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Two years ago, XDefiant was announced and then swiftly rebuked by the internet. Now it's back with no Tom Clancy name, a more serious tone, and a closed beta.

It can't be easy to spend years working on a game, get pumped to finally announce it, and be met with the resounding"lmao" from every corner of the internet, but such was the case of"It's fast-paced firefights meet punk rock mosh pits," proclaimed Ubisoft in its first trailer drenched in cel-shaded models and colorful graffiti.

The problem is that XDefiant is a perfectly fine shooter in a time when"fine" is a bare minimum. To me, FPSes are as much about the little things as the big things. Infinity Ward and its army of contributing studios have gotten unbelievably good at the little things. I gushed forabout the sounds and reload animations of one revolver in Modern Warfare 2.

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