all of other players, and it is
incredible seeing how many people there are at an Ark Fall at 11 pm
Eastern on any given day. This game has its own experience when
you have a massive group of people all attacking the same
objective. Just like every open world game, you have your main missions, side mission, and some other time killing races or horde mode. But the thing that makes this such a great game is that you don't have a limit of how many people can help you. as you do some of the missions, you have other players doing the same mission, making it easier for everyone, as there are a lot of enemies in most missions. The only missions that you have to do by yourself are the Episode missions and the Final mission in each chapter. Those missions are based off of the next airing episode of Defiance. Yes Defiance is a TV show too!!!!! I watched the first episode when it aired and it was great. It tied into the game and explained everything I had questions about from the game. It explained who Nolan was and how the world came to be.
Overall,
this game impressed me. I thought an MMO on the Xbox would be a
terrible idea and had doubts until I started playing it. Yes,
the servers weren't the best on day one, but they are much better and
I have no trouble logging into the game now. I even was able to
recruit one of my friends, Snarf to play, which ended up making my
friend Cees buy the game because he was by himself most nights
playing Gears of War or Halo, while the rest of us were playing
Defiance. Defiance reminds me of a mix of the open world of Fallout
3, the futuristic feel of Mass Effect, and the constant search for
loot of Borderlands.For Defiance, I have to give it an 9 / 10 just for how good the game has been so far and the ability to do almost any mission co-op and the extent of the skill trees and constantly finding better loot and mods.
