As promised by an earlier tease, Ubisoft has officially revealed Tom Clancy's XDefiant, a multiplayer first-person arena shooter that seems to take cues from other popular online FPSes like Call of Duty. The game is currently still early in development, but its gameplay has already been shown off and its Ubisoft San Francisco team seems to have a very clear grasp on the colorful, irreverent shooter it's developing within the growing Tom Clancy game universe.
Tom Clancy's XDefiant also very evidently is taking a very different approach to the multiplayer FPS genre than sister title Rainbow Six Siege, which is a much more slow, tactical, and (to an extent) serious affair. It's not likely that XDefiant would exist in its current early state were it not for the massive online and esports success of Rainbow Six Siege, as that game seems to have piqued Ubisoft's interest in the live-service multiplayer space and where FPS games fit therein. The 2015 game maintains healthy player counts nearly six years after launch and remains closely supported by Ubisoft in 2021, and the game most recently spawned the now delayed PvE spinoff Rainbow Six Extraction.
Now, Ubisoft's July 19 reveal stream has revealed its upcoming Tom Clancy's XDefiant, a free-to-play game that will pit players against one another in Call of Duty-style twitch shooter combat. The game is planned to grow and evolve over time, and developer Ubisoft San Francisco makes it clear that player feedback will drive the core of what XDefiant eventually becomes at launch and after. Looking to make good on that guarantee, the studio revealed that the game's first beta test will take place on August 5 for PC players in the US and Canada, and players can register at the official Tom Clancy's XDefiant website.
As predicted by an earlier leak of Tom Clancy's XDefiant's premise, players will fight as factions from Splinter Cell (Echelon), The Division (Cleaners and Outcasts), and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (Wolves) in a vibrant and edgy take on the established universe so far. The 6v6 gameplay, while only an early look at Tom Clancy's XDefiant and therefore subject to change before launch, looks to be the fast-paced affair that those familiar with the genre have come to expect. Gunplay looks about as tight as it does in Rainbow Six Siege (if a bit less punchy), and a distinct emphasis on loadout customization and gun selection is placed by Ubisoft.
In what's already a very spoken-for segment of the multiplayer game world, it'll be a challenge for Ubisoft to carve out room for the newly unveiled arena FPS to succeed, but some content creators that got early XDefiant access seem confident in it. Some players may find it refreshing to see a more traditional FPS from a AAA studio amid the still-raging battle royale craze, and a return to the standard genre format could help Tom Clancy's XDefiant to further set itself apart from the crowd.
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