Defiance

There is a game releasing next week that I decided to go ahead and pre-order.

It is called Defiance.

This last weekend I was able to jump into there last beta and get a feel for this new mmo shooter/rpg game. Yes I consider this a shooter game.

The beginning of this game takes place on a future/ Armageddon earth.  More specifically the California Bay area.

Here is the general plot below;

"Karl Von Bach, of Von Bach Industries, has announced that he is preparing an expedition, in partnership with the Earth Republic, to the San Francisco Bay Area in search of advanced and valuable arktech and has publicly called for people to join, becoming Ark Hunters, and help him locate what is needed. The expedition suffers disaster when the Stratocarrier EMS New Freedom is mysteriously shot down, killing and wounding many personnel. Von Bach has also gone missing. The Ark Hunters journey across the Bay Area, searching for and helping survivors and attempting to find Von Bach. Helpful locals aid in locating Von Bach, who has located the powerful Ark-Core technology he was searching for, and then the Ark Hunters seek out other connected technology such as the Ark-Matrix. In the end the ark hunters help locate the Gem, a powerful piece of Votan technology, which is promptly stolen by Joshua Nolan"

So you create a ark hunter, either a human or a race called Irathient ( which actually look pretty human to me.) You will then choose your Origin which is your characters basic background and starting weapon. This game doesn't have classes. Instead during your tutorial stage you will choose your main Ability out of the following Blur, cloak, decoy and overcharge. And you will build interchangeable load outs around this.

This game has your main mission story lines and side missions, but it also has challenges and world events.

When this game releases I will try to go into more detail. This game is very intricate. But another thing that makes this stand out from other games is that it is running side by side with a TV show on Syfy. So things that happen in the show will happen in the game and vice versa.