MMO Blog

Red 5's shooter Firefall has recently received another major update which has brought mankind on the verge of extinction. How? Well, the Chosen are now raiding every watch tower and they are getting more and more aggressive attacking Accord facilities. In order to protect the facilities and keep the evil forces of The Chosen outside, players need to equip their battleframes and join in for random events. Seriously folks, I have seen over 20 Chosen units at one watch tower and it was very hard to protect the tower.

Defiance, first and foremost, is a console MMO, and for that purpose it is going to be brilliant. It’s a strong shooter with some very arcade-y takes on the MMO genre. The lack of any adherence to the “rules” of the MMORPG means that Defiance seems far more accessible that the average MMO, and with a single purchase, no subscription, I can see it being a big hit. It might actually do the impossible and bring the MMO to the console masses. The PC version, then, is almost certainly at risk of becoming little more than a distant cousin, especially once you take into account how many similar games are already available to the core MMO gamer.