‘We are not an extraction shooter, hero shooter, or some competitive tac shooter:’ Cyberpunk FPS Defect’s secret fourth thing actually has me excited for a PvEvP game for once [Video]

I felt like I went on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster with the reveal trailer for Defect. A gritty, grungy cyberpunk shooter with Lore and a soundtrack from Mick Gordon of neo-Doom fame: The crowd cheers. Then I get to the line “Play with your friends in PvP or co-op:” The crowd boos. But after hearing some more about the game from Emanuel Palalic, game director at developer emptyvessel? Well, the crowd might just be cheering again.

“We are not an extraction shooter, hero shooter, or some competitive tac shooter,” Palalic explained over email. Thank God. Look, I get there are a lot of fans of the FPS genres du jour, but surely we can have a non-extraction shooter or two every once and awhile, as a treat. Instead, emptyvessel is calling Defect an “Immersive Objective Shooter.”