Episode 33: Check this shtako out! New Defiance episodes
Syfy's brand new show (and video game) Defiance is working its way into its first season, with plenty of explosions and knife-fights and intrigue and aliens and humans and lost astronauts and creepy family bathing rituals and occasional girl-on-girl action. Join Post-Apodaclypse hosts Tim Watts and Michael O'Connell as they walk you through episodes 5 though 8. Let's do this shtako!
I've been playing Defiance on Xbox since day one, and I've been loving it. But I'm not really much of a gamer in general; Defiance is my first MMO, and the only other shooters I've finished are Borderlands and Borderlands 2, so I don't have much to compare the experience to.
ReplyDeleteBut that being said, Defiance is definitely my new hobbie. I've finished the 40 main story missions, and the 60 or 80 side missions, but there are tons of pursuits and achievements to go after, and they let you replay the story, so there's always something to do.
Yes, I see lots of complaints of bugs or missing features, but I haven't noticed any of that myself. There's a lot of content in the game that's designed to tie in to the show. Some of it is pretty shallow, but there have been a few sets of missions that are directly related to events in the show that have been pretty cool, and in the game we got to deal with the plague afflicted when they went to stage four and basically turned into zombies.
If you're new to the game or haven't yet started it, you won't be able to play all of the tie in content, but they do have what they call "rewind events" every so often, where they'll let you play the episode missions if you haven't already.
Overall, I'm happy enough with the game myself, and I'm really looking forward to the DLC coming at the end of July.
If anyone else is playing on Xbox, look me up. My gamertag is PostApoc and my in-game name is Rockatansky.
Oh, and if you're looking for more of the Defiance lore, check out this interactive map they put out - http://www.defiance.com/en/series/world-of-2046/2046-map