Defiance
Defiance puts you in the pilot seat of an experimental LAV-6 SABER, a one-man hovercraft armed with a variety of energy weapons, rockets, and smart-bombs. When a series of tests at a military manufacturing…
Defiance is a shooter developed by Logicware, released 31 October 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Defiance is
Defiance is a shooter game developed by Logicware and released in 1997. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Defiance puts you in the pilot seat of an experimental LAV-6 SABER, a one-man hovercraft armed with a variety of energy weapons, rockets, and smart-bombs. When a series of tests at a military manufacturing plant on the planet Calchon go horribly wrong, you find yourself under attack by hundreds of malformed, biomechanical monsters. You'll have to fight your way to freedom as you discover what exactly happened to bring these creatures to Calchon's doorstep. The actual gameplay of Defiance is a hybrid between a first-person shooter and a vehicle simulator. Unique to the game at the time was the ability to "hop" around levels with limited thruster power. You'll have to use your thrusters to…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Defiance launched on 31 October 1997, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Diddy Kong Racing.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Diddy Kong Racing.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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