Behind its identikit theme and terrible name, XDefiant is the perfect antidote to those tired of Call of Duty’s modern-day bloat

seems to have grasped with the release of it’s newest free-to-play FPS, which incomprehensibly pits nameless mooks from the developer’s collection of franchises against each other in tense player vs player arena brawls that are fast-paced and just the right side of overwhelming.

With only five factions, you can feasibly learn all of their abilities and ultras just by seeing them in play. I haven’t touched a tutorial and have barely read a tooltip, and it’s easy to know that the faction full of lycra-clad ninjas are stealthy, while the guys in bastardised firefighters' gear are here to set me and everyone else I care about on fire.

Otherwise, the game feels compact and nuisance free enough that it’s a breath of fresh air. A sense of overwhelm—a game drowning you in stuff to unlock, experience or beat—feels increasingly ever-present in the live games space, but here things feel more like 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where there’s a few meaningful challenges to get stuck into, but the focus is otherwise rightly on shooting the bad guys.

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