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Dominic Tarason

TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles

An overworld boss fight in Defiance, the recently-relaunched MMO looter shooter.

Admit it, we all have an MMO of questionable pedigree that we could happily sink dozens more hours into. Unfortunately for me, mine was Defiance. Yep, the one that ran alongside the moderately popular sci-fi (sorry, SyFy) TV show. Defunct twice over as both a retail game and the F2P relaunch Defiance 2050, it’s now back from the dead once more under new publisher Fawkes Games, and I’ve got my fingers tightly crossed that the new owners will be able to keep it running long into its twilight years—even if they’ve got little planned in the way of fresh content.

For those who didn’t play it when it was originally running, I’d describe Defiance as a massively multiplayer Borderlands, with all the looting, shooting and driving around that entails.

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