XDefiant is Ubisoft’s latest foray into the free-to-play first-person shooter genre. While many hyped the game up as a “Call of Duty Killer” prior to its release, I have been a little more on the cautious side. Ubisoft has had a knack for chasing game trends and then binning a game in short order when it doesn’t deliver. On top of that, I prefer not to see any one game “killed” by another. I do want to see genuine competition between franchises that invigorates fans to play and fosters creativity and innovation so that the games we love become better with time. Instead, it seems like the teams behind XDefiant are hoping the game can break out exclusively on the absence of skill-based matchmaking.
