XDefiant

XDefiant pitches teams of six players against each other in a variety of extremely familiar game types, such as Occupy, where players seek to seize a sequence of lone control points, and Domination, where they attempt to seize three control points at once. As in Activision’s long-running hit Overwatch, the visuals are bright and sunny, almost cartoon-like, and the locations are compact, like discrete areas in some sort of homicidal theme park. When you’re playing the Escort mode, where one team has to nudge a robotic vehicle through the map, it’s so similar to the Escort mode in Overwatch you’ll be continually struck with deja vu as you play. On top of that, the different classes of selectable characters (or factions as they’re called here) are so distinct and specifically powered, they’re much more like the individual heroes of Overwatch than the interchangeable spec-ops hard nuts of the latest Call of Duty titles.