Defiance
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Moderate profanity appears in mission dialogue and cutscenes.
Realistic third-person gunfire and explosives against human, alien, and mutant enemies with blood effects; no gore or dismemberment.
As a free-to-play title it sold currency, boosts, cosmetics, and randomized 'lock boxes' that granted weapons and gear.
Drugs and alcohol are referenced in dialogue and the game's post-war setting.
Backdrop of a devastating human-alien war, planetary terraforming, mass extinction, and survival in a ruined San Francisco Bay Area.
Outlaw factions raid and loot, and hostile human raider groups are fought as enemies.
Mutated beasts and alien creatures are shot as ordinary combat enemies.
Mission dialogue and NPC banter include suggestive sexual remarks and flirtation between characters. No sexual activity is shown and there is no nudity.
Optional paid boosts and shop items exist but are not required to progress.
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What it is
Defiance is a free-to-play online third-person shooter set on a future Earth reshaped by alien terraforming after a human-alien war, tied to the Syfy television series. Playing as an 'Ark Hunter' in the San Francisco Bay Area, you use guns, grenades, special abilities, and vehicles to fight human raiders, alien enemies, and mutated creatures while completing missions and joining large public events alongside many other players. Content is mainly realistic ranged combat with blood, moderate profanity in the story dialogue, and a war-scarred, post-apocalyptic setting. As an online game it includes chat with strangers, and it historically offered a real-money store with boosts, cosmetics, and randomized lock boxes.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as a treasure-hunting mercenary and reluctant hero fighting to survive and profit in a hostile world, with combat treated as heroic, rewarded action against clearly hostile enemies; violence is stylized action-adventure rather than grim or graphic, and the war-and-survival backdrop is presented as adventure rather than dwelt on darkly.
Details
- Developer
- Trion Worlds
- Publisher
- Trion Worlds
- Released
- Jun 4, 2014
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