The Defiant, a Story-Driven, Single-Player WWII FPS, Announced for PC and Consoles

Developer Hoothanes and steadfast 4Divinity person announced The Defiant, an upcoming story-driven, cinematic, single-player World War II-set first-person shooter that sees players instrumentality portion successful China’s War of Resistance against Japan.

Powered by Unreal Engine 5 and created by "a seasoned squad of filmmakers and crippled developers," according to its publisher, The Defiant intelligibly aims to premix things up from the accustomed WWII FPS fare we've seen a 100 times now. "Missions displacement fluidly betwixt stealth infiltration, close-quarters firefights, sniping, municipality espionage, code-breaking operations, vehicular combat, and abrupt large-scale assaults," 4Defiant said. Check retired the archetypal trailer supra and the archetypal screenshots successful the assemblage below.

The Defiant's developers said they're aiming to convey a reverence for history, noting that "weapons successful The Defiant are treated arsenic humanities artefacts, not conscionable tools" and that the run "aims to reframe however the FPS genre approaches history, offering a position seldom seen successful interactive entertainment." The squad added, "The crippled unfolds crossed occupied villages, frozen forests, fortified proviso routes, and enemy-controlled municipality zones, wherever each situation is shaped by the realities of guerrilla warfare and endurance down force lines."

You tin wishlist The Defiant connected Steam if you're interested.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our monthly(-ish) interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.